Have you actually read the article in question? The Toronto Star did not say that Ford beat his players. They reported (correctly) that Ford was dismissed from his coaching position at Newtonbrook Secondary School following an incident with a player. The TorStar article was very clear that they could not confirm if a physical altercation took place.
That story, in which they're quoting eye witnesses from an event that occurred nearly a decade ago, is an entirely different situation than the current story in which two of the Star's own reporters claim to have personally seen the crack video.
If you read the original story - which you obviously haven't - you can see that the Star is very careful to say that there are several people who claim to be witnesses to the physical altercations and verbal abuse, but that one of Ford's assistant coaches is asked about the allegations and that he denies anything of the sort ever occurred. One paragraph explicitly says: "Witnesses interviewed by the Star disagree on whether there was a physical confrontation between Ford and the student player."
If you think that is "false", you have a very different definition of "false". Reporting on what people claim to have witnessed can never be false unless the reports themselves are falsified, not just because the allegations are unproven or later proven to be untrue. Further, Rob Ford has never sued the Star for any of the various unflattering stories about him, which, if they were truly "false", he surely would have done.
In other words, you have no idea what you are talking about, and the irony of you complaining about a news outlet being insufficiently exacting in their pursuit of truth, while you don't bother to check your own "facts", is telling.
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Are you seriously claming putting "did they not?" means your whole argument is that "well, maybe they lied before, so they might again, but I'm too lazy to spend 10 seconds on Google looking it up and I'd rather waste your 10 seconds reading this post which has no actual meaning until someone checks my facts for me"?
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Are you seriously claming putting "did they not?" means your whole argument is that "well, maybe they lied before, so they might again, but I'm too lazy to spend 10 seconds on Google looking it up and I'd rather waste your 10 seconds reading this post which has no actual meaning until someone checks my facts for me"?
Wait, what the what?
The Toronto star so far has had nothing but a great track record for telling the truth. They print one ambiguous story in you're mind, and you're all over them. whereas Ford has been caught in at least 3 big lies and you're totally willing to overlook those and defend him to the nines?
...are you Doug Ford?
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Wait, what the what?
The Toronto star so far has had nothing but a great track record for telling the truth. They print one ambiguous story in you're mind, and you're all over them. whereas Ford has been caught in at least 3 big lies and you're totally willing to overlook those and defend him to the nines?
...are you Doug Ford?
Yes - "our sources" is always a good way to cover your ass
That's a bit misleading. Robinson is an elected city councillor, and she still holds that role. She was only "fired" from Ford's hand-picked executive committee (sort of like his equivalent of a cabinet).
Yes - "our sources" is always a good way to cover your ass
But the Ford's are upstanding citizens?
Rob Ford was friends with a guy who now lives in a house with his mother, who is an addict. Neighbours of the house say that it is a drug den and police has come there many times. A picture shows Rob Ford in front of this house along with convicted drug dealers, one of whom dies soon after the picture is taken. In the meantime a guy shows up at the drug house and beats the occupants with a metal pipe to try and get information about the video.
Does this not raise your suspicion at all? Or are you just being contrarian for the sake of it?
Rob Ford was friends with a guy who now lives in a house with his mother, who is an addict. Neighbours of the house say that it is a drug den and police has come there many times. A picture shows Rob Ford in front of this house along with convicted drug dealers, one of whom dies soon after the picture is taken. In the meantime a guy shows up at the drug house and beats the occupants with a metal pipe to try and get information about the video.
Does this not raise your suspicsions at all? Or are you just being contrarian for the sake of it?
Cognitive dissonance at its finest (MelBridgeman).
Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair held a news conference Thursday, but refused to answer questions about the methodology of the Thursday police operation, dubbed Project Traveller, the evidence collected or whether there were any possible links to Ford.
"All of the evidence will come out in court, where it belongs," he said.
Toronto investigators knew about an ongoing relationship between Mayor Rob Ford and the men he's seen posing with in a widely publicized photograph that has ties to his alleged drug use, police sources tell CBC News.
One of the men pictured was arrested today in a series of pre-dawn raids targeting guns and gangs in the city's west end. Another man in the photo, Anthony Smith, was shot dead outside a King Street nightclub two months ago
Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair held a news conference Thursday, but refused to answer questions about the methodology of the Thursday police operation, dubbed Project Traveller, the evidence collected or whether there were any possible links to Ford.
"All of the evidence will come out in court, where it belongs," he said.
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CTV News has learned that Toronto Police were investigating the existence of an alleged video involving Mayor Rob Ford, several weeks before the story first appeared in the Toronto Star.
As part of the investigation leading to the raids on Thursday, officers obtained telephone wire-tap evidence.
A highly-placed source confirms to CTV News that on those wiretaps, persons of interest discussed that video in detail, and referred to the mayor's alleged presence in the video.
CTV is typically kind to Rob Ford.
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