City Council · 2026-03-26 20:43 PM
Adopt Item as Amended
Majority required - MM39.27 - Adopt the item as amended
- Motion result
- Carried
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- 21-3
- Source outcome
- Carried, 21-3
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The rising cost of living continues to place significant pressure on many residents across Toronto. Food costs, in particular, represent one of the largest household expenses. As a result, food bank usage has increased dramatically throughout the city. In several neighbourhoods, residents face limited access to full-service grocery stores offering affordable, high-quality food. These areas are often referred to as “food deserts,” where the lack of accessible grocery options forces residents to rely on smaller convenience or boutique stores with significantly higher prices. Access to nutritious and affordable food is a key determinant of health. Too many Torontonians are experiencing food insecurity and related health challenges because healthy food options are simply unaffordable. The City of Toronto must explore innovative ways to improve food access and affordability. Making life more affordable for residents should remain a central goal of municipal government. Establishing City operated grocery stores could help increase access to affordable food while addressing food insecurity in underserved communities.
City Council · 2026-03-26 20:43 PM
Majority required - MM39.27 - Adopt the item as amended
City Council · 2026-03-26 20:42 PM
Majority required - MM39.27 - Ainslie - motion 3
City Council · 2026-03-26 20:42 PM
Majority required - MM39.27 - Chow - motion 4b
City Council · 2026-03-26 20:41 PM
Majority required - MM39.27 - Saxe - motion 2
City Council · 2026-03-26 20:40 PM
Majority required - MM39.27 - Chow - motion 4a
City Council · 2026-03-26 20:38 PM
Majority required - MM39.27 - Perruzza - motion 1
City Council · 2026-03-26 14:44 PM
Two-Thirds required - MM39.27 - Waive the referral
The purpose of this report is to update the Audit Committee on the Auditor General’s decision in considering City Council's request to include an investigation into SmartTrack implementation in her 2026 Work Plan, and to report back on any required changes to the timeline of other work in her Work Plan. The report also provides some background information and an event chronology (Attachment 1) related to the SmartTrack program. For background, the SmartTrack program's scope has decreased and changed over the past 10 years. In 2015, the then Mayor initially envisioned 13 new stations (and nine existing GO stations for 22 station stops total). City Council later approved six new stations in 2016, as recommended in a staff report following a detailed technical analysis. In 2021, the number of stations was reduced to five stations. Subsequently, due to cost pressures on the SmartTrack program, the provincial government committed $226 million in funding in June 2023 to deliver the five-station scope. In late 2024, to address additional cost pressures identified by the Province, City Council approved deferring two of the five stations. No further funding was made available by the…
City Council · 2026-03-26 12:26 PM
Majority required - AU11.3 - Adopt the item as amended
City Council · 2026-03-26 12:25 PM
Majority required - AU11.3 - Myers - motion 2
In 2021, City Council voted to expand sidewalk snow plowing to include all sidewalks in the City of Toronto. Prior to this change, property owners were responsible for shovelling their own sidewalks in much of the old city of Toronto. During significant snowfalls, the City has encountered challenges with our sidewalk plows, and clearing sidewalks has continued to be a point of frustration. Last year, I brought a motion to direct staff to buy new, better sidewalk plows capable of moving larger quantities of snow without getting bogged down or breaking down. While this is an improvement, there is still more we can do to get Toronto moving after extreme storms. At our regular snow operations meetings throughout January and February, I asked City staff to explore options to pay Torontonians to help our city dig out from the snow. Staff identified challenges with legal liability and operational considerations at the time. Instead, we pursued other creative avenues we could implement more quickly, like securing the Province’s highway snow removal crews to allow our crews to focus on local streets. Cities do best when we learn from each other and adopt best practices from other cit…
City Council · 2026-03-26 11:45 AM
Majority required - EX29.13 - Saxe - motion 1
City Council · 2026-03-25
Majority required - EX29.13 - Adopt the item as amended
Every year the City fills hundreds of thousands of potholes through regular road repair and targeted pothole blitzes. In 2025, over 250,000 potholes were filled, an increase of 44 percent since 2022. City crews are out across Toronto this year filling potholes as the snow melts. Last June, Councillor Fletcher and I brought a Member Motion ( MM31.19 Fixing Roads Faster ) to City Council that launched a special repaving program to tackle local roads in poor condition, including those with the most significant pothole issues, in addition to regularly scheduled road work. This program accelerated resurfacing of 24 local roads, all ahead of their original schedules. As part of my 2026 Budget, we have invested $11 million in new funding to build on the Fixing Roads Faster program and expand local resurfacing above and beyond the previous level of local road repair. This program will continue to scale as we build on each year’s progress. This year, unprecedented winter weather means roads are in rough shape and this work is more important than ever. I am recommending we implement a pothole blitz strategy that is informed by 311 data and planned in coordination with the Fixing Roads…
City Council · 2026-03-26 10:54 AM
Majority required - EX29.4 - Adopt the item as amended
City Council · 2026-03-26 10:51 AM
Majority required - EX29.4 - Cheng - motion 4
City Council · 2026-03-26 10:50 AM
Majority required - EX29.4 - Myers - motion 2
I am proud to share that Toronto has been awarded the Bloomberg Philanthropies 2025-2026 Mayors Challenge prize in recognition of our ambitious vision for Toronto’s school food program. We are one of just 24 winners selected out of 630 participating cities worldwide. The City will receive $1.4 million as we work with community partners to expand bulk purchasing of food, lowering food costs while supporting local jobs and Canadian farmers. The prize is an investment in our vision, and it comes with two years of expert support and dedicated funding for staff to help bring this vision to life. The Bloomberg Prize comes on the heels of my 2026 budget, which made critical investments to reduce the cost of living, including a $7 million boost to expand school food programs to an additional 155 schools and 62,000 students this year. The City’s support for morning meal programs provides immediate relief on grocery bills, delivering almost $900 in savings for families with two kids. Since the beginning of my term, the City has boosted investment in school food programs by more than 80 per cent. We are on track to provide meals to every one of the 330,000 public school students…
City Council · 2026-03-25 17:22 PM
Majority required - EX29.1 - Adopt the item as amended
Over the past few weeks, officials of other orders of government have commented on the future of Toronto’s waterfront. While these comments set expectations that the other orders of government may seek to change the character and uses of the waterfront, the City has not received a proposal or any details. The plan, if there is one, remains a mystery. This motion seeks to make it the position of City Council that other orders of government must include the residents of our city and their democratically elected municipal representatives in all decisions about the future of our city, including our waterfront. This includes opposing the unilateral expropriation of any land within the City of Toronto. Any significant decisions on the future of Toronto’s waterfront must include Torontonians. It's our waterfront and we’ve worked hard to make it an extraordinary place to live, work and visit.
City Council · 2026-03-25 16:44 PM
Majority required - MM39.59 - Adopt the item as amended
City Council · 2026-03-25 16:43 PM
Majority required - MM39.59 - Matlow - motion 1
City Council · 2026-03-25 10:36 AM
Two-Thirds required - MM39.59 - Waive the referral