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Amir Omidvar left Iran during the revolutionary crisis in 1982. For twenty months after leaving his home, Amir did everything he could to cross the Atlantic ocean. While taking refuge in Spain, he made three failed attempts to enter the US; a fake passport in Heathrow, a Mexican jail, and a beating by customs officers in Milan â until a fourth and final attempt brought him to Canadian shores. Amir speaks to his daughter, Shayda, about why he decided to leave and how arriving in Canada has impacted his life and the life of his family. Listen and subscribe to The Hopeful wherever you get your podcasts.
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In 1994, a small church next to Toronto Pearson International Airport suddenly became one of the cityâs âTop Tourist Attractionsâ. Why did millions of Christians flock from around the world? Was something truly supernatural happening? 25 years later, join Tara Jean Stevens as she revisits the unusual spiritual movement she was a part of as a teenager.
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Toronto never got the chance to reelect Mayor Rob Ford. Nor did it get the chance to kick him out of office. It wasnât the ending anyone wanted, itâs just what happened. And over the next few years, it would become clear just how profoundly Rob had changed politics, at home and around the world.
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More than a year after the first stories about a âcrack videoâ broke, and months after the mayor admitted heâd tried the drug âduring one of (his) drunken stuporsâ, Rob Ford admitted to the public that he had a substance abuse problem, and that he needed help. And he went to rehab. For a few weeks. Then he returned to the race for reelection. A race he very much expected to win. So Toronto had a choice. Four more years of thisâŠor something else.
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Mayor Rob Ford publicly admitted to smoking crack âin one of my drunken stuporsâ on Nov. 5, 2013. And then all hell broke loose.
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The whole world was talking about whether or not Torontoâs mayor smoked crack. You might think that the mayor would change his behaviour following the headlines about his drug use. But he didnât. We know this because the police were watching him with a secret investigation named Project Brazen II.
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After months of absences and whispers and rumours, all of Mayor Rob Fordâs private life started to go public. It began with one story, which led to more, and more. The mayorâs response was denialâand to paint the media as the enemy and attack them by name. Thereâs a reason this strategy has become so popular. It works.
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As Rob Ford began his term as mayor by ending taxes and cancelling transit plans, his colleagues on city council and the reporters who covered them were starting to gossip. As his first weeks turned to months, Ford was around less and less, and people were starting to wonder: What was going on with the mayor? And then, two high-profile nights out added fuel to that fireâŠ
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Rob Fordâs colleagues laughed off his campaign for mayor. They shouldnât have. They assumed the numerous scandals heâd already suffered through, and the fresh ones that would dominate his campaign, would crush his chances. They shouldnât have. They ran traditional campaigns and counted on Torontonians to make a relatively traditional choice, the kind theyâd always made. They really, really shouldnât have.
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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 hasnât been the same since.
