The project was first awarded in 2015 and was scheduled to open in 2020, but has been plagued by problems
A major transit project in Toronto has been delayed yet again, though officials are hopeful to get it operational by the end of the year.
There are “performance and reliability” issues with trains on the Eglinton Crosstown light rail transit system as they are pushed through their paces, said Metrolinx CEO Michael Lindsay.
A new opinion poll suggests Mayor Olivia Chow would be the leading contender if she was seeking re-election now — but former mayor John Tory would be a real threat if he was attempting a political comeback.
Forum Research surveyed 1,000 adults across Toronto on Wednesday and Thursday, asking about their support for four potential candidates well ahead of the October 2026 mayoral race that already has local politicos planning and gauging support.
A new report is sounding the alarm on unaffordable rent in Toronto, pointing out that despite a softening of prices in the rental market, one- and two-bedroom apartments remain out of reach for many workers.
The report, Making Rent: The CCPA’s rental wage update 2024, was released Thursday by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. It looks at the “rental wage”—the hourly wage needed to afford rent while working a standard 40-hour week and spending 30 per cent of income on housing—for one- and two-bedroom units in 62 Canadian cities.
It found that Toronto and Vancouver top the list when it comes to unaffordable rental housing.
Someone working full time would need to make almost $38 an hour in order to afford a one-bedroom apartment in those cities. That works out to an annual salary of around $78,000.
Toronto police are running a patrol blitz to combat the meteoric rise of “despicable” distraction thefts targeting seniors across the city.
There have been 374 distraction thefts across Toronto so far this year, an explosive growth from 2024 which saw just 28 incidents throughout the entire year, Chief Supt. Mandeep Mann said while speaking at a press conference Wednesday morning.
The thefts involve someone diverting a victim’s attention before swiping something valuable like jewelry, wallets, or phones. The perpetrators target 60- to 90-year-olds during daylight hours on weekdays, Mann warned.
An “African Ancestral Acknowledgement” in city staff email signatures? They are now included as part of the opening statement before meetings at City Hall and one plays on a loop at Yonge-Dundas Square, the place city officials want us to call Sankofa Square.
Daniel Tate of Integrity TO, a City Hall watchdog group recently raised the alarm about the email practice.
This is just the latest effort by City Hall to express it’s contempt for White Canadians.
The Ontario Honda Dealers Indy Toronto is shifting gears and moving its tracks to Markham next year.
Wednesday’s announcement marks a major detour for the annual open-wheel auto race, colloquially known as the Honda Indy, which has been taking place on a street course through Toronto’s Exhibition Place in some form since 1986.
… Asked why the event is being moved north of Toronto, Jeff Atkinson, president of the Ontario Honda Dealers Indy at Markham, said the city’s upcoming 2026 FIFA World Cup hosting duties was a factor.
FIFA alone doesn’t account for this and the other factors provided seem the polite way out. Chow certainly doesn’t seem upset.
TORONTO – Greater Toronto commuters are likely bracing for traffic and transit congestion to worsen over the coming months as a number of major employers get ready to increase in-office days.
Even before return-to-office mandates take effect, experts say vehicle traffic in the city is at a tipping point, while delays, construction and public safety concerns plague the public transit system.
“I think people should be very concerned, both policy-makers and commuters themselves, about the impact that a back-to-work mandate is going to have on the commute,” said Jennifer Keesmaat, a former chief planner for the City of Toronto.
“We were already hitting a tipping point because transit ridership has decreased and so many people are getting in their cars.”
The Etobicoke red brick detached home was on the market for 40 days this summer.
After multiple price adjustments, the three-bedroom, two-bath finally went for $1.545 million, over half-a-million less than when it was last sold, near the height of the Toronto real-estate market in spring 2002.
The reaction? “Excellent.”
When Mayor Olivia Chow recently revealed that the federal government is preparing to shortchange Toronto on funding to provide shelter for refugees — to the tune of more than $100 million this year — many of us likely felt a sense of déjà vu.
Didn’t we go through this with the last guy? As the number of refugees in the shelter system ballooned under former prime minister Justin Trudeau (from 530 per night in 2021 to more than 5,000 per night in 2025), the feds hemmed and hawed and tried to pass the buck while refugees slept on sidewalks and Toronto’s established homeless population was squeezed into tent cities. Chow’s budget chief, Shelley Carroll, even threatened a civic Trudeau Tax Levy. Finally, in 2024, Trudeau came around.
A 57-unit apartment building in Scarborough had only seen two eviction applications over the course of nine years under the ownership of one landlord.
Then in 2018, Starlight Investments purchased the building and, in just over a year, filed 29 eviction applications — increasing the rate of filings more than 10,000 per cent, a recent study revealed.
Starlight Investments “is, in some ways, leading the charge” in transforming multi-family housing stock, said Martine August, a professor of planning in Waterloo’s faculty of environment and the co-author of a recent study on Toronto landlords’ behaviour around eviction.
Would this be getting the same attention if the land of the Mosqueteria was not affected?
So I’m homeless and unemployed and it feels alright.
Why, you might ask? Because I’ve left Toronto. I have only the vaguest idea of where I’m going at the moment — I’ve been bouncing between various couches in several cities and provinces and the spare room at my mother’s place in rural New Brunswick for several months — but it’s a done deal. I’m not coming back this time. It hurts to leave the town I’ve called home for 27 years and all the deep personal and professional connections I’ve forged there. Make no mistake, though; I’ll live longer because of it. Toronto was killing me.
A lot of memories reside amidst the decline.
I find myself wondering what it will be like to pack up and leave TO.
My reasons are familiar to readers, this Star piece is more a personal lifestyle lament that ignores the real reasons for the decay of Toronto into 3rd World status.
Just a little more than year out, Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow has revealed she’s not sure if she will seek re-election.
Her uncertainty on whether to seek another term had light shined on it Friday morning while she was appearing on Newstalk 1010.
Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow is speaking out after recently learning that the federal government plans to only provide a quarter of the funding the city requires to cover the costs of providing interim housing for refugees and asylum seekers.
In a letter addressed to her City Council colleagues, Chow said the feds notified the City of Toronto that they would be paying out only 26 per cent of what Toronto projects to spend on shelter costs for refugees and asylum seekers in 2025.
In the note, Chow suggests that the shortfall amounts to a “cut.”
We are governed by Monsters who hate us.
h/t Auntie Polly
Toronto is a city that eats its young. And then forgets about them.
Until the next innocent young person is shot to death. Then Toronto says what it needs to say to get through the unspeakable reality before moving on and going back to status quo — albeit without the latest murder victim, of course.
Somewhere right now, in the city of Toronto — in a garage, a basement or a dusty shed — likely sits the decapitated husk of a speed camera.
Or maybe there are 12 of them, piled up. The spoils of theft and vandalism. Victims in a culture war that’s hit the side streets of Canada’s biggest city.
This has been the summer of the speed camera.
