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Councillor Doug Ford’s Etobicoke campaign office is in a two-storey 1960s office building on Belfield Road at Kipling Avenue, among industrial buildings next to Highway 401. A red and blue Ford Nation flag flies on a flagpole out front — at half mast on Friday. This is the heart of Ward 2, Rexdale.

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On the phone a man says Doug Ford’s mayoral campaign office doubles as campaign office for Mayor Rob Ford, now running for city council in Ward 2. On a table inside is a stack of Rob Ford for Ward 2 pamphlets, plus pamphlets for Michael Ford, their nephew running for public school trustee here. But when I try to pick up a Rob Ford pamphlet, a woman hides them under the table, saying: “These are not for distribution here.”

Staff here tell me this office has no role in Rob Ford’s campaign. Amin Massoudi, Doug Ford’s spokesman, calls me.

“Rob Ford has a scaled-back campaign,” he says. “He has signs, he is doing canvassing. But he is limited because of the chemo. He is doing everything he can to connect with the voters of Ward 2.”