What it was like to work for crack-smoking politician Rob Ford
In mid-2012, Mark Towhey, chief of staff for Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, got a call from his boss at 2:39 in the morning. Ford, the 330-pound leader of Canada’s largest city, was speaking “superfast,” often incoherently. He told his chief that he’d been arguing with his wife, Renata — whose speech Towhey could hear in...