Toronto City Council

• Longtime Toronto councillor Paula Fletcher announces retirement

  Fletcher said she’s still councillor until the fall and said she’ll continue answering calls for broken branches or sewer issues, like she has this week.

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• Former MP Nate Erskine-Smith to enter Toronto city council race

  Nate Erskine-Smith previously was Liberal MP for Beaches-East York since 2015 and Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities from late 2024 to mid-2025.

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  Aug 18
  
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• ‘Taylor Swift Way’ coming to Toronto as megastar brings Eras tour to city in November

  Toronto councillors have voted to temporarily mark a route through the downtown core with signs honouring Taylor Swift when she brings her Eras tour to the city later this year.

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  Jul 25, 2024
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• ‘We screwed up’: Toronto admits major flaws in vacant home tax rollout

  After being inundated with complaints from frustrated residents who received incorrect vacant home tax bills, City of Toronto staff were grilled by councillors.

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  Apr 18, 2024
• Report finds almost everyone who drank at select Toronto parks satisfied with pilot

  A city report says a pilot project that allowed Torontonians to sip on beer, wine and other booze at select parks for a few months last year was a success.

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  Mar 22, 2024
• Toronto eyes changes to dispute system to increase speed cameras

  As the city looks to double the number of cameras in operation, a new report is recommending it change how the fines issued by speed and red-light cameras are disputed.

  Politics

  Jan 4, 2024
• Toronto opening warming centres as temperatures drop

  The City of Toronto will be opening warming centres as of 5 p.m. Sunday, saying they are open to anyone experiencing homelessness. Each location has fewer than 60 spaces available.

  Health

  Dec 31, 2023
• Toronto council votes to rename Etobicoke stadium after Rob Ford

  In a 17-6 vote, councillors passed a motion to honour the former mayor despite his legacy of scandals while in office. A similar motion was tabled in 2017, but failed.

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  Dec 15, 2023
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• Toronto city council passes motion to rescind rideshare drivers cap

  Mayor Chow introduced the motion at city council on Thursday evening to rescind the rideshare cap, calling on the city manager to file a report to council by late February.

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  Dec 14, 2023
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• 23 candidates search for breakthrough in Scarborough Southwest byelection

  After more than a decade with the same municipal representation, change is guaranteed in Toronto's ward 20 during the upcoming Scarborough Southwest byelection.

  Politics

  Nov 29, 2023