‘It’s Our Central Park’: Uproar Rises Over Location of New Toronto Homes

TORONTO — Spreading across two million acres, Toronto’s Greenbelt is a vast swath of protected and ecologically sensitive lands that forms an arc around the city and its suburbs, as if holding Canada’s most populous and fastest-growing region in an embrace.

“It’s our Central Park,” said Jeff Bowers, 57, recently retired from a “high-stress, 24/7” job in technology, who was hiking recently in one corner of the Greenbelt. “The Greenbelt was declared, it was decreed. It had a sacredness to it. Now, the current government is tinkering with that, and that’s creating a lot of uproar. You can imagine if they said they were going to develop Central Park.”

Yet this is what is happening in Toronto.

My God that man needs a sedative.

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Some Homeless Encampments Can Stay, but the Underlying Issues Remain

In many Canadians cities, one noticeable consequence of the pandemic has been a rise in the number of homeless people living in encampments. Now three separate court rulings in British Columbia and Ontario have upheld the right of their residents to not be removed.

There is a widespread housing affordability crisis in Canada right now for all but the wealthy. But as the situation for people at the bottom continues to worsen, much of the political response has focused on people with stable incomes and jobs who want to buy a home.


Tory came through last year and dismantled the main “Homeless camps” so give him credit.

However this new ruling means Toronto could have a worse situation on its hands than before.

Given TO is a Liberal voting city I don’t much care what happens any longer.

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Taxi drivers are asking for advance payment to go to ‘dangerous’ areas of Toronto

A seemingly endless wave of violent crime may have some would-be transit riders opting for other means of getting around the city, and even Toronto’s taxi drivers are on edge as shocking headlines continue to be published daily.

Riders opting for the old-fashioned mode of taxis to get around town are finding some drivers reluctant to accept fares to particular areas of the city without a cash advance payment, a scenario playing out even for well-dressed senior citizens.

Seems scammy, I think some of the cabbies are often the “bad neighborhood.”


More on TO Judge tosses attempted murder charge in latest of four gun cases to collapse over Toronto police conduct

An attempted murder charge tossed by a judge this week — the fourth firearms case to collapse in the past two months due to Toronto police conduct — has sparked concerns about the force’s handling of gun cases.

The judge’s decision on Tuesday found police failed to disclose evidence on an alleged shooting ambush in a timely fashion. Judicial reasons for tossing the other cases include racial profiling, an unwarranted no-knock raid, and slow disclosure.

This week’s ruling also comes as Toronto police presses the federal government for legal reforms to crack down on firearms cases.

h/t DM

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LEVY: The 2021 arrest memo that speaks to the core of Toronto transit violence

At a press conference late last week, Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) CEO Rick Leary avoided justifying a memo sent to staff in January of 2021 ordering that arrest be the action of last resort with those displaying unlawful acts on the transit system.

His response, however, confirms the “hug-a-thug, anti-enforcement” attitude he demanded from his safety constables over the past few years.

h/t NeoCon

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‘Toronto turning into Gotham city’: How random violence is pushing Toronto to a tipping point

The city knows what’s happening. Toronto’s police chief, the mayor, transit bosses all sense it. They see it rumbling on a grey horizon. So do the wags of Twitter, daily commuters, and out of towners now thinking twice.

It’s fear. Broad, public fear.


A lot of the blame is due to White Liberal Guilt.

They really only have one answer to every situation – throw money at a problem until the squeaky wheels are silenced, rinse and repeat.

There’s a whole eco-system of experts and community based whatevers reliant on tax payer dollars.

And they always need more money. And they always get it.  And the problems only ever get worse. And no one ever asks why.

It’s not going to get better. Mass-Immigration will cram in still more bodies.

Crime will only rise. Ghettoization and Tribal No Go Zones will be the fruit of our diversity.  Get strong you’ll need it.

It’s no wonder so many have not returned to work downtown. What’s the draw exactly?

I can have a shootout courtesy of Airbnb in my sleepy section of Etobicoke without the need to visit the belly of the beast. 

I can hear the screams and watch the dazed wanderings of the mentally ill dumped out at Kipling Station.

Taxes will increase, services will decrease, businesses will relocate.

You can expect White Flight to gain considerable momentum given the city is funding a race war against them.

At least that’ll take care of the White Liberal Guilt problem paving the way for vibrant new leadership and interesting times galore.

 

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Violence on the TTC has been horrifying. Here’s what I found really alarming when I rode this week

On a Queen streetcar Wednesday, a man boarded near Bay Street at the centre doors. He had a long scraggly beard and wore a grubby army surplus coat, a bulging plastic garbage bag slung over his shoulder.

