RE: https://mastodon.social/@GraphicMatt/115735763851194201

Shelley Carroll also said that in her newsletter last week. People with 3 millions dollar home are not all "wealthy", they just happened to have inherited this kind of house.

Having a tax on 3 millions dollar home would prevent young families from moving in.

Can you be any more tone deaf to the housing crisis that people experience and what young families actually can afford

#topoli

RE: https://mastodon.social/@GraphicMatt/115735763851194201

Shelley Carroll also said that in her newsletter last week. People with 3 millions dollar home are not all "wealthy", they just happened to have inherited this kind of house.

Having a tax on 3 millions dollar home would prevent young families from moving in.

Can you be any more tone deaf to the housing crisis that people experience and what young families actually can afford

#topoli

Federal government ”needs to stop treating transit as secondary and start treating it as what it is: vital national infrastructure and an important driver of our economy.”

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/26/opinion/public-transit-federal-funding-budget?utm_source=National+Observer&utm_campaign=3e47e96722-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_11_26_02_00_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cacd0f141f-8ed8cab77d-277113174

#CDNPoli #ONPoli #TOPoli

Federal government ”needs to stop treating transit as secondary and start treating it as what it is: vital national infrastructure and an important driver of our economy.”

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/26/opinion/public-transit-federal-funding-budget?utm_source=National+Observer&utm_campaign=3e47e96722-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_11_26_02_00_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cacd0f141f-8ed8cab77d-277113174

#CDNPoli #ONPoli #TOPoli

Toronto Cops finally release data on intimate partner violence after years of pressure to do so.

19300 reported cases per year.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-police-release-data-intimate-partner-violence-9.6967785

#topoli #domesticViolence

Toronto Cops finally release data on intimate partner violence after years of pressure to do so.

19300 reported cases per year.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-police-release-data-intimate-partner-violence-9.6967785

#topoli #domesticViolence

TTC Riders ( @ttcriders.bsky.social ) is hosting a ‘Save Our Streetcars Summit’ in Toronto on November 23. This is a free event with coffee, snacks, and TTC tickets upon request.

Register here:
https://www.ttcriders.ca/save_our_streetcars_summit?recruiter_id=16210

#TOPoli #TTC #Transit #PublicTransit

TTC Riders ( @ttcriders.bsky.social ) is hosting a ‘Save Our Streetcars Summit’ in Toronto on November 23. This is a free event with coffee, snacks, and TTC tickets upon request.

Register here:
https://www.ttcriders.ca/save_our_streetcars_summit?recruiter_id=16210

#TOPoli #TTC #Transit #PublicTransit

Me going to #TObudget town halls

#TOpoli

Facilitator (reading question off form): "What will you tell other people about this event?"

Me: "uhh, I've been liveposting this on social media the entire time, so I'm already telling everyone about it"

#TOpoli #TObudget

The facilitator refuses to write down my suggestion for an armed uprising and mass strikes

#TOpoli #TObudget

"At one point we had the lowest number of police officers per capita in North America"

I let out the tiniest "woo"

Conforti (para): you could cut the entire fire department and paramedics, close every library, and that would still leave a $150 million gap

That's peanuts, also, there are totally politicians who would absolutely do that

#TOpoli #TObudget

"Senior city staff will be going table to table, listening in and asking questions" okay I shouldn't be here. I am, like, not a civilian. This is awkward

#TOpoli #TObudget

It's all I can do not to be like, "ACTUALLY, property tax is based on the change in your property's assessed value relative to others in the area and so overall—"

Carroll: "We are the only city [of this size] in the world trying to survive on property tax." This is genuinely a surprise to me. Anyway this is probably something that is not changing in the foreseeable future, not for the better anyway.

My practical and completely serious suggestion is "mob with literal torches and pitchforks in front of Doug Ford's house".

#TOpoli #TObudget

There's a table for 311 where we can ask them, quote, "anything". I can't express how excited this makes me, because I've got some BURNING QUESTIONS I e-mailed, like, two different people about and still haven't heard back from.

Anyway, mayor now giving a speech going over various budget-related accomplishments. Various downtown councillors are here along with City staff (and volunteers helping with the event).

Really glad I wolfed down a sandwich before this

#TOpoli #TObudget

The actual budget launch isn't till January. These are pre-budget consultations, something which budget chief Shelley Carroll was keen to bring back under Chow.

Key dates: https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/budget-finances/city-budget/how-to-get-involved-in-the-budget/

#TOpoli #TObudget

At the downtown #budgetTO public consultation at the North St. Lawrence Market building. I have no idea why

It looks like it's kind of like a standard ward-level budget consultation but, like, 10 times bigger, and with lots of senior-level City staff (CFO, etc.)

Updates are likely to be as much about the progress of my social anxiety as City finances.

#TOpoli #TObudget #WhatHashtagIsItAnyway

On today's Executive Committee agenda: a double whammy of devastating cuts to housing & shelter funding from provincial and federal governments https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2025.EX26.13

(Elsewhere: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawans-race-against-the-clock-to-house-asylum-seekers-ahead-of-federal-hotel-deadline-1.7644956?cmp=rss)

Agenda: https://secure.toronto.ca/council/#/committees/2468/25778
Livestream: https://youtube.com/live/RC57MK8G6f4

#TOcouncil #TOpoli #housing

Toronto Today's estimate that counterprotesters outnumbered the racists 10 to 1 last Saturday is plausible. The photos I've seen don't really do justice to the size of the crowd. But the racists coming in from the east would have seen the size of the crowd as they walked past us. Unfortunately those walking in from the west may not have realized just how badly outnumbered they were. That morso than than any rational debate is more likely to change the minds of those authoritarians. But we got to see we're not alone, and the festival deeper in the park was able to go ahead.

https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/policy/christie-pits-park-anti-immigrant-protest-11208589 #topoli

Toronto Today's estimate that counterprotesters outnumbered the racists 10 to 1 last Saturday is plausible. The photos I've seen don't really do justice to the size of the crowd. But the racists coming in from the east would have seen the size of the crowd as they walked past us. Unfortunately those walking in from the west may not have realized just how badly outnumbered they were. That morso than than any rational debate is more likely to change the minds of those authoritarians. But we got to see we're not alone, and the festival deeper in the park was able to go ahead.

https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/policy/christie-pits-park-anti-immigrant-protest-11208589 #topoli