{"id":8671,"date":"2014-05-03T03:40:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T19:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=8671"},"modified":"2014-05-03T03:40:31","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T19:40:31","slug":"statement-by-olivia-chow-about-rob-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/03\/statement-by-olivia-chow-about-rob-ford\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Olivia Chow about Rob Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8672\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8672\" style=\"width: 533px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Olivia_Chow_mayor_campaign.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8672\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Olivia_Chow_mayor_campaign.png\" alt=\"Toronto Mayoral candidate Olivia Chow. Photo from Wikipedia\" width=\"533\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Olivia_Chow_mayor_campaign.png 533w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Olivia_Chow_mayor_campaign-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8672\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toronto Mayoral candidate Olivia Chow. Photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Olivia_Chow_mayor_campaign.png\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Below is the statement of Toronto mayoral candidate Olivia Chow about current Toronto Mayor Rob Ford.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Last night, I was angry when I learned the latest about Rob Ford. I was particularly angered by his offensive comments about women. This time, about Councillor Karen Stintz.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It is long past time we had a mayor who respected the dignity of everyone in our city.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And I am embarrassed to see our city in headlines around the world, once again. Not for good reasons. Not for reasons that make us proud.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s clear Mr. Ford is sick. He has serious substance abuse problems. I am sure everyone in our city joins me in extending hopes for him as a person to recover from this sickness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As a mayor, however, he had his chance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He chose to ignore calls to get help last year. The appropriate time to take a leave was then. The appropriate course now is for voters to choose a new mayor on\u00a0October 27.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Below is the statement of Toronto mayoral candidate Olivia Chow about current Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. &#8220;Last night, I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":8672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1145],"tags":[2789,987,589,1369,1073],"class_list":["post-8671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-headline","tag-karen-stintz","tag-olivia-chow","tag-rob-ford","tag-statement","tag-toronto","mauthors-office-of-olivia-chow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}