{"id":33602,"date":"2012-09-20T13:22:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T17:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=33602"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:27:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:27:33","slug":"has-mayor-rob-ford-become-mayor-tommy-shanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/09\/20\/has-mayor-rob-ford-become-mayor-tommy-shanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Mayor Rob Ford become Mayor Tommy Shanks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l_6lh7F09O4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The continued follies of Toronto mayor Rob Ford may be life imitating art (or pop culture). During a moment of time-wasting today, I stumbled across a series of clips from the early-1980s of SCTV fictional mayor Tommy Shanks. In this one scene, the bumbling Mayor Shanks is accused of funnelling money from a youth milk fund. 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