Former Mayor Rob Ford is back in the news. City Hall Bureau Chief David Rider discusses the controversial proposal by Toronto Mayor John Tory and others to officially rename an Etobicoke playing field “Rob Ford Memorial Stadium.” (Toronto Star)
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Doug Ford says his family is grateful, appreciative and “very honoured” that Toronto Mayor John Tory and others want to officially rename an Etobicoke playing field “Rob Ford Memorial Stadium.”
Ford made the comments Thursday as debate swirled about whether it is an appropriate honour for the late Rob Ford, beloved by many for his populist brand of public service and personal touch but reviled by others for his penny-pinching politics and tumultuous mayoral term scarred by substance abuse.
“We're grateful as a family that they are going to move forward with this,” Doug Ford said in an interview, after the Star reported that Tory wrote to his council colleagues proposing renaming Centennial Park stadium, along with as-yet unspecified honours for the late councillors Pam McConnell and Ron Moeser.
Doug Ford, a former Ward 2 Etobicoke North councillor who lost to Tory in the 2014 mayoral election, and has vowed to beat him in a 2018 rematch, publicly pushed for the renaming in a March interview with CityNews, saying he didn’t know why it was taking so long to honour his brother who had also represented the ward on council and died in March 2016 after a battle with a rare aggressive cancer.
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