A dispatch from the front lines of the new French revolution

Farewell to Quebec

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is determined to clean up Toronto. “Everywhere there is graffiti,” he observed earlier this summer.
“I will guarantee that we will be removing it.”
Exhibit A:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Rob Ford using a pressure washer on graffiti <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23TOpoli&amp;src=hash">#TOpoli</a> <a href="http://t.co/dgwNEFtK92">pic.twitter.com/dgwNEFtK92</a>
— CBC Toronto (@CBCToronto) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBCToronto/statuses/362627276279517184">July 31, 2013</a></blockquote>
As this narrated slideshow reveals, the mayor is the subject of countless acts of random caricature:
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Slideshow: The Rob Ford graffiti movement

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