Our neighbors to the north have an unfortunate mayor leading their largest city.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has continually been the butt of jokes because of his alleged crack cocaine use. He’s been repeatedly asked to step down and not only has he refused, but Ford says that he’ll be running for re-election next year.

CNN reported that earlier that on Tuesday, November 5th, after months of dodging allegations, Ford told reporters that he smoked crack cocaine about a year ago—probably, he said, during a “drunken stupor.” 

“Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine. But … do I? Am I an addict? No,” Ford said.

“Probably in one of my drunken stupors, probably approximately about a year ago,” he said about the cocaine use.

Ford said later that he knew he had embarrassed everyone in the city and “I will be forever sorry.”

He promised the people of Canada’s largest city that his mistakes will “never ever, ever happen again.”

Pressure on Ford, 44, increased last week when Toronto’s police chief announced investigators recovered a video of the mayor that purportedly shows him smoking a crack pipe. That followed allegations in two media reports in May that a video showed Ford using crack cocaine last winter.

Watch CNN’s video of the story here.

And leave it to both Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to make light of a rather deplorable situation:

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Ed: Bryonie Wise