Mayor Rob Ford is urging the people of Toronto to join him in his boycott of the Toronto Star.

“I have no respect for the Toronto Star whatsoever. If people want to read a paper, pick up the Globe, Post or Sun. That’s what I encourage people to do,” Ford said on Friday morning.

Speaking on John Oakley’s talk show on AM 640, Ford revealed the extent of his personal animosity toward the newspaper, criticizing its journalism far more strongly than he had previously during his mayoral term and suggesting he was denying official communications to its reporters because he believes they are covering him unfairly.

Ford’s remarks are unusual for a sitting mayor. He made them despite public and private warnings from some of his council allies that his open antagonism toward the city’s best-read newspaper is hurting him.

John Honderich, chair of Torstar Corp., wrote Thursday that the Star would file a complaint with council’s integrity commissioner over the mayor’s exclusion of its reporters from the email list he uses to notify the media of his appearances and public statements.

Ford has regularly said he will not budge until the Star makes a front-page apology for a 2010 article he says was false. The article said he was asked to stop coaching football at a North York high school in 2001 after a confrontation with a high school football player he coached.

The article, which Star editors stand by, cited the accounts of two witnesses who said the altercation was merely verbal and two who said Ford made aggressive physical contact with the player. Ford has maintained, as he was quoted as saying in the article, that he never touched the player, who later told another newspaper that Ford was correct.

Ford has usually said that he is freezing out the Star solely because it refuses to apologize for the article about the confrontation. In his Friday comments, he said he is also doing so in part because he is generally displeased with its stories about him.

“If they don’t like me, fine. So why do you want to talk to me? If you’re gonna write, and twist stories, invent stories, the way they want to, that’s up to them. So I don’t want anything to do with it,” he said.

Honderich wrote that the complaint would not try to compel Ford to speak to Star reporters, only to stop excluding them from the email list through which he distributes official communications such as press releases.

When Oakley asked why Ford would not send the Star press releases, he said: “This is so ridiculous. We might have sent out five press releases. And at City Hall there’s a press gallery. You send only one press release, everybody gets it. It’s like one big family.”

It is incorrect that the mayor’s office sends a single press release to the press gallery to share — though the Star has indeed been forced to receive Ford’s releases from kind reporters at competing media outlets.

Ford continued: “The bottom line is, I won’t give them an interview. I do not want to talk to them. If they want to trash me, and do whatever they continue to do, that’s up to them, that’s their prerogative.”

His comments came a day after his brother, Councillor Doug Ford, said the mayor wouldn’t talk to the Star under any circumstances until it issues a front-page apology for the article about the football confrontation.

“You can quote me: if you apologize on the front page, it’s done. You can go to the Supreme Court and try to get Rob to talk to the Star — he won’t talk to you. He just won’t. Until you do it. It’s simple: put that one-liner (apology) in there, it’s over,” he said.

People close to the mayor, including some of his council allies, have advised him to normalize relations with the Star.

“When there’s this kind of brittle dispute, it taints both sides of the issue,” right-leaning Councillor James Pasternak said Thursday.

“We’re losing sight of what we’re all here for — we’re here to run a great city and make it greater, and we have to support a free and open press. I strongly urge everybody involved to get together and try to come to some sort of soft landing.”

Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday said Thursday that he would make another attempt to talk Ford into a compromise.

“I will mention to the mayor, and the mayor’s staff, that I think it’s better we resolve this between the two parties as opposed to getting the thing overblown into an integrity matter,” he said.

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Honderich wrote: “Mayor Ford has no obligation to speak to or be interviewed by the Star. That is entirely his choice. However, when it comes to public press releases and public notifications from his office as mayor of all the people, that is another matter.”

The integrity commissioner, Janet Leiper, investigates complaints alleging that members of council have violated council’s code of conduct. She has limited powers; though she can recommend sanctions to council, council must vote to impose any.

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