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Remembering Rob Ford

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While most Government offices were closed today, Toronto City Hall opened it’s doors to dignitaries and the public so that they could pay their respects to former mayor Rob Ford.

For 14 years Rob Ford walked through Toronto City Hall as both a councilor and the city’s 64th mayor. Today he was carried inside by eight palbearers. Ford died last Tuesday after an 18-month long battle with cancer, he was 46 years old.

Current Mayor John Tory and other dignitaries were first to pay their respects to Ford and to offer their condolences to his family including his wife Renata, children Doug and Kathy and brothers Doug and Randy. In the meantime, hundreds of Ford supporters waited up to two hours outside to say goodbye to a man they considered ‘the people’s mayor’.

Ford’s casket will lay in repose inside City Hall until Wednesday morning where he’ll then be taken in a procession to St. James Cathedral for his funeral.

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