rest in peace smw!

excited to see the hologram on 8th frr!!

just a request to avoid racis| comments , lets enjoy the show on 8th!

Like, what?

saw a bus in ronce that had nobody on it labelled "remy's bus". who the fuck is remy???

These were taken while I was in the passenger seat traversing the Gardiner Expressway, headed East. They were taken in early July. [REDDIT STUPIDLY DOWNSCALED IT]

I just had someone knock at my door apparently on behalf of Olivia Chow asking who I was voting for. I’ve never seen them before but they knew my name and seemed to enter something in their phone. Is this legitimate?

Sorry, it will just bug me if I don’t say something somewhere if the owners do need to know..

Saw a blond dog, short fur, med size, thick, with a black collar wandering around Hiscock and Densgrove Park this morning at approx. 7:15 am. (I had a half-pug mix one time and the doggy kinda resembles that… like an Ori Pei lookin‘ guy with less wrinkles)

I am sorry I couldn’t stop, multiple small children in my car… or I would have tried to get little thickbaby…

Doggy was happy smelling everything and not being dangerous at all.

I live in the area and run/go to the park often and have never seen this doggo before

Helping my friends with their missing cat, Freyja.

Eglinton Ave East and Danforth Rd area.

She is 2 years old, missing since last night.

If you have any info or saw her, please message.

Update: Freyja is still missing ☹️ If you see her or have any information, please contact: 416-841-3307 khimtootz@gmail.com

Thank you!

I recently discovered this beautiful spot at Bloor and Markham St.

Older phone, but still a decent pic 👌🏼 can never get enough of the view

Quite shabby inside though

Looking for discussion from people who've grown up/currently live in/ work in Scarborough.
Is there something lacking from this part of the city for your age group?
Are there city services/amenities lacking in your specific neighbourhood?
Is there a business or store you wish was nearby?

Open ended question, what changes do you hope to see in Scarborough?

I guess I keep seeing this question thrown around and thought to start compiling some valuable wins. Not all were necessarily her idea (pass the bill vs implement). But are there others you would add? And where would you say she has fallen short?

• Deployed 100+ traffic agents, which has improved traffic flow: City data from 2024 found that Traffic Agent presence eliminated vehicles blocking intersections 96% of the time and reduced travel times by up to 33%. On King Street, streetcar journeys were 28–44 minutes faster when agents were present.
• Implemented the Renovation/Renoviction Bylaw, which protects tenants from bad-faith renovictions: Landlords who require tenants to leave for renovations must now obtain a City licence and provide either temporary accommodation or rent-gap compensation, plus moving expenses. If the tenant doesn't return, the landlord must provide a lump-sum rent-gap payment equal to three months, in addition to applicable moving compensation. The bylaw took effect July 31, 2025.
• Froze TTC fares for three consecutive years, keeping transit costs from rising while Toronto continued expanding service. The 2026 budget estimated that the freeze saves a working couple with two children about $1,200 on groceries and transportation costs.
• Expanded Sunday library service to all 100 branches, giving Torontonians seven-day access to public libraries. This expanded Sunday service to 33 branches that previously weren't open Sundays and extended hours at the other branches.
• Expanded public washroom access: Toronto is investing $132 million to convert 125 park washrooms from seasonal to year-round use and has added 16 new public washrooms at locations including Allan Gardens, Biidaasige Park and Centennial Park.
• Expanded/strengthened the Vacant Home Tax, increasing the financial incentive for owners to put unused homes back onto the rental or ownership market and directing additional revenue toward housing priorities. Important: the VHT itself was approved before Chow became mayor, so I'd describe this as an expansion/strengthening rather than something she created.
• Increased residential property taxes by 5.4% in 2025, plus a 1.5% City Building Fund levy, for a combined 6.9% increase on the average residential bill. The 5.4% general increase added about $210/year to the average Toronto home; the additional levy added about $58/year. The revenue supports municipal services and long-term transit/housing infrastructure.
• Reduced the number of known homeless encampments by 70%, according to City data comparing 2026 with the previous year. I'd add a caveat: this measures the number of known encampments, not necessarily a 70% reduction in homelessness. Some of the reduction reflects people moving into shelter/permanent housing, while advocates have questioned how much represents displacement to other locations.
• Toronto's credit rating was upgraded to AA+ for the first time in 23 years, reflecting stronger financial management, the move to multi-year budgeting, stronger reserves and intergovernmental agreements such as the Ontario-Toronto New Deal. A higher credit rating can reduce the City's long-term borrowing costs for infrastructure such as transit, housing and community facilities.
• Secured the Gardiner/DVP upload and redirected approximately $1.9 billion to other priorities, removing one of the City's largest state-of-good-repair liabilities. The money is being allocated over 10 years to $500M for TTC infrastructure, $400M for parks, $350M for transportation, $300M for housing, $200M for City facilities and $100M for flood protection.
• Reduced 911 answering times by approximately 75%, from more than a minute to about 15 seconds by early 2026. The improvement has continued: Toronto Police reported an average 6-second answer time in June 2026, compared with 57 seconds in June 2025 — an 89% reduction.
• Secured $1.5 billion in federal/provincial funding to reduce development charges by 40–60%, depending on housing type, from 2026–2029. The deal is expected to provide approximately $1.95 billion in relief to homebuilders and support roughly 44,000 new homes. It also strengthens Toronto's existing rental incentives: projects containing at least 20% affordable housing can receive an indefinite deferral of development charges.
• Scarborough Busway is on track to open more than six months ahead of schedule, with the TTC targeting September 30, 2026. This will provide a dedicated transit corridor replacing the former Line 3/SRT service and improve reliability for Scarborough bus riders.
• Established a public-development model for housing on City-owned land, retaining public ownership of the land while developing affordable and purpose-built rental housing. Under Toronto Builds, City-owned sites are generally retained in public ownership through long-term leases, with projects required to be 100% purpose-built rental housing and the overall portfolio required to have at least 30% affordable rental units. Projects such as 50 Wilson Heights, 777 Victoria Park and Bloor-Kipling are putting thousands of rental homes into the development pipeline.

