One year before this spring’s fatal stabbing of a teenager at the Keele subway station in Toronto, the man charged with that crime was in jail. And he was facing more than 70 criminal charges.
But Jordan O’Brien-Tobin, now 22, was about to receive a deal. On March 31, 2022, at Toronto’s Old City Hall court, he entered into a plea bargain for his release under a probation order.
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… As he registered as a candidate on Monday, Anthony Furey promised a 90-day review of all government spending. Furey questioned whether all existing programs are needed at a time when the city is in financial trouble.
He pointed to a grant program that offers up to $1,000 for JK-12 students in the Toronto District School Board to engage in environmental advocacy.
“It’s not the job of Toronto taxpayers to shell out for activists,” Furey said.
Newstalk 1010 host John Moore, like many journalists in the city, has been reporting on the violent incidents on the TTC in recent months and on Tuesday, he himself had a terrifying encounter on a downtown subway that left him shaken.
Speaking to CP24.com on Wednesday, the host of Moore in the Morning recounted the incident with an unknown man that occurred at College Station. He said as he approached the fare turnstiles, he saw five TTC workers engaged with a man who he described as “agitated.”
Court records reveal Jordan O’Brien-Tobin has been charged in at least 40 other criminal cases in Ontario since at least 2020
A GTA judge previously warned that the man accused of killing 16-year-old Gabriel Magalhaes in a random attack inside Keele station was a threat to the public if he did not get help for his substance abuse and mental health issues.
So you want to be mayor of Toronto? Here are the top 10 most pressing issues facing the city
A surprise return to the ballot box for Toronto — thanks to John Tory’s abrupt departure — has reignited debate about the biggest issues facing the city.
The byelection to pick the city’s next mayor officially starts Monday, the first day for candidate registration at city hall, and there is no shortage of mayoral hopefuls eager to offer solutions to the most pressing problems.
From the crushing cost of housing and everyday living to terrifying violence on the TTC and beyond, to the city’s pandemic-ravaged finances, this leaderless metropolis looks and feels tired and ragged. Nobody who hopes to get elected is expected to declare, “Toronto is doing fine, so let’s hit cruise control.”
Seriously if Toronto was in danger of being destroyed by a catastrophic climate event I would probably applaud and I live here.
And renaming Dundas is just the sort of progressive onanism that landed Toronto where it is today a city perversely trying to emulate the Democrat run urban disasters of America.
Other items on the list like the housing shortage are due in part to previous administration’s restricting development but are exasperated by Blackie’s insane mass immigration policy which is the single greatest driving factor behind the shortage. The hope of owning a home is now just a dream for most and the poor face massive rent increases and diminished choice. Let’s not forget that Blackie’s immigration policy further impoverishes the poor by depressing wages.
Affordability? A good start will be to ask Blackie about his climate taxes on everything and strangling Canada’s energy sector.
As for crime, well Mr. Star you’re reaping the whirlwind of your own bleeding heart progressive policies.
As for “homelessness” it’s primarily a mental health/addiction crisis. No cure until the legal confinement of the mentally ill can be restored. Coincidentally that will have a major impact on TTC crime and who knows ridership may increase when the TTC is no longer used as a homeless shelter.
With the city accepting nominations for Toronto’s mayoral race Monday, municipal health officials are pushing for no criminal consequences for possessing any kind of illegal drug as long as it’s for an addict’s own use.
A pioneer of controversial right-wing social media campaigns. The mastermind behind Kathleen Wynne’s ambitious policies. Stephen Harper’s advertising guru. A Polaris Prize-winning musician.
They’re all among the growing list of people working on Toronto mayoral campaigns.
No mention of Furey in this article which seems a deliberate “oversight”.
I would trust him to be the most conservative of contenders.
It’s an open secret Saunders is Ford’s choice. That’s good enough reason for me to park my vote elsewhere. Who wants another squishy liberal?
Right now there’s a lot of talk at Toronto City Hall about creating new taxes to levy against Toronto residents and taxpayers.
This is unacceptable. It’s got to stop.
It’s been a privilege for me to be a newspaper columnist for more than a decade in this city that I love so much, but I’m now switching gears and running to be mayor of Toronto because I want to tackle these sorts of problems head on.
The race to replace Toronto’s mayor is getting more crowded as the June byelection nears.
John Tory, who was elected to his third term last fall, ran against 30 candidates. Tory resigned in February over revelations he had an affair with a former staffer.
So far, an even dozen have confirmed their candidacy to replace him and a couple more have said they are considering a run. The city will start officially accepting candidate nominations on April 3.
Canada needs standardized data on violence on transit systems to help tackle issues ranging from a lack of mental health supports to eroding public trust, say researchers, citing the recent stabbing death of a 16-year-old boy at a Toronto station as the latest example of random attacks on commuters.
Prof. Murtaza Haider, director of research at the Urban Analytics Institute of Toronto Metropolitan University, said the public should have easy access to such information.
Homeless shelters that lack security are often violent.
In the wake of Tuesday’s tabling of the 2023 federal budget, Toronto’s interim mayor is accusing the federal government of ignoring the financial pleas of the country’s largest city.
Absent from Tuesday’s budget was any help to address the $933-million shortfall in the city’s budget — borne largely by expenses related to the COVID-19 pandemic — a gaping hole municipal budget planners had hoped would be filled courtesy of the provincial and federal governments.
Nobody likes Toronto.
While Ford did not mention anyone by name, it appeared to be a veiled shot at councillors Josh Matlow and Brad Bradford — and a tacit endorsement of former Toronto police chief Mark Saunders.
“There’s a couple of candidates that are running, they’re sitting councillors that voted to defund the police,” the premier told reporters Tuesday at Pearson International Airport.
“The people that voted for defund the police, don’t vote for them. Simple as that,” he said.
Saturday’s fatal stabbing of a 16-year-old boy in a Toronto subway station, another seemingly random violent attack in the transit system, again brings fear and urgent focus to a city on edge and looking for answers.
Olivia Chow is confirming a Star report that she is pondering a run for mayor, saying Toronto can be “so much better.”
The former NDP MP and city councillor responded in a brief statement, on Sunday, to Star inquiries about her potential mayoral candidacy.
“I want to let you know I am considering running. I love this city and I know it can be so much better — for everyone,” wrote Chow, would become one of the highest profile candidates in the forming, crowded race to replace John Tory.
At least I have a headstart on campaign material from her last and thankfully unsuccessful run.
If Chowcescu gets in Toronto’s death spiral into fiscal and criminal depravity will only accelerate.
The good news as successive defeats have shown is that she no longer rides on Jack’s coattails.
The woman is a perma-class parasite, all career politicians are.
I wonder if she travels in the same circles Justin and his pals do.
In the mid-1970s I was a struggling business and economics student. I paid for my tuition and personal expenses with physically demanding summer and part-time jobs and some student debt.
I dreamed of one day working on Canada’s version of Wall Street, which was located in Toronto at the corner of King and Bay streets. That dream came true in the spring of 1980 when the Dominion Bond Rating Service hired me as a junior analyst. Four of the five big Canadian banks occupied the corners of King and Bay in their impressive skyscrapers. A block away were the golden towers of Canada’s largest financial institution, the Royal Bank of Canada. A book published in 1982 was named “Towers of Gold, Feet of Clay,” a reference to the fact the two RBC towers literally have a thin layer of gold coating their windows.
This does not bode well for Toronto.
I recall visiting Seattle with Kathy.
At the ‘Stroke of 5 PM’ the downtown was emptied and virtually abandoned.
Soon the street people made an appearance.
We headed back to our hotel.
