“Toronto – Canada’s version of a Democrat run city”

Canada is about to embrace the world when it hosts the FIFA World Cup. Thousands of tourists are expected to descend on Toronto. I pity them.

The city used to be compared to the guy you wanted your daughter to date: Clean and safe. We may have been a tad boring, but everyone loved us. We were polite. Not anymore. Toronto’s become the filthy, dangerous place where you can’t even get on a streetcar or subway without finding someone doing drugs or sleeping off a hangover across three seats. No one cares and no one bothers to do anything about it, least of all Mayor Olivia Chow. My property taxes have gone up more than 18% since she became mayor. And the city is a dump.

TORONTO — As Toronto voters prepare to head to the polls in October, they will do so against the backdrop of a city grappling with persistent affordability pressures, strained public services and aging infrastructure.

While Mayor Olivia Chow can point to improvements in some areas, including reductions in homicides and increased housing approvals, many residents continue to confront a city that feels increasingly expensive, congested and difficult to navigate.

Olivia Chow decided to be honest about her intentions when it comes to her re-election campaign. After weeks, nay months, of going around the city holding campaign-style events in her role as mayor, but while using her purple campaign colouring and branding, she has announced what we already knew.

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow announced she’ll be running for a second term in a news release Monday.

Her announcement comes weeks after the municipal election nomination window opened. While she was widely expected to run again for the city’s top job, neither Chow nor her team revealed their plans until Monday.

“This morning I registered to run for re-election. But that does not change what I do here as the mayor,” she said at a news conference Monday.

Hasn’t this city suffered enough?

TORONTO — Toronto politicians love to sell the city as a world-class destination ready to welcome the globe for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The ads are polished, the slogans are optimistic, and the promises are endless. But outside the carefully crafted marketing campaigns lies a city already struggling to handle its own daily pressures.

The reality is uncomfortable: Toronto is not in shape to host an event of this scale.

Meanwhile, crack on the TTC 9:45 pm Queen Streetcar Toronto May 20 2026 pic.twitter.com/gFq8kffjyG

— Josh Ryan 🍁 (@joshryanjames) May 21, 2026

The media was first to tell the people of Toronto that three of its police officers had been arrested in Spain. Initially the reason for the arrests was unclear, but soon the details began trickling out: while vacationing in Barcelona last week, one of these men allegedly sexually assaulted a sex worker in a taxi while another physically assaulted her after she refused to participate in a threesome, according to Spanish media. The woman was allegedly punched in the face, which caused a cut that required stitches, and was sexually assaulted before she was rescued by plain-clothed officers in the area; the third suspect is accused of attacking an officer. One of the suspects fled the scene, but was found in Palma de Mallorca roughly 48 hours later.

While they’re both on the receiving end of the same litigation, security contractor One Community Solutions and the City of Toronto are not putting up a united front.

Both are fighting a proposed class-action lawsuit, and while they’re both disputing the allegations, in their statements of defence each is suggesting that the other would be responsible should a court find any wrongdoing took place.

A Bay Street Corridor condo purchased in December 2021 for $1.03 million sold at a whopping $347,000 loss this month.

The one-bedroom-plus-den unit with a parking space two blocks south of Bloor Street sat on the market for nearly three months before selling in early May for $685,000.