Rob Ford, the former mayor of Toronto who publicly battled drug and alcohol problems while in office, has died at the age of 46.
He passed away at Mount Sinai Hospital following a battle with a "rare and aggressive" form of pleomorphic liposarcoma, a soft tissue cancer, reported Canadian Press.
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