Police chief Bill Blair will address the media directly today for the first time since Doug Ford accused him of leaking information about Mayor Rob Ford to the media.
Blair is expected to accept an apology from Coun. Ford after the mayor's brother claimed the chief engaged in an act of revenge.
Toronto police detectives were set to serve Mayor Ford with a subpoena in the case of his friend Alexander "Sandro" Lisi, who is accused of extortion and drug dealing.
Ford called the subpoena "payback" and accused the chief of leaking the information about it to the media. He again said the chief needed to go.
Blair said in a statement Ford was lying and threatened legal action. Ford stood by his comments and the chief served him notice of defamation a week later.
Ford apologized yesterday, but Blair did not accept it.
Blair and the Fords have been in a back-and-forth war of words since the chief commented on the mayor's involvement with Project Brazen — a drugs and gangs investigation that led to the recovery of a video of Rob Ford smoking crack.
Blair, at the time, said seeing the images of the mayor smoking crack left him "disappointed."
Doug Ford repeatedly called for Blair to resign after details of the investigation emerged. The mayor himself disparaged Blair after Rob Ford was seen drinking in a video surreptitiously recorded at a fast-food restaurant in Etobicoke.
Blair's contract as police chief has not been renewed. He will leave the post in April 2015.
Doug Ford has said he is not running for re-election and will ostensibly leave office after the current term is up.