Toronto is a city in decline, we see it everywhere we look every day of the year.
It’s pothole at the end of your street that isn’t being fixed, it’s the overflowing public garbage cans on every street corner, it’s a TTC that doesn’t work except as a homeless shelter. It’s the never-ending congestion, the rising costs despite diminished service, it’s the rising crime.
Riley Mulvihill woke up to a smashing sound in the middle of the night. Masked men were trying to break through the glass window beside the front door of her Toronto home.
“Keys! Keys! I’ll kill you,” said one of them on security video.
The number of home invasion victims in Toronto hit a 10-year high in 2024, with 231 victims across 149 incidents, according to Toronto police data. In 2025, the total dropped to 183 victims across 93 incidents, but the numbers are up again so far this year compared with the same point last year.
I smell diversity.
When someone who spent decades inside a police service starts raising concerns publicly, people pay attention. Former Toronto police homicide inspector Hank Idsinga has done exactly that, and what he has alleged should concern every resident of this city.
Idsinga has stated publicly that antisemitism exists within the senior ranks of the Toronto Police Service, describing incidents in which officers used antisemitic language toward Jewish colleagues and community members. He has also pointed to anti-Black racism within policing culture and described broader dysfunction at senior levels. More troubling still, he suggested that those same senior figures were involved in decision-making around policing protests that affected Jewish communities, raising serious questions about whether bias may have influenced operational responses.
The number of known homeless encampments across Toronto this spring has plunged dramatically from last year, new city data shows — with their official count in March more than 70 per cent lower than at the same time last year.
This dramatic downswing is seen by city hall as a sign of progress, as demand has eased on the shelter system and more people were housed in 2025 than 2024. But several community workers warn that they’re seeing more people sleeping rough without a tent to stay under the radar, sheltering instead in places like transit stations or beneath doorways.
Hank Idsinga says he won’t be going for an interview with Toronto police over allegations he’s raised of dysfunction, racism and antisemitism in their ranks.
“I’ll let the book speak for itself,” Idsinga told the Star, referencing “The High Road: Confessions of a Homicide Cop,” his memoir of 34 years as a police officer, which ended with him walking away from a celebrated career as leader of Toronto’s homicide unit. Toronto police have this week written Idsinga and sent uniformed officers to his door in an attempt to get him to appear for an interview.
The City of Toronto bought a five-storey building from an organization co-founded by a top bureaucrat – and it appears it may already be planning to give it away.
Just months after last year’s $16-million purchase of 720 Bathurst St., City Hall has indicated it may hand over the deed to a group that has signed on to run a homeless shelter, exclusively for indigenous men, out of that brick building.
Toronto police officials say they are reaching out to a high-ranking former officer who this week made explosive allegations of antisemitism, racism, and corruption in the service’s senior ranks.
Retired homicide inspector Hank Idsinga made the claims in an interview with CBC News and other news outlets surrounding the release of his new book.
Speaking at an unrelated news conference Thursday, Deputy Chief Robert Johnson told reporters the service is looking to talk with Idsinga “so that we can investigate these serious allegations.”
Longtime homicide investigator and former unit commander Hank Idsinga says internal antisemitism, racism and a lack of leadership led to his decision to leave Toronto police after a storied career.
He’s no whistleblower, Idsinga insists, as he sits across from a reporter in a west-end restaurant to discuss his upcoming memoir, “The High Road: Confessions of a Homicide Cop.” This was all part of his story.
🚨 THIS IS IMPORTANT 🚨
Former @TorontoPolice homicide inspector Hank Idsinga speaks out about what he says happens behind closed doors in Canada’s largest police force, including allegations of antisemitism among senior leadership.
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— HonestReporting Canada (@HonestRepCanada) April 22, 2026
I was in Vienna last month and stumbling back to my hotel late one evening I came across something that surprised and impressed me.
It was a street cleaning machine, scouring away grime and scooping up every trace of the litter that had accumulated during the busy day. The crew was out again the next night, and the night after that. Not surprisingly, the streets were spotless.
Mayor Olivia Chow and her crew at City Hall have a new pet project – tree equity.
You may think this is a program to make sure that all parts of the city have similar tree cover, but you’d be wrong.
Chow is not just stupid she’s profoundly evil.
With Toronto set to host six World Cup games this summer, it’s still unclear just how much the city’s and country’s economies will benefit from FIFA’s flagship tournament, say economists and critics.
That concern has grown even more since FIFA “released” thousands of hotel rooms it had blocked off in host cities across Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. As well, the city backtracked on a plan to charge for all entries into fan zones as a way to recoup some of the escalating costs.
This World Cup soccer ball is hitting Canadian fans right in their pocketbook.
Canadian taxpayers have already paid $380 million out of their pockets for these World Cup soccer games, and now there’s a proposal to charge kids $10 to join the excitement from under the Gardiner Expressway.
Huh ? pic.twitter.com/5WO5aDlEuF
— Joe Warmington (@joe_warmington) April 15, 2026
A beautiful game ruined by grifters.
What was once billed as a free World Cup celebration in Toronto could now cost fans anywhere from $10 to $300 to attend.
The FIFA Fan Festival, scheduled from June 11 to July 19, 2026 at Fort York and The Bentway, was initially promoted as a free event which would feature live match broadcasts, cultural performances and food vendors.
Waymo is reportedly planning a significant step toward bringing its driverless taxis to Toronto’s streets. But it’s unclear if the California-based tech company will be welcome north of the border, with the mayor and premier harbouring concerns about the autonomous driving technology’s impact on local jobs.
According to a spokesperson for Mayor Olivia Chow, Waymo has told her office it plans to apply to the Ontario government’s automated vehicle pilot program. That would enable the company to test its vehicles in the province and serve as a potential precursor to launching commercial robo taxi operations in its largest city.
No more migrant drivers? I’m on board.
Yes, Waymo (and to a lesser extent other driverless systems) has begun to take market share and exert downward pressure on human cab, Uber, and Lyft drivers in the cities where robotaxis operate at scale—but it has not caused widespread or total displacement yet.
If you like taking the ferry to the islands, how about taking one to get around Toronto’s mainland?
Waterfront Toronto announced this week that it has selected an operator for an east-west water shuttle pilot project, to run from June to September for three years.
