Editing Rob Ford (section)

==Early life==
[[File:Scarlett_Heights_Entrepreneurial_Academy.JPG|thumb|left|Ford was born in Etobicoke, where he attended [[Scarlett Heights Entrepreneurial Academy|Scarlett Heights Collegiate]].]]
Ford was born in [[Etobicoke]], [[Ontario]], Canada, in 1969, the youngest of the four children ([[Doug Ford|Doug]], Kathy, Randy, and Rob) of Ruth Diane ({{nee}} Campbell) and [[Doug Ford Sr.|Douglas Bruce Ford]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Goldsbie|first=Jonathan|url=http://toronto.curbed.com/maps/the-ultimate-toronto-walking-tour-in-pretty-map-form/rob-fords-childhood-home|title=The Rob Ford walking tour|publisher=Thegridto.com|date=May 8, 2012|access-date=November 6, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Staff|url=http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/Announcements.20100922.93242769/BDAStory/BDA/births|title=Anniversary notice of the death of Douglas Bruce Ford (Sr.)|work=The Globe and Mail|access-date=November 6, 2013|location=Toronto|archive-date=October 28, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028055117/http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/Announcements.20100922.93242769/BDAStory/BDA/births|url-status=dead}}</ref> His paternal grandparents were English immigrants.<ref>{{cite news|last=Peat|first=Don|url=http://www.torontosun.com/2012/07/31/rob-fords-ancestor-landed-in-canada-for-being-unruly|title=Rob Ford's ancestor landed in Canada for being 'unruly'|newspaper=Toronto Sun|date=July 31, 2012|access-date=March 23, 2016}}</ref> His father, along with Ted Herriott, was co-founder of [[Deco Labels|Deco Labels and Tags]],{{sfn|Doolittle|2014|p=30}} which makes pressure-sensitive labels for plastic-wrapped grocery products at an estimated {{CAD|100 million}} in annual sales,{{sfn|McDonald|2012|p=43}} and was a [[Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario|Progressive Conservative]] [[Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario)|member of the Provincial Parliament]] (MPP) from 1995 to 1999.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com/Obituary/AtoG/article/108295|newspaper=Toronto Star|first=John|last=Goddard|title=Doug Ford, 73: Athlete, business leader, MPP|date=October 19, 2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201085325/http://www.thestar.com/Obituary/AtoG/article/108295|archive-date=February 1, 2009}}</ref>

Ford attended [[Scarlett Heights Entrepreneurial Academy|Scarlett Heights Collegiate Institute]] in Etobicoke.<ref name="ConfusingUniversity">{{cite news|first=David|last=Rider|work=Toronto Star|title=Rob Ford's confusing university life|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/torontocouncil/article/910648--rob-ford-s-confusing-university-life|date=December 21, 2010|access-date=January 2, 2011}}</ref> He dreamed of becoming a professional [[Gridiron football|football]] player, and his father paid for him to attend special camps of the [[University of Notre Dame]] and of [[Washington Commanders|Washington's NFL franchise]]. After graduating from high school, Ford went to [[Carleton University]] in Ottawa to study [[political science]]. He made the football squad, but did not play in any games. He left Carleton after one year to return to Toronto and did not complete his degree.{{sfn|McDonald|2012|p=43}}<ref name="ConfusingUniversity"/> After Carleton, he started a sales job at Deco.{{sfn|McDonald|2012|p=43}} After Doug Ford Sr.'s death in 2006, the Ford family retained ownership of Deco Labels through the Doug Ford Holdings corporation.{{sfn|McDonald|2012|p=43}}<ref name="lorinc-gm">{{cite news|newspaper=The Globe and Mail|last=Lorinc|first=John|title=Ford's unique approach to campaign financing: Borrow from family firm|date=April 6, 2011|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/fords-unique-approach-to-campaign-financing-borrow-from-family-firm/article578922|access-date=December 10, 2012|location=Toronto}}</ref> Ford, alongside his brothers and their mother was a director of the company.<ref name="lorinc-gm"/>

In August 2000, Ford married Renata Brejniak, whom he had met in high school,<ref name="tl-who-is-renata">*{{cite journal|journal=Toronto Life|title=The woman behind the mayor: who is Renata Ford?|first=Jan|last=Wong|url=http://www.torontolife.com/informer/features/2011/02/03/the-woman-behind-the-mayor-who-is-renata-ford/?page=all#tlb_multipage_anchor_1|date=February 3, 2011|access-date=November 6, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111030017/http://www.torontolife.com/informer/features/2011/02/03/the-woman-behind-the-mayor-who-is-renata-ford/?page=all#tlb_multipage_anchor_1|archive-date=November 11, 2013}}</ref> at All Saints Roman Catholic Church in Etobicoke. They had been dating since Brejniak's divorce from her first husband in February 1996.{{sfn|Doolittle|2014|p=52}} Ford lived with Renata and their two children, Stephanie and Doug, in Etobicoke until his death in 2016.<ref name="FordCityOfToronto">{{cite web |url=http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=23dfc40c27f09410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD&vgnextchannel=2ad8dddc97703410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD |title=Biography – Rob Ford |access-date=March 23, 2016 |publisher=City of Toronto |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322161241/http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=23dfc40c27f09410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD&vgnextchannel=2ad8dddc97703410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD |archive-date=March 22, 2016 |url-status=dead  }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |newspaper=Toronto Sun |first=Joe |last=Warmington |url=http://www.torontosun.com/2013/06/17/mayor-rob-fords-wife-on-the-media-i-kind-of-feel-sorry-for-them|title=Mayor Rob Ford's wife on the media: 'I kind of feel sorry for them'|date=June 17, 2013|access-date=June 19, 2013}}</ref>