There are many priorities Mayor Olivia Chow has already shown she will publicly support and personally attend.
That the death of a Toronto Police K9 dog is not one of them has created a huge divide with the Toronto Police Association (TPA) that she will have some heavy work in repairing.
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.
Renewed efforts are underway to tackle gun violence in Toronto, with police launching a campaign to highlight the impacts it has on the city.
The “Illegal Firearms Awareness Campaign” comes on the heels of four fatal shootings within the last six days.
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.
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.
A shocking video emerged on social media showing an altercation that left a TTC passenger shaken and in tears, all because they asked another rider to turn down their music.
Shocking video shows Toronto driver ramming into, driving over cyclist
Thit happened today July 19 on north Yonge St. @TPSOperations @TorontoPolice @blogTO #BikeTO @TheBikingLawyer pic.twitter.com/D1safAGyT8
— Alex Duarte (@AlexchaeAlex) July 19, 2023
With no evidence they are blaming road rage. Truth – Another casualty in Toronto’s war against the car.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has vowed to fight Toronto’s plan to decriminalize hard drugs, calling it an “absolute disaster” for the city.
“Craziest thing I’ve ever heard,” Mr. Ford said. “Go out to Vancouver, go out to San Francisco.”
“I will do everything I can to fight this,” stated the premier. “Again, this goes up to the federal government. They cannot be following up with [this] request,” the premier said on July 14 while appearing on 640 Toronto, a radio show with Alex Pierson.
Within minutes of arriving at the small parkette next to the South Riverdale Community Health Centre, I’ve witnessed two drug deals.
There are a number of people in obvious stress in the park, including some sharing an unknown substance towards the dark corner at the back of the park.
