Toronto Mayor Rob Ford says he has approached the prime minister's office for help with his push to banish people who have been convicted of gun crimes from living in the city.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford released a statement early Tuesday morning on the shootings in Sacrborough that left 2 people dead and 19 injured.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has named Earl Provost to serve as his acting chief of staff.

TTC Chair Karen Stintz says Mayor Rob Ford is going to have to choose between building subways in Scarborough and keeping taxes low as she prepares to present a scaled-down version of her OneCity transit plan in council this week.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford told reporters Sunday that he is proud of the staff that he works with, though he didn't say much about the pending departure of one of his senior advisers.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has responded to a councillor's criticism that he's a "part-time" mayor by saying he "works harder than any person" at city hall.

Mayor Rob Ford insists he didn't commit a downtown driving faux-pas last week, after a TTC streetcar operator admonished him for allegedly cruising past the tram's open doors.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford drove past the open doors of a streetcar, causing the TTC operator to confront him, the head of the transit union alleges.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford skipped attending a flag-raising ceremony at City Hall on Monday, the second straight year the mayor has not attended the kick-off to the city's Pride celebrations.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford says he can't attend next week's Pride Week flag raising event due to a scheduling conflict.

Before he became mayor of Toronto Rob Ford testified as a character witness for a young man he once coached, who had been convicted of armed robbery.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and his brother have ended their highly publicized diet. They mayor lost 13 pounds during the five-month challenge and his brother lost 35.

Populist Toronto Mayor Rob Ford says the city's taxpayers are to blame for a council vote to ban plastic bags next year.

A plan by Toronto Mayor Rob Ford to purchase a portion of parkland next to his home has been turned down by the regional conservation authority.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is expected to learn Friday whether his application to buy a patch of parkland near his house will be approved.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford says he is done with dieting, just weeks before the scheduled end of his Cut the Waist Challenge.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford made an appearance at a rainbow flag-raising marking the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford will try to scrap the five-cent plastic bag fee today even as a motion to direct a portion of proceeds from the fee to tree canopy protection goes to the powerful executive committee.

Toronto police say there are no grounds to charge Daniel Dale, the Toronto Star reporter who got into a confrontation with Rob Ford last week outside the mayor's west-end home.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford refused to talk to reporters on Tuesday at his weekly weigh-in. Ford, who gained four pounds, spent less than 30 seconds outside his office.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford gave a speech Monday night to mark World Press Freedom Week.

The public will get to have its say if a parcel of land at the centre of an angry confrontation between Rob Ford and a Toronto Star reporter is sold to the Toronto mayor.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford says he "can't even find a word to describe how low" the Toronto Star goes, one day after a tense and angry altercation with one of the newspaper's reporters outside his home.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford called the police Wednesday, claiming that a journalist from the Toronto Star was spotted in the bushes in the back yard of his west Toronto home.