At first glance, they look like neatly wrapped gifts or chocolates.
But there is nothing benign or celebratory about these packages. Paid for by Toronto taxpayers, the city provides water, sewage, garbage, roadways, crack pipes and special drug-taking starter kits?
The scenes out of Philadelphia are horrific: People sitting in a zombie state, laying on the sidewalk, others looking up with eyes glazed over. A video of Kensington Ave., long a spot for the drug addled down and out, has shown what it looks like when the powerful sedative tranq comes to town.
The scary part is, this will soon be the reality on the streets of Toronto, especially if Olivia Chow is elected mayor.
Today I exposed that shelters all across Toronto — including family shelters with kids in them — are being pushed by the City to provide taxpayer-funded crack pipes and meth kits and become unofficial injection sites.
As Mayor of Toronto, I will immediately end this program. pic.twitter.com/goVoK9Tny0
— Anthony Furey (@anthonyfurey) May 30, 2023
Get out while you can.
With less than a month until Toronto chooses a new mayor, and after several head-to-head candidate debates, former NDP MP Olivia Chow retains a sizable lead, according to a new Forum Research poll for the Toronto Star.
The survey of 1,007 Torontonians conducted Friday found Chow with the support of 34 per cent of decided and leaning voters, followed by former police chief Mark Saunders at 14 per cent and Coun. Josh Matlow at 12 per cent.
The frustration being felt by residents surrounding Allan Gardens is being felt by their city councillor even if ignored by city hall staff and many of the leading mayoral contenders. That frustration could soon see residents take some matters into their own hands.
In an update to residents issued last week, Councillor Chris Moise said the approach being taken by city staff isn’t working.
We’re in the heart of mayoral campaign debate season (I watched four in two days at the end of this week, and I’m moderating one next week). And we’re entering the beginning of lawn-signs and TV ads season.
Is anyone paying close attention yet?
People in my world of political junkies are, of course. But out there in the great wide city, I’m not as sure. I’m still getting questions about who’s running (a whole lotta people), or when election day is (it’s June 26), or whether John Tory is running again against Olivia Chow (well, see — no, he’s not).
I get the sense Toronto is sleep walking into Chow.
Instead of removing encampment, city has encouraged and helped people living in the park while ignoring local residents
On a sunny Saturday morning at Allan Gardens, there are a few dog owners in the off-leash area but little other activity from local residents. There are few people taking a stroll through the walkways, but no children playing in the grass, despite being surrounded by high density residential developments. Few people are wandering the park.
The transit route I take most often is the 505 streetcar – the “Dundas car.” Lately, riding it has become a bit of an adventure.
The 505 runs along Dundas Street, the historic thoroughfare that gives its name to Yonge-Dundas Square opposite the Eaton Centre mall. Along the way it passes safe-consumption sites for people who use drugs and shelters for people experiencing homelessness.
Dangerous stunt driving and street racing has worsened in the Greater Toronto Area, police say — and now law enforcement is asking for the public’s help in reporting the issue.
Representatives from police forces in the GTA spoke at a news conference Thursday to discuss the 2022 results of a multi-jurisdictional street racing elimination program, which was first established in 1999.
“Street races do not acknowledge jurisdictional boundaries. They move through freely through neighbourhoods without concern or thought for public safety,” said Peel Regional Police Deputy Chief Marc Andrews.
Olivia Chow’s mayoral candidacy could be expensive for Toronto taxpayers.
“I am ready to tax,” declared Chow in launching her campaign.
So far, she’s demonstrating Toronto taxpayers should take her commitment seriously.
The Greater Toronto Area could see a significant oversupply of office space for another two decades thanks to slumping demand in the wake of the pandemic combined with new construction already in the pipeline, according to an economist’s report.
Peter Norman, who prepared the report for the Toronto chapter of the National Association for Industrial and Office Parks, warned vacancy rates in the GTA could spike as high as 46 per cent in the years ahead.
“Toronto” is becoming a parasite sucking citizens dry financially and spiritually. Chow will make it worse and at a faster rate.
An ‘agitated’ man threatens to ‘shoot up the subway.’ Another accosts a woman inside a TTC elevator and repeatedly hits her with an empty wheelchair. A third attacks a group of girls on a bus after yelling at them to turn their music off.
These are just a handful of the incidents reported by unnerved TTC riders in the week following the unprovoked murder of a 16-year-old boy at Keele Station in March.
TORONTO—Olivia Chow, a former federal NDP MP and now one of the frontrunners in Toronto’s municipal by-election, reiterated her campaign promise on May 24 to increase taxes on expensive real-estate purchases in the city and use the public revenue to build more affordable housing units if she is elected mayor.
Chow made the comments during a mayoral debate hosted by the Toronto Alliance for Performing Arts at the Young People’s Theatre in downtown Toronto on May 24.
They blew the lid off the place.
When Liberals ruin your province after 15 years of rule.
20 + police Cruisers on Lakeshore at East Street in Bronte area of Oakville. Highschool kids firing fireworks back and forth across the street. Chased out by the Halton Police. Multiple Arrests reported. pic.twitter.com/ZlSbGfPtrF— Ron's (#TrudeauMustGo) (10 Bucks) Drum Kit (@RonArms35348443) May 23, 2023
Ashbridges Bay was relatively quiet after good prep by the cops and TTC but elsewhere in TO…
Happy Birthday,