Doug Ford Makes Surprise Changes to Toronto's Wards and Cancels Current Election With No Public Consultation Torontonians were shocked to see a report that Doug Ford was set to announce that he will cancel our city's municipal election halfway through, and completely change the ward boundaries without any public consultation. This is unprecedented, anti-democratic and reckless. Candidates have already received donations from [...]

City Clerk Toronto City Hall 100 Queen St. W. Re: Findings of Integrity Commissioner   Dear Mayor & Council,   I had hoped for a resolution in the matter of Mr. Byford's Integrity Commissioner Complaint that could be satisfactory to both parties, but I am writing to inform you that I cannot accept the findings in [...]

Advocating for Safer Streets  The Vision Zero initiative is based on a principle that there is no acceptable number of road fatalities. While we may never have the ability to control instances of human error on our streets, we do have control over how they are designed and the police can control how they are enforced. From [...]

Revitalization of Yonge-Eglinton Bus Barns Site Takes Major Step ForwardAs Midtown residents know all too well, the former TTC bus barns site at the South West corner of Yonge & Eglinton was a derelict eyesore for well over a decade and is now a construction staging ground for the Metrolinx Eglinton Crosstown LRT. With the [...]

Fighting Back Against Overdevelopment and Advocating For Social Services and Infrastructure- Have Your Say On the Times Group Proposal for 1951 Yonge Street Last year, an application was submitted for two towers (34 and 25 storeys) at the northeast corner of Yonge and Davisville. In their report, City Planning Staff agree with me and the local community that the proposal from the Times [...]

Remembering Mona Piper: Announcing our Community's new Mona Piper Playground It is with great sadness that I learned of the passing of Mona Piper on January 31, 2018 at the age of 88. Mona passed away peacefully, surrounded by her loved ones in Sunnybrook Hospital's palliative care unit. Keeping children safe at the corner of [...]

Providing Shelter for our Most Vulnerable Residents Over the holidays, and into last weekend, we experienced a record-breaking cold snap. The City's Medical Officer of Health declared Extreme Cold Weather Alerts as overnight temperatures went below -20 several times.   While the weather during this recent period was especially severe, it should not have been [...]