Juno News - October 28, 2026


Olivia Chow wins again as Toronto’s decline continues

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00:00:00.000 as you probably know by now Olivia Chow has been reelected mayor of Toronto defeating Brad Bradford
00:00:11.120 who had a good showing in her acceptance speech Chow made it clear she is everyone's mayor I want
00:00:18.760 to say something to every person in Toronto tonight whether you voted for me or voted for
00:00:26.880 someone else whether you thought your voice mattered or wondered if anyone was listening
00:00:35.200 and especially to the many people who call toronto home who work here raise families here
00:00:42.800 contribute to our city every day but could not or did not vote i am your mayor too
00:00:51.280 not everybody is impressed in fact one long time resident of toronto says her city is toast
00:01:01.740 this post by juno news columnist sue ann levy r.i.p toronto i knew you well i once loved you
00:01:10.720 and cherished living here now i can't stomach the next four years and our guest is sue ann levy
00:01:18.160 Welcome, Sue Ann.
00:01:19.640 I got a lot of pushback on that tweet.
00:01:22.100 Lots of bots and lots of people telling me goodbye, leave, see ya.
00:01:27.020 Well, any regrets?
00:01:29.000 I mean, anything that you would redo as a result of all that pushback?
00:01:32.320 No.
00:01:33.580 I'm used to pushback.
00:01:35.280 And I wrote it from the heart. 0.74
00:01:37.260 I am really, really upset about her being reelected because I think she has made the city decline over the last three years.
00:01:47.640 in many many ways and it's i'm not just talking about the jew hatred that we have faced and she's
00:01:54.200 not dealt with um and the people wandering the streets screaming death to the jews i'm talking
00:02:01.160 about a lot of other things and we can get to those other things but you heard her in that
00:02:07.400 soundbite clip uh say she's your mayor too even if you didn't vote for her
00:02:12.680 and that she's going to be listening to you does that give you any comfort
00:02:16.040 No, the proof is in the pudding, but I don't expect to see much proof.
00:02:22.120 You look at the feet, not the mouth. She's done so little over the last couple of years. In fact,
00:02:31.400 she's enabled the antisemitism over the last three plus years that she's been in office.
00:02:38.120 And I don't expect that to change. In fact, it probably will get worse, Mark, because now she's
00:02:43.960 been elected with god knows who those 500 000 people were that voted for her i did meet one
00:02:50.040 on my street today and she looked like an absolute loon so i can tell you who voted for her um but
00:02:57.480 you know now that she's got this you know strong strong mandate uh in progress toronto's got a
00:03:04.840 strong mandate and she has most members of her hamas council council coming back i i think she'll
00:03:11.480 only be emboldened. To do what? I mean, how much further can she go in terms of the kinds of
00:03:18.860 things that you, as a Jewish person, disapprove of? Well, let's put it this way. She has really,
00:03:28.240 and I feel, lectured the cops or told the cops to conduct an hands-off approach. You know,
00:03:34.620 just keep the peace. But keeping the peace in their minds has been standing at protests with
00:03:40.740 their arms crossed like this and doing absolutely nothing to help the few people in my community who
00:03:47.400 show up. And there's been a strong, strong evidence of two-tier policing. So in fact, the Hamasniks,
00:03:55.480 as we call them, can scream and shout death to the Jews, get kind of violent, carry flags from 0.96
00:04:01.560 terrorist organizations. But inevitably, if any Jew dares cross the line, like talks to them, 0.98
00:04:09.640 even talks to them, they've been arrested. And we've seen lots of evidence of that in the last 0.90
00:04:15.780 couple of years. So I don't expect that to change at all. In fact, it's really depressing to think
00:04:20.960 that it probably will continue unabated. Yeah, I'm sure if you were to gather some of your
00:04:27.720 friends and say death to Palestine, you'd probably hear about it. You'd probably be stopped
00:04:33.620 You know, the cops have become the Hamasniks, you know, they act for them, you know, they're apologists, and the day or two before the election, there were all kinds of Brad Bradford signs up at that corner, I call it protest corner, Bathurst and Shepard, north part of the city, where Jews and Hamasniks have met for many, many weeks, Sundays. 0.92
00:05:03.620 they took signs down because they didn't want to upset the Hamasniks. And somebody 0.92
00:05:07.780 wrote on my community's private page that perhaps they should cut the grass for them as well.
