Many are hoping Mayor Ford might spend the weekend absorbing the growing calls for him to step aside. But remarks by his lawyer, Dennis Morris, attacking Police Chief William Blair and saying that it is the chief who should resign, suggest that the mayor is prepared to push on in office no matter what. Mr. Ford’s brother, Doug also, criticized the police chief in a radio interview. He said Chief Blair was playing politics by naming the mayor during his news conference Thursday. Late Friday, the Toronto Board of Trade called for Mr. Ford to step down. A poll by Forum Research following Blair’s news conference yesterday is said to register an increase in support for the mayor. At the same time, however, 60 percent of respondents are said to have agreed that the mayor should resign. In another development, an email written by a City Hall security employee tells of a drunken appearance by Mr. Ford at City Hall on the night of March 17, 2012. The mayor is said to have accused unknown acquaintances of stealing his car and wandered the halls with a bottle of brandy. He was eventually taken home in a taxi by an aide. The mayor is set to meet with his deputy mayor, Norm Kelly, this weekend to hear the concerns of members of the executive committee. The members have declined to describe their message to Mr. Ford but the sense of their concern will not be hard to guess.