Does that mean The Guardian can report on news items in Toronto concerning Rob Ford but no other news items in Ontario ?

A near billion $ loss is routine, have you considered a career in politics ?

You've seen who got elected as mayor; what do you think?

What's your point, exactly?

The government of the day, supported by all the other major parties, decided to cancel a contract. They acknowledge that the process of letting the contract in the first place was broken. It's a tawdry provincial political story - you wouldn't expect the GLobe & Mail to cover some equally dull story on the Welsh Assembly's inefficient use of taxpayers' money, would you?

Now if an individual Welsh politician were to spend an interesting evening on Clapham Common, say, then lie through his teeth about it until confronted with photographic evidence, then that would probably be salacious enough to feature in international media. I believe Ron Davies could explain how that works.

The Guardian may have reported on this gas thingy, I haven't heard of it so I suppose it wasn't a major story, but it may have been buried somewhere in the financial section. "Government in remote region of far flung country makes poor use of funds" is a story covered most days, "Fat Flamboyant Mayor mixes with Gangsters, Smokes Crack" is a bit more of a grabber, especially as a fair number of readers will have heard of Toronto.

wow, Canada seems so exciting these days.

Now a video with him threatening to kill someone. It just gets better for him.

Go on Rob Ford

Fat mayor bad, billion dollar loss in leading economic commonwealth country routine. Have you considered a career in journalism ?

"remote region of far flung country" Don't consider a career in teaching geography.

The Toronto press will be knackered if he resigns, where will they find anybody as newsworthy ?

Can't see the Toronto Star carrying a piece on the mayor of Cardiff losing the plot with the taffia somehow.

Maybe we're talking about different gas hayrubes, the one I have in mind was going to be in Mississauga or Oakville or somewhere like that.

He's not in waste disposal management by any chance?

This is the most exciting thing that's happened to Canada since FLQ and stuff. They'd be absoultely mad to make him resign.

I agree Oink, surely there will be economic spin off to Ontario. Someone make a t-shirt!

A big t-shirt.

No, the idea is you sell lots of t-shirts to different people to different people, not 1 big t-shirt to the mayor. I doubt he`d want one anyway.
Don`t consider a career in the souvenir industry.