It’s hard to eulogize a guy like Rob Ford, who died today at age 46 after months of chemotherapy. He was a famous and (still, incredibly) widely beloved man with a wife and young children, but, at the same time, he was a notorious political figure responsible for four years of unprecedented ugliness at city hall. In the immediate aftermath of his passing, Toronto’s political and media notables have virtually no choice but to weigh in. Here, a roundup of tweets from people struggling to find the right words to say about a man whose life and actions so often left them speechless.
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