A suspect has been arrested in connection with a stabbing that left a man with life-threatening injuries on a moving subway train earlier this week.
I imagine Chow will have him guarded by social workers while she preps his Key to the City ceremony. I see him as a near perfect choice to be Chowtown’s next Diversity Chief.
The cost to rescue a multimillion-dollar boring machine trapped beneath a west end street has nearly tripled in just months, with city staff saying the work to unearth the device is more complicated than first anticipated.
The updated cost estimates and timeline come to Toronto’s General Government committee next week. Documents show work to free a micro-tunnelling boring machine trapped under Old Mill Drive since last spring has jumped to $25 million — up from the approximately $9 million price tag in March.
WARNING: This is graphic. It is, however, real. Not a movie. This disturbing fight that turned into a stabbing at Eglinton on TTC Thursday. It has been zoomed in and slowed down to help @TorontoPolice identify the knife-wielding suspect. If you know him call TPS ASAP pic.twitter.com/8yzV10Lejs
— Joe Warmington (@joe_warmington) July 7, 2023
Hop aboard the Chowtown Express.
It’s Chowtown.
🇨🇦 Toronto, Canada
Another day, another gruesome stabbing on Canadian public transit.
Get out of the cities. Just get the fuck away. pic.twitter.com/qRaRarWCGt
— 🪙The Ferryman's Toll🪙 (@ferryman4747) July 6, 2023
h/t Mauser
‘Not paying a cent’: Chow takes aim at feds on housing for refugees as newcomers flood Toronto shelters
Mayor-elect Olivia Chow slammed the federal government Wednesday for not taking responsibility for housing refugees it brings into the country, but said she’s “hopeful” she’ll be able to work with them to improve the situation.
“The federal government is not paying a cent right now for refugees’ housing, period,” Chow told reporters following a meeting in Scarborough with community leaders and the private sector as part of her transition. “That is the truth. I am just saying right up front.”
Toronto deserves it, they voted to elect both these clowns.
The perfect storm continues.
A new study by commercial real estate firm CBRE found that the vacancy rate for downtown Toronto office space hit 15.8 per cent in the second quarter of 2023, the highest it’s been since 1996. That’s up from just two per cent in March 2020, when the pandemic was declared.
The work-from-home trend that gathered momentum during the pandemic, fears of an economic slowdown and layoffs in the tech sector have been a triple whammy for office space, said Michael Case, managing director of CBRE’s downtown Toronto office.
Looks like Chowtown has an answer to the homeless crisis.
Higher taxes on land transfers and empty homes won’t pay for the spending she wants
After an exciting election night evening, Olivia Chow pulled a rabbit out of a hat to become Toronto’s new mayor. She will need to repeat the magic in coming years if she’s to revive Ontario’s sputtering economic engine.
When Olivia Chow moves into the mayor’s office in a couple of weeks, one of the biggest issues on her desk will be what to do about Toronto’s homeless encampments. Unruly collections of tents and tarps have sprung up in parks, ravines and underpasses around the city. There are a staggering 270 of them, twice as many as a year ago.
They are not nice places to live in. Fires, overdoses and fights are common. They are not nice places to live near, either. Neighbours and passersby often complain about noise, garbage and discarded needles.
Chow will embrace homeless camps and encourage their expansion all the while demanding tax payers pony up to solve a problem she has no intention of fixing.
Solving the “Homeless crisis” would kill the Golden Goose.
Higher taxes and fewer services likely as mayor-elect Olivia Chow tries to dig city of out financial hole
Toronto mayor-elect Olivia Chow has promised a “modest” tax increase. Unfortunately for Torontonians, even something an NDPer would call modest won’t be enough to get the city out of the financial hole it’s in.
Olivia Chow’s victory in Monday’s mayoral byelection in Toronto could be seen coming a mile away. It was so clear, even days and weeks in advance, that any news scribes looking to have an easy go of it on election night could have had most of their copy written in advance. And it seems like many of them did.
With a court deadline looming on July 10 for the City of Phoenix to clean up a squalid homeless encampment known as “The Zone,” more homeless people than ever are flooding the area despite the city’s aggressive efforts to address the disorder.
The failure to clean up “The Zone” is leaving business owners and other neighbors more distraught than ever about destruction of property, violence, drugs and filth, and even dead bodies.
Portland, Ore., Is Losing Residents Weary of Crime and High Housing Prices
PORTLAND, Ore.—Mark Rogers has made a list of things he misses about Portland—its vegan restaurants, Powell’s bookstore, public transit—and the things he doesn’t—having his things stolen, stepping in human excrement, extreme politics.
The 44-year-old artist moved across the country to Fort Wayne, Ind., last year.
In an acceptance speech Monday night — peppered repeatedly with vows to deliver a “safer, caring and more affordable” Toronto — Olivia Chow’s narrative reminded me of the same hopey-changey hyperbole made by Toronto’s last NDP mayor David Miller.
Why should Canadians outside of Toronto care about this past Monday’s mayoral election there?
The rest of us aren’t going to have to pay the taxes needed to cover the winner’s grandiose, lefty dreams or live with the crime caused by her ultra-progressive approaches to policing, addiction, homelessness and unemployment or put up with the frustration of her transit and bike-lane expansion or added regulations.
In the end, Toronto’s mayoral election never came down to a left versus right fight. Former NDP MP Olivia Chow won 37 per cent of the vote, squeaking out a victory over second-place finisher Ana Bailão — a candidate so dully centrist, it took a former mayor best known for being boring to breathe life into her campaign.
Robbery at a Shoppers Drug Mart in Toronto 😬 pic.twitter.com/esi0l47oFa
— 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv) June 18, 2023
Looting retail outlets is not new in the city, liquor stores were the preferred target a couple of years ago. That seems to be under control now or is simply not being reported any longer.
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned having to to be virtually vetted before being allowed in to a locked down drugstore during “normal business hours”. This was due to the number of raids conducted by local “youths.” It was in a strip mall maybe 1000 yards from Rob Ford’s old home.
Last week I filled up at my local gas station. They had just changed over to pre-pay due to the surge in “gas and dash” incidents.
The demon possessed of the TTC homeless shelter are still being dumped out at Kipling station to wander and scream at all hours.
Chow did not cause this. But the comrade will make it far worse far faster than under the usual apparatchiks of our political class.
By the numbers …
On the more serious side of the numbers, voter turnout was higher for this byelection to select the mayor of Toronto than what we saw in last fall’s municipal vote. In October, just 29% of eligible voters cast their ballots but, in this election, it was up to 39% of eligible voters trotting out to fill in the circle.
