Toronto mayor Ford defiant as council seeks resignation

Two special council meetings have been scheduled for today to strip Toronto’s crack-smoking mayor of his powers after explosive new allegations surfaced that he also snorted cocaine and partied with a possible prostitute.

An Ontario judge decided to release additional information from the police investigation into Toronto mayor Rob Ford, who defiantly refuses to step down as leader of Canada’s largest city.

At the first city council meeting since Ford admitted last week to once smoking crack in a “drunken stupor,” the mayor said he had purchased illicit drugs in the past two years. But he again denied being an addict.