Rob Ford crack scandal: Toronto mayor refuses to discuss specifics of video
Calls allegations generally ‘ridiculous’ after furor about clip which seems to show him smoking crack.

Toronto Star — Mayor Rob Ford turned down three chances on Friday to address the specifics of media reports about a video in which he appears to smoke crack cocaine and utter an anti-gay slur.
As the reports by the Star and the website Gawker rocketed around the world and councillors of all stripes implored Ford to discuss them in detail, the mayor quietly told reporters in his Etobicoke driveway that unspecified allegations were “absolutely not true” and “ridiculous.” At city hall later, he emerged from his office to offer only a brief statement. More...

Also: Rob Ford crack scandal: Star editor’s unanswered questions

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Doug Ford speaks on alleged mayor crack tape

News Talk 1010 - Doug Ford has broken his silence on explosive drug allegations facing his brother.
Reporters from the Toronto Star and the editor of gossip site Gawker say they've seen a 90-second video that shows a man they believe to be Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack from a glass pipe.
The allegations have not been proven and neither media organization has the clip in their possession.
Doug Ford tells Newstalk 1010 "I have never seen my brother involved with anything like coke." More...

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Paul Godfrey fired as head of OLG, board of directors resign
Ontario’s gambling expansion, which is crucial to the Liberal government balancing the books without raising taxes, is in disarray after Paul Godfrey’s removal from the helm of province’s gaming agency.

Paul Godfrey speaks to reporters on Friday, Feb. 19, after being officially named as chair of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp.

Toronto Star - Ontario’s gambling expansion, which is crucial to the Liberal government balancing the books without raising taxes, is in disarray after Paul Godfrey’s removal from the helm of province’s gaming agency.
Godfrey, president and CEO of Postmedia newspapers, was let go as chair of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation by Premier Kathleen Wynne’s government late Thursday. More....

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By Ann Silversides — On Thursday, November 20, 2008, shortly before midnight, Dustin King arrived at an apartment hangout in downtown Brockville, Ontario. He was visibly upset. He’d had an explosive argument with his father, Gerry, and he’d already downed a few beers. King’s parents split up when he was a toddler, and he’d lived mostly with his dad. Their relationship had always been rocky; when he was in his mid-teens, their fights turned physical, prompting the involvement of the police and the Children’s Aid Society.
The apartment, a three-storey limestone building located at 89 King Street West, was full of people addicted to OxyContin. Curly-haired King, nineteen years old and still in high school, was the youngest of the group; most were in their twenties. King—no stranger to drugs—started using marijuana as a young teenager and graduated to popping prescription stimulants like Ritalin and street drugs like ecstasy. He had even landed in Brockville General Hospital a couple of times with seizures that doctors told him were caused by recreational drugs. But he wasn’t used to Oxy. More...

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BBC News - Bacteria that live in the gut have been used to reverse obesity and Type-2 diabetes in animal studies.
Research, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed that a broth containing a single species of bacteria could dramatically alter the health of obese mice.
It is thought to change the gut lining and the way food is absorbed.
Similar tests now need to be take place in people to see if the same bacteria can be used to shed the pounds.
The human body is teeming with bacteria - the tiny organisms outnumber human cells in the body 10 to one. More...

Targeting Frequent Health Care Users With Severe Addictions

Medical News Today -- A program co-led by St. Michael's Hospital could be the next widely used model to treat patients who are frequent users of the health care system and have severe addictions, often complicated by homelessness and mental health problems.
The Toronto Community Addiction Team (TCAT) was developed to improve health and social outcomes for people with addictions who are frequent users of health services by providing one-on-one intensive case management from a harm reduction approach. The team works with clients to provide services such as individual therapy, finding a physician, securing housing, managing budgets and care plans that are based on clients' strengths and choices. More...

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