You know things are upside down when one of the suspects in an incident that saw an officer stabbed in a bank robbery is out on bail before the copper is out of the hospital.
But that’s Canada in 2021.
“Toronto – Canada’s version of a Democrat run city”
Tory raises taxes while citizens & businesses are locked down and going broke
City council has approved the lowest property tax increase of Mayor John Tory’s tenure, despite hundreds of millions of dollars of ongoing financial pressures related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Council voted 20-3 in favour of an inflation-based, 0.7 per cent residential tax hike during a special meeting on Thursday.
That Tory, he’s got the city runnin like a top!
GOLDSTEIN: Toronto’s tree department should be chopped down
In the carefully-controlled language of Toronto Auditor General Beverly Romeo-Beehler, city property taxpayers are “still not receiving value for money for tree maintenance services” and “a culture shift is needed” in the department.
Another way to put it would be that the goldbrickers in this department, including workers and the managers who are supposed to be supervising them, are ripping us off for millions of dollars every year by “actually working on trees” an average of 3.5 hours out of their eight-hour day.
Gun violence still a Toronto reality 15 years after deadly Boxing Day shootout
When bullets fly in the city — often piercing kitchen windows, shattering TVs or sailing over children’s beds — all we can do is shake our heads and be thankful innocent victims weren’t injured or killed.
Sadly, there are times when that luck runs out — like Boxing Day 2005 when a gunfight broke out on a bustling Yonge St., just north of Dundas St., killing Jane Creba and wounding six others.
GOLDSTEIN: Toronto’s gun violence roared through the pandemic
Not even a pandemic and lockdowns could significantly dent gang and gun violence in Toronto this year, which has already recorded more shootings than in any year in the modern era, except for 2019.
As of Sunday, Dec. 20, there have been 455 shootings and firearms discharges.
WARMINGTON: When cops, courts and city hall fail, who ya gonna call?
If there’s something strange in your neighbourhood, who ya gonna call?
Primary Defence Corp. Security company, of course.
A secret location, three meals a day, free Wi-Fi … but Toronto’s isolation hotel has been short on one thing: COVID patients
Visitors to the Toronto Voluntary Isolation Centre get free Wi-Fi, three catered meals daily, and a personalized welcome note from medical officer of health Dr. Eileen de Villa — but no room key, an effort to encourage those with COVID-19 to stay inside their rooms.
The isolation hotel, the first of its kind in Canada when it opened three months ago, is by all accounts safe, quiet and comfortable. Yet only about 150 people have opted to use the facility so far, a fraction of its peak capacity.
It’s not because of a lack of need. Cramped, unsuitable housing, where self-isolation may be difficult or impossible, continues to be a major driver of new infections in the city, data suggests.
Tory wants owners of bar that opened against lockdown orders named and shamed
Toronto Mayor John Tory says that he wants the two people accused of operating a bar in violation of lockdown orders over the weekend to be named and shamed if at all possible.
Toronto police say that after midnight on Sunday, they went to a business in the Queen and Portland streets area.
After being held up for nearly an hour, police allegedly found 30-40 people inside and say the business was being used as a makeshift bar.
LEVY: Homeowner desperately seeks protection from Moss Park tent dwellers
Laura Stone is absolutely fed up with being harassed, assaulted and vandalized by mostly drug-addicted tent dwellers in the Moss Park encampment.
Stone is not her real last name.