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The mayor is described as cruising around Toronto in his black Cadillac Escalade, so drunk his speech is slurred. He randomly punches a high school friend at one point, scattering a bag of McDonald’s he forgot was in his hand. The mayor is also heard to reveal that he keeps his marijuana in his coaching jacket for Don Bosco High School. Mr. Ford was dismissed as the school’s football coach about one year ago.

As the story quickly made the rounds Friday night, though, the most noticed comment was one that Mr. Ford apparently made during a cell phone call.

“Nobody sticks up for people like I do, every f–king k–e, n—-r, f–king w-p, d–o, whatever the race. Nobody does. I’m the most racist guy around. I’m the mayor of Toronto,” he said.

On Friday, CBC News said that they had confirmed with a doctor attending to Mr. Ford that the mayor was enrolled at a North American substance abuse facility.

Although the broadcaster reported that Mr. Ford had been at the facility since being turned away by U.S. border guards, they did not reveal the name or location of the treatment centre.

“CBC has agreed to withhold the location of the treatment facility out of consideration for the privacy and confidentiality of Ford, other patients, the facility and its staff,” they wrote.