Does every city in Canada have an activist bicycle community and city hall defending scoff law cyclists while advocating for unneeded, traffic slowing infrastructure?
That is how it is in Toronto.
“Toronto – Canada’s version of a Democrat run city”
AGAR: No surprise that World Cup will cost taxpayers way more than advertised
World Cup 2026 is now expected to cost Toronto $80 million more than the previously estimated price tag of $300 million.
City workers fired following Toronto fraud investigation
Toronto’s top auditor is reporting a record number of fraud and waste allegations as part of her annual audit into wrongdoing within City Hall, leading to the firing of some city workers and even police prosecution.
The Auditor General’s office received 1,054 complaints via its reporting hotline last year, representing 1,450 allegations — the highest number since the program began in 2002.
“We cannot afford, literally, to have people defraud the taxpayers of the City of Toronto, and have waste,” Toronto Councillor Josh Matlow told CTV Toronto. “We need to make sure that every single dollar goes to the priorities of the people of this city.”
Progressive Paradise: Liberal Party Bastion Of Toronto Has Growing Dumpster Diving Network
Michael McKinlay, stout, determined, his keen mind teeming with ideas and fueled by outrage, marches purposefully down a long row of recycling bins outside a grocery store somewhere in Toronto’s west end, in the waning hours of a bitter cold winter night.
Don’t publicly name the locations. That’s the first rule of the growing corps of dumpster divers in Toronto, although a new term is emerging — food rescuers. They forage in bins for discarded food, for their own consumption and to bring to others who, like them, are increasingly unable to afford the high cost of groceries in an inflationary economy.
Derek Finkle: What the study praising Toronto safe-injection sites doesn’t tell you
On the Sunday of the Family Day long weekend, three days after a proposed class-action lawsuit against a Toronto supervised consumption site was all over the news, the Toronto Star published a feel-good harm-reduction story.
The Star article had an intriguing headline: “Here’s what happened to overdose deaths in Toronto neighbourhoods with safe consumption sites.” The story was about a study published this month in The Lancet.
Yet another Scarborough McDonald’s to shutter its doors
Another McDonald’s in Scarborough is set to bite the dust.
… “Is it because of the school fights??” one person asked, to which they received a resounding yes, and another writing, “I got a video of a fight that happened in here 2 days ago.”
Others suggested that the entire mall should be shut down.
Toronto – come for the random shootings ….
Two shot at bus stop were attacked ’indiscriminately’: Toronto Police
Police say two people who were shot at the same intersection in a northwest Toronto neighbourhood in less than a day were innocent bystanders who were attacked “indiscriminately.”
Toronto Has Lowest Median Income Among 15 Largest Canada, US Metro Areas
Toronto has the lowest median employment income among the 15 largest metropolitan areas in Canada and the United States, a recent study by think tank Fraser Institute shows.
The study, titled “Comparing Employment Income in Toronto and Selected American Metropolitan Areas,” was conducted after several recent studies by the think tank found that a large “prosperity gap” existed between Ontario and nearby U.S. states.
Girl charged with murder in Toronto swarming case is rearrested over Wilson Station assault
One of eight girls alleged to have been involved in the swarming and killing of a Toronto homeless man has been rearrested and charged with assaulting a man at Wilson Station during Thursday’s evening commute, the Star has learned.
Police say they were called to the station near Allen Road and Hwy 401 just before 5:30 p.m. after a 52-year-old man, who was not identified, was involved in an alleged altercation with a 14-year-old girl and “her male companion.”
“During the altercation, the victim was physically assaulted and was stabbed,” a police press release sent Friday said. The victim was taken to hospital where police said his injuries were found to be non-life threatening.
h/t DS
AGAR: Taxpayers getting fleeced and have little to show for it
Trigger warning: This column could cause feelings of anger in intelligent taxpayers.
If you have been going through life thinking politicians and bureaucrats are responsible and caring with the hard-earned (by you) money they manage, read no further in order to hold that thought.
Police aren’t crying wolf this time
I know, I know. The police budget is the 800-pound gorilla of city spending. Police chiefs are always saying they don’t have enough money to do their jobs. Higher spending on police doesn’t necessarily mean a safer city. I know.
All the same, Toronto should listen to its police chief when he says he needs a $20-million boost to his force’s $1.2-billion budget this year.
Toronto is at a delicate point in its history. With housing prices and living costs sky high, the downtown still recovering from the pandemic, transit service hit and miss, tents in the parks and signs of urban disorder all around, the city is experiencing a crisis of confidence.
Toronto cannot afford 100K police salaries.
Regular families will never again be able to buy a house in Toronto – but we can still fix the housing crisis. Here’s how
In late July, Lindsay Dworkin, a senior project manager at a medical tech company, received a text message from her downstairs neighbour. Their landlord, the neighbour said, was putting the home Dworkin lived in with her husband and two-year-old daughter up for sale. Her family would have to find a new place to live.
In a normal city, at a normal time, that wouldn’t have been a big deal. But in the Toronto of 2023 it was devastating. “I couldn’t function,” Dworkin said. “I had to get my parents to come over and take over child care duties.”
The Star’s solution is to turn Toronto into a giant slum! Well it’s already on its way there.
Images released of vehicles, suspects involved in alleged $300,000 copper wire theft: Toronto police
Toronto police are looking for eight suspects who allegedly stole $300,000 worth of industrial copper cable from a downtown electrical station last month.
Officers responded to a break and enter call on Jan. 15 in the area of Lakeshore Boulevard West and Rees Street, police said in a news release issued Friday.
On Jan. 13 and 14, police said the suspects gained entry into an electrical station in the area. According to police, four separate vehicles were used over two days to complete the alleged theft.
Toronto police to make “very difficult choices” following city budget reveal
Toronto’s police chief says he’s “disappointed” following the unveiling of Mayor Oliva Chow’s budget draft, which does not include the police service’s recommended operating budget for 2024, a move he says will significantly impact public safety.
On Thursday, Chow unveiled her version of the city’s 2024 budget, which left out the $20 million boost that the Toronto Police Service had previously requested. Instead, it maintains city staff’s recommendation of a $7.4 million increase, a move that police Chief Myron Demkiw called disappointing.
There goes the Tim’s budget!