Former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford died Tuesday according to multiple media reports after battling a rare, aggressive cancer for the last two years.
The CBC, Toronto Star and Associated Press reported his death.
Ford became known internationally after a 2013 scandal in which he admitted to crack cocaine use, public drunkenness and drinking and driving, prompting colleagues to strip him of some of his mayoral powers. The scandal vaulted Ford onto the stage of the outrageous, and despite the negative attention, he aimed for a second run as mayor.
But in the fall of 2014, Ford announced he had a rare form of cancer called liposarcoma that grows in the fat cells, and that he had a tumor in his abdomen. The diagnosis forced him to drop his reelection campaign, but he reemerged on the political scene in October 2014, winning his old Toronto City Council seat representing Ward 2.
