The accused dirty cops exposed in the explosive scandal rocking Toronto Police were not alone in their allegedly corrupt machinations.
There was allegedly a large supporting cast, not unlike a Cecil B. DeMille Biblical epic. There is, however, no Edward G. Robinson snarling like a Lower East Side gangster transported to ancient Egypt.
School boards, struggling with skyrocketing costs of absenteeism, are turning to private investigators to help uncover sick leave abuse — and, in some cases, firing educators.
One union local in Toronto recently warned members to only book off when ill because they could be under surveillance.
Toronto-area home prices are forecast to increase by five per cent year over year at the end of 2025 with detached single-family homes leading the way while condos units struggle to regain footing after a tumultuous year, according to a leading realty company.
Toronto was pounded by torrential rain (opens in a new tab)Tuesday afternoon and pictures and video are showing the extent of the flooding in the city’s downtown core and beyond.
“I’ll be meeting my chief of staff of course and getting a briefing on TTC, meeting some councillors, doing some paperwork, and really looking at the crisis that we’re facing right now in the streets, these refugees having no place,” Chow told CP24 in an interview early Thursday. “And as you know, it was pouring rain out there last night and this morning. If you have no shelter, no roof over your head with a soaking wet cardboard, oh my god it’s a miserable life. So it’s tough. So that is a crisis that I want to deal with today.”
Eight years after he won his first mayoral race, Toronto’s high-profile municipal leader says his experience in negotiating with other levels of government, guiding the city through the pandemic, and bringing calm and consensus to City Council make him the best choice in Monday’s election.
The Star endorsed Tory, even while publishing this…
In Toronto’s long, slow decline not everyone feels the pinch — but everyone shares the blame
One Toronto is a place to dream golden dreams where there are too many cranes in the sky to count, expensive cars roll through the streets, and there’s always money to be made. Lots and lots of money.
The other Toronto is visibly falling apart, services are shrinking, city-building projects on the books are either not funded or only partially funded, the streets are dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists, gun violence is a plague, and it’s becoming a more hostile place to live financially. This is a Toronto that is actively “planning to deteriorate” as the state of good repair budgets shrink. It’s not a metaphor, it’s in the current budget.
Toronto city council approved on Monday the creation of more than 600 new emergency shelter spaces for refugees and refugee claimants.
In a news release, the City said council approved a recommendation by City staff to execute an agreement with the hotel located at 3 Park Home Ave. in North York.
The statement noted that refugee occupancy in the shelter system has been “steadily increasing” since September of last year, largely due to the border reopening and easing of travel restrictions.
The city of Toronto’s controversial plan to dump the homeless in three-star hotels during Covid was supposed to be a temporary measure only.
It was sold to Torontonians as a way of socially distancing the homeless during the pandemic and of providing those who were squatting in downtown parks a roof over their heads. But now more than two years later, the homeless hotels are still operating, many with a phalanx of security guards 24/7 to try to keep the residents from wreaking havoc on the surrounding neighbourhood.
In yet another effort to completely dumb down standards for its students, the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) intends to “decolonize” assessment practices during the next school year.
A memo sent to staff by the interim associate director of student well-being and innovation, Andrew Gold, and centrally assigned principal. Denise De Paola, revealed the new practice to teachers.
In the memo – obtained by True North – the two claim that “decolonization” of student assessments, equity anti-oppression and anti-racism are “at the core” of student learning and achievement.
Toronto isn’t yet Chicago, but our city tried its very best to be over the Father’s Day weekend.
“Six shooting incidents that commenced on Friday — 11 persons struck in these incidents … two of them being homicides,” said Toronto Police Supt. Steve Watts.
He then took the time to provide details about the gun violence. It was quite a list.
It happened in Manhattan under former leftist mayor Bill DiBiaso and continues to occur in Toronto under the current mayor John Tory.
I’m referring to a short-sighted and disastrous policy of putting homeless with addictions and mental issues in tiny hotels left empty during Covid.
In Toronto, the hotel shelter policy was only supposed to be a stopgap measure to provide accommodation to the homeless occupying downtown parks.
But many leases with hoteliers – happy to make a quick and steady buck – have been extended two and three times.
One of the most disastrous has been the Novotel hotel, owned by the Vancouver-based Silver Hotel Group, a shelter which opened in February 2021 under secretive circumstances and which has wreaked havoc on the Esplanade neighbourhood.
A Toronto doctor is facing no professional discipline after admitting to giving the Covid-19 vaccine to at least 500 kids as young as six months old, despite the shot not being approved for children under the age of five.
If you haven’t noticed, kids are the left’s #1 target.
Cathy Riddell wants to move on, but the justice system has kept her stuck in time.
She hopes other victims of crime don’t have to endure what she and more than a dozen other survivors — and numerous grieving relatives — of the worst attack in Toronto’s history have gone through.
It’s been four years since Riddell was attacked by a man who, angered by women who wouldn’t sleep with him and radicalized in the bowels of the internet, deliberately drove a rented van down a busy Toronto sidewalk.
Yet the criminal case stretches on.
“Nowhere along the line is there any true consideration of victims,” Riddell said in a recent interview. “We just don’t matter.”
On Easter weekend in Toronto, a woman was pushed onto the Bloor-Yonge subway tracks by another female (since arrested) and a teen forced out of her car at gunpoint in what has traditionally been a quiet north Toronto neighbourhood.
There was also a $28.5-million bust of crystal meth and coke in a condo directly beside the Novotel hotel, where more than 220 homeless men and women, many with drug addictions, are being housed.
Toronto police touted it as the largest single-day drug bust in their history.
The drug stash and the dealer arrested had no doubt used the Novotel – where residents can take their illegal drugs with impunity– as a cash cow.
Never mind the other homeless hotels in downtown Toronto where illegal drugs are not only permitted but encouraged – or the plethora of safe injection sites around downtown where addicts are given clean needles to take their drugs, but “safely.”
Mayor John Tory released the plan Wednesday morning which aims to guide the city’s actions to advance reconciliation through to 2032.
The 28 goals are spread through five themes, including actions to restore truth, actions to right relations and share power, actions for justice, actions to make financial reparations and actions for the Indigenous Affairs Office.
