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

Happy Birthday, Anthony Furey.

Do not hold breath.

Dangerous stunt driving and street racing has worsened in the Greater Toronto Area, police say — and now law enforcement is asking for the public’s help in reporting the issue.

Representatives from police forces in the GTA spoke at a news conference Thursday to discuss the 2022 results of a multi-jurisdictional street racing elimination program, which was first established in 1999.

“Street races do not acknowledge jurisdictional boundaries. They move through freely through neighbourhoods without concern or thought for public safety,” said Peel Regional Police Deputy Chief Marc Andrews.

Olivia Chow’s mayoral candidacy could be expensive for Toronto taxpayers.

“I am ready to tax,” declared Chow in launching her campaign.

So far, she’s demonstrating Toronto taxpayers should take her commitment seriously.

The Greater Toronto Area could see a significant oversupply of office space for another two decades thanks to slumping demand in the wake of the pandemic combined with new construction already in the pipeline, according to an economist’s report.

Peter Norman, who prepared the report for the Toronto chapter of the National Association for Industrial and Office Parks, warned vacancy rates in the GTA could spike as high as 46 per cent in the years ahead.

“Toronto” is becoming a parasite sucking citizens dry financially and spiritually. Chow will make it worse and at a faster rate.

An ‘agitated’ man threatens to ‘shoot up the subway.’ Another accosts a woman inside a TTC elevator and repeatedly hits her with an empty wheelchair. A third attacks a group of girls on a bus after yelling at them to turn their music off.

These are just a handful of the incidents reported by unnerved TTC riders in the week following the unprovoked murder of a 16-year-old boy at Keele Station in March.

TORONTO—Olivia Chow, a former federal NDP MP and now one of the frontrunners in Toronto’s municipal by-election, reiterated her campaign promise on May 24 to increase taxes on expensive real-estate purchases in the city and use the public revenue to build more affordable housing units if she is elected mayor.

Chow made the comments during a mayoral debate hosted by the Toronto Alliance for Performing Arts at the Young People’s Theatre in downtown Toronto on May 24.

They blew the lid off the place.

When Liberals ruin your province after 15 years of rule.
20 + police Cruisers on Lakeshore at East Street in Bronte area of Oakville. Highschool kids firing fireworks back and forth across the street. Chased out by the Halton Police. Multiple Arrests reported. pic.twitter.com/ZlSbGfPtrF

— Ron's (#TrudeauMustGo) (10 Bucks) Drum Kit (@RonArms35348443) May 23, 2023

Ashbridges Bay was relatively quiet after good prep by the cops and TTC but elsewhere in TO…

Former NDP MP Olivia Chow is entering the final weeks of Toronto’s mayoral campaign the undisputed front-runner, according to a Forum Research poll for the Toronto Star.

“Chow’s lead remains untouchable,” after seven weeks of the 12-week campaign, said Forum president Lorne Bozinoff. “Other candidates have yet to connect strongly with voters.”

Despite her two per cent dip from a Forum poll a week earlier, support for Chow remains nearly triple that of her nearest rivals, according to the new poll.

Bear in mind that the last go round Chow’s “unassailable” lead crashed and burned as Toronto woke up to the communist horror the city faced.

The Star touted polls that had George Smitherman, perhaps the most vile candidate ever, running neck and neck with Rob Ford who won by a huge margin.

Still this is not a good sign, the right simply is not going to get behind Saunder’s just because he is Doug Ford’s choice. He was colourless as Police Chief and remains unknowable and face it the right has grown suspicious of Doug Ford.

I fully expect Toronto to be worse off in all things should Chow be elected, communism doesn’t work, never has.

Recently, on a Star This Matters podcast panel of columnists, I asked my colleague Shawn Micallef to sum up the state of this election in one sentence: “Broken city, gotta fix it,” he said.

We on the panel nodded, and I bet a bunch of you are as well. The list of accumulating problems is well-known and feels sky-high: the rent is too damn high, the roads are jammed and potholed, transit service is being cut, stuff like garbage bins and street bollards are falling apart, fear of crime is way up, homeless people are sleeping in parks because there’s no room in shelters, and the price of food is through the roof. Just for starters. Early park restroom openings aside, the picture hasn’t gotten any rosier since I asked during the fall election campaign “Toronto, can’t we do better?”

If this comes true Toronto is Toast …

Most Torontonians want a progressive mayor, opinion surveys suggest

Torontonians appear eager to elect a progressive mayor after 13 years of rule from the political centre and right, according to multiple opinion polls.

While results from different firms have varied since April, they all show the most left-leaning prominent candidates — former NDP MP Olivia Chow and City Councillor Josh Matlow — with combined support significantly higher than that of rivals on the political right.

Olivia Chow remains the front-runner in the race for Toronto mayor, but another candidate is gaining support, according to a new poll.

A Mainstreet Research survey released on Friday finds that Chow is still the top choice among decided voters to take on the city’s top job, with 30 per cent support.

She is followed by Ana Bailao with 21 per cent support, up six percentage points from last week’s poll.

I hope for all our sake that people are waking up to the fact that Chow is a stupid commie unworthy of public office. In her first go round Chow saw her early “overwhelming” poll leads dry up faster than the handiwipes at the Velvet Touch.

The irony was so rich, it would be lost on most people who serve and work at City Hall.

There was mayoral candidate Anthony Furey set up at Nathan Phillips Square, ready to make a campaign announcement that he, if elected, would hire more police to help combat the city’s violent street crime when the hammer and rules came down.

This is a perfect snapshot of Toronto. If Chowcescu wins it will get much worse.

Toronto mayoral candidate Anthony Furey has promised to hire 500 new police officers to help protect scared citizens in what has become a very dangerous city.

“People are telling me they are scared to come downtown to a show or a game or have their kids ride the TTC,” Furey said Tuesday. “It can’t stay like this.”

If something doesn’t happen soon, Olivia Chow will be the next mayor of Toronto. Two polls that came out Monday morning showing Chow with more than 30% of voter support mirror other ones putting her well out in front of her competitors.

Saunders is uninspiring. Furey would be fine but he has little traction assuming the polls are “reliable.”

Candidates concentrate fire on front-runner Chow in first major debate of Toronto mayoral race

Olivia Chow found herself the target of most of the firepower in the first major debate of the Toronto mayoral race Monday.

The debate, hosted by the Daily Bread Food Bank and moderated by journalist Maggie John, focused on affordability, food insecurity and poverty.

How does a foodbank host a debate?

I may vote for Kevin.

Man jumps on stage during Toronto mayor debate, screaming and yelling, rips down the curtain as he’s dragged away.

Does this city have a mental health and crime problem? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/L6fGOkbNCG

— ƒανєℓα ∂ωєℓℓα 🔊👏🤤 (@favela_dwella) May 16, 2023

San Francisco Here We Come!