Robyn Doolittle - Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story

1956

September 1

Doug Ford Sr. and Diane Campbell are married.

1962

Doug Ford Sr. and Ted Herriott start Deco Adhesive Products.

1969

May 28

Robert Bruce Ford is born at Humber Memorial Hospital in Etobicoke.

1983/1984

Rob Ford is a first-year student at Scarlett Heights Collegiate Institute. This is also his brother Doug Ford Jr.s graduating year.

1995

June 8

Doug Ford Sr. is elected in Etobicoke-Humber as a Progressive Conservative MPP in the Ontario government under Premier Mike Harris.

1997

November 10

Rob Ford runs for Toronto City Council in Ward 3 Kingsway Humber. He finishes fourth with 9,366 votes.

1998

January 1

The megacity is born. Seven municipal governments amalgamate to form the new City of Toronto.

July 25

Kathy Fords boyfriend, Michael Kiklas, dies after being gunned down by Kathys estranged husband, Ennio Stirpe.

1999

February 15

Rob Ford is charged with drunk driving and possession of marijuana in Miami, Florida. (The drug charge would later be dropped.)

May

Doug Ford Sr. finishes his term as an MPP.

2000

August 12

Rob Ford marries Renata Brejniak at All Saints Roman Catholic Church in Etobicoke.

November 13

Rob Ford is elected to Toronto City Council in Ward 2 Etobicoke North with 5,750 votes.

2001

Rob Ford is told he is no longer welcome to coach football at Newtonbrook Secondary School in North York after a heated altercation with a player.

August

Rookie councillor Rob Ford makes headlines after it is revealed that he spent just ten dollars of his office budget after six months in office. By contrast, Giorgio Mammoliti, the biggest spender on council, spent $43,150.

2002

March 6

Councillor Rob Ford allegedly calls Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti a Gino boy.

2003

November 10

Rob Ford is re-elected in Ward 2 with 79 percent of the vote.

2005

Rob and Renata Ford have a daughter, Stephanie.

March 31

Kathy Ford is accidentally shot in the head at her parents home by her boyfriend, Scott MacIntyre.

July 19

Councillor Rob Ford calls Councillor Gloria Lindsay Luby a waste of skin. She calls him a jerk.

2006

April 15

Security removes Rob Ford from a Toronto Maple Leafs NHL game after he drunkenly berates a couple in the crowd. When news of the incident breaks, Ford initially lies and says he wasnt at the game. He later admits to having been there and apologizes.

June 28

During a council debate on grants for AIDS programs, Rob Ford says, If youre not doing needles and youre not gay, you wont get AIDS, probably.

September 22

Doug Ford Sr. dies of cancer at the age of seventy-three.

November 13

Rob Ford is re-elected in Ward 2 with 66 percent of the vote.

2007

March 7

Rob Ford tells council that cycling in a bike lane is like swimming with sharks. Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks. Not for people on bikes. And, you know, my heart bleeds for them when I hear someone gets killed, but its their own fault at the end of the day.

2008

Rob and Renata Ford have their second child, a son named Douglas.

March 5

Rob Ford controversially suggests that Oriental people are slowly taking over because they work so hard. Those Oriental people work like dogs, he says.

March 26

Rob Ford is arrested and charged with domestic assault and threatening death against his wife, Renata. The charges are later dropped due to inconsistencies in Renata Fords testimony.

2010

March 25

Rob Ford declares his candidacy for mayor.

June 17

News breaks that Rob Ford offered to help a man named Dieter Doneit-Henderson score OxyContin on the street. Doneit-Henderson secretly recorded their phone conversation.

August 18

The Toronto Sun reports that Rob Ford was charged with marijuana possession in Florida a decade earlier. The drunk driving charge comes out. Ford apologizes for his mistakes and his poll numbers go up.

August 25

City council orders Rob Ford to repay $3,150 he solicited from lobbyists for his private football foundation.

October 25

Rob Ford is elected mayor with 383,501 votes, or 47 percent of the total cast.

December 7

Hockey personality Don Cherry criticizes pinkos in a speech at Rob Fords inauguration ceremony.

2011

May 13

Torontos audit committee votes to review Rob Fords campaign expenses.

October 24

The mayor calls 911 after a comedian from CBCs This Hour Has 22 Minutes shows up in his driveway.

December 30

The Toronto Star reveals police have been called to the mayors home for a handful of domestic incidents in recent months.

2012

January 11

Kathy Fords estranged boyfriend, Scott MacIntyre, is arrested after walking into the mayors home, demanding Rob Ford pay back money MacIntyre says he is owed, and then threatening to kill him.

January 17

City council revolts against the mayors budget cuts in a 2321 vote.

February 7

Mayor Rob Ford speaks, and then votes, on a motion to overturn the order requiring him to pay back $3,150 in football donations.

March 12

Lawyer Clayton Ruby announces he is filing a conflict-of-interest lawsuit against the mayor because of the February 7 vote. Ruby argues that Rob Ford broke the law when he spoke to, and then voted on, an item at council where he stood to benefit financially.

March 17

On St. Patricks Day, Rob Ford spends the night partying with friends, first at City Hall and then at a downtown bar called the Bier Markt. A waiter at the Bier Markt thinks he might have seen the mayor snort cocaine in a private room. A member of Fords staff later tells police he thought he saw Ford take an OxyContin pill.

May 2

Rob Ford confronts Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale in a public park behind his home.

November 26