"I'm the first one to admit I am not perfect, I have made mistakes," Ford told his weekly radio show.

Ford apologized to his family, members of city council and Toronto taxpayers. He said he was referring to being inebriated in public and texting while driving. Andre Johnson Colts Jersey

"A lot of stupid things, it's all selfinflicted," he said while promising he would make changes.

"I also know that to move forward I have to make changes in my life, which I will assure you I can do," he said. "I want to keep working for the people of this city."

Ford didn't talk about the contents of the video that police say appears to be the one that two media outlets say allegedly appears to show him smoking crack cocaine. He said he hasn't seen the video so it's impossible to explain its contents.

"Obviously when the video is released, I'm going to explain to the best of my ability what's in the video," said Ford, who called on police Chief Bill Blair to release the video so everyone can see it.

"Whatever this video shows, folks, Toronto residents deserve to see and people need to judge for themselves what they see on this video," Ford said.

"That is the right thing to do and chief, I'm asking you to release this video now."

Blair said Thursday that the video will be evidence in the case against Alexander Lisi a friend and sometimes driver for the mayor. Police allege Lisi tried to get his hands on the video and charged him with extortion.

Lisi was granted bail Friday.

Toronto police said Sunday that it is up to the courts to decide whether evidence is released to the general public. website Gawker in May, the mayor said he does not use crack cocaine and that the video does not exist.

He steadfastly refused to talk about the issue for months, but Blair's stunning announcement last Thursday that police had what appeared to be the video triggered a torrent of calls for Ford to either resign or address the issue.

Ford met privately Saturday with deputy mayor Norm Kelly who relayed concerns from city councillors about the fallout from the police revelations.

Kelly appealed on Sunday for everyone, including Ford's critics on city council, to give the mayor a second chance.

"I would urge my colleagues to do that, to show that this is more than just rhetoric. that in fact he has learned his lesson," Kelly told to The Canadian Press in a phone interview after the radio show. Authentic Frank Gore Jersey

Kelly said Ford addressed a number of the concerns councillors asked him to pass on to the mayor on Saturday, including acknowledging the impact of some of his actions and promising to get a fulltime chauffeur to drive him.

The video saga earned Ford international headlines, with countless foreign media devoting space on their websites to the story.

On top of the video story, there have been repeated accounts of Ford appearing intoxicated in public. He acknowleged having too much to drink during a Toronto street festival last summer as well as being intoxicated on St Patrick's Day last year.

The Toronto Star reported Friday that security guards indicated Ford was very intoxicated and struggling to walk and swore at one of his staff members.

The Star said the account was in an incident report sent by one of the guards to a supervisor and was released through freedom of information.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford at a press conference at City Hall in response to possible provincial funding cuts to the city.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford leaves after making an appearance at the raising of the Rainbow flag to kick off Pride Week festivities on the Podium roof at City Hall.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford takes in the Argo game in the stands at Varsity Stadium Toronto, June 20, 2013.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford takes in the Argo game in the stands at Varsity Stadium on June 20, 2013.

Mayor Rob Ford shares a laugh with General Richard Rohmer, left, and Chief Paul Raftis during speeches as Toronto Emergency Medical Services (EMS) celebrated the graduation of 40 new paramedics at EMS headquarters. Ford later ducked the media by leaving through a secured exit.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford steps off an art installation of the rooster bust at Nathan Phillips Square. The rooster is the Mayor's birth sign under the Chinese Zodiac. The Mayor unveiled 12 bronze animal heads by renown Chinese artists Ai Weiwei presented by AGO. The 12 sculptures are animal heads depicting the Chinese Zodiac.

The Humane Society of America has a longrunning boycott on Canadian seafood to protest the seal hunt. Last week, it announced that 42 highprofile chefs have joined the boycott and were also being honoured by Food Wine magazine.

[UPDATE: We've added comments from the International Fund For Animal Welfare's Canadian chapter. The group has campaigned against the Canadian seal hunt.]

Bourdain weighed in on the debate with this:

I'm all for protecting seals, but a total ban dooms the indigenous people above arctic circle to death or relocation.

To hold the entire Canadian seafood industry hostage over sustainable, absolutely necessary tribal practice is ill considered. But they are wrong . The Nunavut government wrote a report defending the seal hunt:

"Seal hunting has been a cornerstone of Inuit culture, nutrition and survival in the Arctic for millennia. Since the introduction of the cash economy in the Canadian Arctic, seal hunting has also been an important factor in the socioeconomic wellbeing of Inuit. Seal hunting in Nunavut occurs yearround and is an important part of daily life in every coastal community." Shonn Greene Titans Jersey

The IFAW's Canadian chapter responded to Bourdain and pointed out that anti seal hunt campaigners have never opposed the native hunt. Never have. They have an exemption in the EU ban. You're confusing Inuit with NFLD hunts. The European Union and Canada have fought a long legal battle over the trade in seal products.

