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Calls mounted Tuesday for Mayor Rob Ford to address reports that he and his associates are under investigation by Toronto police, just as new allegations emerged about an attempt by Alexander Lisi to swap drugs for the mayor’s stolen cellphone.

Asked about the reports, a jubilant Mayor Ford, en route to council to debate the proposed Scarborough subway, emphatically shook his head and chanted: “Subways, subways, subways!”

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The mayor has said almost nothing about the ongoing police investigation and his involvement with accused criminals since Lisi, his friend and occasional driver, was arrested last week and charged with drug trafficking. The next day, Mayor Ford held a minutes-long news conference at a gas station near his home to defend Lisi as a “good guy.”

The latest reports on Project Brazen 2 — an offshoot of the west-end gang sweep called Project Traveller, in which a special squad of detectives are probing the activities of Mayor Ford and his associates — cite a police document that states Lisi was “heard to be brokering the return of a cellular phone stolen from an associate of his, with a payment of marijuana.” Mayor Ford was allegedly the “associate” referenced in the March incident.