Aidan Chamandy
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2 weeks ago |
torontotoday.ca | Aidan Chamandy
Toronto city council passed a protest “bubble zone” bylaw Thursday after hours of heated debate. Scores of protesters packed the chamber and police maintained a heightened presence at city hall as councillors proposed a flurry of motions to amend the bylaw beyond what staff presented last week. The bylaw will allow places of worship, schools and child care centres to request protesters be barred from city property — such as sidewalks and roads — around their facilities.
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2 weeks ago |
torontotoday.ca | Aidan Chamandy
The city is looking to ramp up bylaw enforcement after a damning Toronto Ombudsman report found complaints by tenants in a northwest Toronto rooming house had been unaddressed by the landlord and city officials, leaving them without heat, electricity and running water for six months. On Wednesday, council ordered staff to draft a plan that would outline the city’s options to restore vital services to tenants — and send the bill to the landlord.
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2 weeks ago |
torontotoday.ca | Aidan Chamandy
Mayor Olivia Chow backed a proposed bylaw that would create “bubble zones” to prevent protests that block access to places of worship, schools and child care centres, or target people based on their identity. But a group of councillors is vowing to push for changes beyond what staff outlined, setting up a potential clash on the council floor during debate on Thursday.
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2 weeks ago |
torontotoday.ca | Aidan Chamandy
Automatic speed cameras have become the latest target of the Ford government, with new provincial legislation proposing tighter control over how Ontario municipalities deploy the technology. A in the 2025 Ontario budget bill would give the province greater authority over municipal speed enforcement, which Premier Doug Ford claims is being misused. “The city is using it as a revenue source and it’s a little unfair,” Ford said at an unrelated press conference on Friday.
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2 weeks ago |
villagereport.ca | Aidan Chamandy
TORONTO - A small fire broke out on September 3, 2023, in a two-storey rooming house in northwest Toronto. It was quickly extinguished. No one was injured, and the building sustained only minor damage. But for the 11 tenants who lived there — mostly low-income Black residents, including people with disabilities and a woman seven months pregnant — it marked the beginning of a six-month ordeal without heat, electricity, or running water as winter set in.
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