South of the border, groups such as the Humane Society of the United States have also been vocal about the hunt. The groups say that the seal hunt is unnecessarily cruel and is unsustainable.

What do you think of the seal hunt and the seafood boycott?Canadian Seal HuntSeal hunters use a hakapik, a club used for killing seals, to kill a seal near their boat in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence March 31, 2008 near Charlottetown, Canada. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Last month, adjuncts at Tufts became the latest to join the 2.1 millionmember Service Employees International Union, which has been aggressively targeting college instructors. Adjuncts at Georgetown formed a union with SEIU in May, and parttime instructors at nearby American University joined the union last year.

SEIU now represents more than 18,000 members at 10 colleges and universities, compared with 14,000 five years ago. The union is preparing to file for elections at more colleges in the Los Angeles, Seattle and Boston areas.

Adjunct professors now make up more than half of all college faculty nationwide; in the 1970s, about 70 percent of college instructors were tenured professors or on a track to tenure.

Unlike full professors, most adjuncts earn just a few thousand dollars per class, with scant benefits and little job security.

"What started out decades ago as a way to supplement experience on college campuses by using adjunct professors has flipped," said Malini Cadambi, SEIU's national director of higher education. He earns less than $23,000 a year teaching three classes at GWU. By contrast, a full professor at the university earns an average salary of $156,000 a year, according to data compiled by the American Association of University Professors.

Lornell says conditions have improved since GWU adjuncts formed a union in 2006 and won a contract two years later. Salaries are 20 percent higher, and the university now pays minimum rates of $3,500 or $4,030, per 3credit course, depending on the lecturer's degree. The university also now has to go through certain procedures before deciding not to bring an instructor back.

"There's no question it's because of the union contract," Lornell said.

Higher education has been a rare bright spot in labor organizing in recent years as union membership has dwindled to 11.3 percent of the overall workforce and 6.6 percent in the private sector.

The American Federation of Teachers has added more than 50,000 new members in higher education since 2000. The majority of that growth has come in "contingent faculty," a category that includes parttime adjuncts, graduate assistants and fulltime nontenured faculty.

"We've identified this as one area we're going to put significant resources into," said Craig Smith, AFT's director of higher education.

Unions say they are not seeing quite as much pushback from colleges as they do in many privatesector union campaigns.

At Georgetown, administrators at the Jesuit university decided to take a neutral position on the union vote. But there was more resistance at Bentley University in Boston, where SEIU lost a unionization vote this month, 10098.

"We made it clear in our statement and in communications with faculty that we do not feel it is necessary to unionize," Bentley spokeswoman Michele Walsh said. "We encouraged those faculty who agreed with this stance to vote accordingly."

Universities used to call on adjunct professors in mostly technical fields such as allied health, journalism or business to bring students more practical training. Many adjuncts still have fulltime jobs and teach a class on the side. But as tenuretrack positions decline, those who want to make teaching a fulltime career have to cobble together jobs at multiple colleges and universities to make ends meet.

Colleges are relying more on adjuncts to teach basic classes as cashstrapped state governments have reduced funding for public universities, said Adrianna Kezar, a professor of education at the University of Southern California who studies the role of adjunct faculty.

Private universities also are under pressure to keep skyrocketing tuition levels down. Universities like the flexibility that adjuncts offer to deal with the uncertainty of predicting student enrollment.

A recent study showing median pay per course is about 25 percent higher on campuses where adjuncts have union representation. The report last year from the Coalition on the Academic Workforce, an advocacy group that seeks better working conditions for parttime faculty, found that median pay nationwide for teaching a standard threecredit course was about $2,700.

Bill Shimer, a parttime lecturer in management and organizational development at Northeastern University in Boston, said he never imagined being part of the union movement. But he has been rallying colleagues to support an upcoming vote on whether to form a union.

"It's not that people want to unionize, but we really don't see any other way. There's nowhere to turn and nobody is looking out for us," said Shimer, who teaches five classes at Northeastern and two at another local university.

The university has responded by hiring a prominent law firm used by many corporations to discourage union organizing. Northeastern's provost, Stephen Director, sent a letter last summer warning parttime faculty about the impact of "ceding your rights" to negotiate with the university to "an outside organization which is unfamiliar with our culture." Wesley Woodyard Jersey

Kezar said critics of labor unions argue that they aren't always supportive of evaluations, which play an important role at many schools in the decision to rehire. Unions consider protecting teachers' interests first, and don't always consider student interests as strongly, she said.

Unions argue that having wellcompensated faculty with more training leads to better education for students. Authentic Blidi Wreh-Wilson Jersey

Joliet Junior CollegeThe administration announced they'll limit adjuncts to teaching just six course hours per semester on all schedules beginning this summer, WBEZ reports.