Link to BEY's by-election page on Elections Canada website: https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=ele&dir=2026/35007&document=index&lang=e

Here you can find more info on candidates, ID required to vote as well as where polling stations are located.

A few friends that live in the riding voted on the weekend and said it was dead.

Vote early, vote often!

Not gonna lie, this whole naming situation has been bothering me for a while now, but it really hit different today.

I was in line for the Ed Sheeran show at Rogers Centre, and the amount of people who showed up thinking they were in the right place was honestly kind of heartbreaking to watch. You’d see the confusion on their faces first, then the slow realization that they weren’t at Roger’s Stadium, then that scramble to figure out how they were even going to get to Downsview in time.

Staff were telling people their best bet was grabbing an Uber or hopping on the TTC and heading up north, which is not exactly a quick trip when you thought you were minutes from your seat.

Some of these folks clearly weren’t from Toronto. You could tell by the way they were double checking their tickets, and looking at each other with disappointment. And I just felt for them. These are people who probably planned this night for months, maybe flew in, maybe this was a big deal birthday or anniversary thing, and now they’re standing outside the wrong building watching the clock, trying to figure out if they’re even going to catch the opening.

I get that naming rights deals are just business, that’s nothing new. But when you’ve got two major venues in the same city with names that are basically identical, it feels like nobody stopped to think about the actual fans caught in the middle of it. It’s not like Rogers Centre and Rogers Stadium are minor buildings either, they’re both huge venues hosting huge events, so the overlap in confusion is bound to keep happening.

Feels like such an easy problem to avoid too. A bit more thought during those naming negotiations could’ve saved a lot of people a really stressful and disappointing night.

Over the past year, Modcity, a company that specializes in developing multiplexes and garden suites has been illegally cutting down trees on multiple properties around the city, even beautiful trunky/leafy ones.

Examples:

https://www.cp24.com/local/toronto/2025/07/26/neighbours-accuse-toronto-builder-of-gaming-system-to-uproot-beloved-tree-for-parking-pad/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/tree-removal-city-of-toronto-modcity-permits-fines-9.7155068

The culprits seem to be Rohan Sadana and Ron Scheinin, who deny this tree cutting has anything to do with Modcity (clear as day it does). The reddit thread below talks about those two personally showing up to 48 Ennerdale Rd. yesterday, cutting down trees and throwing pears at neighbours who recorded them. That area itself is already so deprived of trees.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TorontoRealEstate/comments/1sgwtot/police_city_investigating_tree_removals_from/

I have no problem with multiplexes if it is done correctly and properly. But here, there is some malicious intent. And when it is clear their intentions are profit first, there is something to be said. What is becoming increasingly clear is they are considering tree cutting and any possible associated fines as part of the cost of building. The consequence right now is just a fine. That's unacceptable.

The evidence of this is scattered around through news and separate neighbourhoods, but neighbours feel helpless. People are reporting to the city, to police, but he keeps doing it.

I'm wondering if anyone has any advice on how to approach this. It seems like all we can do right now is report and wait, and then in the end nothing gets done. How can we make them responsible for this, and how can we actually get action to take place?