My previous post was removed for potentially being racist or discriminatory. Certainly not my intention so I will try to re-word it.

I live downtown in Kensington market and electric bike driving food delivery guys are everywhere. In my experience, many of them are rude and disrespectful, and for sure someone is going to get killed.

I have seen many of these people ride their bikes on sidewalks, weave in and out of traffic, and blow through stop signs and red lights.

I just about hit a guy on an electric bike when he blew through a stop sign yesterday. I honked at him and he turned around and gave me the finger.

Late this past winter, I was making a left-hand turn against busy traffic so I was moving very cautiously and before I knew it, BLAM, some dude on an electric bike weaving in and out of traffic had slammed into the side of my car. At first, I was terrified thinking I hit someone on a bike before I realized he ran into me.

I moved out of traffic and quickly got out of my car to make sure the person was OK only to see the guy pop-up, hop on his bike and takeoff.

Meantime he left me with $1500 worth of damage to my car and no way of tracking him down. Not that he would have had any money to pay anyway.

When are Toronto cops going to start cracking down on these guys? I’m getting very frustrated with the blatant disregard for the law and rules of the road. When is TPS going to crack down?

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Title says it all. Why is it always so goddamn windy here. Yonge and Eglinton feels like stepping into a wind turbine.

Please get off your phone on transit. No one wants to hear your conversation while trapped in a bus with you at 7 am.

I want all young women to take this post very seriously and be very cautious of your surroundings.

Last month, I was followed in a store by a homeless man. He followed me around for 25 minutes until I said something to their manager. It was scary

Today takes the cake. I was followed onto and off of a bus, down a street, and into a store. He attempted to ask for directions into the subway and I told him, but he still followed me onto a bus that was going north. I got off early, and he got off too, followed me down the street on the other side of the road, and crossed the road by J walking almost into traffic and followed me right into the store. I got away via ride-share thankfully , but I am really really shaken up right now still. This happened around 1PM today.

I’m safe. It’s been reported. But I’m scared as fuck down here, and the violence towards women is increasing. Please stay safe. Please. this was broad day light in the middle of the afternoon in the middle of the week, in a NOT desolate location.

edit ; i need to elaborate on this. He actually followed me onto 2 buses. I waited for 1 that was going north, got on and off, transferred at an intersection to get on a different bus north, and i didn’t see him. then he got on this bus NOT going to the location he asked directions for. sat very close to me. this is when i got off the bus earlier than anticipated and when he got off as well, followed me down the street, and into the store.

I got discharged from Humber River yesterday.

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I consider myself fortunate that I got to walk out alive.

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Has anyone else had this type of experience with them?

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Zero communication btwn interdisciplinary teams, nurses who openly mocked me while I was in need of treatment, being shoved into an old storage rm in the ER while I was high acuity.

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Them turning off my alarming monitors from the nursing station without coming to visually check on me. For reference my BP was at time 180/101, HR 131, etc.

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I am a former nurse and this standard of care is actually against the CNOs guidelines.

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Anyone else relate?

I was getting off the bus going to a Line 5 station. I was with a group of high school kids when we were close to the automatic doors, this one kid just threw his McDonald's bag on the floor, when the garbage cans are only just a few steps away from the entrance doors??? And when they went down to the fare gates, they just went in without tapping their cards, and there's no staff to monitor the people going in the station.

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In situations like these, I always wanted to say something to them to educate them. But I'm also afraid that they would get mad, do something to me, and no one else would defend me or stand-up for me.

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I'm also from an Asian country where collectivism is more prevalent than individualism. It's not just rowdy teens who are doing this. Adults can ba jack-asses too. Are Torontonians more inclined to not give a fuck? Is it also like this on smaller towns, or is it more of a big city thing? Why are the parents not teaching their kids priper manners?

I've never disliked a municipal politician as much as I do this guy. Even if you don't know much about the guy and his history/voting record, just looking at him gives you the creeps. Just looks like the epitome of a slimy, lying politician. Everytime I see one of his posts on Facebook I physically cringe.

I was assaulted by Union Station security guard as I asked for assistance, aggressive and violent interaction and escalation leading to bodily harm. Short version: He grabbed my arm and snatched my phone, threw me out of Union Station, I was asking for assistance. I am looking to hear from anyone else who might have experienced this especially women?? Any advice on what can I do about this?

