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Rob Ford and the End of Honour
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has achieved a level of notoriety unique amongst Canadian politicians for his admissions of drug and alcohol use, and subsequent attempts to deflect media attention and public scrutiny. Due to these indiscretions and admissions, Toronto City Council voted to remove the mayor's emergency, executive and budgetary powers, and transfer official responsibility to Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly. These actions though were due to the lack of legal remedies to remove Ford formally from office. Conventional wisdom would suggest that Ford should not survive such revelations politically. Based upon police wiretap transcripts, even gang members believed that the threat of such exposure was sufficient to protect them from blowback. Yet Ford remained in office, for reasons unexplained by existing literature. We attempt to explain this lack of loss of legitimacy through the lens of Aristotle's notions of ethos, logos and pathos. Ultimately, the Ford conundrum has exposed the legal void created when politicians fail to abide by the moral dictates of the law. We suggest that legal remedies were not included within existing legislation, as its drafters never contemplated the possibility of such defiance. It was believed that such behaviour would either result in irreparable loss of political capital/support or that politicians would act honourably and resign. Whether due to naiveté or ignorance, this demise of political honour now endangers the entire framework of public accountability. Accordingly, new and innovative measures are required to provide redress. We propose a process that combines traditional notions of moral responsibility, with the enactment of more formal legal remedies, to provide municipal governments with the power to remove individuals who threaten the integrity of our civic institutions, as a form of shared responsibility.
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Mayor Rob Ford, uncontrollable : how I tried to help the world's most notorious mayor
Rob Ford's former chief of staff Mark Towhey recounts his struggle to protect the scandal-ridden Toronto mayor from himself.
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Engaging Patrons: Fight Back on the 2011–2012 Toronto Budget and Beyond
Libraries and librarianship everywhere are under attack but popular resistance has been strong. The Toronto Public Library Workers Union (TPLWU) Local 4948 (CUPE) led a successful community fight - back campaign against the Ford administrations 20112012 austerity budget. That campaign not only stopped further crippling cuts to the TPL, it garnered support for the library workers during a difficult round of collective bargaining which followed, and it has begun to change the conversation about the library from \"cuts\" to \"investment.\". Adapted from the source document.
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“High-functioning addicts”: intervening before trouble hits
Signs seen in the workplace are \"just the very tip of the iceberg,\" says Rick Csiernik, a professor of social work at King's University College in London, Ontario. Yet supervisors and colleagues tend to \"turn their backs\" to what is going on under the surface unless the person stops fulfilling job requirements, he says. In addition, whether someone who is abusing alcohol or substances is \"high- functioning\" often depends less on the individual and more on whether family, friends and colleagues accommodate the addiction, explains Melemis. When those with addictions \"hit bottom,\" it may not be because their lifestyles have radically changed but \"because the peo- ple around them are just fed up.\" \"Most people enter treatment in a manner that is perhaps coerced. It's because of what's happening in their relationship, or because of their health or because of legal consequences,\" he explains. \"[Workplace managers] can bring the bottom up by forcing people to have that conversation sooner.\"
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Introduction: The Dirt on Dirt Today
Karl Marx In 2013, the rockefeller university (founded in 1901 by its industrialist namesake to foster cutting-edge biomedical research) launched drugsfromdirt.org, an online \"citizen science project\" that asks \"What chemical language does your soil's microbiome speak?\" The question guides a compound venture: to conduct an initial \"profile\" of dirt from all fifty U.S. states (the priority), as well as globally, and then to deepen the profile of dirt from especially \"biodiverse regions\"-a venture feasible only to the extent that citizen scientists buy in by harvesting soil samples and sending them to Rockefeller University. The answers our contributors have ventured all offer provocative insight in an array of disciplinary idioms and from a range of critical perspectives, and all offer original and compelling critical methods borne in and from dirt: the dirtiness in archival excavation (Morra), dirty temporality as queer materiality (Ellis), detritus as ecological apprehension (Mason), residual humanism against technopolist hegemony (Fan), the forgotten promise of earthly pedagogy (Rahmani), the transgressive capacity of dirty mourning (Lousley), and the restive, resistant power of shit (Epp). At a moment and in a cultural climate of state-sponsored amnesia through the closure of libraries and archives, of the proliferation of pipelines for the global traffic in dirty oil, of the toxic perpetuity of debt, of the \"slow violence\" of environmental pollution and ecological devastation (Nixon), of the unchecked social wasting of precarious and impoverished multitudes, we need such messy counter-modes for churning up dirt-for insisting, as imaginatively as unflinchingly, on the mess of the mess we find ourselves in-as urgently as ever before. 1 At least linguistically, such ambivalence is new: for the history of the meaning of the word \"dirt,\" to judge from the entries in the oed, is one of unremitting negativity and abjection-all menace, no promise.
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