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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford told Conrad Black in a Monday night broadcast that the ongoing scandal is “ripping our family apart” and that he was the target of a political vendetta by Toronto Police chief Bill Blair.

“The chief, I have an issue with, I think it’s political,” Mr. Ford told Mr. Black. “He wasn’t happy when I told people to find efficiencies.”

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“I want to save money and I guess he disagrees with that.”

The mayor also asserted that his children were regularly reduced to tears by the hordes of reporters outside his house.

“They’re really, really scared. They think I’m going to get hurt, they think their father’s going to get killed,” he said.

I want to save money and I guess he disagrees with that

And, Mr. Ford gave a detailed account of his May, 2012 encounter with Toronto Starreporter Daniel Dale near his backyard, which he called the worst intrusion into his private life by the media.

Hinting that he assumed the camera-wielding Mr. Dale was a pedophile out to peer at his children, Mr. Ford said he “lost it.”