Olivia Chow met with Fu Qing Business Association, seeking their support in this mayoral by-election. The same people that operated police stations in the GTA. So this is someone who wants to defund our own police while cozying up to China's police 🤷 Journalists?#TOpoli https://t.co/Go4mjgMt2M pic.twitter.com/Tjf9CXSzCu
— Karen Woods 林爷 🇺🇦🇨🇦🌻 (@KarenWenLin) May 5, 2023
According to the pollster’s survey of 1,056 people, Chow holds 22 per cent of the vote, followed by Ana Bailao and Josh Matlow at 11 per cent each.
Crucially, 30 per cent of polled respondents are still undecided on how they’ll vote on Election Day.
So far no one on the right appears to have much traction if the polls and media are to be trusted.
Everything will get worse if Chowcescu is elected.
You think taxes, crime, homelessness and the war on the car and all your other freedoms are bad now?
Just wait until you’ve had a taste of Chow.
Residents and businesses in the heart of downtown Toronto are bracing for disruption as a years-long road closure begins.
Starting on Monday, May 1, a major portion of Queen Street will be closed to all traffic while construction takes place on a new subway station.
“It’s definitely a sense of anxiousness. There’s still a lot of uncertainty,” Meg Marshall, manager of the Queen Street West BIA, told Global News.
A busy downtown intersection is closing Monday for nearly half a decade as construction on Toronto’s newest subway line begins in earnest.
Starting May 1, Queen Street between Bay and Victoria Streets will be shut to cars for four and a half years in what will be one of the biggest disruption the city will face in the construction of the Ontario Line subway. Work on the line began last March, but will heat up this summer with the Queen Street closure and other projects.
The way Toronto is going I’m not sure they will need this line.
It felt this week like candidates in Toronto’s race to pick a new mayor started to use their elbows a little bit more.
Multiple candidates issued statements and tweets taking shots at their rivals.
Ana Bailao called former council colleague Josh Matlow, a “plagiarist,” accusing him of cribbing his platform from former candidate Gil Penalosa. Mark Saunders also took a swipe at Matlow, saying during an announcement “I usually chuckle when I hear candidates like Josh Matlow chastise people for using cars.”
Will we look back and say that this election marked the end of Toronto? I suspect so if a left leaning mayor is elected.
A new poll puts Olivia Chow in the lead among early contenders in the upcoming Toronto byelection to choose a new mayor.
The Mainstreet Research poll released Friday asked voters who they would choose if an election were held today. It found that among decided voters, 26 per cent said they would vote for Chow, while 21 per cent said they would vote for Ana Bailao, 14 per cent for Josh Matlow and 11 per cent for Mark Saunders.
Toronto mayoral candidate Anthony Furey says if elected, he’ll launch a $1-billion lawsuit against Metrolinx over the Eglinton Crosstown LRT delays.
“It’s been over a decade of this and the people of Toronto have politely accepted delay after delay, poor communication, gridlock and harm to businesses along a major street,” Furey said in a statement Friday.
Thousands of refugee claimants are in homeless shelters across Toronto, as stays grow longer amid a housing affordability crisis and a lack of federal support for an increasing number of asylum seekers.
According to city data, refugees and asylum seekers accounted for 30 per cent of total occupancy in the municipal shelter system as of March, with average stays reaching four to six months. The pressure on the shelter system has prompted the city’s government to press Ottawa for more funding. And while support for 2023 is included in the recent federal budget, it is not a permanent commitment – as has long been called for.
Seven months after Metrolinx announced the Eglinton Crosstown LRT would once again fail to meet its target date, the public knows virtually nothing about how the project is going or when the line will finally open.
Asked by the Star this week when the light rail transit line, which has been under construction since 2011 and was once expected to be complete in 2020, might be done, Metrolinx said it did not have new details to offer, and put the blame on Crosslinx Transit Solutions (CTS), the construction consortium building the project.
A black hole.
John Tory, who vacated Toronto’s mayor’s office in February after admitting an extramarital affair with a staffer, faced almost comically little resistance in twice winning re-election. His second-place opponents managed 24 per cent and 18 per cent in 2018 and 2022, respectively. But now, just six months later, everyone and his sister is running in for mayor in the June 26 by-election, including several familiar names. The more the merrier: this city could use all the fresh blood and ideas it can find. In practice, alas, it’s a tepid mess — both in form and in content.
A new poll by Keep Toronto Moving, a grassroots organization looking at transportation solutions, finds 63% of Torontonians want the next mayor to evaluate bike lanes with 84% wanting that to happen every two to three years.
Another 64% of Torontonians agree that dedicated bike lanes should be moved off major roadways to have less of an impact on congestion and local businesses.
Bike lane outside my condo, rarely used any season.
Toronto mayoralty candidate Anthony Furey says if he’s elected there will be “no more bike lines on major roads” in the city.
Furey says plans for new dedicated lanes on Bloor St. W., Eglinton Ave., Sheppard Ave. and Kingston Rd. will be shelved and he’ll remove the existing lanes on University Ave. to allow for better access to hospital row.
“Ambulances are facing delayed reaction time to getting to people because of the bike lane situation,” Furey said Thursday on University near the hospitals.
Watching a baseball game on TV can provide astounding moments. Sensational fielding, clutch hitting, pinpoint pitching. But nothing was more astounding to me than a promotion they used to run on Blue Jays telecasts way back when.
Viewers were invited to text their votes for player-of-the-game and the people’s choice would win a watch. Voters were told that each text would cost fifty cents. Who in their right mind, I wondered, would pay even fifty cents so a millionaire ballplayer could win a watch?
This was theft, looting the treasury in the last days of a decaying civilization level theft. How anyone could consider this a good deal is beyond reason.
Olivia Chow is running to be the next mayor of Toronto, marking a return to electoral politics for the long-time city councillor and NDP parliamentarian.
Pray she doesn’t get in or that you get out before she does.
Amid speculation she will register for Toronto’s mayoral election, Olivia Chow is planning to make an announcement on Monday morning.
According to a media advisory Sunday afternoon, Chow is holding an event at 10:30 a.m. at the Dragon City Mall in downtown Toronto. It provided no further details.
Her election would cause a steep increase in flight from the city.
