Without acknowledging hard truths, Toronto’s traffic czar isn’t likely to get very far

Toronto city hall is looking to hire a “traffic czar.” But like Toronto traffic itself, the hiring process has been agonizingly, painfully slow.

The Star’s Ben Spurr reported last week that after Mayor Olivia Chow and Toronto council voted in April to create the car czar position — formally known as the Chief Congestion Officer — the job posting finally went up last month.

The delay in getting someone into this role is frustrating. The concept actually came from Coun. Brad Bradford, as a platform plank in his 2023 run for mayor, so it’s been more than two years since the idea was first floated. But the foot-dragging is not really surprising. Because deep down, I think even those doing the hiring know that this is a sucker gig.


The solution? Ban cars without saying you want to ban cars! Toronto sucks now it will suck worse forever.

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Anthony Furey: Don’t punish Toronto taxpayers for federal asylum-seekers mess

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow recently threatened to increase property taxes by two per cent to cover the increasing costs associated with housing asylum claimants in the city’s shelter system, if she doesn’t first get the funds from the federal government. This would be over and above whatever tax rate increase she was already planning.

This isn’t the right way to go about solving the crisis of so many asylum claimants residing in our shelters, motels and streets. It’s not the taxpayers’ fault.

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FIFA demanding hands-off approach to protesters: Document

FIFA is requiring Toronto’s government, as a World Cup host city, to adopt a “non-interference” policy toward human rights advocates – a group that apparently includes protesters – the Toronto Sun has learned.

A 27-page list of “sustainability and human rights tournament requirements,” released to the Sun after a freedom-of-information request, is dated June 2023. The document says “protection of human rights defenders,” as well as freedom of the press, “is essential to a successful and rights-respecting delivery of the competition.”

Ridiculous.

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LILLEY: Eglinton Crosstown continues tradition of missing deadlines

Metrolinx reclaimed by nature

Metrolinx is on its way to missing another deadline.

They said they wanted to start full testing this week of the Eglinton Crosstown and as of Thursday afternoon it hadn’t started. The “revenue-service demonstration,” which runs the system at the same level as if passengers were on, takes at least 30 days.


14 Years and it’s still not open.

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Derek Finkle: Academics trying to gaslight residents terrorized by safe injection site crime

Residents near an injection site in the west Toronto neighbourhood of Parkdale have been raising concerns for years about illegal drug activity around the perimeter of the site. They were hoping some solutions would be tabled when the executive director of the Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre, Angela Robertson, called a meeting on July 17 to address the community’s escalating concerns, including a disturbing video of a fight in an adjoining park while a member of the site’s controversial security firm looked on.

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WARMINGTON: Cut the fat before hitting taxpayers to shelter asylum seekers

Mayor Olivia Chow has not offered to trim any of her salary to pay for people without residency status in Toronto.

Or vowed to no longer go on expensive trade missions abroad or pledge millions to pay for soccer games featuring millionaire soccer players inside a business worth billions.

Chow wants you to pay.

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WARMINGTON: Mayor hosts taco parties while Toronto’s crime, drugs, poverty spin out of control

Mayor Olivia Chow eats tacos while Toronto burns, bleeds, starves and overdoses.

Where’s the beef?

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This is why they never want to solve the homeless crisis …

Olivia Chow warns Toronto faces tax increase — or people on the streets — due to shelter funding cuts

The city of Toronto is now facing cuts to its shelter funding from the province, threatening another one of the municipality’s key funding sources to house homeless people.

According to a letter from Mayor Olivia Chow published Friday, the province recently informed the municipality it is reducing allocated funding for next year to almost $8 million, compared to $19.75 million the city received this year and $38 million it got in 2024.


No homeless means no money to funnel to her commie pals for pet projects employing fellow toxic commies.

How many of the Liberal party’s “asylum seekers” use shelters in TO – nearly 30% of the total.

It’s extortion.

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Toronto group calls for $15 congestion fee for vehicles entering downtown core

A civic group is advocating for Toronto to adopt congestion pricing, following the route taken by cities such as New York, London, Stockholm and Singapore.

It’s a tactic aimed at reducing traffic in downtowns, with the collected congestion fees meant to go toward improving public transit and urban infrastructure.


Toronto sucks, this will make it suck more.

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Toronto Real Estate’s Latest Record? Distressed Listings

Forget bidding wars—distressed listings are Toronto real estate’s hottest trend. Power of Sale listings have surged more than five-fold in three years, according to data from Valery Real Estate. A record volume of distressed sellers are flooding record inventory, shredding the narrative of a quick recovery. It’s a brutal reminder that real estate corrections are measured in years, not months.

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Doug Ford’s speed camera plan sparks anger at Toronto city hall

Mayor Olivia Chow defended Toronto’s speed cameras as an essential safety tool Wednesday, following news that Premier Doug Ford is planning to scrap the devices.

Speaking at an unrelated press conference one day after the Star revealed Ford is preparing legislation this fall to get rid of the cameras, Chow said automated enforcement has proven effective at getting drivers to slow down.

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New poll shows why Chairman Chow might not get re-elected

With just over a year until the Toronto municipal election, a solid majority of residents think it’s time for a new mayor, according to a public opinion survey that could signal trouble for incumbent Olivia Chow.

The poll of Torontonians conducted by Ipsos for the Star found 58 per cent want change in the city’s highest office, and 42 per cent believe Chow is doing well enough to deserve re-election.

There’s significant anxiety among residents about the direction of the city — six in 10 of poll respondents said Toronto’s best days are behind it — “and as a result of that, people look to what they can do in order to change that situation,” said Darrell Bricker, Ipsos global CEO of public affairs. “One of the things that they can do is elect a new mayor.”


Chow is not Mayor she barely qualifies as a figurehead. The city is run by the usual left wing lunatics and their toxic allies.

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When ‘saving lives’ with bike lanes means costing them

“Bike lanes save lives.” That’s the slogan repeated endlessly by the cycling lobby, shouted as if it’s beyond question. But slogans don’t save lives — emergency response times do.

And according to data obtained through a Freedom of Information request by Balance on Bloor, the bike lanes on Bloor Street West are causing delays of up to two and a half minutes for ambulances, fire trucks, and police cars. In the world of emergency medicine, that delay is a death sentence.

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