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Thursday, September 6, 2012 News worth sharing.
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After a 4-hour grilling, Ford holds ground Hearing to end Friday. Mayor maintains he does not recall ever learning about conflicts of interest At the end of four gruelling hours on the stand, Mayor Rob Ford denied repeatedly lying under oath to save his political skin. Lawyer Clayton Ruby, his voice rising Wednesday in a cavernous University Avenue courtroom, called Toronto’s mayor a chronic liar who is clinging to an odd but legally advantageous interpretation of conflict of interest. “To have a conflict of inter-
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Performers perfect their routines during rehearsal for the new Cirque du soleil extravaganza, Amaluna, now playing at the Grand Chapiteau in the Port Lands. Directed by Diane Paulus, “Amaluna invites the audience to a mysterious island governed by goddesses and guided by the cycles of the moon.” Story, page 37. contributed
est,” the mayor told court in a by-then-familiar refrain, “you have to have two parties involved and the city has to benefit, and a member of council has to benefit.” Ford suggested that, contrary to what is spelled out in the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act, and a handbook that he was handed four times but said he has never seen, there can be no conflict if the member of council alone stood to benefit financially from a council vote. “I’m suggesting to you that you never believed that,” Ruby fired back, citing the February council vote where Ford passionately urged councillors to quash a previous order that he repay $3,150 in donations
to his private football charity, and then voted with them to let himself off the hook. Ruby portrayed the vote as another instance of rule breaking by an “angry and defiant” politician. “You (were) just fed up with the repeated condemnation of your actions by another integrity commissioner, and you thought you could stonewall it and convince council, as a newly elected, popular mayor, to reverse it — and that is why you spoke.” “That’s not true,” snapped back an exhausted-looking Ford. “Not true!” torstar news service ford says he’s raised about $100K for deserving children, but Ruby challenges that claim: pg. 4
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