AN INFERNO OF CORRUPTION: How City of Toronto’s Murderous Administration under Olivia Chow Is BURNING Toronto To The Ground

AN INFERNO OF CORRUPTION: HOW MAYOR OLIVIA CHOW’S MURDEROUS ADMINISTRATION IS BURNING TORONTO TO THE GROUND

By Eddie Hardie 🍁 Integrity Canada

They call them “Acts of God.” A careless cigarette. A faulty wire. A moment of bad luck. That’s the convenient lie sold to us as hundreds are displaced into the freezing cold in Thorncliffe Park, and as global headlines mourn 146 lives lost in a horrific Hong Kong fire. But look closer. Smell the smoke. The truth isn’t an accident at least in our case—it’s ARSON BY NEGLIGENCE, fueled by a rot of corruption so deep in Toronto’s municipal government that it has become a killing machine.

While Mayor Olivia Chow poses for compassionate photo-ops, her administration is knowingly and wilfully signing death warrants for Toronto residents. This isn’t hyperbole. It’s a documented, brazen, and shocking pattern of criminal disregard for human life.

THE ROT IS SYSTEMIC, AND THEY BRAG ABOUT IT.

Corruption in Toronto isn’t a whisper; it’s a boast. As revealed in damning reports, senior officials have openly bragged about taking bribes to help “friends” they’ve never met. Let that sink in. The people tasked with enforcing fire and building codes are on the take, allowing lethal hazards to be erected with a wink and a nod.

Take the case detailed at Canuck🍁Post. A confirmed fire hazard—a garage built illegally on a property line—was permitted to stand. The Ontario Municipal Board ORDERED the City to comply with the law. The response? A middle finger. The owner, emboldened by the absolute impunity this corruption grants, recently added another illegal structure. This is how it works: Pay off the right people, and the law ceases to exist. Your illegal building becomes a potential funeral pyre for your neighbors, and the city looks the other way.

Newly Erected Illegal/Dangerous Fence at 15 Rutherglen Road (City Reference #07756565 etc.)

The law is very clear that no wooden fence is allowed to connect to any building under any circumstances, because that will make it it a 100% Fire Hazards in violation of various bylaws as well as building code, fire code, etc.

THE LAWS THEY LAUGH AT:

Residents have fought for years, compiling a staggering list of violations that read like a blueprint for disaster. These aren’t minor infractions; they are specific, calculated breaches of the Building Code and Zoning Bylaws designed to prevent mass death:

• Fire Hazard Violations – Building Code 9.10.14.4.(2), the very rules meant to stop fire spread, ignored.

• Sightline Obstructions – Bylaws §447, §950, designed for safety and access, violated.

• A litany of Zoning breaches – §629-12, 13, 16, 18, 27, 40… the list goes on and on.

• More: See Law Violation herebelow.

Cars Dangerously Parked on City Property with rear protruding to sidewalk at 15 Rutherglen despite repeated complaints for years now

This is bureaucratic murder. Every one of these ignored violations is a locked fire escape, a missing sprinkler, a wall built to burn. They learned nothing from the Grenfell Tower inferno in London that killed 72, a tragedy foretold by ignored warnings. They learned nothing from the Hong Kong fire that claimed 146 souls. And now, Thorncliffe Park residents shiver in the cold, betrayed by the very government that taxed them for protection.

THE CHAIN OF CORRUPTION LEADS TO THE TOP.

This rot doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It thrives under the willful blindness of Premier Doug Ford, a man whose own record of scandals is longer than a Toronto winter. There is ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY. From the provincial level down to the municipal permit office, the system is broken.

And it goes even higher. As noted, even figures like Prime Minister Mark Carney have been cited for condoning the law-breaking that compromises public safety. When the entire political class is complicit, who will save us?

THIS IS A BETRAYAL. THIS IS MURDER BY SPREADSHEET.

Mayor Chow, your hands are not clean. Leading this administration means owning its atrocities. Your officials treat fire codes as suggestions and human lives as collateral damage in their grift. The ongoing Thorncliffe Park fire isn’t a tragedy as evident in our case; it’s a predictable outcome. A scandalous abdication of duty. It is absurd that in a G7 nation, citizens must beg not to be burned alive in their homes due to government-sanctioned hazards.

ENOUGH.

Canada has no hope if this is not ripped out by the roots. People need to go to prison. Not a slap on the wrist. Not a paid suspension. Prison.

We are past being upset. We are righteously furious and filled with resentment. We have been betrayed in the most fundamental way: our government has chosen bribes over our breath.

JOIN THE FIGHT. BEFORE THE NEXT INFERNO HAS YOUR ADDRESS.

