“Toronto – Canada’s version of a Democrat run city” – Page 14

Patrice Dutil: What Toronto loses with the naming of Sankofa Square

As municipal officials in Toronto get set to host an event inaugurating the newly renamed Sankofa Square (formerly Younge-Dundas Square), it’s worth pondering what could have been.

The word “Sankofa” is not organic, it does not grow out of the Torontonian experience and it is not authentic. Nor it is even original: in the United States, there are endless shops, schools, arts centres and community organizations named after the concept.

Racists renamed Dundas Square after African Slavers to insult White Canadians and Canada’s heritage.

The Smithsonian should teach children the REAL history of Slavery:

– Slavery originated in Africa over 4,700 years ago
– Slavery was exported from Africa to the West
– The U.S. and England were the first to abolish it
– 7 million people remain enslaved in Africa in 2025… pic.twitter.com/bjbvWl7Yvc

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 15, 2025

by Blazingcatfur•August 17, 2025August 16, 2025•0•"Anti-White Racism", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

LAU: Toronto taxpayers should demand better of city’s homelessness services

According to a recent City of Toronto report, in October 2024, there were an estimated 15,400 people experiencing homelessness in the city — more than double the approximately 7,300 homeless in April 2021. Of the homeless population, about 80% stay in city-administered sites, 10% in provincially-administered sites, and 10% outdoors.

The Chow regime like all other leftists do not want to fix the homeless crisis.

They see it as a primary source of financing their pet projects and lining the pockets of their commie pals.

by Blazingcatfur•August 13, 2025August 13, 2025•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Christopher Dummitt: Judge brought politics through the back door in Toronto bike lane case

The recent decision by the Ontario Superior Court rendering the removal of Toronto’s bike lanes unconstitutional recalls the great Dr. Seuss book Oh, The Thinks You Can Think. Just think how we could change Canada if we take the logic of this ruling and keep going.

Oh, the thinks we could think.

by Blazingcatfur•August 12, 2025August 11, 2025•0•"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Toronto the Grind: Making your way around has never been such a slog

Was the steam rising from the sidewalks or my brain? This I wondered as I made my way through the hot, soupy (and this past week, I understand, smoky) air of Toronto, in the summer of 2025.

The world surely does not need another piece of journalism where a reporter parachutes into a city where they do not live and makes pronouncements about the place.

That said, Toronto was my home for more than half my life before I moved to Vancouver in 2007. Growing up, we called it Toronto the Good. I propose a new moniker: Toronto the Grind.

by Blazingcatfur•August 10, 2025August 9, 2025•0•"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Eight feral girls participated in the fatal swarming of a homeless man. None of them will serve additional jail time

The punishments meted out to those who take someone else’s life are not supposed to be seen as measures of the value of that lost life. We should not infer that a life is worth more, for example, if a killer is sentenced to 25 years, as opposed to 10 years, or five years, or just a couple of years of probation. Punishments are supposed to be about the circumstances of a crime, about aggravated and mitigating factors, about the principles of denunciation and distribution, about rehabilitation and retribution, and about public safety. The inherent worth of the lost life, really, has nothing to do with it.

by Blazingcatfur•August 9, 2025August 8, 2025•0•"Justice", "Law and Order", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

A judge struck down the Ford government’s bike lane removals in Toronto. What comes next?

Bike Lanes – another stupid idea by stupid communists

This week an Ontario court struck down a provincial law that required three bike lanes to be removed in Toronto and which also limited the installation of new bike lanes by municipalities.

The decision handed a big win to advocacy group Cycle Toronto and two individual cyclists who challenged the law in court.

by Blazingcatfur•August 3, 2025August 3, 2025•0•"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

‘GO TO HELL’: Vulgar flyers raise unholy terror about new shelter

Critics of a new homeless shelter on Adelaide St. are being told to pluck out their “f—— eyes” in a series of flyers loaded with profanity and religious themes.

“Don’t want to see homeless people? House them, you d— goon,” one flyer says, above smaller script that reads: “God says lazy-a– nimbies go to hell. Read Matthew 25:44-46.”

The NDP’s policy is sandwiching an elementary school between a drug injection site and another new facility at 629 Adelaide St W, being placed:

— Across the street from the school
— 2 blocks from another elementary school
— At a school bus pickup
— In a cul de sac https://t.co/kWOCze9tb0

— Kevin Vuong ️ (@KevinVuongxMP) July 17, 2024

by Blazingcatfur•August 2, 2025August 2, 2025•0•"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", WTF?

