r/toronto • • 12h ago

Discussion 🚰/r/Toronto's Wednesday Water Cooler Chat - October 28, 2026

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We're trying something new for the r/Toronto community - Every Wednesday we'll be putting up one of these discussion threads where we can just chat with less structure than normally, so we can go off topic. Rules about civility and stuff still apply of course.

This is a trial run so if at the end of our trial it doesn't feel like its working out for the community we can get rid of it or adjust to make it better. But that is where you come in! We want your feedback and thoughts. Let us know if you have any ideas, either in the comments here or send us a modmail.

Got any plans for Halloween weekend?
How about this weather we're having?
How you feeling post-election?


r/toronto • • 7h ago

History Found in a dusty basement

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Family passed away.. found this.. it's pretty cool..


r/toronto • • 22h ago

Picture Toronto, After Olivia Chow won the Vote

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r/toronto • • 19h ago

Picture Toronto showing off 🔥

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I shot I took a few years back on Bathurst (Sir Isaac Brock Bridge) looking west towards Liberty Village.


r/toronto • • 7h ago

Article How Waymo could push Toronto taxi and Uber drivers off the road

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r/toronto • • 10h ago

Article What the data reveals about support among voters for Olivia Chow across Toronto

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r/toronto • • 18h ago

Video caught the Toronto Henge

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this was shot last wednesday. haven't been able to catch it since


r/toronto • • 6h ago

Arts & Culture TTC in 1:87 scale

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Toronto Transit Commission service in 1:87th scale courtesy of Rapido Trains. Gloucester G1 train at St.Clair Clair Station, Gray Coach Lines 1418, alongside TTC 3309 signed for the Lawrence East 54.


r/toronto • • 10h ago

Video The Canadian House Hippo is Back (Toronto Zoo x CN Tower x MediaSmarts)

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r/toronto • • 8h ago

Article Toronto, GTA residents give their quality of life a C+: poll

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r/toronto • • 1d ago

Article Olivia Chow sets record with most votes in Toronto history (receiving more than 532,000 votes in Monday's municipal election — a record for a mayoral candidate in the city.)

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r/toronto • • 10h ago

News ‘I don’t trust the police’: Regis Korchinski-Paquet’s mother questions purpose of coroner’s inquest

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r/toronto • • 1d ago

Discussion Olivia won in Brad's own riding by 20,000 votes

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It is absolutely true that he sucked as a councilor. You don't deserve a promotion when you suck at your own job.

This guy was propped up by the privileged. He voted against taxing the richest luxury home tax in 2025 (7 out of 26 councilors) and still said he will not support taxing the richest. And guess how was he going to afford all the promises and revenue cuts? Cuts cuts cuts for services the middle and lower class rely on. He was NOT honest and always shady. Now his own constituents voted against him by large. It's proof that he did NOT and will not care about the people, not to mention the under privileged. It's all about his own power hunger and connections in the developer world including his very own privileged developer and lobbyist wife. Bye bye Brad!


r/toronto • • 19m ago

News Another Regent Park shoot today.

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Technically it was Cabbagetown, I suppose, being on north side of Gerrard. I first saw the crew and their vehicles were on the south side. The scene I watched featured a woman carrying a (comically?) gigantic backpack, walking along the street. When filming paused, a crew member would put a wooden box under it to take some of the weight off the actress carrying it.


r/toronto • • 1d ago

Discussion TIL incoming Ward 13 councillor Curran Stikuts resuscitated two drowning people at Hanlan's Point and was given a Citizen Hero Award from Toronto Paramedic Services

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r/toronto • • 1d ago

News Olivia Chow renews pledge on Toronto property taxes after historic re-election

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r/toronto • • 1d ago

Discussion Why is it illegal to leave dog poop anywhere but not for the TPS horses?

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second time seeing a fresh pile/trail of horse shit on the road in the last couple weeks


r/toronto • • 11h ago

News These Toronto homes draw crowds with wild Halloween decorations — including a $6,000 electric chair

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r/toronto • • 1d ago

Picture 1 Yonge & The Eye of Sauron

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That is the sun reflecting directly off of the top of 1 Yonge and into my office building this afternoon.


r/toronto • • 22h ago

Discussion Heads up if you voted at St. Timothy Catholic School yesterday—an election worker told me to put my initials on my ballot.

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Hey everyone, Just wanted to post a quick PSA and see if anyone else ran into this during the election yesterday, because I’m pretty sure an election worker messed up big time.

I went to vote around 11:00 AM yesterday at the St. Timothy Catholic School gym. When I walked over to feed my marked ballot into the tabulator, the worker stopped me and said I forgot to "initialize" it. They told me to go back to the table and write my own personal initials right on the ballot. I didn't think much of it in the moment, so I did it, and the tabulator accepted it.

Later, I realized no one else in my group was asked to do this. I looked up the Municipal Elections Act, and voters are absolutely NEVER supposed to put identifying marks on their ballots. It's actually the deputy returning officer who is supposed to authenticate the ballot with their initials.

By forcing me to put my own initials on it, they basically compromised the anonymity of my vote.

I’ve already emailed Toronto Elections so they know what happened at this polling station. But I’m curious—did anyone else run into this yesterday, either at St. Timothy or at another voting location?

Did my vote even count, or does an identifying mark like that automatically void the ballot?


r/toronto • • 1d ago

Picture Gong but not forgotten

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See you in four years


r/toronto • • 22h ago

Picture Woodbine Beach & Glen Stewart Ravine

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A truly glorious late October afternoon in Toronto 🍁


r/toronto • • 22h ago

News Durham police officer suspended without pay after being charged in child sexual exploitation investigation

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r/toronto • • 1d ago

Discussion Voter Turnout was highest in downtown-adjacent wards

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The top three wards had competitive councillor races, which likely helped drive turnout.


r/toronto • • 1d ago

News Toronto voter turnout climbs to highest level in more than a decade

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According to unofficial election results, 982,660 ballots were counted across all 1,431 polling locations, resulting in a voter turnout of 45.8 per cent.