To critics, there could not have been a more cynical date for the law to come into effect, given the Harper government’s record on women’s rights. And then there’s the government’s anti-prostitution law, which came into effect December 6, on the same day women around the country were marking the 25th anniversary of the Montreal massacre. First, we discovered that male entitlement is alive and well on the Hill after two NDP MPs came forward with their own stories of sexual assault and harassment at the hands of male colleagues. The reverberations were felt in the corridors of power on Parliament Hill in more ways than one. The scandal has occasioned a continent-wide discussion of workplace sexual harassment and violence against women. Ghomeshi intends to plead not guilty.īut redemption is unlikely to be in the cards.
We’ve yet to hear his side of the story, but indications are it’s only going to get uglier. After an aborted attempt to enter the U.S., he wound up at a facility in Muskoka where the scandals kept coming. When the Globe revealed the existence of the second video, he promptly whisked himself off to rehab.
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And he got caught smoking crack on camera a second time. He wore a red tie and black shirt on Jimmy Kimmel. Rob Ford started 2014 riding high on hubris, celebrity and other more tangible substances.
Was it decades ago that the media had to track and follow this man who claimed he’d sworn off alcohol and drugs, building the case that he wasn’t keeping his promise? Then he launched a bid for re-election with more bombast than ever, trailing a quartet of bagpipers into a cavernous convention hall in which he’d somehow stuffed a fire truck. It seems like centuries ago in a different city that a mayor named Rob Ford stumbled and swayed in a fast food steak restaurant, boasting in drunken Jamaican patois about having dodged police surveillance. The ignominious fall of Robert Bruce Ford
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