Toronto

Hey,

I made a post here earlier about my work attire so thank you all for the feedback.

I'm starting a new job soon but I still have yet to secure a place so I'm currently still homeless at the moment. I just need a little bit of food to hold me over for the month.

The staff at the food bank first asked if I was a student, then they asked me if I was employed and told me to show them the offer letter. One of them asked me how I lost the arm and I said I wasn't comfortable in saying why.

They then finally asked me where I live and I stupidly said that I was homeless. They then told me that they can't offer any assistance to me at this moment and urged me to leave.

I feel so humiliated and defeated. I thought food banks provided for everyone.

“This proposed budget will mean change in Torontonians’ lives today. Change means libraries open seven days a week, transit fares frozen while TTC service increases and thousands more kids fed meals at schools and summer camps,” Chow told reporters at city hall.

“Pools open sooner and longer; renovictions prevented by taking housing off the market and more support for tenants; traffic agents to keep Toronto moving and emergency responders arriving sooner when you need them most.”

☝️Now that's how a politician should talk about taxes.

According to the TTC website, refunds are not provided for tickets, tokens, passes or PRESTO purchases. Meanwhile, as of June 1, 2025, the TTC will stop accepting paper tickets and tokens, and customers will not be refunded or provided a credit if they have these forms of payment.

“I pay at the door, get to the platform and hear a ‘there is no service between _____ and ____,’ announcement. Each time I go to the fare collector booth and request a refund because the service I paid is not operating and I need to take an Uber,” the Redditor explained, saying that their request is always denied because workers say they are unable to give refunds.

The user then claims that the workers tell them they can’t issue refunds and that their job is to provide information to transit riders. However, the rider then questions why they don’t see workers handing out information during service disruptions.

“So they are getting paid to do literally nothing. But why are they investing in all these fare inspectors and now plainclothes when they take people’s money, don’t provide the service and then don’t give refunds? What are we paying for?” the Redditor questioned, adding that they have also reached out to customer service and had their request denied.

TTC Senior Communications Specialist Stuart Green explained that the commission does not offer refunds in such instances, and the TTC always provides alternate services to accommodate riders during service disruptions.

“We absolutely recognize the inconvenience delays have, but the reasons for them, and the impact on individual customers, are rarely the same,” Green told Now Toronto on Tuesday.

Artist Marie LeBlanc Flanagan has designed an arcade-style video game that invites players to try their luck at cycling Toronto’s city streets without bike lanes.

The simple game, dubbed “Loser Lane,” allows users to make just two key strokes — left and right — as they maneuver their cyclist avatar through Toronto’s city streets.

Dangers that can end the game include cars, car doors and streetcar tracks.

As a cyclist, the artist said she was infuriated by Premier Doug Ford’s announcement that he would be removing bike lanes from Toronto streets so she poured her energy into creating the video game.

And here's the disinformation headline that the American hedge fund-owned NatPo ran: Jewish leaders condemn 'hate-filled' anti-Israel protest outside Indigo at Toronto's Eaton Centre

“I thought I was going to die,” Adam Melanson says about his Dec. 2023 arrest. Multiple officers pinned him to the ground, punched him repeatedly, and one used the banned “knee-on-neck” restraint. A year later, his charges of assaulting and obstructing a police officer were fully withdrawn after coming to an agreement with crown prosecutors. This is part of a larger pattern, argues Dalia Awwad.

Since the beginning of Israel’s genocide, it appears the Toronto Police Service’s (TPS) role has been to criminalize, vilify, surveil, and brutalize the masses showing up in solidarity with Palestine. The harm the state is trying to inflict through TPS is multifaceted, physically through beatings, psychologically through surveillance and harassment, and materially through doxxing and criminalization.

Readers could easily read Vincent’s article and still believe the false claim that 40 babies had been killed.

So, why won’t The Star issue a correction for such a widely weaponized false claim?

The paper regularly issues corrections on page 2 of its print edition. These sometimes include much more mundane matters, such as clarifying how much tax increases might affect hotel fees.

We asked Himelfarb and Vincent whether they are putting the “Palestine exception” into action, meaning disregarding normal editorial practices when it comes to their coverage of Palestine.

City law mandates a minimum temperature of 21 C in winter but lacks a similar rule for cooling in summer. While air-conditioned apartments must stay below 26 C, this standard doesn’t apply to units without air conditioning.

The proposed bylaw, which will go before city council on Dec. 17, would require landlords to maintain indoor temperatures in rental units below 27 C. If approved, the regulation will take effect on April 30, 2025, in time for summer.

The Works is a long-standing harm reduction clinic and it became home to the first permanent safe injection site in Toronto in 2017.

In August, it was announced the injection site at The Works was set to close after the province moved to ban all supervised consumption sites within 200 metres of schools and childcare centres. The Works is currently located at 277 Victoria St., which is in close proximity to the Early Learning Centre in Toronto Metropolitan University’s (TMU) Kerr Hall West.

Yadollahi told TorontoToday the union was notified by the city about the impending layoffs two weeks ago, but the workers themselves have not yet received formal layoff notices. When CUPE79 was informed about the layoffs, the city referenced the provincial government’s decision to close supervised consumption sites as the reason for the job cuts.

Instead of laying off these workers, Yadollahi told reporters the city should move them to new positions when the safe injection site closes. “The city can redeploy workers … without eliminating their positions,” she said. “There are a lot of opportunities within public health… and I think these workers have the ability to fill in those gaps.”

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Teams of fare inspectors in plain clothes began patrolling the transit system and issuing tickets on Wednesday as part of the TTC’s efforts to reduce the estimated $140 million lost to fare evasion each year.

All plain clothes inspectors are carrying ID and are equipped with body-worn cameras to record customer interactions, the transit commission said in a release.

It added that inspectors will use discretion, whether in uniform or plain clothes, to ensure tickets are predominantly issued in cases of "willful evasion".

Tickets for not paying for a bus, streetcar or subway ride range from $235 to $425 depending on the nature of the offence. That money goes to the courts, not directly to the transit service.

The transit service said the approach was previously tested in 2018 and re-introduced three weeks ago with plain-clothes inspectors "educating" those found to be riding illegally.

The move to now begin writing tickets is part of a pilot project that will be reevaluated in January, according to TTC media relations.

I'd like to know more about how they estimate financial losses due to fare evasion