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

Seven months after Metrolinx announced the Eglinton Crosstown LRT would once again fail to meet its target date, the public knows virtually nothing about how the project is going or when the line will finally open.

Asked by the Star this week when the light rail transit line, which has been under construction since 2011 and was once expected to be complete in 2020, might be done, Metrolinx said it did not have new details to offer, and put the blame on Crosslinx Transit Solutions (CTS), the construction consortium building the project.

A black hole.

John Tory, who vacated Toronto’s mayor’s office in February after admitting an extramarital affair with a staffer, faced almost comically little resistance in twice winning re-election. His second-place opponents managed 24 per cent and 18 per cent in 2018 and 2022, respectively. But now, just six months later, everyone and his sister is running in for mayor in the June 26 by-election, including several familiar names. The more the merrier: this city could use all the fresh blood and ideas it can find. In practice, alas, it’s a tepid mess — both in form and in content.

A new poll by Keep Toronto Moving, a grassroots organization looking at transportation solutions, finds 63% of Torontonians want the next mayor to evaluate bike lanes with 84% wanting that to happen every two to three years.

Another 64% of Torontonians agree that dedicated bike lanes should be moved off major roadways to have less of an impact on congestion and local businesses.

Bike lane outside my condo, rarely used any season.

Toronto mayoralty candidate Anthony Furey says if he’s elected there will be “no more bike lines on major roads” in the city.

Furey says plans for new dedicated lanes on Bloor St. W., Eglinton Ave., Sheppard Ave. and Kingston Rd. will be shelved and he’ll remove the existing lanes on University Ave. to allow for better access to hospital row.

“Ambulances are facing delayed reaction time to getting to people because of the bike lane situation,” Furey said Thursday on University near the hospitals.

Watching a baseball game on TV can provide astounding moments. Sensational fielding, clutch hitting, pinpoint pitching. But nothing was more astounding to me than a promotion they used to run on Blue Jays telecasts way back when.

Viewers were invited to text their votes for player-of-the-game and the people’s choice would win a watch. Voters were told that each text would cost fifty cents. Who in their right mind, I wondered, would pay even fifty cents so a millionaire ballplayer could win a watch?

This was theft, looting the treasury in the last days of a decaying civilization level theft. How anyone could consider this a good deal is beyond reason.

Olivia Chow is running to be the next mayor of Toronto, marking a return to electoral politics for the long-time city councillor and NDP parliamentarian.

Pray she doesn’t get in or that you get out before she does.

Amid speculation she will register for Toronto’s mayoral election, Olivia Chow is planning to make an announcement on Monday morning.

According to a media advisory Sunday afternoon, Chow is holding an event at 10:30 a.m. at the Dragon City Mall in downtown Toronto. It provided no further details.

Her election would cause a steep increase in flight from the city.

When my furnace broke one day in February I went into my savings and purchased a new furnace so my family would be warm. I did not go into my savings and splurge on the state of the art foosball table I have always wanted to put in the basement. For some reason it occurred to me that not dying of frostbite should take precedence over playing a game — even a really fun one.

This deal may not be criminal but it should be.

Toronto City Council has voted twice on whether to host up to five preliminary-round games of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, for the low, low price of $300 million. The first vote, in April last year, passed 21-1 with four absentees — the lone opponent being veteran left-wing councillor Gord Perks. The second vote, in July, passed 21-2 with two absentees — right-wing councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong joined Perks in the lonely ranks of the opponents.

Treatment centres, not new safe injection sites, that’s what Anthony Furey is promising if elected mayor on June 26.

It’s about time someone started talking about the issues posed by the impact of hard drugs on our society because it’s at the core of so many problems we are facing.

The total number of offences against customers was 111 in February, down from 136 in January

New data from Toronto’s transit agency shows safety incidents were down in February after police boosted patrols in the system and the agency added extra security guards and outreach workers.

The first week of Toronto’s mayoral byelection was packed with campaign events and policy proposals, but experts predict that will give way to fiery attacks as candidates fight to gain ground.

The official campaign is less than a week old and it’s already drawn a pack of over 30 contenders to replace John Tory. But experts closely following city politics say that no one has the name recognition of Toronto’s former mayor. That means they’ll need to spend big and make bold policy statements to get on the radar of voters.

Another deranged road monkey playing some made up oppression card for sympathy. https://t.co/alQvDXIM7y

— Antifa exposed Canada (@antifa_canada) April 8, 2023