A Peel region drug dealer got off with no prison time on Friday after a judge found that police officers beat him, searched his home illegally, and then lied about their behaviour in court. Superior Court Justice Deena Baltman said the officers—who are involved in many other drug cases in the region—showed contempt for basic [...]

Among the oh-so-many humiliations undergone by the mayor this week, a new development reported by the Sun likely leaves Rob Ford eating his words. Although he and brother Doug have, following TTC Chair Karen Stintz’s “transit rebellion,” called for her resignation, it turns out a new policy instated by the mayor himself last year will [...]

Everyone was abuzz yesterday over the special meeting and city council’s vote to reinstate a wide-reaching LRT-based transit plan instead of the mayor’s unilateral subway decision. Everyone except the likes of Rob Ford and Giorgio Mammoliti (Ward 7, York West). Mayor Ford said of the meeting, “Technically speaking, that whole meeting was irrelevant.” While Mammoliti [...]

For those looking forward to a good scrap, Rob-Ford-versus-TTC-Chair-Karen-Stintz–styles, today’s your day: councillors did not reach a last-minute agreement last night regarding Stintz’s proposal to resuscitate Transit City, so that special council meeting will run as planned this morning. Though it’s a crucial vote—for which Stintz needs 22 councillors on side—one councillor was apparently so [...]

All aboard the bus to Confusion Town, as this transit situation gets even messier. As we all know, there’s going to be a special meeting of council on Wednesday that basically aims to reinstate the old transit plan, right? And when TTC Chair Karen Stintz made moves to call that meeting, she framed it as [...]

Mayor Rob Ford, who was feeling very, very happy yesterday is about to be knocked off his high horse (or possibly from his low transit-system plan, as it were). A majority of Toronto city councillors will challenge Mayor Rob Ford on the future of transit today in a showdown that will be all about subways [...]

So after the City made its final offer to CUPE Local 416 on Friday afternoon and vowed to unilaterally impose it, it’s looking more and more like there might be a labour disruption come Sunday. Here are some things you need to know about where labour disruptions will have the greatest impact, in case that [...]

The man picked by the mayor to make the Sheppard subway line happen released his report on funding options for the project on Thursday, and he’s already having trouble talking about it. New taxes, development charges, and zone-based road tolls were among some of the suggestions made by Gordon Chong to fund the line. But [...]

It’s subways the mayor wants, and it’s subways Rob Ford’s subway adviser is trying to give him. Gordon Chong has changed his tune about “never, ever” being able to get away from government funding for the proposed Sheppard subway line. Once upon a time Chong was, as he puts it, feeling deflated about the plan [...]

Who thinks Toronto’s city council deserves a raise? Well, they do. Think so, we mean. And guess what? They’re getting one! Mayor Rob Ford, the City’s esteemed budget cutter and gravy hunter, has, along with city council, budgeted in a 2 per cent pay hike this year. Yes, this year. 2012. The same budget year [...]

Despite a thorough legal routing of his move to cancel Transit City and build a single transit line under Eglinton Avenue instead, the mayor still says he’s gonna go ahead and do whatever the fuck he feels like what taxpayers want. Reporters tried asking questions about municipal affairs and public policy at the mayor’s weekly [...]

If you hear former mayor David Miller cackling wildly and rubbing his hands together with glee today, it may be because of this little tidbit. Legal experts have found that Mayor Rob Ford did not actually have the authority to cancel Transit City without city council’s approval. Mostly because he’s just one person (not counting [...]