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The Gravy Train

The tragic life and enduring legacy of Toronto's crack-smoking mayor

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1: The Suburbs

1: The Suburbs

This is the story of how our subject goes from the outskirts of the city to a seat in the building at the heart of its p... Read more

31 Oct 2019

39mins

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2: City Hall

2: City Hall

Rob Ford’s colleagues laughed off his campaign for mayor. They shouldn’t have. They assumed the numerous scandals he’d a... Read more

31 Oct 2019

47mins

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3: Whispers

3: Whispers

As Rob Ford began his term as mayor by ending taxes and cancelling transit plans, his colleagues on city council and the... Read more

7 Nov 2019

42mins

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4: Headlines

4: Headlines

After months of absences and whispers and rumours, all of Mayor Rob Ford’s private life started to go public. It began w... Read more

14 Nov 2019

42mins

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5: Brazen

5: Brazen

The whole world was talking about whether or not Toronto’s mayor smoked crack. You might think that the mayor would chan... Read more

21 Nov 2019

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6: The Circus

6: The Circus

Mayor Rob Ford publicly admitted to smoking crack “in one of my drunken stupors” on Nov. 5, 2013. And then all hell brok... Read more

28 Nov 2019

44mins

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7: Rehab

7: Rehab

More than a year after the first stories about a ‘crack video’ broke, and months after the mayor admitted he’d tried the... Read more

5 Dec 2019

44mins

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8: Legacy

8: Legacy

Toronto never got the chance to reelect Mayor Rob Ford. Nor did it get the chance to kick him out of office. It wasn’t t... Read more

12 Dec 2019

42mins

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Heaven Bent: The Revival

Heaven Bent: The Revival

In 1994, a small church next to Toronto Pearson International Airport suddenly became one of the city’s “Top Tourist Att... Read more

22 Jun 2020

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The Hopeful: Heirloom

The Hopeful: Heirloom

Amir Omidvar left Iran during the revolutionary crisis in 1982. For twenty months after leaving his home, Amir did every... Read more

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