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Oh, Canada. The embattled mayor of Toronto made a shocking admission Tuesday: “Yes! I’ve smoked crack cocaine!” Mayor Rob Ford told reporters at city hall that he tried the drug about a year ago. “Am I addict? No. Have I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors.” Ford has been under intense scrutiny for months after two media …

Yesterday Ford fired his chief of staff, reportedly for telling him to go into drug rehab. As New York Magazine observes, today’s denial is “hardly categorical.”