Olivia Chow asks Toronto residents to open homes to refugees

Toronto is asking residents to open up their homes and offer available rental units to asylum seekers as more than 200 people remain temporarily sheltered at two North York churches.

The city added 250 additional shelter spaces within the last week, through hotels and an existing emergency shelter, but these spaces are already full.


One of the first things predicted to happen after Chow was elected was the escalation of the homeless crisis and the commencement of unending demands for more and more funding that somehow never solves the “crisis.”

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‘The City of Toronto is broke’: Olivia Chow calls for federal help as shelter spaces for asylum seekers fill up

Hundreds of shelter beds city council opened up to temporarily house refugee claimants less than two weeks ago are already full, and the cash-strapped municipality has nowhere to put asylum seekers sleeping in crowded conditions at two local churches, according to Mayor Olivia Chow.

Chow made the remarks Friday after touring the Revivaltime Tabernacle Church in North York, where for more than a week more than 100 asylum seekers have been living in close quarters.


The idiots who voted for Trudeau and the idiots who voted for Chow are the same idiots.

That’s why Toronto is rapidly becoming a progressive shithole.

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Ottawa can’t wash its hands of Toronto’s refugee crisis

Here’s a short list of things that Ottawa spends money on but has no constitutional responsibility for: health care, child care, new fridges for big grocery companies, and Gen Y tech consultants for small businesses.

Not on that list, however, is full-fledged support to pay for the rapidly mounting costs of immigration – borders and immigration being, when last we checked, within the ambit of the federal government.

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Murder suspect allegedly killed Toronto police dog and was shot by officer while fleeing arrest: SIU

Bingo was his name

New video has surfaced showing the search for a suspect wanted for second-degree murder in a backyard in Etobicoke moments before he allegedly killed a Toronto police dog on Tuesday night.

The short video obtained by CTV News Toronto shows three officers and a police dog arriving in a backyard. They begin to search the vicinity, with the canine sniffing the area near a dog house.

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Freeland shoots down Olivia Chow’s demand for more money, saying Toronto should not be crying poor

OTTAWA — The federal government has bluntly rebuffed new Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow’s call for more money.

Chrystia Freeland, the deputy prime minister and finance minister, fired off a letter Monday morning to Chow’s office after the mayor and Premier Doug Ford demanded that Ottawa foot the bill to resolve a crisis in refugee housing.

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LEVY: Politicians and activists are expanding the homeless industry

Encampments full of drug-addicted residents have returned to one problem Toronto park, which was the subject of two eviction attempts during the Covid pandemic, one of which resulted in violence and several arrests.

Lamport Stadium Park, which is in Toronto’s trendy Distillery District, is now home to at least 30 tents and an equal number of seemingly drug-addicted and abusive residents.

It’s Big Business.

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Toronto to open hotel rooms for 150 asylum seekers amid shelter shortages

Toronto is opening up hotel rooms for 150 asylum seekers who have been sleeping outside for the past several weeks after the city received a pledge for $97-million from the federal government, but Mayor Olivia Chow said more support is needed to respond to the growing demand.

City council unanimously approved a plan Wednesday, brought forward by Ms. Chow, to address the growing demand for shelter from refugee claimants arriving in Toronto. The measures approved by council include spending $6.67-million this year on a rent benefit program for low-income households that will be matched by the provincial government.

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Toronto’s rent crisis: Minimum wage would have to hit $40 an hour for workers to be able to afford to live here, report finds

Ontario’s minimum wage would have to rise to $40 an hour for Toronto workers to comfortably afford a two-bedroom apartment and still have money for food and utilities, according to a report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Nearly all Canadians putting in a 40-hour week at minimum wage are allocating more than 30 per cent of their monthly pre-tax income toward rent or mortgage costs — the marker of unaffordable housing — Tuesday’s report found.

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Trudeau to make tax payers fork out $97 million Dollars to help clean up his refugee mess in Toronto

Ottawa offers millions more in housing support to shelter refugees in Toronto

The federal government is injecting additional funding to help Toronto shelter a surge of newly arrived asylum seekers.

After weeks of bickering between Ottawa and city officials over who should foot the bill, Ottawa announced Tuesday an extra $97 million in new funding to help house refugees, many of whom have been camping outside Toronto’s homeless service centre on Peter Street.

According to the city, refugees currently make up a third of Toronto’s 9,000 shelter spaces.

Prediction – 2 mos. from today – Homeless refugees declared a tourist attraction by Chow regime.

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Group calls for head of Toronto’s shelter system to resign amid refugee crisis

More than 20 community advocates are calling for the head of Toronto’s shelter system to step down amid a worsening crisis involving refugees camped out on a downtown sidewalk with nowhere to go.

In an open letter released Monday, the group accused Gord Tanner, the general manager of Shelter Support and Housing Administration (SSHA), of “repeated mismanagement of the shelter system.”

“Community Advocates” – Something tells me we’re going to see a lot of these in Chowtown, all of them with their hands out.

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