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Rob Ford spurns his own art party to attend a football game

By Stephen Spencer Davis
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The Don Bosco Eagles steamrolled their way to a stunning 34-0 victory over the Richview Saints, news that would be utterly meaningless if it weren’t also an explanation for Rob Ford’s absence at the Mayor’s Arts Awards Lunch yesterday. Roughly 300 people were in attendance—politicians, business people, artists and other notable figures—and $40,000 in cash prizes were given out. But the mayor still couldn’t find the time to attend his own party. The news points to two disturbing trends in the city: the mayor’s apparent aversion to, you know, doing stuff that mayors do (i.e. his job) and football as an important aspect of city politics (see here, here, here and here). Read the entire story [Globe and Mail] »

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