Paula Fletcher

• Longtime Toronto councillor Paula Fletcher announces retirement

  Fletcher said she’s still councillor until the fall and said she’ll continue answering calls for broken branches or sewer issues, like she has this week.

  Politics

  Aug 19
  
• ‘Craziest thing I’ve ever heard,’ Doug Ford says of decriminalizing drugs in Toronto

  Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Toronto's application to decriminalize drugs is the 'craziest thing' he's ever heard and he plans to do everything he can to fight it. 

  Canada

  Jul 14, 2023
  
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• Taste of the Danforth set to return in 2023, Toronto councillor says

  The Taste of the Danforth festival, which was cancelled in 2022 and has not been held since before the pandemic, will be open in 2023.

  Canada

  Feb 28, 2023
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• Another Toronto Airbnb party ends in gunshots prompting calls for action

  “This is the first time I’m feeling like very unsafe living in my own house.”

  Crime

  Dec 17, 2019
• Despite celebrity cameos, Toronto coffee shop forced to close due to increasing rent

  Other shops in the Gerrard Street and Jones Avenue area are also concerned about growing rent prices.

  Canada

  Oct 8, 2019
• With Toronto city council slashed to 25 wards, attention turns to governing

  Toronto residents have elected a city council under the new 25-ward system imposed by the Ontario government, but politicians are turning their attention to how governing will work with fewer representatives.

  Politics

  Oct 23, 2018
• Toronto election 2018: Ward 14 Toronto–Danforth

  Voters in Ward 14 Toronto--Danforth have elected Paula Fletcher as their councillor in the 2018 Toronto election.

  Politics

  Oct 13, 2018
• Toronto election: When political allies become friendly foes vying for the same council seat

  With the number of Toronto city council seats cut nearly in half, voters in 11 wards will see two incumbent councillors squaring off in the Oct. 22 election — something that is presenting a challenge for electors this time.

  Politics

  Oct 12, 2018
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• Swastikas, hate graffiti found on picnic bench in east-end Toronto

  With sharpies in hand, she said, they began drawing on the picnic table at the park she frequents with her family.

  Crime

  Sep 20, 2018
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• Toronto council votes to challenge law that would slash wards amid election day uncertainty

  During an emergency meeting at city hall on Thursday, the mayor and a majority of councillors voted to continue fighting Bill 5 in court and to mount a new challenge against Bill 31, which was tabled at Queen's Park on Wednesday.

  Politics

  Sep 13, 2018