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

Toronto drivers caught blocking intersections across the city will now face significantly steeper fines, Mayor Olivia Chow announced Monday.

At a news conference near King Street and University Avenue, Chow and Deputy Mayor Jennifer McKelvie confirmed that the province approved a request to up the fines for this infraction, which Chow said “infuriates” other motorists.

“These drivers that blindly rush out into the middle of the intersection, even when they didn’t have room in front of them to get through… the light changes and everyone is stuck,” she said.

Cars driving on sidewalks, mirrors demolished with karate kicks, fully grown adults rolling around a freeway like wrestlers.

These are just a few examples, caught on camera, of how some Toronto drivers choose to respond to the city’s notoriously bad congestion, which has been called a crisis and some of the worst in North America.

Anyone who has been behind the wheel of a car in Toronto knows it can be frustrating, but its impact on road rage is up for debate.

A turf war has fueled a 50% rise in Toronto shootings, mostly with guns smuggled from the U.S.

TORONTO—Towing cars has become a deadly business in Canada’s largest city.

Rival gangs control parts of the tow-truck industry here, using the heavy-duty vehicles to transport drugs, extort car-crash victims with high fees, and fake automobile accidents to defraud insurance. They once resolved their territorial differences with their fists, but now a wave of gun smuggling from the U.S. has turned their fights into a lethal blood sport.

There are some Toronto questions that appear unanswerable. They appear designed for frustrating contemplation rather than any real-world application. Kind of like the “sound of one hand clapping” in Zen meditation.

For instance, the question ”When will the Eglinton Crosstown open?” is a puzzle that has stumped the experts working on it for years, and one that the provincial government has dictated no one in charge should even publicly guess at the answer to. The Crosstown is in a perpetual state of becoming. Anticipating its conclusion is no path to enlightenment.

Toronto is a painfully exorbitant city to try and make a life in, and young people now are learning that lesson harder than generations past, facing “disproportionate challenges” than others, according to a new study.

The investigation, which comes from the Toronto Foundation, outlines how poorly the twenty-something age group, in particular, is faring in the city — especially when it comes to basic things like finding and affording housing in what can feel like an impossible market, feeding themselves, and establishing a sense of community and social connectedness.

Long gone are the empty roads and unfilled train and bus seats of the COVID-19 pandemic days.

More Canadians are commuting to work and the average commuting time has returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to new data released by Statistics Canada Monday.

The number of commuters reached 16.5 million this May, up 585,000 compared to the same time last year, the agency said. The data continues a rising trend over the past few years following major declines in 2020 and 2021 when pandemic restrictions kept many workers at home.

I find this number questionable given the traffic disaster TO has become.