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Authors: Robyn Doolittle
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to settle down, reportedly, but proposed shortly after his drunk driving arrest in Florida.
It seemed that alcohol continued to be a problem in the Ford household. In July 2005, after giving birth to her daughter, Stephanie, Renata was arrested for impaired driving. Officer Neville Channer also charged her with refusing to provide a breath sample and assaulting a peace officer. The second two charges were dropped, and she was fined six hundred dollars and given one year of driving probation.
In 2008 Renata had a second child, a son named Doug, whom Rob affectionately calls Dougie. Renata’s parents help their daughter with the kids most days.
FOR A WHILE , Kathy Ford’s troubles continued to haunt the family. There had been a brief period of stability in the mid-1990s. She even ran a political campaign in 1997 for the Conservative nominee in Etobicoke North, Sam Basra. But a year later, Michael Kiklas’s killing would devastate her. Kathy moved back in with her parents and eventually into the apartment above the garage. Holding a job was tough. She briefly tried to start a gift basket business out of the family house. But it never really came to anything.
Then she met Scott MacIntyre. He was always grinning and seemed passionate about everything. He made her happy. But in many ways they weren’t good for each other. Both were drug users. They would spend time clean, then fall back into it.
Things got bad in late 2003, when the pair went on a rampage stealing from Bell Canada phone booths. On December 10, they were arrested carrying a “pry bar and knife … instruments suitable for the purpose of breaking into a place vault.” Kathy and MacIntyre were each charged with thirty-two counts of theft under five thousand dollars for offences between November 4 and 19. In 2004, most of the charges were withdrawn. Kathy got twelve months’ probation. MacIntyre, because of his record, spent a few months in jail.
The accidental shooting in 2005 was a brief interruption in their relationship. In 2008, Kathy was arrested for stealing toothbrushes from Zellers. She was also charged with assaulting the person trying to detain her. When she lied about her identity to an investigating police officer, they tacked on an obstruction of justice charge. (The obstruction and assault charges were dropped.) Kathy was given a year of probation for the theft and spent four days in custody.
Through it all, to the surprise and annoyance of her family, Kathy Ford and Scott MacIntyre stayed together.
The night Rob Ford was elected mayor, October 25, 2010, Scott was in the room at the Ford family homestead, alongside immediate family, high-ranking campaign staff, and a handful of reporters.
But fifteen months later, something happened that they couldn’t overcome.
It began at 7:30 A.M. on January 11, 2012. Scott drove to the mayor’s home and parked around the corner. A neighbour spotted him lurking and spoke to him. She called the police. Another resident asked Scott what he was doing, and Scott answered not to worry, he was family. He then drove into Rob and Renata Ford’s driveway and walked in the front door, which was unlocked because, according to court transcripts, Rob had been waiting for a visitor. When Rob came out of his bedroom to investigate the noise, Scott started to yell.
“You owe me money and your sister owes me money,” Scott shouted. “If I don’t get it, they will kill me!”
Rob ordered him to get out, but Scott kept at him. “You and your family are going to get it, you are going to pay for it.”
Scott left and police arrived. An officer reached him on his cell phone. At one point in the phone conversation, Scott told the constable he intended to shoot Rob—who was now the mayor—and cut off his head with a machete.
Hours later, Scott MacIntyre was arrested in a hotel room in Mississauga, just west of Toronto. Police found 2.1 grams of heroin and 1.8 grams of cocaine in his room.
The mayor spoke to
It seemed that alcohol continued to be a problem in the Ford household. In July 2005, after giving birth to her daughter, Stephanie, Renata was arrested for impaired driving. Officer Neville Channer also charged her with refusing to provide a breath sample and assaulting a peace officer. The second two charges were dropped, and she was fined six hundred dollars and given one year of driving probation.
In 2008 Renata had a second child, a son named Doug, whom Rob affectionately calls Dougie. Renata’s parents help their daughter with the kids most days.
FOR A WHILE , Kathy Ford’s troubles continued to haunt the family. There had been a brief period of stability in the mid-1990s. She even ran a political campaign in 1997 for the Conservative nominee in Etobicoke North, Sam Basra. But a year later, Michael Kiklas’s killing would devastate her. Kathy moved back in with her parents and eventually into the apartment above the garage. Holding a job was tough. She briefly tried to start a gift basket business out of the family house. But it never really came to anything.
Then she met Scott MacIntyre. He was always grinning and seemed passionate about everything. He made her happy. But in many ways they weren’t good for each other. Both were drug users. They would spend time clean, then fall back into it.
Things got bad in late 2003, when the pair went on a rampage stealing from Bell Canada phone booths. On December 10, they were arrested carrying a “pry bar and knife … instruments suitable for the purpose of breaking into a place vault.” Kathy and MacIntyre were each charged with thirty-two counts of theft under five thousand dollars for offences between November 4 and 19. In 2004, most of the charges were withdrawn. Kathy got twelve months’ probation. MacIntyre, because of his record, spent a few months in jail.
The accidental shooting in 2005 was a brief interruption in their relationship. In 2008, Kathy was arrested for stealing toothbrushes from Zellers. She was also charged with assaulting the person trying to detain her. When she lied about her identity to an investigating police officer, they tacked on an obstruction of justice charge. (The obstruction and assault charges were dropped.) Kathy was given a year of probation for the theft and spent four days in custody.
Through it all, to the surprise and annoyance of her family, Kathy Ford and Scott MacIntyre stayed together.
The night Rob Ford was elected mayor, October 25, 2010, Scott was in the room at the Ford family homestead, alongside immediate family, high-ranking campaign staff, and a handful of reporters.
But fifteen months later, something happened that they couldn’t overcome.
It began at 7:30 A.M. on January 11, 2012. Scott drove to the mayor’s home and parked around the corner. A neighbour spotted him lurking and spoke to him. She called the police. Another resident asked Scott what he was doing, and Scott answered not to worry, he was family. He then drove into Rob and Renata Ford’s driveway and walked in the front door, which was unlocked because, according to court transcripts, Rob had been waiting for a visitor. When Rob came out of his bedroom to investigate the noise, Scott started to yell.
“You owe me money and your sister owes me money,” Scott shouted. “If I don’t get it, they will kill me!”
Rob ordered him to get out, but Scott kept at him. “You and your family are going to get it, you are going to pay for it.”
Scott left and police arrived. An officer reached him on his cell phone. At one point in the phone conversation, Scott told the constable he intended to shoot Rob—who was now the mayor—and cut off his head with a machete.
Hours later, Scott MacIntyre was arrested in a hotel room in Mississauga, just west of Toronto. Police found 2.1 grams of heroin and 1.8 grams of cocaine in his room.
The mayor spoke to
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