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With the conclusion of legal proceedings against Sandro Lisi, Rob Ford’s scofflaw factotum, the crack video that sent Ford’s mayoralty and this city’s politics careering down an icy slope with a cliff at the end of it is finally in the public domain. It is an important municipal artefact from a period of madness Torontonians must always remember, so as never to repeat. But its contents may come as a surprise.

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Mohamed Siad filmed the mayor of Toronto smoking crack cocaine in an Etobicoke basement in Februrary, 2013. Minutes later, he sat alone in his car and filmed himself.

Of the two tapes released to the public Thursday, the one of Siad is oddly the more striking. The footage of an obviously blasted Rob Ford slurring his words and getting high has been described and dissected so many times it feels like an anti-climax to watch at this point.