ArchiveMarch 2018

Protesters rally with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty at city hall to confront Mayor John Tory on the lack of shelter beds during a budget meeting in February. Hey, remember Toronto’s shelter crisis? The one where it got really cold outside, the city’s shelters were near their maximum capacity, homeless people were reporting being turned away, and then Mayor John Tory got yelled at...

Then Mayor Rob Ford, left, listens to his brother and campaign manager Doug Ford during a commercial break as Rob takes part in a live TV debate leading up to the 2014 Toronto municipal election. When former mayor David Miller left the job in 2010, he practically gift-wrapped Toronto City Hall for his successor. There was an operating budget surplus of about $350 million. Hard-won new taxes...

A memorial lies across the street from a closed foot path (orange fence) where an 11-year-old boy was killed by a car last month near Kennedy Public School on Canongate Trail and Purcell Square. Imagine you live on a Toronto street where drivers routinely go way too fast — it’s dangerous. So you decide to request that the city install traffic calming measures like speed bumps. So far, so good...