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No one to blame for Rob Ford but ourselves

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By John Barber, John BarberSat
| The Toronto Star Verified
A newspaper column I wrote five years ago recently enjoyed a brief second life on the Internet thanks to its protagonist, Rob Ford. Not Mayor Rob Ford, but the inexcusable buffoon who preceded him, Councillor Rob Ford. The headline read, “It’s so awful you can’t look away.” The news at that time was his arrest for domestic assault, but even then there was a long chronicle of hideous misbehaviour to flesh out the bottom of the story.
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