Brad Bradford says he’s raised $1.8 million for his Toronto mayoral campaign, a display of financial firepower that would further solidify his evolution from an also-ran three years ago into a serious challenger for the city’s top job.
Bradford’s team announced the fundraising haul this week, on the same day the councillor for Beaches-East York held his first campaign rally at an Etobicoke community centre.
Drunk Chow will still benefit as the incumbent of city that votes stupid left.
A burst of gunfire near the Salsa on St. Clair street festival Saturday night killed two men, seriously wounded four others and sent thousands of festivalgoers fleeing in panic through the streets in Toronto’s west end.
Toronto police were called to reports of a shooting near St. Clair Avenue West and Arlington Avenue, just west of the festival grounds, shortly after 8:10 p.m. A total of six people were found with gunshot wounds, including two men who died — one at the scene, the other in hospital — according to Toronto police.
When the shooting started …
Suivi – Vidéo du début de la fusillade publiée sur les réseaux sociaux pendant le festival de Salsa On St.Clair de Toronto via @SACNSNew pic.twitter.com/HhOmYgXCfI
— LesNews (@LesNews) July 12, 2026
Nothing new under the Sun yet, neither of the two suspected perp’s identified.
Toronto police are still looking for a gunman after a shooting at the popular Salsa on St. Clair street festival Saturday night.
Police say two people are dead and six others are injured in the shooting that occurred shortly after 8 p.m. on St. Clair Avenue West near Arlington Avenue.
Police have not released any descriptions of the shooter. They have asked festival attendees to leave the area.
People run off after a shooting in Toronto’s Salsa in St. Clair Festival 😳 pic.twitter.com/CpcnHH6a66
— RTN (@RTNToronto) July 12, 2026
#GRAPHIC: Video surfaces online of woman who was shot at Toronto festival! 😳 pic.twitter.com/S2DTDPxbQS
— RTN (@RTNToronto) July 12, 2026
Update: 2 dead 4 injured. It appears two vibrant youth decided to shoot one another.
h/t Patti Jo and Halls of Macadamia
Welcome to Zombieland.
But this is no movie being filmed in Toronto or about the city.
This is Toronto. It’s a nonfiction story. These fellow Torontonians swaying around in a perpetual high state or crouched head down with fentanyl in their systems are not acting.
Toronto’s no go zone — unless you want lungs full of fentanyl, crack or crystal meth pic.twitter.com/1C4NUzEQvz
— Joe Warmington (@joe_warmington) July 10, 2026
New data out of Toronto Metropolitan University shows that Toronto’s population growth has seen a dramatic swing since 2024, going from the fastest growing metro area in the United States and Canada all the way down to No. 443 last year.
The report, from TMU’s Centre for Urban Research and Land Development, says while a drop in international migration was a factor – it also brought Montreal and Vancouver far down the list – the big cause is that Toronto is bleeding residents to other parts of Canada.
TMU is a leftist craphole, the fact that Toronto is becoming an ungovernable 3rd World Dumpster fire won’t ever be addressed in anything they produce.
Mayoral challenger Brad Bradford launched a critique of rising crime and costs amid stumbling city services as he sought to close the gap in support between himself and Olivia Chow at a kickoff campaign rally in Etobicoke Tuesday night.
Bradford, the Beaches-East York councillor who launched his campaign when nominations opened on May 1, made the case to a crowd of approximately 150 attendees at the Plast Huculak Centre, a Ukrainian community centre on the Kingsway, after two recent polls showed the gap in support between the two tightening.
I don’t think Toronto can be fixed. Demographic doom awaits.
Your “progressive” city, run by your “progressive” mayor, and her “progressive” councillor cronies have left a trail of destruction over the last 4 years. The entire city will become Skid Row soon.
Vote wisely on October 26. pic.twitter.com/6q08bVk5ae
— IntegrityTO (@integrity_to) July 8, 2026
Even the cops in Toronto have had enough of these people
pic.twitter.com/3S5mU2urcq— Debbie Bloodclot. (@bettybloodclot) July 7, 2026
Is it?
As Toronto’s official FIFA World Cup hosting duties come to an end, data shows that the city saw little economic gain during the first two weeks of the tournament.
That’s in large part due to the model that the World Cup and other large international sporting events are based on, former Toronto mayor David Miller said. Major sports organizations such as FIFA make the biggest gains, he said, while hosting countries and cities bear the brunt of the costs.
“They’re sharks,” said Miller, who is managing director of the C40 Centre, an international urban policy think-tank focusing on climate change, public health and the economy. “They really do ensure that every single cost is passed on to the hosts.”
We have John Tory to blame. And now his son is claiming the families hereditary right to a place at the public trough.
New court documents detail an explosive link between “horrendous” allegations of corruption inside the Toronto Police Service and the alleged cross-border drug empire of ex-Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding.
The documents detail not only how investigators believed that suspected Wedding drug-runner Gurpeet Singh potentially directed the attempted murder plot against a Toronto jail official, but also how he was allegedly assisted by a supervisor at the jail with whom police said he had had a prior romantic relationship.
I am encouraged at the hiring diversity of our institutions.
We now more closely resemble the 3rd World than ever before.
The federal riding of Beaches-East York is about to get a familiar name in the running to replace outgoing Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith.
John Tory Jr., the 47-year-old son of Toronto’s former mayor, is seeking the Liberal nomination as a Beaches-East York candidate.
Every day, thousands of Los Angelenos take a deep breath, step out of their houses, and plunge themselves into a transit experience straight out of Mad Max. The city’s buses have become rolling homeless shelters, replete with drugs and feces. Its trains are home to murder and mayhem. As Daquan, a daily rider who works near the North Hollywood station told us, “You could kill somebody down there and just get away with it.”
The people running LA are the same types running Toronto. This city will not get better. Ever.
Toronto is in the same death spiral we have observed in Democrat run cities throughout the USA.
Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow’s comments made during the Pride Parade on Sunday has at least two citizen groups in a fighting mood.
The Downtown Concerned Citizens Organization (DCCO) sent out a press release on Tuesday following a story in the Toronto Sun regarding the mayor’s public support for the Palestinian cause, much to the chagrin of the city’s Jewish community.
Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow was slammed for a divisive comment on an unrelated issue during Sunday’s Pride Parade, an event that is supposed to represent the ideals of love and inclusion.
Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow says ‘Free Palestine’ during LGBTQI+ Pride March.
Meanwhile in Palestine, LGBT people are jailed, beaten and killed for their identity. pic.twitter.com/TtQY37i0ce
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) June 29, 2026
Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford says Sankofa Square was once the epicentre of the city, the “Canadian version” of Times Square and a place where people would celebrate festivals and gather with friends for a night out.
But now, he says it’s become something of a “wasteland.”
“It’s dirty, it’s unsafe. There’s open drug use in the middle of the afternoon. Tourists avoid it. Parents grab their kids by the hand and move quickly through the space, or even worse, they avoid it altogether,” Bradford said during a press conference on Monday as he pitched his plan to revamp and rename the square at the corner of Yonge and Dundas streets.
Can we talk about that report to Toronto City Hall that Mayor Olivia Chow used to claim that speeding was out of control.
The report, and the way the data is presented, is dodgy at best, relying only on percentages without also presenting the hard numbers.
What’s worse is how Chow is presenting this as a matter of life and death — you support speed cameras or people dying at the hands of out-of-control motorists.
