It caught us all by surprise. The Toronto Star's Edward Keenan writes:

Well, holy mackerel. Did anyone see this coming?

But this is a shock. Mayor John “Bland Works” Tory, who has spent decades developing a reputation as the walking personification of pablum, who often spoke with apparent devotion of the wife he has been with since the disco era, who was swept into office eight years ago on the promise of ending the three-ring circus of personal drama hijacking city business that had defined the Rob Ford era ...

For Torontonians, the revelations and the resignation come together, all of a sudden, just months after they’d overwhelmingly elected Tory to a historic third term, after he’d asked for and accepted unprecedented new strong mayor powers, and just a week before the climax of a city budget process he has controlled in a way no other mayor previously has.

And it throws the city’s government and political situation into disarray.

So Jennifer McKellvie, the deputy Mayor, will take over until there is a by-election. Tory's resignation reminds us that things can change very quickly.

And that the Greeks knew a lot about human frailty.

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