Re: Hong Kong arrests 21 for corruption in building renovation crackdown
Hong Kong’s anti-graft agency arrested 21 people on suspicion of corruption in relation to renovation work at two residential estates, it said on Friday.Hong Kong has stepped up a crackdown on corruption linked to building renovation following a fire in late November that ripped through seven high-rise towers and killed more than 160 people.
A CITY ASLEEP WHILE IT BURNS: TORONTO’S MURDEROUS INDIFFERENCE AFTER THORNCLIFFE INFERNO
By Eddie Hardie 🍁 The Voices They Hope You’ll Forget
THE SHAMEFUL CONTRAST
This week, Hong Kong authorities arrested 21 people in a sweeping corruption crackdown targeting building renovation safety violations. The message was clear: endanger lives through graft and negligence, and you will face handcuffs, not handshakes.
Meanwhile, in Toronto, the smoldering wreckage of Thorncliffe Park tells a different story—one of cowardice, corruption, and catastrophic indifference. While Hong Kong acts, Toronto’s administration under Mayor Olivia Chow offers residents ashes, apologies, and agonizing silence.
This isn’t just failure. It’s institutional manslaughter in slow motion.
THE GRENFELL CONNECTION THEY DARE NOT NAME
Toronto Fire Chief Jim Jessop has confirmed the unthinkable: buildings at Thorncliffe Park were insulated with DEADLY COMBUSTIBLE PARTICLE BOARD—the same type of material that turned London’s Grenfell Tower into a funeral pyre for 72 people in 2017.
Let that sink in.
A known fire accelerant, banned or heavily restricted in jurisdictions that value human life, was allowed here. In Toronto. In 2025. On a high-rise packed with families.
The response from City Hall? A deafening, vile silence. No mass arrests. No task forces. No urgent audits of every at-risk building. Just a media blackout and a hope that Toronto’s largely immigrant population won’t understand that corruption kills.
THE COVER-UP IN PLAIN SIGHT
While Reuters reports on Hong Kong’s anti-corruption arrests, Toronto media largely parrots city talking points: focusing on “insurance,” “displacement,” and “recovery efforts.” The criminal negligence—the illegal, combustible cladding—is buried.
Why?
Because asking who approved this death trap leads to uncomfortable places:
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Which inspectors looked away?
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Which developers cut corners?
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Which officials failed to act after Grenfell’s lessons?
It’s an inferno of corruption, fueled by a belief that Thorncliffe’s residents—many new Canadians—won’t demand justice. That they’ll be grateful for crumbs instead of enraged by betrayal.
OLIVIA CHOW’S “PROGRESSIVE” HELLSCAPE
Mayor Olivia Chow campaigns on compassion, community, and care. But at Thorncliffe, her administration’s neglect is murderous. Residents were abandoned to a predictable inferno. Now, they’re abandoned to smoldering ruins and unanswered questions.
Where is the emergency audit of every high-rise in the city?
Where are the arrests for those who signed off on illegal materials?
Where is the moral clarity that should follow a near-mass-casualty event?
Instead, we get bureaucratic mumbledom. It’s not just failure—it’s complicity.
THE GLOBAL CONTEXT OF CORRUPTION & FIRE
This is not abstract:
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Grenfell Tower, London (2017): 72 dead. Combustible cladding.
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Tai Po, Hong Kong (2024): 161 burnt alive. Building safety failures.
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Thorncliffe Park, Toronto (2025): A warning shot—a disaster contained only by the bravery of firefighters, not the competence of city officials.
Hong Kong is now arresting people. London has held years of public inquiries. Toronto? “We’re looking into it.” While the next building waits to ignite.
Multiple Buildings are on Fire in Hong Kong, 25 November 2025
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A DIRECT MESSAGE TO TORONTO RESIDENTS
To every immigrant family, every new Canadian, every person who chose Toronto as a safe haven: you have been lied to.
Your lives are cheapened by a system that believes you won’t fight back. That you don’t know your rights. That you’ll accept third-world corruption in a first-world city.
Wise up. Rise up. Demand answers:
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Who allowed illegal combustible materials?
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Why is no one being arrested?
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When will every unsafe building be stripped of this death-wrap?
Your loved ones are next if you stay silent.
THE ABSURD, SCANDALOUS TRUTH
It’s strange, funny, and horrifying that in Toronto—a city obsessed with bike lanes, plastic straw bans, and symbolic declarations—actual life-and-death building safety is ignored.
It’s shocking that after Grenfell, any city would allow similar materials on high-rises.
It’s absurd that the same week Hong Kong makes arrests, Toronto’s biggest scandal is… insurance delays.
It’s scandalous that Mayor Chow’s “caring” brand masks a deadly inertia.
WHAT MUST HAPPEN NOW
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Immediate Criminal Investigation: The Thorncliffe fire wasn’t an “accident.” It was a regulatory crime. Charge those responsible.
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City-Wide Cladding Audit: Every building. Every violation. Publicly listed.
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Resignations at City Hall: Starting with those who oversaw building safety.
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Media Accountability: Stop covering trivialities. Chase the corruption story.
FINAL WARNING
Hong Kong acts. London remembers. Toronto dithers.
The fire at Thorncliffe Park was not a “tragedy.” It was a preventable atrocity. The next one will be mass murder.
Do not wait for the funeral pyres to grow.
Demand justice now—or prepare to mourn in a city that has already burned its conscience to ash.
SOURCES:
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Hong Kong arrests 21 for corruption in building renovation crackdown
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Toronto Fire Chief reveals deadly combustible cladding at Thorncliffe
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How Olivia Chow’s Toronto Abandoned Thorncliffe Park Residents
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Thorncliffe Park Fire Cover-Up: Media Only Cover ‘Trivial Matters’
Grenfell Tower burns—a warning Toronto ignored
The charred skeleton of Thorncliffe Park stands as a monument to municipal failure.
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