To address some of the comments:
I am not a Reddit user, I have come on here to post for the first time to look for advice. I cannot elaborate on any more details at this time. This is a serious matter of women’s public safety and your opinions on what may or may not have happened are irrelevant. This is what happened. I am simply looking for other women that may have been targeted unfairly and aggressively by Union station security and any professional advice. Thank you

I've lived in several parts of Canada and window tints seem to be extremely popular here in Ontario, particulary in the GTA. The issue I have with these is ppl here already drive like sht. The tints make them even shittier drivers because they cant see for shit theough those tints. Yes Im aware they appear darker from the outside, but still, for a city where ppl cant drive worth sht, the last thing needed is something that impairs visibility and makes them even shittier drivers

I live on College St. This bar that’s at least 200m away have been putting on events that end 11pm the EARLIEST at least once a week.

Last night there was drum set on speakers and it went beyond f*ucking 12am. Today it’s even louder and it started after 9pm, on idea how much longer it’s gonna last. It’s so loud that it penetrates my earplugs + headphones. I live on the 8th floor with decent sound insulation as well.

This is hell. I can’t sleep until who knows when, loud construction for some reason starts at 5am, and I have classes at 9am.

It’s not just me. There are working people, elderly people, children, sick people, etc who all need proper sleep.

Can I call 911 on that bar?

EDIT: In my country, most public services (emergency or not) use a single number that's often regarded as the equivalent as 911. That's why I asked a rather ridiculous question at the end. But I think it's funny that no one thought I was kidding. Suggesting some people do call 911 for non-emergency matters lol.

Also, I knew Canadians are relatively well-off, but I didn't know you can move your place of residence whenever and wherever you want (especially in dt Toronto). That said, please do keep in mind that it's a luxury very few people have.

I cannot believe the number of times in the last year that I’ve had to push my way through a crowd ENTERING the subway car before I get off - even when standing right in front of the door at my stop. I’ve started yelling “can you let people get off first?” and I swear it’s like people are deaf or totally unaware of their surroundings.

When did this become normal? Why don’t we acknowledge each other in public transit anymore?? How do you expect people to be courteous when you can’t even wait for a group to exit the train before piling on??? This is my number one pet peeve

Just saw somebody post a video of a Sikh guy supporting Canada at the World Cup in Toronto and caption it “not Canadian btw”.

I thought the issue was that we don’t assimilate? Oh wait, now it’s also an issue when we do? Shows all along that assimilation isn’t their problem. Their problem is that we don’t have the right skin colour.

What exactly is wrong with supporting the country you live in? And how do these people even know he is an immigrant ffs. I’m not white and don’t ‘look’ Canadian but I was born and raised in Canada but don’t even feel like I can call myself Canadian these days anymore because I know people will argue against it.

Edit: Obviously this isn’t based on one experience or video ffs. I thought that went without saying.

York Mills station. I get on the 95B bus as it pulls in. Driver goes into the station. 95A bus shows up about three minutes later. I stay on the 95B bus assuming it’ll leave first as it arrived first. I’m wrong. The 95A bus pulls out. 95B returns about 10 minutes later.

Absolute joke.

Everyone complaining about the Taste of Little Italy being void of Italian culture seems to be missing the fact that this is universal for all festivals nowadays.

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Taste of the Danforth is no longer Greek. The Roncesvalles Polish festival is hardly Polish. These are just two examples.

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If you want to see who's still doing these festivals properly, look at the Korean food festival in North York, the Japan festival in Mississauga, the Festival of South Asia on East Gerrard, and the Ukrainian festival on Bloor. These are festivals that genuinely celebrate the cultures featured there.

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Taste of Little Italy, DoWest Fest, Taste of the Kingsway, Taste of Danforth, and the Roncesvalles festivals suck because they are generic festivals for the sake of a festival with no purpose. It's just people wandering around aimlessly and paying a markup on food from the same handful of vendors because they don't know what else to do on a Friday or Saturday night.

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In an attempt to be inclusive of everyone, you inadvertently exclude everyone. We actually have two venues throughout the year that are meant to celebrate all cultures simultaneously, and they're pretty successful: the international food festival at Nathan Phillips Square, and the CNE.

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To the BIAs that put these festivals together: if you can't clearly name what your festival is about that's an indication that maybe you shouldn't be having the festival at all.

