The Gravy Train

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  • Summary

  • The tragic life and enduring legacy of Toronto's crack-smoking mayor.
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Episodes
  • All Aboard

    All Aboard
    Oct 9 2019

    Trailer: He was a joke. And then he won. He was a trainwreck. But it didn’t matter. He was a drug user and an alcoholic. But a lot of people loved him anyway. And most of all, Rob Ford was a sign of things to come—in politics, in the media and around the world. Welcome […]

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    2 mins
  • 1: The Suburbs

    1: The Suburbs
    Oct 31 2019

    This is the story of how our subject goes from the outskirts of the city to a seat in the building at the heart of its power. Before he was the Mayor of Toronto, and before all the insanity that came in the years following that, Rob Ford was just a young man working at the family business in the suburbs, looking for a spark. An unlikely business request led Rob and his family into politics, and Toronto hasn’t been the same since.

     
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    40 mins
  • 2: City Hall

    2: City Hall
    Oct 31 2019

    Rob Ford’s colleagues laughed off his campaign for mayor. They shouldn’t have. They assumed the numerous scandals he’d already suffered through, and the fresh ones that would dominate his campaign, would crush his chances. They shouldn’t have. They ran traditional campaigns and counted on Torontonians to make a relatively traditional choice, the kind they’d always made. They really, really shouldn’t have.

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    48 mins

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