Five months ago, I flew to Toronto to meet a crack dealer. We hung out together briefly in a car, he showed me a video on his iPhone of the mayor of Toronto smoking crack cocaine, and then he split. Subsequent events unfolded, and for reasons that escape me and make me fundamentally question my settled views on Canada and Canadian-ness, Rob Ford is still the mayor of Toronto. Anyway, it turns out the cops were watching us the whole time.

This is Mohamed Siad, 27, accused drug dealer, gun runner, victim of a recent jailhouse stabbing—and, apparently, owner and peddler of the infamous Rob Ford crack video.