TV AND WEB RESTRICTIONS~**NO ACCESS CANADA, NEWS USE ONLY, MUST COURTESY TORONTO STAR, NO LIBRARY, NO RESALE BROADCAST*~<br/> <br />He's admitted to smoking crack cocaine. And he's been making international headlines with his - quote - "drunken stupors," obscene outbursts and combative exchanges with reporters.<br/> <br />Now, Toronto City Council has voted to strip Mayor Rob Ford of some powers, in a system that has very few legal means to remove him from office.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE)(English) TORONTO MAYOR ROB FORD, SAYING:<br/> <br />"I completely understand the situation that my fellow colleagues are in and if it wouldn't cost the taxpayers an arm and a leg which obviously it's going to, I would have done the same thing. If I had a mayor acting the way I conducted myself I would have done the exact same thing."<br/> <br />Council voted 39 to 3 to suspend the mayor's ability to appoint and dismiss the deputy mayor and the heads of council committees.<br/> <br />Council also voted 41 to 2 to give the deputy mayo
