The main sense you get from reading the latest city report on homelessness is that this is an industry. As with any industry, the last thing it wants to do is go out of business which is why the “solutions” offered up are about perpetuating the problem, not solving it.
It’s probably appropriate since the report is actually a “Stakeholder Engagement Report” titled, “What We Heard: 2025-2030 Strategic Plan to Address Homelessness.”
A Quebec man previously charged with the theft of police equipment from a motor vehicle is now facing nearly 150 charges in connection with a rash of violent and property-related crimes across the GTA, including multiple stabbings.
Police took the suspect into custody on Friday and charged him with three offences in the theft of police equipment from a parked motor vehicle near Queen Street East and Broadview Avenue on April 30.
However, police say that investigators were subsequently able to link the same suspect to a series of thefts from motor vehicles across the GTA that was the subject of an ongoing investigation being led by the 51 Division Major Crime Unit.
The riding-rich, voter-dense Greater Toronto Area looked like a kingmaker for the Liberal Party once again in Monday’s federal vote, delivering a push for Mark Carney while dashing Conservative hopes of an urban breakthrough.
Liberal dominance in the GTA helped Liberals win the three previous general elections under Justin Trudeau, and new Liberal leader Carney looked to the region to buttress his party in a fourth consecutive term.
Canada now leads the world in remote work among college-educated professionals, with nearly two full workdays per week spent at home, according to the latest Global Survey of Working Arrangements. That’s more than the United Kingdom, the United States, India, or Nigeria.
The Conservatives had enjoyed a lead over Liberals in the region largely because of rising housing and food costs. But President Trump’s tariffs have shifted the equation.
A year of rapidly slumping poll results for the Liberal Party that has governed Canada for nearly a decade was bad enough. But then there came the almost unthinkable: a defeat in a special election in downtown Toronto, the party’s longtime electoral fortress.
The defeat last year, many analysts believe, triggered the chain of events that led to Justin Trudeau’s resignation as prime minister and the federal election that will be held on Monday.
Voters in Toronto had been vital to keeping Mr. Trudeau and the Liberals in power through three elections. So the loss of a Toronto district — held by a prominent Liberal for 28 years — to the Conservatives was a stunning blow and an omen of worse to come in a general election.
Not so fast Katie Telford’s typist…
This explains Liberals hitting panic button today https://t.co/Fl4bhKPSdR
— Kathryn Marshall (@Lawsome_) April 24, 2025
This will lose more Carney support than is gained.
Woman speaks up during public interviews at TMU in Toronto pic.twitter.com/ob3MHj9GBp
— 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv) April 24, 2025
City councillors spent thousands on podcasts, parties and popcorn – and Toronto taxpayers got the bill.
Councillors’ office expenses for 2024 were recently released, and some of the spending ranges from seemingly wasteful to weird.
Toronto’s 25 councillors each had a budget of $58,411.87, and some spent almost all of that. Lily Cheng, the biggest spender, came in at $58,404.53, barely beating out Chris Moise’s $58,383.99.
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The trouble with Toronto’s proposed ‘bubble zone’ bylaw
Recently, we’ve seen alarming examples of rights being rolled back south of the border. These include attempts to silence those whose political views differ from the government’s — and they should serve as a cautionary tale for Canada. Indeed, now is the time for everyone in this country to protect our fundamental freedoms and resist the erosion of our democratic rights.
With that in mind, we should all be concerned that Toronto city council will next month consider adopting a new “bubble zone” bylaw. This bylaw, yet to be drafted, would limit where people are allowed to hold peaceful public demonstrations such as picket lines, vigils, protests and rallies that some may find offensive. In so doing, it would directly infringe on our freedoms of expression and of peaceful assembly, two cornerstones of Canadian democracy.
The same people arguing against Bubble Zones for Islamist protests likely support Bubble Zone protest bylaws outside abortion clinics.
