City bureaucrats ordered a 140-year-old stone carving depicting Christopher Columbus to be removed from display and hidden in a wooden area in Scarborough’s Guild Park in 2021, the Toronto Sun has learned.
“Toronto – Canada’s version of a Democrat run city”
Another reason Toronto should be nuked
Down with the Canadian International Air Show
Summertime in Toronto is marked by days and nights at beaches, park gatherings and, of course, festivals. From Salsa on St. Clair to Taste of Manila to the Caribbean Carnival, they reflect the immense ethnic and racial diversity of this city, which has a population that is more than 50 per cent people of colour and home to many immigrants and refugees.
Among these many festivals is an event that is marred by controversy.
New report says people in their 20s now struggling the most with quality of life in Toronto
Toronto is a painfully exorbitant city to try and make a life in, and young people now are learning that lesson harder than generations past, facing “disproportionate challenges” than others, according to a new study.
The investigation, which comes from the Toronto Foundation, outlines how poorly the twenty-something age group, in particular, is faring in the city — especially when it comes to basic things like finding and affording housing in what can feel like an impossible market, feeding themselves, and establishing a sense of community and social connectedness.
Toronto city council has finally outdone itself with this absurd new ban
Perhaps it was inevitable that Toronto, the city that has managed to bring down restrictions on all sorts of perfectly normal things, from food trucks to toboggan hills to splash pads, would eventually get to this point.
But still, the sentence is almost too perfect: No dogs in the dog park.
OK, fine, it is not quite that simple. The park in question, Ramsden Park, right across from the Rosedale subway station, has banned pooches brought to the off-leash part of the dog park by professional dog walkers. Again, to be clear: (some) dogs are banned from the dog park.
Toronto is too stupid to be allowed to vote.
Toronto workers have longest commutes in Canada: StatsCan
Long gone are the empty roads and unfilled train and bus seats of the COVID-19 pandemic days.
More Canadians are commuting to work and the average commuting time has returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to new data released by Statistics Canada Monday.
The number of commuters reached 16.5 million this May, up 585,000 compared to the same time last year, the agency said. The data continues a rising trend over the past few years following major declines in 2020 and 2021 when pandemic restrictions kept many workers at home.
I find this number questionable given the traffic disaster TO has become.
Bad cop plays disappointed victim despite getting off so lightly
Stacy Clarke just now, leaving Toronto police headquarters, saying she is disappointed with the two-year demotion and requirement that she reapply for the rank of superintendent. Says she’s taking some time to consider next steps. No official word yet on appeal. pic.twitter.com/ezbQQZ5LE4
— Wendy Gillis (@wendygillis) August 28, 2024
This is what affirmative action brings to the table.
Drivers caught on video using on-ramp to get off Gardiner
Nobody likes to sit in traffic, but if you get stuck — whether due to reduced lanes, construction, a crash or sheer volume — you just have to scream-sing to an angry song and deal with it.
Driver’s going backwards on the Bay Street – Gardiner on ramp
byu/GreatBagels intoronto
As the article asks: Where were the police?
Toronto police exam-cheating scandal: Supt. Stacy Clarke given two-year demotion
Clarke — the Toronto Police Service’s first Black female superintendent — has pleaded guilty to seven counts of professional misconduct and admitted she helped six Black cops cheat to get a promotion in “a desperate effort to level the playing field.”
Toronto police Supt. Stacy Clarke — who admitted she helped six Black cops cheat to get a promotion in “a desperate effort to level the playing field” — has been stripped of her trailblazing rank.
In a highly anticipated penalty decision, a tribunal hearing officer sentenced Clarke, the first Black female superintendent in Toronto police history, to a two-year demotion, knocking her down one rank to inspector.
She will not be automatically reinstated to the rank of superintendent after demotion, meaning she will have to reapply.
A white cop would have been fired. I would not be comfortable dealing with a racist cop would you?
LILLEY: Toronto City Hall rolls out the open borders welcome mat
Forget just being a sanctuary city, Toronto is now officially advocating for citizenship for all illegal immigrants.
Sorry, let me put that in the terms that our better thans at City Hall would find acceptable – undocumented residents.
It’s just a fancy way to say that someone came here, or stayed here, against the rules.
WARMINGTON: Only in Toronto would illegal residents be celebrated
Just call this a party at Toronto city hall for residents who are not legally supposed to be here.
One might think encouraging illegals to attend an official gathering between 3 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. would be the perfect time to address their illegal status, return to their country of origin, and then return when they get their documentation right.
Toronto’s $150 million walking path is a symptom of a much larger problem
After it was revealed last week that Metrolinx plans to charge Toronto $150 million to build a 2 kilometre extension to the West Toronto Railpath, city residents have been asking one question: Why does it seem so much more expensive to build infrastructure here than almost anywhere else in the world?
It’s a shame that the subject of everyone’s ire, a walking and cycling path, is the type of city-building project we should be doing more of. Adjacent to the Union-Pearson Express and GO’s Kitchener corridor, the existing path from Davenport to Dundas is well loved. The long-promised extension south to Parkdale and Queen West needs to finally move forward, but not without a serious examination of the price tag.
Just how out of step is Metrolinx’s bill for this trail?
Toronto World Class? Stop it.
Toronto wants to be a world-class city, but after years of constant construction I’m getting out — as soon as I sell my condo
“We’re in a holding pattern,” said my real estate agent. “It’s a buyer’s market and it’s slow everywhere right now. In fact, there’s a surplus of condos in your sector right now.”
Great.
A surplus.
Just when I thought I had an exclusive condo based on size and location for sale in downtown Toronto, buyers have a broad selection. I’m on this adventure in the real estate market featuring motivated sellers (me) and cautious buyers (everybody else) as, after 12 years in one place, my wife and I have decided to join the exodus of Torontonians searching for a little tranquility elsewhere.
Toronto councillors question $150M cost of 2-km trail extension
The City of Toronto is poised to spend roughly $150 million to extend a popular railway trail for pedestrians and cyclists in the west end, but some councillors are questioning the project’s inflated price tag.
In 2016, the two-kilometre extension, to be built by provincial transit agency Metrolinx on the city’s behalf, was estimated to cost only $23 million.
But now the city is planning to spend $125.7 million on the extension because of costs they say weren’t factored into the initial estimate. The federal government is kicking in an additional $23 million.
Why don’t they build it with homeless people?
‘Violence, drugs and fear:’ More than 150 charges laid after investigation into Toronto street gang
Toronto police say they have made 32 arrests and laid 158 criminal charges following a nearly year-long investigation into a Toronto street gang that was allegedly using Canada Post to distribute drugs to other provinces.
Police made the announcement at a news conference on Thursday where they provided details on ‘Project Foxxx.’
The 11-month investigation targeted the alleged activities of the ‘Jamestown Crips’ street gang. While that gang has historical roots in the Etobicoke area, police say that their alleged crimes span well beyond those borders.
The $22 Billion Plan to Turn a Defunct Airport Into a Small City
Canadian developer aims to preserve airport’s features, including hangars and a runway, to draw residents and businesses to the neighborhood
A planned community for about 55,000 residents in Toronto will include the usual playgrounds, bike paths and shops. It will also feature 11 airplane hangars and more than a mile of airport runway.
That is because the 30 billion Canadian dollar, equivalent to about $22 billion, development will be located at the city’s former Downsview Airport.
Airports have been repurposed as communities and parks before, but developers typically raze the original infrastructure and start from scratch. In this case, Northcrest Developments is betting that by preserving the airport’s main features it can enhance the community’s allure.
City subsidized Slum in 5 years time is my bet.