TORONTO – A Toronto marketing agency delivered a pile of black coal as a holiday stocking stuffer to Mayor Rob Ford at city hall Friday morning.
An online campaign was started last Monday by a communications firm named Bob’s Your Uncle to collect “virtual” coal for the misbehaving mayor.
“Toronto residents have had absolutely no say in the Rob Ford matter and there is a general sense of helplessness in doing anything about the mayor’s problems,” said Robert Froese, CEO of Bob’s Your Uncle, in a media release. “Giving people an outlet to express their dissent in a fun and playful way has proved to be extremely popular.”
The company said over one million pieces of virtual coal were collected.
The agency says every 5000 pieces of virtual coal dropped into Ford’s stocking have been matched with a one dollar donation to a local charity.
After months of denying reports that he had been filmed smoking what appeared to be crack cocaine, Ford admitted he had smoked the drug about a year ago in one of his “drunken stupors.”
Ford has since been stripped of most of his mayoral powers following a special council meeting last month.
The mayor recently apologized and retracted comments he made about Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale in a televised interview with Conrad Black insinuating the journalist was a pedophile.
Ford’s apology came a week after he was issued a libel notice by Dale.
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