From Grok – Several provinces in Canada have enacted “bubble zone” laws, also known as safe access zones, to limit demonstrations outside abortion clinics and other facilities providing abortion services. These laws create areas around clinics, hospitals, or providers’ offices where certain activities, such as protesting, picketing, or attempting to dissuade individuals from accessing abortion services, are prohibited. Based on available information, the following provinces have such laws as of April 19, 2025…
Always remember coffee and donuts for Hamas supporters in Toronto???? pic.twitter.com/jQCVrKTCdW
— Israel Now (@neveragainlive1) April 16, 2025
Diversity sucks shit.
Toronto police say they believe one person was targeted by a driver who struck and injured four pedestrians on the TMU campus Tuesday afternoon before fleeing the area.
The incident happened just before 2 p.m. on Nelson Mandela Walk, a pedestrian-only walkway near Yonge Street and Gerrard Street East.
You never used to find tents in Scarborough’s Collingwood Park.
The tiny oasis of greenspace tucked near Sheppard Avenue East and Kennedy Road is usually home to little more than grassy expanses, winding paths, a narrow creek and play equipment. But this spring, as outdoor homelessness has continued to surge across Toronto, 11 campsites were set up throughout the park.
Last spring, there was only one; in the three springs before, none at all.
There is a row of metal bollards at the synagogue’s entrance, guarded by security.
Inside, Temple Sinai’s team of spiritual leaders and staff have recently started doing active shooter drills.
“It’s not to make us feel safe,” said Rabbi Michael Dolgin during a recent interview in his office at the synagogue, where he’s served since the early 1990s.
“It’s to keep us safe, because we are not.”
The same man who was kicked out of the Schwartz/Reisman Community Centre in Vaughan is allegedly a well known agitator who was spotted doing nazi salutes a few months ago in Toronto pic.twitter.com/TPJFSgpErw https://t.co/tPGE8DzKj0
— 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv) April 8, 2025
H/T MP & Sweetpea
So, do you throw the book at guy who spray painted “Free John” on the wooden box that jails Canada’s first prime minister, or give him the Order of Canada?
There has been so much lawlessness and disorder on Toronto streets in recent years that goes totally unchecked…
But if you write FREE JOHN on a boarded up statue of Sir John A, police handcuff and arrest you on the spot – which is what happened to Daniel Tate the other week. pic.twitter.com/7UQLgEXPph
— Anthony Furey (@anthonyfurey) April 4, 2025
Toronto police spent nearly $20 million to secure protests related to the Israel-Hamas war and to conduct community outreach within the city’s Jewish and Muslim communities last year, a new report shows.
“Maintaining public order is integral to core service delivery and adheres to provincial standards of adequate and effective policing,” the report, which will go before the Toronto Police Services Board next week, states.
The report says that in 2024, the service responded to over 2,000 “unplanned events” and that more than half of those were associated with Project Resolute, which was launched after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and saw police ramp up their presence throughout the city via command posts and community engagement.
It’s not as if the city rolled out the welcome mat for Hamas.
h/t Patti Jo
Tom Dunn makes an annual salary of $62,000 as a graphic designer and rents a basement apartment in Toronto’s Annex neighbourhood but he fears that he may never be able to afford a larger unit above ground and may one day have to leave the city for a more affordable home.
Dunn, 29, has lived in his apartment for about three years, paying about $1,300 a month. A full-time graphic designer and part-time freelancer he explains that the city’s cost of living has taken a significant toll.
Link Fixed.
A lot of subway riders travelling downtown recently will have noticed something astonishing about St. Patrick subway station: It’s starting to look something like it is supposed to. The new green tiles are being installed on the walls.
This might not seem like something to take notice of — subway tiles in a subway station is kind of the default look. And yet, at St. Patrick, for a long, long time, it has not been the look. Instead, the walls were stripped bare to expose ribs of circular steel girders mounted on concrete, with spraypaint on the structural walls visible underneath and pipes of various kinds exposed above.
8 years…
