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Jan 5, 2020 · Matriarch of the famous Ford Family that includes Rob Ford and Doug Ford.
- Early Life and Business Career
- Municipal Politics
- Controversy and Scandal
- Campaign For Mayor
- Ontario PC Party Leadership
- Provincial Election
- Premier of Ontario
Doug Ford was born on 20 November 1964 in Etobicoke, Ontario, one of four children of Douglas Bruce Ford Sr. and Ruth Diane Campbell. He has been a lifelong resident of the Torontosuburb. Ford attended high school at Scarlett Heights Collegiate Institute. As a young adult, he began working at Deco Labels and Tags, a label-printing and adhesive prod...
Ford replaced his younger brother Rob Ford as Toronto city councillor for Ward 2 Etobicoke North in October 2010, when Rob was elected mayor of Toronto (see Municipal Government). Rob Ford had held the Ward 2 council seat for the previous 10 years. Doug Ford won the ward handily, garnering 71.7 per cent of the vote against five other opponents. Wit...
During Doug Ford’s time on council (2010–14), his brother Robbecame embroiled in international scandal for his struggles with substance abuse, including crack cocaine, and was dubbed Canada’s “crack mayor.” Doug Ford was at the centre of some local controversies himself. His comment that he would close a public library in his ward “in a heartbeat” ...
In September 2014, Rob Ford was forced to withdraw from the 27 October 2014 mayoral election after he was diagnosed with an abdominal tumour. (Rob Ford died on 22 March 2016.) Doug Ford, who had been acting as the mayor’s campaignmanager, replaced him as a mayoral candidate, registering just minutes before the deadline. During the campaign, Ford fo...
Events in January 2018 changed that calculation. Ontario PC leader Patrick Brown resigned amid accusations of sexual misconduct by two women that allegedly occurred when he was a federal member of Parliament. On 29 January 2018, Ford held a press conference in the basement of his mother’s Etobicoke home to announce that he would run for the PC lead...
The new PC leader had little time to get acclimatized to his new job. The campaign for Ontario’s 7 June 2018 election started less than two months later. Ford pledged during the campaign to cut the price of gas by 10 cents and to fight any attempt by the federal government to levy a carbon tax on the province. He also promised to pull out of the jo...
Soon after Doug Ford became premier, his government made a number of sweeping and controversial changes that quickly cut short his honeymoon in office. It scrapped the cap-and-trade system, which put caps on the amount of pollution that companies in certain industries could emit. (See Carbon Pricing in Canada.) It announced plans to roll back a sex...
Jan 9, 2020 · She was born Diane Ruth Campbell in Toronto in October, 1934, and her father was a manager at a company that worked on power plants, Globe and Mail reporter Robyn Doolittle recounts in...
Feb 8, 2021 · Ruth Diane Ford (Campbell) Birthdate: October 06, 1934. Death: January 05, 2020 (85) Toronto, Toronto Division, ON, Canada. Immediate Family: Daughter of Clarence Robert Campbell and Mable Kathleen Campbell. Wife of Doug Ford Sr.
- October 6, 1934
- January 5, 2020
Born in Etobicoke, Ontario, Ford was the second of four children of Doug Bruce Ford Sr. and Ruth Diane Ford (née Campbell). His paternal grandparents were English immigrants. He graduated grade twelve from Scarlett Heights Collegiate Institute. He then attended Humber College for two months before dropping out with no diploma.
Born Ruth Diane Campbell on October 6, 1934 in North York, she married Doug Ford Sr. in 1956. When her husband launched printing firm Deco Adhesive Products in 1962, she applied her accounting skills to manage the company's finances and support the company's growth.
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He is one of four children of Ruth Diane Ford (née Campbell) and Doug Ford, Sr. Ford, Sr. was the founder of Deco Labels and Tags, which makes pressure-sensitive labels for plastic-wrapped grocery products at an estimated $100 million in annual sales.
