Toronto has seen a dramatic increase in the number of people experiencing homelessness, according to a new city survey that recorded more than 15,000 residents without housing.
The point-in-time review, called the street needs assessment, looks to capture the scope of homelessness across shelters, encampments, hotel programs, respites, health-care and correctional facilities.
It was just before sunrise when the shots rang out on Solace Road.
First responders arrived at the sleepy Markham street on March 7 to find debris strewn across the front porch of the Raguthas family home. The front doors had been kicked in.
Inside, Neveeth Raguthas, a GTA tow truck driver, and his sister, Nilakshi, had been shot. Their dog, Lucky, was dead on the floor.
It’s not easy being green.
A not-yet-released City of Toronto environmental plan, mandated by FIFA and received by the Toronto Sun after a freedom-of-information request, shows the soccer federation and the municipal government will use an array of topics, including several tied to diversity and labour matters, to sell the soccer celebration as being as earth-friendly as it can be.
What a scam.
The idea that Olivia Chow was going to be Toronto’s housing champion was always a fantasy. Many voters, especially younger ones, pinned their hopes on her after years of inaction by John Tory, which they wrongly ascribed to his more conservative ethos. In a quick election, Chow’s long-standing brand as a “progressive” helped carry her to victory.
When it comes to housing, however, it appears Chow is anything but.
Toronto’s speed camera program has been the focus of some controversy of late. Premier Doug Ford has publicly questioned whether the automated enforcement technology — also known as photo radar — is just a “revenue tool” for municipalities.
Meanwhile, at Toronto city hall, Coun. Anthony Perruzza (Ward 7, Humber River-Black Creek) has spent some time telling reporters that the program is unfair. Perhaps to help ease those concerns,
Mayor Olivia Chow passed a motion at last week’s council meeting calling for larger signs for drivers warning of speed cameras.
But these concerns are misplaced. Here’s what politicians like Ford, Chow and Perruzza ought to be worried about instead: ghosts.
Canadian real estate is the most affordable it’s been in three years—but that isn’t saying much. RBC data shows ownership costs have eased, though it forecasts improvements stalling soon and affordability worsening next year. Even with affordability at its best, it would only be a slight improvement over the peak of the 1990s real estate bubble—the last one to fully burst.
Toronto City Council had a chance this week to take a clear, practical step toward solving its housing crisis.
Surprise: It did not. Instead, the city’s leaders cowered before the most reactionary elements in local politics and seemed ready to waste $60-million in the process.
With Thursday’s vote, council had to decide whether to legalize “sixplexes” – apartment buildings of up to six units – across the city. Suburban councillors responded by claiming that this, in effect, would destroy Toronto.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is probably the best political friend the city of Toronto has ever had. But no matter how many billions of provincial tax dollars Ford spends to help his hometown, some Torontonians remain ungrateful.
Rather than settle for looking a gift horse in the mouth, they rush to the other end of the horse and pronounce themselves very unhappy with what they see. The latest example is the final design for a dramatically revamped Ontario Place, announced by Ford this week.
Nothing will ever again be “good” for long in the 3rd World Dumpster called Toronto.
Throwing money at Ontario Place won’t hurt but it won’t help.
It’s open season on speed cameras, as a number of the devices across the city have been vandalized or otherwise put out of commission in the past 24 hours.
The Toronto police have confirmed that five automated speed enforcement (ASE) cameras were vandalized, cut down or put out of commission sometime between June 24—25.
On Wednesday at 4:05 a.m., the ASE at Sheppard Avenue East and Don Mills Road was cut down. On Tuesday, at 4:58 a.m., the ASE outside Cloverdale Mall at The East Mall and Faludin Court was also cut down at its base, Toronto police said.
This isn’t about safety its about cash.
I wish the city would do something about the motorcyclists who rev their engines at Six Points into the wee small hours but there’ no money in that.
He just won a shock election in New York by promising free buses and rent freezes. Toronto could learn from it
Recently, on a visit to New York City, I found myself in the middle of what could easily be mistaken for a party, replete with a DJ, a live band and craft beer cans. But this wasn’t just another concert in midtown Manhattan. It was a campaign rally for Zohran Mamdani. He’s the progressive state assemblymember who ran in New York’s Democratic primary for mayor — and won. His unexpected rise and victory have not only taken the city’s politics by storm; they’ve also attracted attention from anyone watching the state of progressive politics.
NEW YORK NEW YORK
GOOD LUCK!
Some of the things Islamic socialist NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has previously called for:
– Abolishing NYPD
– Abolishing prisons
– Abolishing medical bills
– Abolishing private health insurance
– Banning all guns
– Legalizing sex work
-… pic.twitter.com/m3s7cX3s3m— General Mike Flynn (@GenFlynn) June 25, 2025
Because our current communist lunatic is working out so well.
A Toronto councillor wants the city to pause its use of automated speed cameras, calling them “speed traps” that don’t actually slow speeders.
Coun. Anthony Perruzza (Ward 7, Humber River-Black Creek) plans to introduce a motion at council on Thursday asking the city to stop ticketing with the 150 cameras located throughout the city until it can prove it’s giving enough warning before they install the devices — and that the cameras aren’t ticketing “conscientious” drivers.
That’s their whole point. No way will a commie regime give up this cash cow.
Rachel Carr started losing hope after she hit the five-hour mark on hold with Toronto police’s non-emergency line, but couldn’t bring herself to hang up since she’d already waited for so long.
“I still had a glimmer of hope that maybe they would eventually pick up, but unfortunately it didn’t happen,” she said.
Instead, right as the call entered the 12th hour, Carr was disconnected, meaning she didn’t get to report that her and her husband’s vehicles had been badly keyed outside their home, resulting in what she estimates is around $8,000 in damage.
How entitled! It’s Pride Month and the TPS has it’s priorities.
Hot times, summer in the city but don’t even think about making sure the swimming pools are open 24/7.
This time, the City of Toronto dove into the deep end and is drowning in absurdity. Toronto won’t easily live down the day it closed its public swimming pools to kids and families wanting to cool down because it was too hot.
Summers in the big cities of North America have traditionally been sweat-soaked bloodbaths – particularly among the young.
Hot weather, booze, youthful exuberance and white-hot tempers contribute to busy days for the coroner.
Chicago, London and Montreal are all trying to enact measures aimed at tempering summer crime waves.
Toronto? Not so much.
A Toronto Police investigation into a taxi scam has resulted in 11 arrests and 108 charges.
The Financial Crimes Unit (FCU) launched Project Fare in July 2024 after multiple victims reported the fraud.
At a news conference at police headquarters on June 19, Detective David Coffey said unsuspecting victims were picked up and asked to pay for the ride using a credit or debit card.
