All Aboard
The Gravy Train
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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 people loved him anyway. And most of all, Rob Ford was a sign of things to come—in politics, in the media and around the world. Welcome […]
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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...
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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...
The Hopeful: Heirloom
The Gravy Train
Heaven Bent: The Revival
The Gravy Train
Introducing Fiasco: Iran-Contra
The Gravy Train
