The Gravy Train
Frequency Podcast Network
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The Gravy Train
Frequency Podcast Network
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The tragic life and enduring legacy of Toronto's crack-smoking mayor
Saturday 17 October 2020 : Amir Omidvar left Iran during the revolutionary crisis in 1982. For twenty months after leaving his home, Amir did everything he could to...
Monday 22 June 2020 : In 1994, a small church next to Toronto Pearson International Airport suddenly became one of the city’s “Top Tourist Attractions”. Why...
Thursday 13 February 2020 : A secret war, a secret deal, and a scandal that threatened to destroy Ronald Reagan’s presidency–until it didn’t. The Gravy Train team...
Thursday 12 December 2019 : Toronto never got the chance to reelect Mayor Rob Ford. Nor did it get the chance to kick him out of office. It wasn’t the ending anyone...
Thursday 05 December 2019 : More than a year after the first stories about a ‘crack video’ broke, and months after the mayor admitted he’d tried the drug...
Thursday 28 November 2019 : Mayor Rob Ford publicly admitted to smoking crack “in one of my drunken stupors” on Nov. 5, 2013. And then all hell broke loose. The...
Thursday 21 November 2019 : The whole world was talking about whether or not Toronto’s mayor smoked crack. You might think that the mayor would change his behaviour...
Thursday 14 November 2019 : After months of absences and whispers and rumours, all of Mayor Rob Ford’s private life started to go public. It began with one story,...
Thursday 07 November 2019 : As Rob Ford began his term as mayor by ending taxes and cancelling transit plans, his colleagues on city council and the reporters who...
Thursday 31 October 2019 : Rob Ford’s colleagues laughed off his campaign for mayor. They shouldn’t have. They assumed the numerous scandals he’d already...
Thursday 31 October 2019 : He was a joke. And then he won. He was a trainwreck. But it didn’t matter. He was a drug user and an alcoholic. But a lot of people loved...
Thursday 31 October 2019 : This is the story of how our subject goes from the outskirts of the city to a seat in the building at the heart of its power. Before he was...
Wednesday 09 October 2019 : Trailer: He was a joke. And then he won. He was a trainwreck. But it didn’t matter. He was a drug user and an alcoholic. But a lot of...
The Gravy Train
Frequency Podcast Network
The Hopeful: Heirloom
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Amir Omidvar left Iran during the revolutionary crisis in 1982. For twenty months after leaving his home, Amir did everything he could to...
Heaven Bent: The Revival
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In 1994, a small church next to Toronto Pearson International Airport suddenly became one of the city’s “Top Tourist Attractions”. Why...
Introducing Fiasco: Iran-Contra
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A secret war, a secret deal, and a scandal that threatened to destroy Ronald Reagan’s presidency–until it didn’t. The Gravy Train team...
8: Legacy
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Toronto never got the chance to reelect Mayor Rob Ford. Nor did it get the chance to kick him out of office. It wasn’t the ending anyone...
7: Rehab
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More than a year after the first stories about a ‘crack video’ broke, and months after the mayor admitted he’d tried the drug...
6: The Circus
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Mayor Rob Ford publicly admitted to smoking crack “in one of my drunken stupors” on Nov. 5, 2013. And then all hell broke loose. The...
5: Brazen
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The whole world was talking about whether or not Toronto’s mayor smoked crack. You might think that the mayor would change his behaviour...
4: Headlines
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After months of absences and whispers and rumours, all of Mayor Rob Ford’s private life started to go public. It began with one story,...
3: Whispers
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As Rob Ford began his term as mayor by ending taxes and cancelling transit plans, his colleagues on city council and the reporters who...
2: City Hall
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Rob Ford’s colleagues laughed off his campaign for mayor. They shouldn’t have. They assumed the numerous scandals he’d already...
1: Suburbs
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He was a joke. And then he won. He was a trainwreck. But it didn’t matter. He was a drug user and an alcoholic. But a lot of people loved...
1: The Suburbs
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This is the story of how our subject goes from the outskirts of the city to a seat in the building at the heart of its power. Before he was...
All Aboard
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Trailer: He was a joke. And then he won. He was a trainwreck. But it didn’t matter. He was a drug user and an alcoholic. But a lot of...
