What a flaming pile of garbage!
Daniel Tate, a candidate for Toronto City Council in Ward 13, said on Friday that he was “infuriated” to see a pile of TTC trash bags ablaze at Sankofa Square in a social media video, shot by the TMU station entrance Thursday night.
For political observers, the Toronto mayoral election has been going on for months. But for the general public, the race gets underway this week.
Voters will cast their ballots in a little over six weeks, deciding whether to give incumbent Mayor Olivia Chow another term or opt for one of the main challengers: Councillor Brad Bradford or former federal minister Chris Alexander, a last-minute addition to the race.
In what officials call a worrisome trend, Toronto Fire says it has responded to 97 lithium-ion battery fires since January — easily surpassing the total from last year.
A spokesperson for the service says 71 such fires were recorded in 2025 and 76 the year before.
The latest numbers represent a more than threefold increase since 2022, when firefighters responded to 29 lithium-ion battery fires in the city.
A new poll from analysts at Liaison Strategies has incumbent Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow with a double-digit lead over her main opponent Brad Bradford in the city’s upcoming mayoral election.
The poll, which was released Wednesday morning, finds Olivia Chow leading the race with 50 per cent of support among decided and leaning voters compared to Brad Bradford with 39 per cent, and Chris Alexander in a distant third place with 10 per cent.
Analysts say Chow also holds a 51 per cent approval rating when it comes to her performance as mayor, while 45 per cent disapprove.
Kinsella is advising the Bradford campaign. That would explain the dumpster fire Bradford’s run for Mayor has become.
I won’t be voting for him for a number of reasons. He’s just another identity politics con.
A national poll released last week by Liaison Strategies on the public’s perception of their safety in 15 Canadian cities revealed that crime statistics are not the only thing that forms our perceptions about whether a city is safe.
Toronto is no longer recognizable as a Canadian city.
Toronto is the most cosmopolitan city in the world! https://t.co/xRZntlywes
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) September 6, 2026
Mass immigration = a ghettoized low trust society.
Toronto is seen by Canadians as one of the country’s most dangerous cities, with many viewing it as less safe than it actually is, a new poll finds.
A national public safety perception study conducted by Liaison Strategies found that 57 percent of Canadians consider Toronto to be “somewhat” or “very” unsafe. Just 39 percent said they consider the Ontario capital to be safe.
Olivia Chow won’t attend a Toronto mayoral debate next week about antisemitism and other public safety concerns, her team has confirmed.
The decision could serve as fodder for critics who have accused the incumbent mayor of not taking anti-Jewish hate seriously, and marks the latest challenge Chow has faced in navigating local concerns about antisemitism in the wake the Israel-Gaza war. Chow has rejected accusations she hasn’t done enough to combat intolerance, and her campaign said Thursday she would continue to work with the Jewish community to fight antisemitism.
The province is moving ahead with dismantling bike lanes on some of Toronto’s busiest streets, and will start the process of restoring lanes for motor vehicles.
This is good news. Sadly it’s about the only good news Toronto has had in a long while.
Toronto police say they have issued more than 1,200 tickets for vehicles parked in bike lanes and more than 300 tickets to micro-mobility device riders in a two-week educational blitz.
In a press release Monday, Toronto police announced the results of a two-week city campaign focusing on education for riders of e-scooters, e-bikes and other micro-mobility devices.
The campaign ran from Aug. 10 to Aug. 24
An urban curse.
We don’t officially have political parties in Toronto municipal politics, but voters should know that organized political factions exist. One of the most influential is Progress Toronto, the activist group backing Olivia Chow and a slate of candidates pushing policies that would make this city worse.
Move over, The Walking Dead. This is the flopping dead.
But these are not actors, and this is not Halloween. These real people often look like corpses in the seat next to you on the TTC subway or streetcar. Thankfully, they usually are still alive. But they can be so still and awkwardly positioned that it can be hard to tell sometimes.
On Friday, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that there was no Charter right to bike lanes — and delivered an utter spanking to the judge below their rank who said otherwise. Not only was it a victory for those who prefer car to bike, it was a victory for democracy.
Before the case was overturned, it stood for the principle that elected policymakers had to submit to “expert” evidence on matters of mere traffic planning to avoid breaching the Charter rights of the masses. Justice Paul Schabas of the Ontario Superior Court arrived at this conclusion last year in hearing out the advocacy group Cycle Toronto, which had complained about the Ontario government’s plan to remove a bike lane along a major thoroughfare downtown.
The gap in Toronto’s mayoral race is widening, leaving challengers scrambling for traction.
New numbers released Thursday by Liaison Strategies show incumbent Olivia Chow holding a comfortable 11-point lead among decided voters, gaining 2% since Aug. 7 as main challenger Brad Bradford lost 2% support over the same time period.
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Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim has a simple message for voters in Toronto when it comes to drug policy: Don’t follow Vancouver’s example — it won’t lead to good places.
If you drive or walk the streets of Toronto, the zombie-like creatures now occupying our public spaces are not a shocking scene anymore. They aren’t there by accident, though. They are there due to decisions by so-called progressive politicians to liberalize drug laws.
Chris Alexander is either running the strangest campaign for mayor that the City of Toronto has seen in some time, or is actually making a subtle bid for a very different job: to be Toronto’s poet laureate.
On Monday, Mr. Alexander posted on X: “A bed is for the worst night of your life. A home is for the rest of it. My job as mayor is both.” We can infer that the statement is some new form of
Haiku, because it makes no sense as political communications. (Is Mr. Alexander saying he will expand shelter spaces? He doesn’t elaborate. Will he rip up zoning regulations? Nothing on that either. Perhaps he will rephrase in iambic pentameter.)
