Rob Ford retrospective

We just passed the 1-year anniversary of Rob Ford being removed from office. That's right: Rob Ford ran into a conflict of interest issue that had nothing to do with crack.

Those in the States came off a Thanksgiving weekend where Rob Ford may have come up in conversation. And you might have been only armed with recent Rob Ford stories from CanadianCrossing.com.

Rob Ford was controversial well before the U.S. media and late-night commentators discovered him. To be fair, our first major article on Ford was when Keith Olbermann made Ford the "Worst Person in the World" after the mayor's overreaction to "This Hour Has 22 Minutes."

Homophobic and racist remarks -- and that was just in the crack video.

As a public service, we wanted you to have one main page full of Rob Ford stories, pre-crack and post-crack. We know there will be more Rob Ford stories down the road. But this will make for some fun reading.

Pre-crack

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford wins Keith Olbermann's 'Worst Person in the World' (11/1/2011)

Toronto has more than usual number of gun deaths, but still safer than U.S. (7/25/2012)

How Rob Ford spent (part of) my summer vacation (8/21/2012)

Battle of intense mayors: Toronto's Rob Ford visits Chicago's Rahm Emanuel (9/19/2012)

Toronto highs and lows: Argos way up, Rob Ford down and out (11/28/2012)

Post-crack

Canadian politics notebook: Rob Ford's alleged crack use (5/19/2013)

Daily Show pokes fun at Rob Ford's (alleged) crack (5/22/2013)

Rob Ford (finally) admits smoking crack cocaine, but lies continue (11/6/2013)

Rob Ford: Liability to Toronto Argonauts (11/15/2013)

Rob Ford makes negative impact on Toronto's Grey Cup quest (11/18/2013)

Rob Ford looks better in the eyes of the U.S. media (11/20/2013)