Who will replace former Toronto Mayor John Tory amid resignation scandal?

I say the Pandemic Puta should be crowned Puta Queen of TO!

With the sudden resignation of Toronto Mayor John Tory in scandal, Deputy Mayor Jennifer McKelvie will be the interim mayor. The environmental geoscientist has represented Scarborough-Rouge Park since 2018, and was named deputy mayor after last fall’s election.

But it is also likely that ambitious and better-known pols are suddenly looking at their political prospects in a post-Tory Toronto, where a new mayor will be chosen in a by-election.


Someone wanted Tory gone.

The ususal suspects on the far left of course, maybe family or maybe someone at MLSE was pissed off that that the Pandemic Puta landed a cushy sinecure there thanks to “Daddy.”

It’s possible she won the position solely on merit and it had nothing to do with Mayor Tory’s grandfatherly mentorship.

I also have to wonder if Tory’s Puta Pal puts MLSE in the same spot the city was in regarding #MeToo liability given Tory is still linked to the Rogers family trust which holds a stake in MLSE.

I once worked in an environment where a Puta was sleeping her way to the top. It went from a good place to an ugly place to work in short order.

Love him or hate him there is far worse waiting in the wings. San Francisco here we come.

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GOLDSTEIN: Tory tosses away his legacy with an act of incredible foolishness

John Tory got that rarest of things in politics — a second chance — and he threw it away.

Nine years ago, Torontonians elected Tory as mayor to end the craziness at City Hall, bringing to an end the scandal-plagued Rob Ford era of city politics.

Toronto – City of opportunity where even the Pandemic Puta’s fall upward!

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‘I am deeply sorry’: Tory resigns as mayor of Toronto after having relationship with staffer

John Tory is stepping down as mayor of Toronto after having a relationship with a member of his office staff during the pandemic.

Tory announced his resignation during a surprise news conference on Friday evening as he confirmed the relationship, which he said: “did not meet the standards to which I hold myself as mayor and as a family man.”

“I am deeply sorry, and I apologize unreservedly to the people of Toronto,” Tory said.

h/t SDMatt & XC

NatPo is allowing comments – Toronto Mayor John Tory resigns as mayor, admits affair with staffer

Here’s the original Star piece – Mayor John Tory steps down from office after admitting he had relationship with former staffer

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I can hardly wait for the 1st “solar compacting bin” personal injury lawsuit

Torontonians know these trash cans are a problem. Are solar compacting bins a solution?

Toronto has a trash problem with garbage overflowing onto streets and blowing into surrounding areas, and some councillors are now calling on the city to explore a new solution — smart, solar-powered compacting bins for both garbage disposal and recycling.

According to the Rochman Lab at the University of Toronto, the city generated 15,785 tons of litter in 2020, the majority of which was leakage from a poorly functioning waste management system, including trash that just didn’t make it securely into a garbage can.

Scientific breakthrough: City to ditch progressive trash bins and have them emptied in timely manner.

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‘It’s not bouncing back:’ Workers continue to return to downtown Toronto but recovery lags behind some cities

And you know as I do that most of the “benefit shoppers” will end up in Toronto so we have that going for us.

Torontonians appear to be returning downtown in greater numbers but the pace of the city’s economic recovery still lags behind many other North American cities, a new study suggests.

Researchers at the University of Toronto and the University of California, Berkeley have been jointly tracking cellphone data throughout the pandemic as a means of evaluating the economic recoveries in 62 North American cities.

Toronto does not have a reason to exist any longer other than as a mass-immigration dumping ground.

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Those sheltering in the transit system worry about their safety amid the recent spate of TTC violence

With few shelter options available, homeless people are turning to subway stations, trains, buses and streetcars.

Last October, for the first time in his life, Dan Watson was “nameless.”

He was sleeping on Toronto subway cars and in coffee shops. For one whole month, nobody called him by his name. “You don’t feel like you belong,” he said this past week, bundled in a beanie and a winter coat during a drop-in program at All Saints Church.

They should form a union.

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‘It’s Our Central Park’: Uproar Rises Over Location of New Toronto Homes

TORONTO — Spreading across two million acres, Toronto’s Greenbelt is a vast swath of protected and ecologically sensitive lands that forms an arc around the city and its suburbs, as if holding Canada’s most populous and fastest-growing region in an embrace.

“It’s our Central Park,” said Jeff Bowers, 57, recently retired from a “high-stress, 24/7” job in technology, who was hiking recently in one corner of the Greenbelt. “The Greenbelt was declared, it was decreed. It had a sacredness to it. Now, the current government is tinkering with that, and that’s creating a lot of uproar. You can imagine if they said they were going to develop Central Park.”

