John Tory officially takes the office of Mayor of Toronto today. Here’s what he found in outgoing Mayor Rob Ford’s office:
1. Hundreds of fan letters to Macho Man Randy Savage, all marked “return to sender”
2. Drawer full of old candy necklaces
3. Jamaican Ambassador sash
4. Bunch of Rubix Cubes with stickers peeled off and reapplied
5. Lead pipe with post-it note “don’t forget to dispose of this”
6. Half-eaten Chapstick
7. Well-worn VHS copy of the movie Friday
8. Unopened mayor orientation guide from 2010
9. Cockfighting ring
10. Daniel Dale’s blackberry, with the numbers “58008” typed into the calculator
11. Filled garbage bag labelled “ripped mayor pants”
12. $547 in empties