AGAR: Yonge-Dundas Square renaming proves council isn’t listening

Give Toronto city council credit for its stunning honesty.

Elected officials often at least pretend to be listening to the people and doing what is best for the community. When change was in the wind, they would “listen to the people” and “meet with stakeholders” and hire an outrageously compensated consultant or three to tell them what they wanted to hear. Then they would go ahead and do what they wanted to do in the first place.


The wackos on council with Chairman Chow sent a message: We despise Canada, its heritage and White people.

That’s what this whole exercise was about.

They will run Toronto into the ground.

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Eight ‘tow truck-related’ shootings in Toronto, no injuries reported: police

Toronto police are looking for a stolen vehicle in connection with at least eight separate shootings in the city over the weekend.

Police said that no injuries were reported at any scene, but several vehicles and residences or work locations were struck multiple times, all of which are connected to the city’s tow truck industry.

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WARMINGTON: Olivia Chow’s first year as Toronto’s mayor one big costume party

The past year has been like one giant costume party for Toronto’s new mayor — and dressing up suits her well.

Mayor Olivia Chow is living her best life as Toronto’s chief magistrate — often dressed up as not herself. Move over Mr. Dressup, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, there’s a new wardrobe maven in town.

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I was on the advisory committee to rename Yonge Dundas Square. Here’s where it all went wrong

From the outset the process for renaming Dundas Street was flawed and so too is the final outcome.

In June 2020, Toronto City Council received a petition from about 14,000 persons calling for Dundas Street to be renamed as its namesake Henry Dundas, an ally of Gov. Simcoe, delayed the abolition of the slave trade. In my view, Henry Dundas’ role in the slave trade was overstated, his pragmatism was ignored.

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Why hundreds of thousands of people are leaving the city for other parts of Canada

Toronto once reliably lost about 20,000 more people to other cities in Canada than it lured in from around the country. But in 2017, that number doubled to 40,000. And then it doubled again. In the past two years, 220,000 more Canadians have abandoned Ontario’s capital than arrived.

The majority of these Toronto expats have moved to other areas within Ontario including Oshawa, Hamilton, the Niagara Region and London, according to Statistics Canada’s domestic migration data. They’re also calling Calgary, Edmonton and Halifax home.

It’s a trend that’s worrying Toronto officials and economists who fear the city’s middle class is disappearing.


WHITE FLIGHT

I believe “Middle Class” should be read as “White Flight” for the purposes of this article .

Toronto is clearly on the downside and this article confirms what I have suspected was occurring, the city is being hollowed out.

Toronto’s demise is being accelerated by mass immigration from incompatible cultures which in turn causes overburdened services and housing unaffordability contributing to the city’s declining quality of life.

The city has long been both magnet and dumping ground for Trudeau’s destructive immigration policy which has imposed an unwanted cultural shift alienating to longtime residents.

TO’s situation is exasperated by its bizarre leftist government which is more concerned with celebrating perversion and insulting Canada’s heritage than actually fixing what’s wrong with this incipient dumpster fire.

I won’t mention the rising crime rate or the many imported ethnic and religious conflicts being played out in our streets because that would be racist.

But that won’t stop city hall from raising taxes and offering less and less in return every year.

People see the writing on the wall, they see the ghettoization of Toronto neighborhoods and the GTA in general.

They see that indoctrination has replaced education in the city’s schools.

They know the city becomes less safe with each passing day and they know they are not welcome in multicultural Toronto.

Chow’s election may come to be regarded as the watershed moment signaling the beginning of Toronto’s irreversible decline.

Viva diversity.

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Toronto’s population growth higher than major U.S. cities due to ‘surge of immigration’: report

Toronto’s population is the fastest growing in Canada and in the United States, a new report says.

Its growth is attributed to a “surge of immigration,” according to the report, published by Toronto Metropolitan University’s Centre for Urban Research and Land Development. The report analyzed population growth data in both countries over the span of a year, from July 2022 to July 2023.

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Toronto’s Hunger Games Housing Crisis: 12,000 mid-income households entered a city lottery to get a break on rent

More than 12,000 mid-income households entered a city lottery to get a break on rent. Their chance of winning: 1 per cent

When Toronto city hall and the developer of a gleaming new high-rise launched a lottery for apartments at reduced rents this spring, hopeful households turned out in droves — nearly 12,500 of them, each seeking refuge from a worsening housing affordability crisis.

The first phase of the west-end Galleria on the Park development was offering brand-new, city-supported homes aimed at mid-income earners, which cost hundreds of dollars less than market rates.

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Believe It Or Not: Toronto traffic sucks but other North American cities are worse

NYC’s drivers spend a grueling 100 hours in traffic — here’s where the Big Apple ranks among the world’s most congested cities

The Big Apple is the greatest city in the world — for sitting in traffic.

For the second year in a row, New York City reportedly has the world’s worst congestion as drivers spend an average of 4 days stuck in traffic at a cost of over $9 billion to the city.

Drivers in the New York metro area lost 101 hours behind the wheel sitting in traffic jams last year, according to the transportation analytics firm INRIX’s Global Traffic Scorecard.

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WARMINGTON: Hate crimes on rise as politicians dump problem on overworked cops

Toronto Police are called to investigate reports of hate crimes five times a day in Toronto (once) the good.

It’s not so good anymore when it comes to people getting along. More than half of those calls are for alleged anti-Semitic crimes.

“We are attending an average of 145 hate crime calls for service a month,” Deputy Chief Rob Johnson told the Toronto Police Services Board on Monday. “Since Oct. 7, we have attended 1,378 hate crime calls for service.”

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14-year-old boy facing two counts of first-degree murder in connection with Rexdale shooting investigation

A 14-year-old boy has been charged in connection with a “mass shooting” that took the lives of two men and wounded three others earlier this month in north Etobicoke, police say.

The shooting happened at around 11 p.m. on June 2 in Rexdale.

Police say that a group of men were gathered outside North Albion Collegiate Institute following a soccer game when at least two suspects got out of a vehicle and began shooting “indiscriminately.”

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Fourth teen girl pleads guilty to manslaughter in death of Toronto homeless man

TORONTO — A fourth teen accused in the fatal stabbing of a Toronto homeless man has pleaded guilty.

The girl, who was 14 at the time of the incident, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of 59-year-old Kenneth Lee.

Police have alleged that Lee, who was living in the city’s shelter system, died after he was swarmed and stabbed by a group of girls in December 2022.

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Toronto pushes stubbornly ahead with a mystifying name change for Yonge-Dundas Square

Late last year, with little notice or public debate, Toronto City Council voted 19-2 to rename Yonge-Dundas Square, the busy gathering place opposite the Eaton Centre in the heart of downtown.

The purpose was to erase the name of Henry Dundas, the prominent Scottish statesman, who stood accused of delaying the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Henceforth, council declared, Yonge-Dundas Square would be known as – wait for it – Sankofa Square. Toronto was mystified. Sankofa?

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