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Advertising@ freepress. mb. ca EDITORIAL Newsroom 204- 697- 7301 News tip 204- 697- 7292 Fax 204- 697- 7412 Photo desk 204- 697- 7304 Sports desk 204- 697- 7285 Business news 204- 697- 7301 PHOTO REPRINTS - 204- 697- 7063 City desk / City. desk@ freepress. mb. ca Letters to the editor / Letters@ freepress. mb. ca THE NEW REALITY WFP SCAN PAGE WFP WFP SCAN TO SEE VIDEO WATCH: Firefighters battle blaze in Transcona HOW TO USE BLIPPAR 1 2 3 Download the free BLIPPAR app from Apple or the Google play store. When you see the WFP Blippar icon, scan the page with Blippar. Enjoy BONUS content on your mobile phone or tablet. WATCH . HOW- TO VIDEO READER SERVICE / GENERAL INQUIRIES 204- 697- 7000 A 2 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2014 winnipegfreepress. com T ORONTO - After months of insisting he had been truthful in the midst of a drug scandal, Toronto's controversial mayor has admitted he lied to the public because he was embarrassed. Rob Ford made the admission on his own terms, in a YouTube show called Ford Nation, which was posted online Monday. " Did I experiment with drugs? Yes I have. Why did I lie? I think everybody in the world has lied, because I was embarrassed," Ford said, while looking directly into the camera. " I didn't want to tell the truth. That's the only answer I can give. That's as straightforward as I can be." Ford's revelation came in response to a written question from " Sandra from Bangkok, Thailand," who wondered why the mayor lied about his " substance- abuse problem" when initially asked. " I'm not a drug addict, I don't use drugs. Have I in the past? Yes," Ford said. " When they ask me, it's very, very humiliating in front of the world to say yes... People either lie to cover up, people lie because they're embarrassed; that's why I lied." Ford had been under intense scrutiny since last May, when two media outlets reported the existence of a video they said appeared to show the mayor smoking crack cocaine. The mayor initially denied he used the drug and suggested the video did not exist, but he backtracked in November by admitting he had smoked crack cocaine, probably in one of his " drunken stupors." " I wasn't lying," he told reporters at the time. " You didn't ask the correct questions. No, I'm not an addict and no I do not do drugs." The cocaine scandal was just one in a string of controversies that have put Ford in the international spotlight. Among other eyebrow- raising incidents, the mayor also made a crude sexual comment on live TV and was recently filmed using Jamaican swear words and other profanities, at one point aiming his curses at Toronto's police chief. Toronto city council voted to strip Ford of most of his mayoral powers in November, leaving him with little more than ribbon- cutting duties. At the time, the besieged mayor called it a coup d'�tat , comparing it to the 1991 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and a declaration of war. - The Canadian Press SCAN PAGE FOR A LIST OF FORD'S APOLOGIES That explains everything WAYNE GLOWACKI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Ford lied about drug use because ' I was embarrassed' Business B 5 Canada / World A 8 City B 1 Classified C 10 Comics D 6 Diversions D 7 Editorials A 7 Entertainment D 1 Horoscope D 4 Jumble C 9 Letters to the Editor A 6 Miss Lonelyhearts D 4 Manitoba A 4,5 Movies D 2 Sports C 1 Top News A 3 TV C 11 Weather D 8 . OBITUARIES C 8 . COLUMNISTS Stephen R. Palumbi A 7 Roger Gibbins A 7 Douglas Johnston A 7 Gordon Sinclair Jr. B 1 Gary Lawless C 2 In the event of a discrepancy between this list and the official winning numbers, the latter shall prevail. PICK 3 Winning number Monday was 620. EXTRA Winning number Monday was 4859055. The Department of Education says it included incorrect information in a report about snow days quoted in Saturday's Free Press . Sunrise School Division has had 20 schools report a total of 60 snow days so far this winter. INSIDE LOTTERIES CORRECTION MARK BLINCH / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILES Snow nice to see you Dave Maddocks, on the G4 snowsculpting team, works on a giant snow sculpture at the main entrance to Voyageur Park on Monday. Entitled Hearth of the Nation, the sculpture will feature a voyageur with his wife and their sled dogs by a fire. Festival du Voyageur runs from Feb. 14 to 23 this year. PRIVATIZING the province's property registry will make it faster and easier for Manitobans to find and register documents, the government said Monday as it officially inked a deal with an Ontario- based service provider. The Selinger government announced it would sell the registry to Ontario- based Teranet for $ 75 million more than a year ago. The two sides formally signed the deal Monday morning. On top of the purchase price, Teranet Manitoba will pay royalties to the government in exchange for a licence to provide property registry services to the public. - staff Registry privatized A_ 04_ Feb- 11- 14_ FP_ 01. indd A2 2/ 10/ 14 9: 58: 12 PM ;