Wednesday, October 16, 2024, 7-9 p.m.

This is your opportunity to hear from eleven* candidates running to represent us as Toronto City Councillor for Ward 15 before the November 4,  2024 municipal by-election:

Send us your questions for the candidates by email no later than Tuesday, Oct. 15 at 6 p.m.

Read more to register to attend the Zoom meeting, send questions and see the list of candidates.

Under cover of darkness, Infrastructure Ontario began the removal of 865 trees at Ontario Place on the evening of Wednesday, October 2, 2024. Within a single day, workers had cut down the vast majority of those trees.

The work—which includes the removal of every single tree on the western portion of the waterfront site adjacent downtown Toronto—is part of the approximately $200-million in site preparations that taxpayers are funding to prepare the land for Therme, an Austrian spa company, to develop a stadium-sized indoor waterpark on the site.

The next day, October 3, the Province released the details of its 95-year lease with Therme, which journalists and grassroots organizations have…

The Ward 15 By-Election set for November 4, 2024, will decide on a candidate to succeed Councillor Jaye Robinson as Ward 15 representative on City Council.

Under the auspices of FoNTRA, a By-Election Planning Committee will be hosting a virtual debate on Zoom on Oct. 16, 7-9 p.m.. Since there are 16 candidates registered, which would make an effective debate a challenge, in order to refine a select list of candidates the BEPC devised a short questionnaire to be completed by all registered candidates. Read on for survey responses and check back often to see more by-election news.

A proposed development at 589 Eglinton Avenue East has secured approval from the Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT) for its settlement offer with the City of Toronto from March, 2024. The approved plan increases the height from 35 to 40 storeys and the number of residential units from 442 to 470.

Initially submitted as a 35-storey proposal in November, 2022, the application faced delays prompting an appeal to the OLT. It was resubmitted with the same storey count but a revised design in July, 2023 This culminated in a hearing in March, 2024, where a settlement offer was approved. The OLT’s endorsement led to the latest Site Plan Approval resubmission in July, 2024.

A group of residents in a midtown Toronto neighbourhood is vowing to take their fight against a developer to the city’s ombudsman.

The Leaside Residents Association and the Broadway Area Residents Association had been working with city staff and the Gupta Group on a proposed residential tower to be built over a row of five lots on Bayview Avenue just north of the new Leaside stop on the Eglinton Crosstown LRT route.

But in June, about three months after a deal had been struck with Gupta for a 22-storey tower, the developer went to the city’s committee of adjustment and applied for a “minor variance” that would add five storeys to the project. The committee agreed to let Gupta add three more, for a total height of 25 storeys.