WARMINGTON: New statue is turning heads while reminding that cancelling history cancels freedom

It’s a head turner! You are certainly not going to miss seeing this.

Called Moments Contained, this nine-foot-high (2.7 metre) bronze sculpture on Dundas St. West at McCaul St. outside of the Art Gallery of Ontario, is Toronto’s newest statue.

by Blazingcatfur•August 1, 2025August 1, 2025•0•"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", WTF?

Michael Taube: Of course Ontario’s activist judiciary would invent a right to bike lanes

Removing bike lanes is … unconstitutional?

I know it sounds completely insane. Yet, that’s exactly what the Ontario Superior Court ruled on Wednesday with respect to Premier Doug Ford’s plan to remove bike lanes on three busy Toronto intersections — Bloor Street, Yonge Street and University Avenue — to improve the flow of traffic and reduce congestion.

by Blazingcatfur•August 1, 2025July 31, 2025•0•"Environmentalists", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Shakedown: Toronto hit with $50M class action lawsuit over decision to deny refugees shelter beds

A proposed class action has been launched against the City of Toronto on behalf of refugees, refugee claimants, and asylum seekers who were denied access to shelter beds between November 2022 and October 2023.

The lawsuit was filed on May 30 by the Black Legal Action Centre, Lewis Litigation PC, and Stieber Berlach LLP, on behalf of 40-year-old Nigerian refugee claimant Wasiu Adekanmbi, who is a member of the Black and LGBTQ+ communities.

Adekanmbi arrived in Toronto on Sept. 11, 2023 and knew no one and did not have a place to stay, the lawsuit’s statement of claim said. He’s since found work and is now living in Niagara Falls, Ont.

by Blazingcatfur•July 30, 2025July 30, 2025•0•"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", WTF?

Video of Mayor Olivia Chow welcoming well fed Gaza “refugees” to Toronto pulled from Instagram over online abuse

Mayor Olivia Chow says she’s been forced to remove a video she posted to social media in which she welcomed a Palestinian family to Toronto, after they faced a barrage of online abuse.

In a post to Instagram on Monday, Chow criticized Israel over the deepening crisis in Gaza, saying she supports “the Canadian government’s recent condemnation” of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government “as the humanitarian disaster worsens.”

“Israel must allow Palestinians to access food, water and humanitarian aid. Famine should never be used as a weapon,” the mayor wrote in the post.

Mayor Olivia Chow welcomes people from Gaza to Toronto. This will increase antisemitism because the overwhelming majority of Arabs in Gaza want Israel destroyed. pic.twitter.com/i9orIpyHqc

— Israel Now (@neveragainlive1) July 28, 2025

They look well fed.

by Blazingcatfur•July 30, 2025July 30, 2025•0•"Oct 7 2023", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", Islamization of the West, WTF?

Kelly McParland: How Toronto built a condo glut amid a housing shortage

In Toronto today it’s deemed entirely acceptable to build a mammoth residential/retail/commercial/hotel tower reaching 80, 90 or 100-and-more storeys into an increasingly obliterated sky, and be celebrated for your vision, ambition and architectural brashness. But just try to get permission for a modest structure able to house six families and see how far you get.

by Blazingcatfur•July 29, 2025July 28, 2025•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Toronto’s housing crisis is more about greedy governments than ‘market failure’

Doug Ford may finally get to be Toronto’s “mayor” after all.

When investigators found “mismanagement” at four Ontario school boards, the premier’s education minister, Paul Calandra, did the courageous thing and stood up for students and parents. A bunch of us applauded the appointment of new, all-powerful “supervisors,” the gates of hell didn’t open and voters promptly returned to enjoying the warm summer breezes.

Given Toronto’s turbo-charged housing crisis, how much more rope will Ford give city council before appointing his own team of pilots to help pull Canada’s largest city out of its current nosedive? It’s goofy to build $100 billion in transit infrastructure if developers can’t launch new projects to take advantage of this generational investment.

by Blazingcatfur•July 23, 2025July 23, 2025•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Toronto MP Baber calls out Mayor Chow, ‘outright crazy’ shelter plan

Roman Baber started by saying he came “humbly” and “respectfully.” Later, the Conservative MP let them know what he truly thought.

“Children will be picking up needles. This is on you. You have not consulted any of us,” the representative for York Centre told City Hall’s planning and housing committee.

Making things worse means they can demand more money by threatening things will get worse. That’s how ChowTown works.