If you are sick of the corruption that kills, if you are tired of the lies, you are not alone.

Join fellow Canadians who still believe in this country at 🍁 Integrity Canada

SIGN NOW – BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE

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LAW VIOLATIONS

Including but not limited to,

A. Transportation Services Related Violations 

1. Sidewalk Pedestrian Slip & Fall Injury Risks

Unsafe and unlawful drainage of water directly discharged into the sidewalk. The water will freeze up during the colder days, and posing injury risks to the pedestrian and vehicular traffics – Public safety hazard violated numberous safety laws under the purview of Transportation Services, and MLS, and Toronto Building.

2. SIGHTLINE OBSTRUCTION VIOLATIONS

Bylaw Chapter 447, Chapter 743 & Chapter 950 enacted to safeguard pedestrians on the sidewalk as below: –

– § 447-2 C.(1)C.1 – MLS: “One of the fundamental aims is to ensure that sight lines are not obstructed so as to create hazards for both pedestrian and vehicular traffic.”
– § 950-200.A.
– § 743-31.A.(1) & (2)
– § 743-34.(2)(a)[1] & [2]
– § 743-36.I.
– § 743-38.B.
– § 743-43.A.
– § 743-44. D.
– § 743-44B & C.
– § 743-51.A. & B.
– § 743-52.
– APPENDIX A.6. & 21.

B. MLS Related Violations 

Main violations – Fire Hazard [Building Code 9.10.14.4.(2)] & Sightline Obstruction (§447, §950 & numberous Zoning Bylaws).

– § 629-12
– § 629-13
– § 629-16.A.(3)
– § 629-18.A., B. & C.
– § 629-27.A. & B.
– § 629-40.A
– § 447
– § 950
– § 629-8. & § 632-2.
– § 629-10.A. & B.
– § 629-23.
– § 629-6.D. & G.
– § 629-4.A.
– § 629-5.A.
– § 629-6.A., D., & G.
– § 629-20
– § 629-11.A.1. (2) & F. (1), (2) & (3)
– § 629-11
– § 629-23.H.

C. Building Code Related Violations 

Building Code Act, 1992
– CHAPTER 23 10.(2), (b) & 10.(1)
– Chapter 363 Article V
– Ontario Regulation 332/12
– Chapter 950
– Division C, Part 1, Subsection 1.3.3.
– Application H. iii) & iv)Ontario Building Code Act
– Section 8(2)(a)Building Code: –
– 3.1.18.1.
– 9.14.6.1.(1)
– 9.26.18.2.(1)
– 2.2.1.1. Objectives (1) Category: Safety Number: OS Objective & Category: Safety — Safety in Use Number: OS3 Objective

Bylaw 569-2013
– 10.20.40.70.(3)
– 10.5.60.20 (3)(C)(i) & (ii), (6)(B)

Leaside Zoning Bylaw 1916: –

– 5.5
– 5.13.2
– 6.1.1 (1)
– 6.1.1(4)
– 6.3.3 Side Yard Setback
– 6.3.3 Rear Yard Setback
– 6.3.3 Side Yard Setback Between Dwellings
– 6.7.4

E. Breached City of Toronto Code of Conduct for Chief Building Official and Inspectors

– 1. a) & b)
– 2. a), b), c), d) & e)
– 4. a), b), c), d) & e)
– 5. a), b), c), d) & e)
– 7.
– 8. b) 

F. Other Applicable Law Violation

– Section E: Ontario Municipal Board (OMB): No new application applied, no compliance with all currently in-force law.
– Planning Act – PART I, PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATION, Provincial interest, Section 2.(h), (o)
– Provincial Policy Statement (PPS) – 3.0 Protecting Public Health and Safety.
– City of Toronto Act, 2001, Chap. Pr13 (Bill Pr20) False Declarations
– No Urban Forestry permission sought to injure a matured tree behind the garage.
– No Zoning Certificate or Preliminary Project Review (PPR) for extended Zoning & Plan Review
– At least 13 illegal building & structural deficiencies

SOURCES & FURTHER READING:

• Mayor Chow Complicit in Lawbreaking
• Ontario Building Code Act & Toronto Municipal Code Violations

• Hong Kong Fire Death Toll Rises: BBC News

• The Thorncliffe Park Betrayal: Canuck Post Report

• Corruption & Bribery in City Hall: Canuck Post Exposé

• Why London’s Inferno Will Happen in Toronto: Canuck Post Warning

• London Inferno – “Posing Fire Risks & Killing A Few Is Okay”

Demand justice. Demand safety. Or prepare for the next fire. The choice is Toronto…