“Toronto – Canada’s version of a Democrat run city”

The Ontario Honda Dealers Indy Toronto is shifting gears and moving its tracks to Markham next year.

Wednesday’s announcement marks a major detour for the annual open-wheel auto race, colloquially known as the Honda Indy, which has been taking place on a street course through Toronto’s Exhibition Place in some form since 1986.

… Asked why the event is being moved north of Toronto, Jeff Atkinson, president of the Ontario Honda Dealers Indy at Markham, said the city’s upcoming 2026 FIFA World Cup hosting duties was a factor.

FIFA alone doesn’t account for this and the other factors provided seem the polite way out. Chow certainly doesn’t seem upset.

TORONTO – Greater Toronto commuters are likely bracing for traffic and transit congestion to worsen over the coming months as a number of major employers get ready to increase in-office days.

Even before return-to-office mandates take effect, experts say vehicle traffic in the city is at a tipping point, while delays, construction and public safety concerns plague the public transit system.

“I think people should be very concerned, both policy-makers and commuters themselves, about the impact that a back-to-work mandate is going to have on the commute,” said Jennifer Keesmaat, a former chief planner for the City of Toronto.

“We were already hitting a tipping point because transit ridership has decreased and so many people are getting in their cars.”

A 57-unit apartment building in Scarborough had only seen two eviction applications over the course of nine years under the ownership of one landlord.

Then in 2018, Starlight Investments purchased the building and, in just over a year, filed 29 eviction applications — increasing the rate of filings more than 10,000 per cent, a recent study revealed.

Starlight Investments “is, in some ways, leading the charge” in transforming multi-family housing stock, said Martine August, a professor of planning in Waterloo’s faculty of environment and the co-author of a recent study on Toronto landlords’ behaviour around eviction.

Would this be getting the same attention if the land of the Mosqueteria was not affected?

So I’m homeless and unemployed and it feels alright.

Why, you might ask? Because I’ve left Toronto. I have only the vaguest idea of where I’m going at the moment — I’ve been bouncing between various couches in several cities and provinces and the spare room at my mother’s place in rural New Brunswick for several months — but it’s a done deal. I’m not coming back this time. It hurts to leave the town I’ve called home for 27 years and all the deep personal and professional connections I’ve forged there. Make no mistake, though; I’ll live longer because of it. Toronto was killing me.

A lot of memories reside amidst the decline.

I find myself wondering what it will be like to pack up and leave TO.

My reasons are familiar to readers, this Star piece is more a personal lifestyle lament that ignores the real reasons for the decay of Toronto into 3rd World status. 

Just a little more than year out, Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow has revealed she’s not sure if she will seek re-election.

Her uncertainty on whether to seek another term had light shined on it Friday morning while she was appearing on Newstalk 1010.

Somewhere right now, in the city of Toronto — in a garage, a basement or a dusty shed — likely sits the decapitated husk of a speed camera.

Or maybe there are 12 of them, piled up. The spoils of theft and vandalism. Victims in a culture war that’s hit the side streets of Canada’s biggest city.

This has been the summer of the speed camera.

The recent decision by the Ontario Superior Court rendering the removal of Toronto’s bike lanes unconstitutional recalls the great Dr. Seuss book Oh, The Thinks You Can Think. Just think how we could change Canada if we take the logic of this ruling and keep going.

Oh, the thinks we could think.