Yet this is what is happening in Toronto.

My God that man needs a sedative.

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Some Homeless Encampments Can Stay, but the Underlying Issues Remain

In many Canadians cities, one noticeable consequence of the pandemic has been a rise in the number of homeless people living in encampments. Now three separate court rulings in British Columbia and Ontario have upheld the right of their residents to not be removed.

There is a widespread housing affordability crisis in Canada right now for all but the wealthy. But as the situation for people at the bottom continues to worsen, much of the political response has focused on people with stable incomes and jobs who want to buy a home.


Tory came through last year and dismantled the main “Homeless camps” so give him credit.

However this new ruling means Toronto could have a worse situation on its hands than before.

Given TO is a Liberal voting city I don’t much care what happens any longer.

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Taxi drivers are asking for advance payment to go to ‘dangerous’ areas of Toronto

A seemingly endless wave of violent crime may have some would-be transit riders opting for other means of getting around the city, and even Toronto’s taxi drivers are on edge as shocking headlines continue to be published daily.

Riders opting for the old-fashioned mode of taxis to get around town are finding some drivers reluctant to accept fares to particular areas of the city without a cash advance payment, a scenario playing out even for well-dressed senior citizens.

Seems scammy, I think some of the cabbies are often the “bad neighborhood.”


More on TO … Judge tosses attempted murder charge in latest of four gun cases to collapse over Toronto police conduct

An attempted murder charge tossed by a judge this week — the fourth firearms case to collapse in the past two months due to Toronto police conduct — has sparked concerns about the force’s handling of gun cases.

The judge’s decision on Tuesday found police failed to disclose evidence on an alleged shooting ambush in a timely fashion. Judicial reasons for tossing the other cases include racial profiling, an unwarranted no-knock raid, and slow disclosure.

This week’s ruling also comes as Toronto police presses the federal government for legal reforms to crack down on firearms cases.

h/t DM

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LEVY: The 2021 arrest memo that speaks to the core of Toronto transit violence

At a press conference late last week, Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) CEO Rick Leary avoided justifying a memo sent to staff in January of 2021 ordering that arrest be the action of last resort with those displaying unlawful acts on the transit system.

His response, however, confirms the “hug-a-thug, anti-enforcement” attitude he demanded from his safety constables over the past few years.

h/t NeoCon

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‘Toronto turning into Gotham city’: How random violence is pushing Toronto to a tipping point

The city knows what’s happening. Toronto’s police chief, the mayor, transit bosses all sense it. They see it rumbling on a grey horizon. So do the wags of Twitter, daily commuters, and out of towners now thinking twice.

It’s fear. Broad, public fear.


A lot of the blame is due to White Liberal Guilt.

They really only have one answer to every situation – throw money at a problem until the squeaky wheels are silenced, rinse and repeat.

There’s a whole eco-system of experts and community based whatevers reliant on tax payer dollars.

And they always need more money. And they always get it.  And the problems only ever get worse. And no one ever asks why.

It’s not going to get better. Mass-Immigration will cram in still more bodies.

Crime will only rise. Ghettoization and Tribal No Go Zones will be the fruit of our diversity.  Get strong you’ll need it.

It’s no wonder so many have not returned to work downtown. What’s the draw exactly?

I can have a shootout courtesy of Airbnb in my sleepy section of Etobicoke without the need to visit the belly of the beast. 

I can hear the screams and watch the dazed wanderings of the mentally ill dumped out at Kipling Station.

Taxes will increase, services will decrease, businesses will relocate.

You can expect White Flight to gain considerable momentum given the city is funding a race war against them.

At least that’ll take care of the White Liberal Guilt problem paving the way for vibrant new leadership and interesting times galore.

 

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Violence on the TTC has been horrifying. Here’s what I found really alarming when I rode this week

On a Queen streetcar Wednesday, a man boarded near Bay Street at the centre doors. He had a long scraggly beard and wore a grubby army surplus coat, a bulging plastic garbage bag slung over his shoulder.

He was giggling, loudly, for no apparent reason. For longer than a minute.

“Heeeheeeheeheeeheee!” His voice echoed off the windows and walls, and many passengers let their eyes dart in his direction, then exchanged glances with each other.

Was this something to be concerned about? Or just another day on the TTC? Or are those now the same thing?


TTC riders shocked at homophobic rant!

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