While talking about nails — by way of eye shadow, boys and her frustrating mother — Brianna Warner confessed to murder.
It was a huge get for Toronto police, one that was months in the making.
While the 18-year-old Warner had emerged as a person of interest in the December 2022 shooting of 20-year-old Jai Parker-Ford, investigators weren’t quite ready to charge her.
She seems all too common a monster.
Toronto’s unemployment rate climbed to 8.9% as of September 2025, marking nearly a 3.5-percentage-point increase from its post-pandemic low and leaving Canada’s largest city with the fourth-highest jobless rate among the country’s 41 major urban areas, according to a report released Wednesday by TD Economics.
Mayor Olivia Chow on Tuesday defended her recent remarks on the war in Gaza that have sparked complaints to both the provincial human rights tribunal and the city’s integrity commissioner.
At a charity gala hosted by the National Council of Canadian Muslims on Saturday, Chow gave a speech, in which she described what has transpired in Gaza as a genocide, a characterization that has been the subject of fierce debate through the war.
“The genocide in Gaza impacts us all,” Chow said, adding “our common bond of shared humanity is tested. And I will speak out when children anywhere are feeling pain and violence and hunger.”
While Torontonians are evenly split on their mayor’s handling of the job, the proportion who strongly disapprove of Olivia Chow’s performance is rising, according to a new Leger poll.
Older Torontonians also feel differently than younger ones about Chow’s performance.
The shipbuilder awarded $92 million to construct Toronto’s two new electric ferries will soon face trial overseas on corruption charges and sanctions violations, a legal threat experts say could imperil the company.
The Netherlands Public Prosecution Service announced in April that it was prosecuting Damen, a major international shipbuilder headquartered in the Netherlands, for bribery, forgery and money-laundering. The service also said it was investigating the company for violating Russian sanctions.
I bet these will work great mid-winter.
Toronto’s real estate board says home sales and prices were down in October from a year earlier as economic uncertainty persists.
The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board says home sales totalled 6,138, down 9.5 per cent from last year, which on a seasonally adjusted basis meant a 2.3 per cent drop in sales from September.
Meddling politicians, a massive contract, multimillion-dollar lawsuits and a pandemic have turned the Eglinton Crosstown LRT into a 14-year project
For months, they have glided along the middle of Toronto’s Eglinton Avenue: Sleek, empty streetcars on test runs, stopping at platforms blocked off to the public. No one gets on or off. And before the two-car vehicle pulls away, its electronic chimes sound their pointless warnings as the doors close.
Here in Scarborough, on a strip lined with mall parking lots, cars and buses full of people – relegated to the road’s remaining traffic lanes – just roll on by as though the weed-choked rail line occupying the median isn’t there.
I think they should shoot for 20 years.
The City of Toronto is once again quietly pushing the idea of a municipal sales tax in advance of next spring’s budget. Anyone who doesn’t want to see an extra tax layered on top of every purchase they make within the city limits needs to make their voices heard now, before this plan is put into further motion.
Another tax increase is coming in Toronto, in part because they won’t fix some of the obvious and expensive problems they have.
Toronto budget chief Shelley Carroll was on The Deb Hutton Show on Newstalk 1010. The topic was the upcoming budget and a caller asked why the city doesn’t drop its sole-source contracting policy. The city works with a small number of contractors who are allowed to bid.
Saying she is not thinking about the civic election one year away, Mayor Olivia Chow declined to confirm Monday she is planning to run for re-election, instead touting her record on housing, transit, improving city services and helping small business.
“I didn’t even know that (election) is one year” away, Chow told reporters with a chuckle. “I’m focused on cutting red tape and supporting small businesses so they are successful.”
A year out from the next municipal election, Mayor Olivia Chow is in trouble with a majority of voters saying it’s time for her to go. A new poll of more than 800 residents — commissioned by ABC Toronto and carried out by Hamish Marshall of One Persuasion — shows even a third of those who voted for Chow want her to be replaced next October.
LIMOS! LIQUOR! Inside Mayor Chow’s posh movie trip to Europe
Olivia Chow and her crew from City Hall racked up thousands of dollars in travel expenses on their film industry trip to London and Dublin, including more than $11,000 for a boozy reception and $720 for a limo ride, the Toronto Sun has learned.
City Hall’s economic and community development committee will receive a final report on Chow’s film mission on Tuesday. However, there are glaring inconsistencies between the details in that report and documents the Sun has seen, such as the money spent and even the number of City of Toronto employees on the July trip.
Chow knows nothing about anything a crushed beer can would have done better.
Six in 10 Torontonians say the city is headed in the wrong direction, with a similar majority placing the blame squarely at the feet of Mayor Olivia Chow, according to results of a new poll.
A survey conducted by Canada Pulse Insights on behalf of CityNews finds 64 per cent of Torontonians asked believe the city is on the wrong track, with 68 per cent saying the mayor and city council are out of touch with what residents want.
Affordability and the cost of living are the most important issues facing the city, according to 49 per cent of respondents. Home ownership (34 per cent), gridlock (29 per cent), crime (29 per cent) and homelessness (21 per cent) round out the top five concerns.
Toronto is a “world-class city,” says its mayor Olivia Chow. But for a growing number of its residents, the city is unrecognizable from decades ago, whether it’s the homelessness, open drug use, empty storefronts, or crumbling infrastructure.
OFFS. @fancypants_s https://t.co/P5xvecsVG1
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) October 19, 2025
h/t Auntie Polly
Mayor Olivia Chow needs to stop dancing, stop talking tacos, stop doing bat flips and calls to the Blue Jays and get to work turning this city around.
If she can’t do that, she needs to get out of the way and let someone else take the helm at City Hall to do what needs to be done. Of course, the same could be said of those filling the council seats as well.