He was giggling, loudly, for no apparent reason. For longer than a minute.

“Heeeheeeheeheeeheee!” His voice echoed off the windows and walls, and many passengers let their eyes dart in his direction, then exchanged glances with each other.

Was this something to be concerned about? Or just another day on the TTC? Or are those now the same thing?


TTC riders shocked at homophobic rant!

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Ford calls police presence on Toronto transit a ‘Band-Aid’ solution, calls on city to hire more officers

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the boost in police officers on Toronto transit in the wake of recent violence is a “Band-Aid solution” and is calling for the city to hire more police officers.

The premier’s comments come a day after police announced more than 80 officers would, in a paid overtime capacity, be at Toronto Transit Commission locations to reduce victimization, prevent crimes of opportunity and enhance public safety. The move follows a series of violent cases on the TTC, including stabbings, BB gun shootings and an alleged swarming.

Urban decay is our strength.

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It’s not just the TTC. There’s a growing sense that things in Toronto are spinning out of control

… She is against the big boost to the police budget just announced by Toronto’s mayor, John Tory. She’d like to see the money spent on shelter beds, mental-health supports and help for troubled young people instead.

But she is convinced things are going wrong in her city.

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Random attacks on transit. A city in profound decline. Is a safe subway really a fantasy too far?

Random: Anyone anywhere anytime.

Which is what stokes the fear in a city that feels evermore like it’s ripping apart at the seams — and in particular where strangers converge.

The vulnerability of public spaces, as wide as a subway platform, as narrow as a crosstown bus. A TTC shelter, a busy station in the middle of the day, a desolate station in the small hours of the night.

Not sure the rest of Canada gives a damn about TO, hell I live here and I don’t much care for the place. Voting Trudeau makes a body hate you.

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WARMINGTON: TTC operator telling riders to take complaints to mayor now viral

“I suggest you guys call customer service and maybe put in a complaint or two – maybe you should even call the mayor’s office and give him a piece of your mind because that’s probably your best option at this point. I have no control over this.”

And … Police release video after violent purse snatching at Broadview Station

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Tory calls for national summit to address ‘mental health crisis’ playing out on Toronto streets

“There are people who are timid about the drawing a connection between some of the incidents we’re seeing and mental health. I’m not timid about that,” Tory said. “Because in the end, if you see someone push someone onto the tracks of the subway that is not known to them or a random person, you see someone — an elderly person – get pushed out on the street and lost their life by a complete stranger, those are incidents that are evidence of some issues out there that people have with mental health.”

3, 2, 1 Tory’s mental health comments are RACIST!

A pity as it’s the right call.


WARMINGTON: TTC operators and passengers prey for violent offenders

TTC workers and passengers are like sitting ducks.

It’s time to call it for what it is: Toronto’s transit system has spun off the rails when it comes to protecting people.


The TTC is a homeless shelter. I don’t see it getting better.

Toronto is a Liberal-Left city and they seem to have a knack for rapid urban decay.

I used to say that Toronto was an iced cake that was rotten inside. 

Now the icing is rotten too.

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Toronto ranks at No. 36 in list of world’s 85 most overrated cities

Is Toronto tops when it comes to global visitors?

Well, it ranked somewhere near the middle on a list of 85 of the world’s most overrated cities by independent market analyst King Casino Bonus in the U.K.


No question Toronto is a cold city and that will only get worse as ghettoization continues.

You can’t escape the feeling the city is on the threshold of a US style urban decline.

City infrastructure is crumbling and everything has that shopworn look. 

The TTC now operates as a homeless shelter.

The question is not can I hold on but why should I?

Boring and pretentious? Yup.

Expensive? You bet.

But think of the restaurants.

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‘It’s getting out of hand’: Toronto police investigate report of swarm assault on TTC bus

TORONTO — Police in Toronto say two transit workers have been injured following a report that close to a dozen youths attacked them on a bus Monday afternoon.

John Tory suggests spending more money is surely the answer …

Toronto Mayor John Tory said in a statement about the incident that acts of violence and disrespect against transit workers need to end, and that he’s very concerned about what he said was the “increasing number of criminal acts involving young people.”

“I encourage anyone with information to help police find those responsible for this attack so they can face consequences for their behaviour,” Tory said.

“I strongly believe this is something all governments have to work together to urgently address with social and mental health experts.”

Toronto is getting what it voted for – diversity in abundance

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