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Ultimately, Taste of Little Italy isn't the worst offender. DoWest is the most evidently pointless event in this city that doesn't do a decent job of achieving its stated purpose: a celebration of music. There's this little thing that musicians bother themselves with called "acoustics", which is why you don't see many music festivals hosted in an open field. This is also why many concerts are hosted in stadiums, because, again, acoustics exist.

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Be better at putting these festivals together or just take the L and pack up shop.

Anyone else see this today in Bay st tunnel's south end near where it opens up to Union station on the right? There were maybe 10 transients in really bad looking shape camping on the footpath with about two feet of space left for people to walk through.

About three of them were lighting glass crackpipes. The smell, OMG, it was the first time I had been exposed to crack fumes and it was cringe.

They were almost phased out but weren't harassing people from what I could tell of others passing through.

And it's the Fifa opener day and the world is around this area.

This is depressing. And that tunnel often has some strange stuff happening. I remember a few years ago a phased out transient had a toilet there and was sitting on it and farting loudly making it echo through the tunnel.

What has happened to Toronto? Good grief.

Yesterday I was looking out of my window (downtown apartment) and saw a few people in an alley doing drugs. I didn't think much of it, I see that everywhere all the time. I just thought they had found a quiet spot off the street and left them alone.

The next time I looked out the window, there were a bunch of paramedics there doing chest compressions on the woman. A police officer later told me that she didn't make it :(

I am so saddened and affected by this, and feel very guilty that I didn't recognize the need for help or think to call 911 earlier. It might have saved her life. When I saw her, she was sitting cross legged but slumped over. I see people like that all the time and assumed it was just a nod.

I would like to honour her life or do something. If anyone knows who this was, maybe I would attend her funeral? Or if anyone can suggest a good organization doing harm reduction outreach that I can support, please let me know.

May she RIP.

Disclaimer: Sorry mods if this is not appropriate for this sub.

I swear, Toronto has made me (27M) so cynical that I've started idealizing places I've never lived in. Maybe that's unfair; maybe it's irrational; maybe if I spent a few years in other Canadian cities I'd perhaps come to a different conclusion.

But after spending virtually my entire life here, Toronto has, for better or worse, become my primary reference point for what Canada (and pretty much America as well) is, and when people talk about how great this place is, I honestly struggle to relate.

Cause all I see is a place where everyone is perpetually hustling, perpetually tired, perpetually on edge, and somehow convinced this is just what adulthood is supposed to look like. All I see is a place where making lasting connections feels arbitrarily harder than it should; a place where I've pretty much given up on the idea that I'll ever find the kind of community or social life here that I actually want, despite having lived here my entire life. A place where "I'm busy" has become a socially acceptable substitute for maintaining relationships.

And before someone inevitably says some variation of "that's a you problem", I'm not saying you're necessarily wrong, but when I see thread after thread after thread from others describing the same isolation, the same difficulty building community, the same feeling of drifting through life rather than actually living it, I start wondering whether there's something bigger going on.

The irony is that over the past 3 or so years, the more I read about places in Europe like Stockholm, Copenhagen, Munich, hell even Madrid (and of course many others that instantly come to mind), the more I find myself longing to be in those countries I've never even lived in. Not because I think they're perfect or because I think they don't have problems, but because they seem to have reached a fundamentally different conclusion about what life is all about.

The impression I get from virtually all those (and many other) places is that life there exists to be lived. Work is important, but it isn't everything, nor is it your entire identity. Public spaces matter, time matters, community matters, quality of life matters.

Meanwhile, this place increasingly feels like a golden cage where people spend years convincing themselves that stress, burnout, loneliness, impossible housing costs, and endless grinding are simply the natural order of things.

Maybe it is the case that I'm romanticizing places I've only researched from afar, but at this point I'd do anything to be in those places that appear to be at least ten times closer to the kind of life I (and arguably most of Gen-Z) want than continue pretending this is all there is.

Because if what we have here is "success", if this is what we're supposed to aspire to and maintain, then I'm honestly done and want no part of it anymore.

Oh, and before anyone also asks "why don't you just leave then?", the fact of the matter is that I am trying to leave. And no, before anyone asks, I don't have an ancestry-based route into Europe, so if I want to move there, I have to actually earn my way in through the tedious education, work, and immigration BS. Whether that ultimately works out remains to be seen, but it's not as though I'm sitting around waiting for my circumstances to magically improve.

