Opinion | Josh Matlow: I believe that a better Toronto is possible

I believe that a better Toronto is possible. Until we get the basics right, we can’t even begin to fix the things that make city life in Toronto so incredible. Opinion by JoshMatlow

Who we elect to Toronto city hall matters. The decisions made there affect our everyday lives — transit, garbage collection, public bathrooms and so much more — but far too few of us participate in municipal elections.Although this byelection came as a surprise, we’ve been given an extraordinary opportunity to fix our city.

We were told by past leaders that we could have shiny new subway lines that ended up going nowhere, incredible elevated parks that disappeared with bad planning and thousands of new affordable housing units that never got built. Torontonians joke about the city’s “Housing Never” plan and it’s hard to blame them.

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