Chris Brillinger, who is one of Olivia Chow’s appointed members of the Toronto Police Services Board, opened yesterday’s meeting with a three-minute expansive land acknowledgment, underscoring that Toronto Police must always recognize they are on treaty land, then launching into… pic.twitter.com/tmvaZtGNid
— IntegrityTO (@integrity_to) March 5, 2026
For the better part of a year, Toronto politics has been suspended in a kind of waiting game.
Would John Tory try to come back? Would he test whether voters were willing to give him another shot? That question is now settled. He announced yesterday that is not running in October 2026.
With that uncertainty gone, the mayoral race snaps into clearer focus. What looked like a potentially crowded contest now looks increasingly like a head-to-head between Olivia Chow and Brad Bradford. And based on polling we conducted in late January as part of our Toronto Omnibus survey, I see a competitive race that Bradford can win.
An alleged drug trafficker accused of obtaining confidential information from Toronto police that was used to facilitate crimes has been granted bail.
Brian Da Costa is alleged to be a central figure in the criminal conspiracy dismantled by Project South, a months-long investigation by York police that also resulted in the arrests of seven Toronto officers and one retired constable.
John Tory said he has made the difficult decision to not run for his old job as Toronto mayor in the fall municipal election.
Tory, who was mayor of the city from 2014 until he resigned in February 2023 after admitting to having an affair with a staffer, had considered putting his name in the hat.
Police accountability advocates are calling on Toronto’s city council to order a public inquiry into a crisis of corruption within the city’s police service, after the arrests of seven of its officers and a retired constable.
Investigators said members of organized crime were buying data and addresses from Toronto Police Service officers, which were then used to co-ordinate shootings and other crimes – including an attempted hit on a corrections officer who was allegedly targeted at his home.
When Mayor Olivia Chow visited 500 Dawes Rd. last July, she assured tenants of the 14-storey East York residential building notorious for property standards violations that the city would take action.
The following month, the mayor took to Facebook to share her grievances, highlighting that “when landlords refuse to act over and over, the city can step in, take on the repairs directly, and charge it back to the landlord.
“It’s time to fix what’s broken,” she added.
Bureaucrats at Metrolinx torched nearly $100 million on two train stations unlikely to ever be built.
Unfortunately, wasting enormous sums of money is par for the course for the Greater Toronto Area’s transit agency.
Cellphone theft in Toronto is surging past pre-pandemic levels to almost 5,000 devices reported stolen last year, putting millions of dollars in the hands of thieves and organized criminals, according to new data obtained by CTV News.
Altogether, the data, provided by the Toronto Police Service (TPS) in response to a Freedom of Information request, points to about 25,000 phones reported stolen in the city over the past six years.
It’s because were so cosmopolitan like London England!
“I know you. I know things about you.”
The warning, directed at a jail manager, came from an inmate as he was being shuffled toward a body scanner used to find contraband inside Toronto South Detention Centre. The inmate knew what kind of vehicle the manager drove. He said he knew what neighbourhood the manager lived in.
The inmate had shared this information “and more” to others on the range, according to an internal jail report obtained by the Star.
Homebuyers who gambled that buying a home before it was built could get them an early foothold in an expensive market are discovering what happens when values drop.
A growing number of Canadians — especially in condominium markets such as Toronto’s — are learning the hard way that when property values fall, developers and lenders aren’t willing to absorb the loss without a fight.
Canada's condo crash "Condo prices are still plummeting in parts of this country and it's causing major money troubles for people who bought in early."
"…No one escapes. Every single person is closing on a unit that they bought five years ago that's worth less than what they… pic.twitter.com/AbZ3IjSDjd
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) February 23, 2026
Hosting six World Cup soccer games in Toronto is already $350 million over budget.
Given those kinds of overruns, city hall should look for savings. Instead, municipal bureaucrats blew big money on soccer-themed sex supplies.
For the past six years, people in neon vests patrolled Toronto homeless shelters, respite sites and encampments, acting as bouncers and security guards on behalf of the city — sensitive work that requires accreditation and training under provincial law.
But the company the city hired for this is not a licensed security agency, the Star has learned, a revelation that raises significant safety and accountability concerns, according to legal and industry experts.
Pro-worker Toronto Councillor @AusMalik, Dec. 2024: praises shelter security contractor OCS after voting to shovel it $8M more for staffing costs and workers’ pay
Coun. Malik, Feb. 2026: MIA after City kills OCS contract and learning it pays below minimum wage with City money pic.twitter.com/6OKTb5IESo
— Ryan O’Connor (@rpoconnor) February 7, 2026
One Community Solutions is privately held.
Once considered an economic powerhouse, Toronto today faces rising unemployment, weak income growth and stagnant living standards, according to a new study released Thursday by the Fraser Institute.
The latest data from Statistics Canada shows the city’s economy is struggling with an unemployment rate in the Toronto census metropolitan area (CMA) of 7.9% in January, higher than the Canadian rate of 6.5% and the Ontario rate of 7.3%.
“This can only be fixed with a massive influx of cheap 3rd World labour from incompatible cultures” – The Business Council Of Business Councils Canada.
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Frustrated Toronto residents are angry that the city is cracking down on parking in snow removal zones — even though some streets remain choked with piles of ice more than two weeks after the storm.
“This is not about snow removal — this is about money,” said Mimi Dinolfo, a store owner on College Street near Bathurst who’s received four $100 tickets since the blizzard at the end of January, when the city declared its second major snow emergency, making main roads like College illegal to park on.
“We took the snow out of in front of our stores,” said Dinolfo, who has fibromyalgia and psoriatic arthritis and has to regularly park near her store.
@MayorOliviaChow loves preaching 'inclusivity' from her cozy office, but Toronto's sidewalks are still ice rinks & snow mountains weeks after the storm. 🧊❄️ how can Elderly folks & anyone with mobility issues move around this city? So much for 'progressive' leadership when… pic.twitter.com/JTzCy1ApMm
— That Grumpy Man (@alexcavalcanti) February 8, 2026
Toronto real estate demand faces a new headwind—a shrinking population. Statistics Canada (StatCan) estimates the population of the Toronto CMA contracted in 2025, marking the only non-pandemic contraction in the region’s history. Young adults are fleeing to other provinces (or countries), leaving fewer families behind. The result is a stark demographic flip, where 1 in 6 residents are seniors, outnumbering children. Though we give the kids 1:1 odds in a fight.
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‘A perfect storm:’ New home construction in the GTA to decline for next 2 years amid economic uncertainty, report says
New home construction in the Greater Toronto Area is set to decline for the next two years amid higher building costs, weaker demand and more unsold homes, a new housing forecast states.
The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation published their report on Tuesday, saying that new home construction is set to decline through 2028, but the impact will vary regionally with Toronto and Vancouver most impacted.
