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

A person is taken into custody under the Mental Health Act once every four times a TTC constable reports to the subway tracks, a Toronto Sun analysis shows.

The TTC has also confirmed the number of such events each year has grown from pre-pandemic figures.

A database of “unauthorized track-level” events that involved a special constable, covering the time from January 2020 to April, was provided to the Toronto Sun after a freedom-of-information request. Some incidents also involved Toronto Police.

Mayor Olivia Chow was running late.

For the journalists waiting in a conference room at Toronto Star headquarters on a recent afternoon, it was easy to see why. Many floors below, the traffic on Spadina Avenue was bumper to bumper as drivers made their way to the construction-clogged Gardiner Expressway, and even the streetcars were crawling in their dedicated lanes.

Chow and her apologetic staff arrived at her interview with the Star’s editorial board about 15 minutes behind schedule, and jokes about the city’s notorious gridlock aside — the mayor says she’s striving to fix it — her delayed arrival was fitting.

It’s not easy being green.

A not-yet-released City of Toronto environmental plan, mandated by FIFA and received by the Toronto Sun after a freedom-of-information request, shows the soccer federation and the municipal government will use an array of topics, including several tied to diversity and labour matters, to sell the soccer celebration as being as earth-friendly as it can be.

What a scam.

Toronto’s speed camera program has been the focus of some controversy of late. Premier Doug Ford has publicly questioned whether the automated enforcement technology — also known as photo radar — is just a “revenue tool” for municipalities.

Meanwhile, at Toronto city hall, Coun. Anthony Perruzza (Ward 7, Humber River-Black Creek) has spent some time telling reporters that the program is unfair. Perhaps to help ease those concerns,
Mayor Olivia Chow passed a motion at last week’s council meeting calling for larger signs for drivers warning of speed cameras.

But these concerns are misplaced. Here’s what politicians like Ford, Chow and Perruzza ought to be worried about instead: ghosts.

Canadian real estate is the most affordable it’s been in three years—but that isn’t saying much. RBC data shows ownership costs have eased, though it forecasts improvements stalling soon and affordability worsening next year. Even with affordability at its best, it would only be a slight improvement over the peak of the 1990s real estate bubble—the last one to fully burst.

Toronto City Council had a chance this week to take a clear, practical step toward solving its housing crisis.

Surprise: It did not. Instead, the city’s leaders cowered before the most reactionary elements in local politics and seemed ready to waste $60-million in the process.

With Thursday’s vote, council had to decide whether to legalize “sixplexes” – apartment buildings of up to six units – across the city. Suburban councillors responded by claiming that this, in effect, would destroy Toronto.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is probably the best political friend the city of Toronto has ever had. But no matter how many billions of provincial tax dollars Ford spends to help his hometown, some Torontonians remain ungrateful.

Rather than settle for looking a gift horse in the mouth, they rush to the other end of the horse and pronounce themselves very unhappy with what they see. The latest example is the final design for a dramatically revamped Ontario Place, announced by Ford this week.

Nothing will ever again be “good” for long in the 3rd World Dumpster called Toronto.

Throwing money at Ontario Place won’t hurt but it won’t help.

It’s open season on speed cameras, as a number of the devices across the city have been vandalized or otherwise put out of commission in the past 24 hours.

The Toronto police have confirmed that five automated speed enforcement (ASE) cameras were vandalized, cut down or put out of commission sometime between June 24—25.

On Wednesday at 4:05 a.m., the ASE at Sheppard Avenue East and Don Mills Road was cut down. On Tuesday, at 4:58 a.m., the ASE outside Cloverdale Mall at The East Mall and Faludin Court was also cut down at its base, Toronto police said.

This isn’t about safety its about cash.

I wish the city would do something about the motorcyclists who rev their engines at Six Points into the wee small hours but there’ no money in that.

A Toronto councillor wants the city to pause its use of automated speed cameras, calling them “speed traps” that don’t actually slow speeders.

Coun. Anthony Perruzza (Ward 7, Humber River-Black Creek) plans to introduce a motion at council on Thursday asking the city to stop ticketing with the 150 cameras located throughout the city until it can prove it’s giving enough warning before they install the devices — and that the cameras aren’t ticketing “conscientious” drivers.

That’s their whole point. No way will a commie regime give up this cash cow.