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Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford dies after fighting cancer

(AP) - Rob Ford, the pugnacious, populist former mayor of Toronto whose career crashed in a drug-driven, obscenity-laced debacle, died Tuesday after fighting cancer, his family says. He was 46. Ford

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Mar 22, 2016, 3:28 PM

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