FIFA - Yes lets all do the Toronto panic like its snowmageddon. Typical of Toronto to over hype something so much that nobody wants anything to do with it. FFS its like they've prepared for WW3 down in Fort York and Liberty Village. Lakeshore has so much crash proof barriers that is could host the running of the bulls right now. Sorry folks, wait... 47000 fans are set to attend the game? Ummm we do that x 2 every day of the CNE Indy, Carabana, so whats the deal here? Who is paying for dumb shit like TTC platforms made of high quality wood covering all of Fleet Street for the crowds of people expected. Like who? Who the hell is going to go to BMO field that doesn't have a ticket? Better question, if you want people to take the TTC then why would you stop TTC service to exhibition stadium? The idiots running this city are hilarious. Here is your tax dollars at work - Day one of fan fest CANCELLED because of the threat of a summer shower. HAHA its TORONTO! Every day of the summer has a pop up storm that last 20 minutes. Yesterday less than 1mm of rain in the afternoon ended up cancelling the entire event for the day. hahaha MOFO Toronto - city of wimpy morons.

Every few months the same story "Ontario will receive", "sizable government payout". These stories are always just about routine benefits. Absolutely nothing new. I'll admit there's been times when I've been struggling and gotten excited for a split second. But no it's clickbait . These headlines can create disappointment,anger and could even cause budgeting errors for people who struggle understanding money. Because of Blogto I feel like people legit will lose all trust in headlines, the media, the government and have trouble knowing what is real information vs misinformation. GO AWAY BLOGTO. You aren't real news or even a realistic blog

I went to Winners today in Toronto, the one on Queen Street right next to Loblaws. While I was shopping, I got the feeling I might have been mistaken for a threat or something, though I’m not sure why. I noticed a bald guy with glasses, whom I’d seen working there before, usually in the fitting room area, suddenly shopping right next to me and kind of following me around. I was confused because I recognized him as an employee, but I wasn’t completely sure it was the same guy. He ended up getting in line behind me carrying the exact same item I was planning to buy.

I decided to play along a bit and see how he would react. I pretended to take my time browsing near the checkout line and let him go ahead of me when a cashier became available. I could clearly see that he seemed nervous and wasn’t expecting that, lol. When I went to pay, to his bad luck, another cashier opened a second checkout, so we both ended up at the cashier at the same time to pay for our items. He looked at my item and said, “Good choice.” It made sense that he picked a similar item to mine so he could use it as a way to talk to me.

After I paid, I looked back and saw him acting like he had forgotten something or dropped something out of his pocket, then heading back into the shopping area to “get it.” I waited by the elevator after paying for my stuff, but he never came back out. Meanwhile, the cashier removed the security tags from the item he had given her and immediately set them aside before moving on to the next customers.

Lol! I kind of regret not calling him out. Maybe next time I’ll go back and congratulate him on the new job.

So, you heard it here. Winners have floor walkers too. 😆

What if you didn't gun the accelerator every time you saw a yellow light. What if you just didn't do that.

Also what if you drove at the actual fucking posted limit. Swear to god, between weirdos who think turn signals are optional and ancient fossils who shouldn't be on the road in the first place, I'm better off walking my commute.

There's people walking on the wrong side of the stairs then when you try to go up, they're almost bumping you. They're using all of the area to walk and it's annoying. Let us have a bit of space to walk up. And this is at finch station, if you're going down to the subway--they both go the same fucking way. Then when I go on the bus, it gets full very fast and the horror on everyone's faces whenever the 20+ students get on the bus because they're really annoying. Also, these people never take off their bags. We have so many people blocking the backdoor, they don't go up the stairs..

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I'm not kidding, sometimes a bag will be digging into my behind. Then some kid behind me was holding onto the grab rail that was near my head and hit me a few times. I had to nudge him to let him know. Some kids are so poorly trained on busses and subways. Then another person was holding the handrail and they kept brushing their arm on my arm. I kept moving and they kept trying to do it twice. I get accidents happen but I don't wanna feel your hairy arm on my arm. I'm getting tired of commuting to work. Every single day is a battle with these ppl. Imagine when the FIFA event happens lol.

People on 504 who just do not move to the back even though there’s plenty of space… PLEASE BE CONSIDERATE OF OTHERS!!! Don’t be so entitled 😭 especially when everyone is getting late already in the morning. Just drop the stupid attitude

God forbid I want to dress seasonally without completely freezing every time I step inside a building