If the past two summers have been any indication of a trend towards hotter heat waves, we can't afford to ignore the health and safety risks. City Council has been talking about a maximum temperature bylaw for over a decade: let's get it done for renters!

Starting June 1 2026, apartment building owners will be required to provide at least one cooled amenity space with a maximum temperature of 26 degrees C in buildings where cooling is not provided in all units. And in July 2026, staff will propose a Maximum Temperature Bylaw for rental units.

While Dublin and Toronto may be over 5000 kilometres away from one another, we are facing many of the same challenges when it comes to housing and affordability. It was great to have time to chat with Lord Mayor McAdam and discover ways we can learn from the solutions each city is enacting 💡

Many thanks to Georgiana Uhlyarik, Curator for Canadian Art, and the @agotoronto team for giving me a tour of the exhibit.

I hope you can join us for the laneway unveiling!

Joyce Wieland Laneway Unveiling
Monday, December 1 - 4:30pm
10 Bright Street

My message to Doug is simple: You lost in 2014, get over it, stay in your lane, and let us stay in ours.

Had these measures been enacted by a provincial government while Rob Ford was mayor, Doug would have been the first to scream blue murder. In 2013 when Council stripped his brother of several mayoral powers, Doug compared it to the invasion of Kuwait and promised to go to war … which he then lost.

Buried in Bill 60 are clauses that straightjacket our city’s ability to widen sidewalks, add safe, separated bike lanes, and designate any traffic lane as bus-only – without Doug's approval first. It’s a recipe for gridlock disaster.

From someone who claims he sides with the little guy, it’s a profoundly stupid law that will have insanely bad results: it will cause the number of homeless people in Toronto to skyrocket, while at the same time it guts Toronto’s ability to take action on gridlock and transit.

By stripping municipalities of the authority to act in the best interest of our residents, the Province has succeeded at undermining local governance – yet again.

These are changes we make to enhance safety and livability in our communities, because as local representatives, we know our communities best. The Province enacting with these restrictions so soon after implementing a speed camera ban despite overwhelming dissent shows that they believe otherwise

Under Bill 60, the City will no longer be able to make any changes that result in the reduction of the number of available travel lanes on a given street. That means no new bike lanes, bus lanes or sidewalk extensions without Provincial approval.

While impacts on renters are understandably at the forefront of the pushback against Bill 60, buried in the legislation are also new limitations on the changes municipalities can make to our roadways.