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Toronto mayor Rob Ford saga: chief of staff fired for telling mayor to 'get help'
(CBC News) Mark Towhey was fired as Mayor Rob Ford's chief of staff because he told Ford to "go away and get help," a source close to the mayor's office has told CBC News.
Towhey was unceremoniously dumped from his job Thursday in the midst of a scandal that has shaken Toronto municipal politics — with the city's colourful mayor caught in the midst of allegations that he was recorded smoking crack cocaine.
The story broke last week and shortly after Towhey faced down the mayor telling him he needed help.
"There's nothing more I can do for you," the source quoted Towhey as telling Ford. The chief of staff then told Ford to "go away and get help." ......................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2013/05/23/toronto-ford-towhey.html
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....... a former suburbanite who became a Torontonian when they formed the megacity in 1998, folding former 'burbs such as Etobicoke and Scarborough into Toronto. I believe Ford hails from EtobiCOKE. (How apropos,
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