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We're into silly season and it's worth noting that mayoral candidate Brad Bradford voted against a member's motion in December from Councillor Jon Burnside focusing on increasing on E-Bike Enforcement on sidewalks. secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda… #topoli

Brad’s political opportunism hasn't just let down his buddies in Concord, it's let down the people of Ward 19. Toronto deserves better. And Progress Toronto is organizing to make sure we get it 🌱 Add your name to keep conservatives out of city hall: progresstoronto.ca/keep-conservat…

5. Bradford has been running for mayor for nearly 3 years. He neglected his constituents all to build to this moment. Yet he launched with no bold ideas. No vision for our city. No packed room. Just meetings with right-wing politicians and wall-to-wall whining.

You might think that an integrity complaint over an alleged cash-for-access event in Concord would be the worst thing to happen to Brad Bradford in his first week on the campaign trail. You would be wrong. Here are 5 ways Brad had a bad week🧵

In 2024, tenants organized a protest outside Bradford's office demanding action. He ignored them. If Brad couldn't respond to his own constituents in Beaches-East York, what makes him fit to be mayor? acorncanada.org/news/east-york…

Brad Bradford wouldn't meet with 500 Dawes tenants, but he found time to meet with developers in Concord. Maybe skip the cash-for-access lobbyist events and address the problems in your own ward. Glad Mayor Chow is doing the work Bradford wouldn't. Repairs are finally coming 👏

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A second Brad Bradford Integrity Commissioner investigation? 😬 This morning, Progress Toronto filed a complaint with Toronto’s Integrity Commissioner over a cash-for-access event organized by a lobbyist and headlined by Brad in Concord, ON. Tickets ranged from $250 to $3,000.

This isn’t Brad’s first time breaking the rules. During his failed 2023 mayoral run, the Integrity Commissioner found he improperly used city resources, and was reprimanded by council. Toronto deserves a mayor who won’t sell out to the highest bidder: progresstoronto.ca/keep-conservat…

The attendees? Developers, builders, lobbyists, and other 905ers who use our city to generate massive profits. Did Brad use this cash-for-access event to shore up donors ahead of his mayoral run? Or make promises behind closed doors? 🤔 Read more here: progresstoronto.ca/media-release-…

"Let me be clear about who did that work. It was not the local councillor, who is now claiming credit in the media. It was tenants who refused to give up. It was city staff who acted when given the tools and the mandate. And it was my office and all of the city staff," says Chow.

The Province has introduced legislation to unilaterally take City land at Bathurst and Queen's Quay. That includes paving over Little Norway Park - probably for a parking lot. Council is meeting today, I am bringing an urgent motion to oppose it and fight back. Unilaterally taking City land is not acceptable. Who knows what they will take next.

Doug Ford is coming for the TTC. Bill 98 proposes massive changes to the transit in Ontario and risks a complete dismantling of the TTC. If this passes the TTC Board and City Council would no longer have control over the system.

Which can’t be flown out of Billy Bishop airport unless *checks notes* there is a change made to the tripartite agreement that governs the island facility.

WATCH - WATCH - “I’m the only Premier in history that refuses to use the Premiers plane” said Premier Ford in the legislature on February 27, 2019. “I prefer to drive around and talk to the people about things that matter”

So let’s get this straight: Chow’s executive committee is calling on Ford to build transit in Scarborough, and he’s shrugging it off as “not a priority”? “For the people”… just not Scarborough? 🤔 cp24.com/local/toronto/…