Crackgate

English Etymology From en crack -gate crack (cocaine). Proper noun A 2013 scandal involving reports of then-mayor of Toronto Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine. en w:Rosie DiManno Dixon Road raids turn up glare on Rob Ford's helter-skelter life: DiManno w:Toronto Star https://web.archive.org/web/20231002041050/https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/dixon-road-raids-turn-up-glare-on-rob-fords-helter-skelter-life-dimanno/article_4ef3402e-d41f-5d54-9308-ef404be91b86.html Toronto, ON w:Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd. 14 June 2013 0319-0781 1081127642 A mayor who insists he is not a crack addict — and there's no indication of habitual use, nor much likelihood that drug traces could be obtained from hair samples, given the buzz cut that Ford suddenly adopted a few weeks ago, after Crackgate exploded in the media. w:Richard Poplak A Populist Has Exposed a Sinkhole in Canada's Democracy https://web.archive.org/web/20230130000449/https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/09/a-populist-challenge-to-the-rule-of-law-in-canada/571114/ 28 September 2018 First came the crack-cocaine-smoking video, which was leaked in 2013 and promptly transformed Ford into an international late-night-TV staple. His links with the Toronto demimonde were exposed in a series of increasingly crazed media reports, and if he was considered to be unsuitable before the election, there was no political terminology to describe his standing post-Crackgate. en Courtney Shea Winners and Losers: The Greenbelt scandal w:Toronto Life https://web.archive.org/web/20230929085843/https://torontolife.com/city/winners-losers-greenbelt-scandal-doug-ford/ Toronto, Ont. w:St. Joseph Communications 26 September 2023 0049-4194 60621898 It's not all high fives and fist bumps, though. Over at Queen's Park, the unravelling of the biggest Ford fiasco since Crackgate has led to a mounting list of humiliations and resignations—and proof that what happens in Vegas rarely stays there. Further reading Timeline of Rob Ford video scandal