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Jul 2019
41m 41s

Introducing Wag The Doug

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In the past few weeks, Ontario Premier Doug Ford was loudly booed at the Raptors' victory parade, demoted a bunch of star members of his Cabinet amid sagging poll numbers and lost his Chief of Staff, who got caught up in a nepotism scandal. 

Are we witnessing the downfall of a government, or is this just another month in Ontario? 

 

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