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

Premier Doug Ford says he agrees that the City of Toronto needs a “new deal” for ongoing funding after holding a meeting with Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow Monday, but says he’s not in favour of any new taxes that would help Toronto dig itself out of a fiscal hole.

Ford and Chow held a meeting at Queen’s Park Monday in their first substantive meeting since Chow took office earlier this summer.

Following the meeting, the two said they had agreed to establish a “new-deal working group with a mandate to achieve long-term stability and sustainability of Toronto’s finances.”

Ontario Provincial Police addressed a road rage incident that turned into a fist fight on Highway 401 in Toronto earlier this week.

The altercation happened on Highway 401 and Leslie Street on Tuesday at around 5 p.m.

Road Rage Turned Into A Wrestling Match On Highway 401 👀😭 pic.twitter.com/HvukkQlV1Y

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Driving in Chowtown is risky business.

One of Toronto’s most prominent businessmen has issued an open letter decrying the city’s decline into violence and disorder — and calling out civic leaders for letting it happen.

Thomas Caldwell, chairman of Caldwell Investment Management Ltd., bought a full-page ad in the National Post headlined “Cry for Toronto.”

The citizens of this fine metropolis just elected a vindictive commie know-nothing as mayor.

They are getting what they asked for. Let them enjoy it.

The only thing thriving in Toronto is the DOOM-LOOP.

‘Everything is at risk’: Mayor Olivia Chow makes case for new funding deal for Toronto

Mayor Olivia Chow has begun publicly campaigning for a new way to fund Toronto’s budget, which is collapsing under the pressures of housing, transit and old infrastructure.

… “Everything is at risk, including our global reputation,” she said. “It’s the difference between being a caring, global city and telling refugees, each with dreams and potential, that there’s no room for you.”

That’s where I want my money spent – on benefit shopping foreigners who shouldn’t be here in the first place.

Toronto’s public health unit has issued an alert warning of a spike in opioid-related overdose deaths in the city since Aug. 31.

Toronto Public Health (TPH) says 11 people died of suspected opioid-related overdoes between Aug. 31 and Sept. 6, which the health agency says is double the weekly average for the city.

TPH says there have been recent reports of red and green fentanyl linked to overdoses both in the community and at supervised consumption sites, though specific information about those drugs is not yet available. The city’s drug-checking service, according to a media release from Toronto Public Health, continues to find other highly potent opioids and benzodiazepine-drugs in samples expected to be fentanyl.

Hundreds of condos in downtown Toronto are up for sale, flooding the market as high interest rates spur an exodus of investors, and some homeowners, who are unable to keep up with mounting mortgage costs.

Year-over-year sales for detached and semi-detached homes in the GTA dropped by 12 and 14 per cent, respectively, in August, while townhouse sales rose a modest 0.6 per cent. All three saw price increases. Condo sales, however, jumped by 7.6 per cent but saw average price drop by one per cent, according to the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB).

It’s been more than two months since Olivia Chow became Mayor of Toronto, but the homeless crisis continues to worsen. To make matters worse, it doesn’t seem like Chow has a plan to address the crisis.

Forget Toronto the Good. This was Toronto the horrible!

Moms and dads standing in a long line in blazing heat to get something to eat for their young kids is Toronto’s dirty little secret on full display in broad daylight. It’s unacceptable and we are not going to hide it no matter how much it politically damages Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Mayor Olivia Chow or Premier Doug Ford. Facts are the facts.

Council debates Toronto’s financial future as Chow presses for refugee shelter help

Refugee claimants could account for half of Toronto’s homeless shelter population by the end of the year, according to a new staff report, a situation Mayor Olivia Chow called “desperate” as she pressed the federal government for immediate support.

The city manager’s report was put before councillors Wednesday at a special meeting where they were set to discuss how to manage Toronto’s beleaguered financial outlook, with the city set to open its 2024 budget discussions with a $1.5 billion shortfall.

More Chow… ‘All options are on the table’ to raise city revenues, Chow says

Contentious ‘made-in-Toronto sales tax’ goes before council

… Debate about the municipal sales tax could be one of the most contentious parts of the package proposed by staff.

Some have already spoken out against the measure, including Councillor James Pasternak, who represents York Centre, Ward 6. He said the sales tax will hurt people at a time when many are struggling with the increasing cost of living.

“A made-in-Toronto sales tax, it just won’t work,” he said. “People will shop elsewhere, they will leave our jurisdiction and shop at retail stores outside of Toronto.”

I hope they do approve the sales tax, there may be hope of a resurrection once the city is ground into progressive dust.

It’s the big bang of Toronto city hall’s financial dreams: a local sales tax that could raise hundreds of millions of dollars annually and go a long way toward tackling a massive fiscal hole.

Municipal sales taxes are common in many foreign cities but not in Canada, and a successful rollout may pave the way for other cash-strapped Canadian municipalities to follow suit. But a sales tax also carries risks. And before the idea could even become a reality in Toronto, the Ontario government would have to give its permission.

Everything in this town will get worse no matter how much money Chairman Chow extorts.