Rob Ford was seemingly in good spirits last night after winning back the Ward 2 council seat he’d held for a decade prior to being elected mayor—such good spirits, in fact, that he decided to share the moment with his favourite journalist, Joe Warmington. “I will be running for mayor in four years,” Ford told the Sun columnist. “I will be the first person to sign up in 2018.” (And when Ford says he’ll be the first to sign up, he means it literally.) At this rate, the two thirds of Toronto’s voters who didn’t go for Doug Ford in this election may never recover from their political PTSD.
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