Out-of-town judge will decide Ford’s fate

Mayor Rob Ford will find out early next month when he’ll go to court to battle for his mayoralty. Lawyers for the mayor and Toronto resident Paul Magder — who is seeking to punt Ford from office and ban him from running for council for seven years — were in court Friday to set a trial date. Justice Wailan Low told Ford’s lawyer, Andrew Parley, and Magder’s lawyer, Gerald Chan, that an out-of-jurisdiction judge would be called in to hear the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act matter. She postponed setting a hearing date until April 11 to secure a judge for two or possibly three hearing days as soon as possible, perhaps in September or October. Yonge and Roxborough News