00:05:16.260 You know, and then they put the signs up after Sunday. So, you know, it's unbelievable how
00:05:23.840 permissive they've been with this group of people. Let's be real. Crime is up. Repeat offenders are
00:05:30.300 released on bail, police responses are slower than ever. And in many places, law-abiding citizens
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00:06:33.240 you're prepared. It's better to be safe than sorry. Considering that there wasn't a cakewalk
00:06:38.080 for her this time, I mean, she did have some competition. Would that have humbled her in any
00:06:44.320 way uh would she see that as a sign that maybe she needs to embrace you know your community
00:06:51.460 in a better way than she has in the past i highly doubt it i mean she came out and attended one or
00:06:59.060 two things in the latter part of the campaign just to because she was campaigning but i think it'll
00:07:05.960 go back to the status quo the way it was before and i don't think she got a message at all because
00:07:12.120 she won with over 400, 500,000 votes and even though she you know had competition from brad
00:07:19.560 bradford and he did pretty well i would have hopefully done better um i don't think that's
00:07:25.800 going to happen you know i have seen so many leftists gloating absolutely gloating on social
00:07:31.800 media you know that uh the right people made the choice and this but i'll tell you something mark
00:07:37.880 what I said last night and what I'm saying in the column is that what she got support from was the
00:07:44.160 grifter class so so we've become a city where handouts and unemployed and the activists and
00:07:54.140 the homeless industry and the drug industry and of course uh people who don't particularly like 0.97
00:07:59.920 with Jews, um, are calling the shots and she knows darn well that the numbers of Muslims
00:08:08.080 and the number of communities that she panders to far out numbers the Jewish community. 0.68
00:08:14.100 So she, she, they've counted the numbers and they know that we don't matter a whole hell
00:08:18.320 of a lot. 0.93
00:08:19.700 And despite the fact that I saw that the Jewish community was really energized and they went 1.00
00:08:25.080 out and vote the advanced polls and stuff we just can't beat the numbers of the other communities
00:08:30.560 so as a political force yeah you're just you're just outnumbered and so as i have uh been led to 0.83
00:08:38.780 understand and seen uh jews are looking at toronto as a lost cause and are heading for the door
00:08:44.940 and uh i'm not going to do it anymore i don't want to be here i don't feel safe anymore
00:08:49.720 i don't feel appreciated anymore the economy has gone downhill uh if if we're going to cater to
00:08:56.400 the grifter class then i guess i'm the part of the equation that pays for the grifter class you know 0.80
00:09:01.620 yeah yeah and so they're heading for the the heading for the exits and uh do you see that
00:09:08.600 as continuing and quite possibly exactly you know i i've even my brother said uh you know it's time
00:09:15.640 to move. It's not going to affect people like Denise, my wife and I, because we're at a certain
00:09:22.540 age and we can go wherever we want. We have the means to do that. What I feel sorry for are the
00:09:29.480 children of the children who are going through university, going through high school, going
00:09:34.720 through school and have to live in this city unless their parents move them. Now, I did talk
00:09:41.840 to a number of families down in Florida who have moved their entire families down.
00:09:46.400 So I expect that we will see more of that, but I'm not going to be as affected.
00:09:52.000 I mean, it's an irritant and these people are, you know, hopefully I won't get hit
00:09:56.340 over the head one day, but you know, they're, and I don't intend to change my, you can see
00:10:01.560 that I'm totally Jewed up here. 0.52
00:10:03.560 I don't intend to change my practices, but I feel sorry for the children, the next
00:10:09.560 generation and the next generation the kids who are just going through school now well as you know
00:10:15.400 i mean a lot of a lot of jews have voted for leftists slash liberals i mean uh we've seen it
00:10:21.660 in other cities like new york for instance they have mom donnie over there um what do you say 0.57
00:10:28.920 i can't explain the mental illness that that they suffer from i really can't and one we call them
00:10:36.860 wood crickets, you know, in honor of Gad Saad's book, Suicide Empathy, because,
00:10:42.360 but one in particular, uh, you know, Mandy Patenkin was extolling the
00:10:48.240 virtues of Abdul El-Sayed.
00:10:52.080 Uh, I mean, the guy is, I believe I'm part of the Muslim brotherhood,
00:10:57.100 although he won't answer or he denies it.
00:10:59.220 So, you know, you're right, but I'm not going to make excuses for these people.
00:11:05.900 They're just, they suffer from extreme suicide empathy and they, they side
00:11:13.340 with people who would kill them. 0.99
00:11:15.320 It's like gays for Palestine, you know, the same thing. 0.99
00:11:20.260 Uh, it is an odd thing looking at it from the outside. 0.99
00:11:24.920 You know, if I was a Jew, would I want to subject myself to that sort of thing?
00:11:28.840 Let alone enable it through my vote. 1.00
00:11:32.300 You know, and then.
00:11:33.660 Exactly.
00:11:34.280 it's uh i don't know i can't explain it and it sounds like you can't either but so is this i
00:11:42.060 mean do you really believe that toronto is toast do you really believe that the toronto is done or
00:11:46.360 can it rebound i mean it's four years um i have no idea if she'll put on the olivia chow mark
00:11:52.920 not not not i mean you walk downtown toronto and uh the drug addicts are in their fentanyl poses
00:12:02.600 and you see homeless lying on the streets in fact in front of very tony stores and they're allowed
00:12:09.740 to lie there i mean the funniest thing was the homeless people who are lying in front of the
00:12:13.480 royal york before mark carney appeared at tiff so you know that i see the decay and the the streets
00:12:22.740 are a mess they're just dirty and um the roads are terrible um i have to pick my car in for the
00:12:32.320 third time because I have tire problems so this is what's happening when you drive through the city
00:12:38.400 and these are first world problems but the the thing is that I covered Toronto as a columnist
00:12:44.240 for the Toronto Sun for 25 years and I loved walking the streets of Toronto this is what my
00:12:50.560 tweet was all about I loved walking I soaked it up I wrote about this and that and in starting about
00:12:57.520 2018, I started to see the decline and I wrote about how it was now becoming
00:13:03.000 comparable to blue cities of the U S like San Francisco, which has cleaned up his
00:13:09.400 act, but certainly like Seattle, like Portland, and I'm sure New York is not
00:13:15.280 far behind.
00:13:16.280 So, um, I guess I weep for what, what it's become.
00:13:21.240 And I don't see that changing at all. 0.88
00:13:24.140 Olivia will spend money on frivolous things. 1.00
00:13:26.700 She'll tax people, um, out of their homes. 1.00
00:13:30.200 I think, uh, there's even talk about her raising the vacant home tax.
00:13:34.040 I don't want to give her any ideas, uh, from 3% to 5%.
00:13:37.740 So, you know, I can't see the city improving over the next four years, unless she has an
00:13:43.620 affair and she has to step down.
00:13:47.760 Well, we've already got that t-shirt, but, uh, we'll see what happens. 0.93
00:13:52.020 Okay.
00:13:52.360 Well, thank you, Sue, and I really appreciate you coming on the show.
00:13:55.260 You're welcome.
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