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

Toronto eyes cheaper, long-term shelter model as hundreds turned away nightly

New $674.5M capital plan would increase shelter beds by 1,600 over next decade

Over half of Toronto’s shelter spaces for the unhoused aren’t financially sustainable, according to city civil servants proposing a new 10-year plan to replace them with city-owned facilities.

Staff are making the pitch in a capital plan aimed at fundamentally changing the way the city operates its shelters for people experiencing homelessness.

The city added thousands of shelter beds during the pandemic to create necessary space between people using the service, signing leases with hotels to provide the accommodations. But staff have long-warned that those leases are set to expire in late 2024 and are not financially viable in the long-term.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

LACKIE: In Toronto ‘T’ is for Tax

“In addition to property taxes, we are subject to not one but two land transfer taxes, a city building levy, we tax non-resident speculators, properties that are left vacant, charge owners a Municipal Accommodation Tax on short-term rentals, charge builders development charges so steep that half the time you wonder if their secondary goal is to perhaps curb development entirely.”

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Toronto can get much shittier, count on it

Video of police taking down person who stole their bike has people worrying about Toronto

It could be the cost of living and housing crisis, the lack of mental health care (or any healthcare), the side effects of months of lockdown, or the compounded weight of a number of pressing issues in Toronto, but people in the city do not seem okay lately — like, even less okay than usual.

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John Tory broke ethic rules over relationship with Bimbo & 2026 World Cup vote: report

Former Toronto mayor John Tory broke city council’s code of conduct when he had a relationship with a woman that started when she was a junior subordinate in his office, the integrity commissioner has found.

In a report released Thursday, Jonathan Batty finds that Tory, who resigned in February after the Star revealed his relationship with the young woman, breached two articles of the code of conduct.

Tory “failed to observe the terms of the Human Resources Management and Ethical Framework” for council members staff, Batty found in a 122-page report.

That world cup scam should be trashed. It was a bad deal for the city which leaves tax payers on the hook for for any losses incurred by the Bimbo’s employer MLSE.

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Sad spectacle of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT may be the tip of the iceberg

Metrolinx CEO Phil Verster’s press conference last week, wherein he announced he could not announce a planned opening date for the provincial transit agency’s Eglinton Crosstown project, was a sad spectacle for a bunch of reasons.

What can you even say about a delayed non-announcement about a delayed project, delivered by a guy who makes $856,551 a year and is now urging the public to — seriously — “give us some space” to fix a bunch of mysterious problems and get it open at an unspecified date?

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Toronto Police need to explain second shutdown at Queen’s Park

For the second time in a week, major streets in the core of Toronto were shut down on Sunday.

Also, for the second time in a week, the Toronto Police Service (TPS) was not overly forthcoming in why those shutdowns were happening.

This is a case of the police serving as a private army to suppress citizen rights.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Toronto’s endlessly delayed Eglinton Crosstown transit line shows what happens when no one is accountable

In 2013, workers performed a famous feat of engineering at a big Tokyo train station. Transit authorities were converting a surface rail line to a subway, which meant lowering one set of tracks to connect with another, underground set. To avoid inconveniencing commuters and disrupting Tokyo’s vast and heavily travelled transit network, they decided to execute the final step of the delicate operation in the four hours between the departure of the last train from the station and the arrival of the first train the next morning.

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Crooked cop was crooked & racist because she was fighting racism say supporters

Senior officer pleads guilty in Toronto police promotion cheating scandal

“Thursday’s agreed statement of fact also revealed that, while examining the content of Clarke’s cellphones, investigators came across messages she’d sent to an unnamed civilian member of the service and an unnamed employee of the Toronto police board.

Those messages were “inconsistent with the service’s commitment to anti-racism,” according to the document. No further description of the messages was provided.”

She was racist on account she was fighting racism.

“Promoted in 2020, Clarke is the first Black female superintendent in Toronto police history and has talked about the importance of diversifying police ranks. Her supporters — who’ve regularly tuned in to watch the case online, a group attending in person Thursday — have questioned whether Clarke was unfairly targeted for actions possibly taken to address systemic equity issues; among the officers she provided the answers to were fellow racialized cops.

“We have been saying that, while the allegations may be true, we felt that there was more to it, and we should look at the circumstances that may have contributed to the actions,” said David Betty, president of the Jamaican Canadian Association, who watched Clarke’s plea.

I posted on this last night but Neocon pointed the way to the Star’s version of events which proved much worse.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Affirmative Action", "DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion", "Diversity", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Would it be cheaper just to fill it all in and walk away?

Metrolinx refuses to provide new opening date for troubled Eglinton Crosstown project

Metrolinx is refusing to provide an update on an opening date for the long-delayed Eglinton Crosstown, citing technical issues in the testing and commissioning phase that are continuously pushing the finish date further down the road.

“We will announce an opening date once the high risk commissioning work has been completed, but not before that time. Any prediction of an the opening date in the project will just be an estimate, and I’m not comfortable giving that,” said Metrolinx CEO Phil Verster.

“When I give you a date it must be something I believe in and we’re not there yet.”

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NET ZERO TYRANNY: Chowtown ponders EV mandate for rideshare drivers that will hit poor hardest

 

As Toronto ponders EV mandate for rideshare drivers, experts say they can’t lead the charge without chargers

As Toronto is considering a proposal to mandate that all rideshare drivers use electric vehicles — the city urgently needs to prioritize upgrading its charging infrastructure specifically in high-rise, multi-unit buildings, where many drivers live, an environmental agency and academics say.

According to Ian Klesmer, the director of strategy and grants with The Atmospheric Fund (TAF), a climate agency and non-profit funded by government endowments, their research has shown that many rideshare drivers are low-income earners or new immigrants who live in apartments that need to be upgraded with electric chargers.

This commie assclown has to go.

Insurance companies will enjoy a bonanza of juicy rate hikes insuring buildings forced to have EV chargers installed.

That assumes we ever have the hydro infrastructure to support even that level of charger intsallation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Recent violence on Toronto transit ‘indicative of something larger’: TTC

The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) says the rash of recent violent incidents that erupted on its network over the weekend points to a bigger problem that requires an “all hands-on-deck” approach.

“These incidents that are happening on the TTC are indicative of something larger,” TTC spokesperson, Stuart Green, told CP24 Live at Noon on Monday. “There were a number of violent incidents right across this city and throughout the GTA this weekend, and we saw at least two on the TTC. So, all of these are of great concern.”

We’ve got a ways to go before we become as bad as the typical Democrat run progressive paradise city but city hall is working on it rest assured.

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