It was announced that Rob Ford was turned away in Chicago and he went somewhere else. He did not enter States. His brother says he is definitely in rehab. Where? Don't know.

At this point does he not care enough to stay out of the spotlight while drunk?  Does he not have people around him who want him to at least avoid the circus if he isn't going to bother staying sober?

Go through the drive thru with your friends while drunk instead of loudly rambling in a restaurant.  If he was someone I cared about, I would have hoped there was some way to force some type of help well before this point.

Over the years , Toronto has become an entity, has made fun of the West, called them poor relations.
It was Toronto the Good, Toronto the Rich, Toronto the biggest and best.

Now along comes the Toronto that is the laughing stock of the country and the world. How are they handling the Rob Ford affair? Without finesse, without grace and without intelligence.

At first the West smiled and then laughed and now shakes their head in disbelief. I hope I am able to say that the poor cousins in the West would have handled this differently?

So, Ford is off the hook not because he wasn't in a conflict of interest but because council exceeded its jurisdiction in having the vote in the first place. As Clayton Ruby suggests, he pretty much got off on a technicality. Personally, I hope it's over with and that the appeal Ruby suggests doesn't go forward. There a serious issues in how Rob and Doug operate but this isn't the way to deal with them. The electoral finances audit might turn up something more serious and worthy of a fight or it might not, we'll see.