A school bus parked in a Jewish Toronto neighborhood was consumed in arson and several Jewish community sites were daubed with anti-Israel graffiti, Canadian politicians and Jewish groups announced on Monday.
York Center Parliament Member Yaara Saks and Eglinton-Lawrence MP Marco Mendico said on social media that the local Police were investigating the burning of the school bus.
After 15-or-so years observing and covering Toronto municipal politics — only a few of those years, thankfully, being full-time — I thought I had come to terms with the untethered heights and depths of maddening, petty irrelevancy to which city council can rise and plummet. I thought I had cringed as hard as I could cringe, raged as hard as I could rage, about and against the legions of parochial zeroes, elected and otherwise, who want to hold this hard-striving city hostage to their various whims and preferences.
h/t DS
If congestion is chasing people out of Toronto, there’s only one thing left to do
“… Last year, as part of Mayor Olivia Chow’s transition team, I was in the room with city and private sector experts working on managing congestion. City staff are capable of developing smart solutions and, in Chow, have a leader who is not afraid to be bold and push good ideas forward.
However, we can’t deal with traffic congestion without being honest about the fundamental issue: The days of being able to drive wherever you want, whenever you want, are over. It’s about math, economics, and geometry — not politics.”
Toronto is an overcrowded expensive city with a rapidly declining quality of life that simply isn’t worth the cost.
Public transit is a homeless shelter and the situation will not get better, especially under Chairman Chow.
The exodus, (White flight?), has begun and affordability is only one of the reasons why.
The negligent mass import of incompatible cultures is turning Toronto into a 3rd world municipal wreck.
Foreign ethnic conflicts dominate our streets and the rule of law is undermined by the identity politics of our politicians.
I have lived here since 1964 and see no hope for the future.
‘IT MAKES NO SENSE’: Toronto residents asked to stop throwing feces on workers https://t.co/WYOGMgZjwn pic.twitter.com/NaDnVRy6fZ
— Toronto Sun (@TheTorontoSun) July 23, 2024
City officials in Toronto have reversed course on a controversial decision to remove the name of a prominent early 20th century Toronto businessman from a historic home, in light of new information brought forward by his descendants.
City council voted in April to remove Robert Stapleton Caldecott’s name from his former home’s heritage designation on the grounds that he held restrictive — some said racist — views on immigration.
But earlier this week, council voted to restore his name after Caldecott’s descendants complained that he was being unfairly condemned and produced research in his defence.
This time they blinked. City Hall got away with ignoring the truth when they renamed Dundas Square after a black African tribe notorious for their practice of enslaving other blacks so we’ll just have to expect more of this.
Everyone who relies on the Toronto Transit Commission to get to work or school knows “TTC” really stands for “Take The Car.” But given the horrendous traffic drivers must deal with, that’s not a great option either. An Ipsos poll for the Toronto Region Board of Trade finds 86 per cent of respondents agree either strongly (45 per cent) or somewhat (41 per cent) that “there is a traffic and congestion crisis in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area).” Similarly, 85 per cent agree that “traffic and congestion have a negative impact on the economy in the GTA.”
How many people must die senselessly before politicians stop pissing on our legs while telling us it’s raining?
Politicians at all levels, the special interest groups that somehow always get their attention, and the media outlets that supported our inept leaders’ ass-backwards approach to combatting crime without asking any tough questions all have blood on their hands — a lot of it.
Federal documents reveal what happened behind the scenes with Toronto’s request to decriminalize drugs
… Toronto updated its application, answered the questions, provided a letter of support from the police and detailed plans on risk mitigation, communications and monitoring and evaluation for the program.
It wasn’t enough to pass muster with Health Canada and the federal agency went back to the city.
“Given the very broad request by TPH (i.e. the inclusion of all youth, all substances in the [Controlled Drugs and Substances Act] and no maximum possession amount), Health Canada continues its assessment of the request and levers available to them in this context,” the department wrote in a May 12, 2023 letter.
WTF?
Traffic-clogging construction on the Gardiner Expressway could end at least one year earlier than originally planned, thanks to a funding injection from the provincial government.
Drivers will still have to endure the gridlock for another two years or so. But at a press conference at city hall on Wednesday, Ontario Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria joined Mayor Olivia Chow to announce Queen’s Park would spend up to $73 million to shave at least 12 months off the project, which since it began in April has been causing maddening bottlenecks on the highway and some downtown roads.
Mark this on your calendar. I doubt they will make the completion date, not even the old one.
Two people are dead and two others are seriously injured after an overnight “gun battle” at a Scarborough plaza.
Police say they found four people with gunshot wounds at Ellesmere Road and Midland Avenue just after 2:30 a.m. Wednesday morning.
The tenants of an apartment building in one Toronto neighbourhood say they were issued a letter from management after items including “human waste” were allegedly thrown from balconies to workers below.
Last year, I had the amazing experience of running for mayor of Toronto. My passion for the city and my commitment to the issues only grew throughout that campaign. And now, one year later, I find myself more eager than ever to help solve the problems that hold our city back.
A startling number of Torontonians are now asking, to quote the famous Clash song: Should I stay, or should I go?
According to a new poll from the Toronto Region Board of Trade and Ipsos, fully 53 per cent of residents in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area have considered moving outside the region to escape our now legendary gridlock. Among those aged 18-34 — our city’s current and future prime workforce — that number rose to a troubling 64 per cent.
City Hall hates cars and the rolling homeless shelter known as the TTC is not going to win hearts and minds.
‘Just do something’: Liberty Village residents pleading with city to fix ‘unbearable’ traffic congestion
Liberty Village residents say they feel trapped as traffic conditions have gotten so bad, they say it takes a minimum of 30 minutes for drivers to get in and out of the downtown neighbourhood.
“It’s unbearable, completely unbearable. You cannot leave at any point in the morning or in the evening at any point,” says resident Pamela Westwater.
… “As much as these events are great for Toronto and the economy of Toronto, it’s impacting our daily lives. It took me two hours to drive 900 meters to get home,” says DeOliveira.
Many residents have been inundating Ward 10 councillor Ausma Malik’s inbox with complaints and demands to find an immediate solution.
Karma is bitch.
I’ve lived in apartments in Toronto my whole life. I’ve been in my current apartment for nine years — and I’ve watched in horror as apartments around me doubled, then tripled in price. For the past five years, I’ve lived with the terrifying knowledge that if I had to move tomorrow, there would be nowhere for me to go. As a struggling creative and small business owner, even prices in Etobicoke and Scarborough are beyond my reach.
