OP-ED: Toronto’s Marxist council obsessed with pickleball “noise” not riotous antisemitic rallies

Sue-Ann Levy writes, "It makes you wonder if most of the politicians running Marxist City Hall have no common sense, or are simply brain dead."

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Author: Sue-Ann Levy

It makes you wonder if most of the politicians running Marxist City Hall have no common sense, or are simply brain dead.

It wasn’t ridiculous enough that useless Toronto deputy mayor Ausma Malik put forward a motion at council last week to address the “noise” emanating from those who now enjoy pickleball in city parks.

Or that Communist Paula Fletcher seconded the motion.

But 19 other foolish councillors supported them, including dancing fool Mayor Olivia Chow.

Fletcher wasn’t even in the council for the vote.

Over the years, I’ve watched far too many councils get distracted with unimportant and frivolous issues. But this collection of mostly rabid leftists on the council seems to revel in trying to control the lawful while allowing the lawless to destroy our city unchecked.

It is galling to me that Malik, who her constituents say has been a horrible councillor, would be upset about the noise created by a few pickleball players (noise that is not as bad as bouncing basketballs) when she treats so many othe,r more pressing issues as just noise.

The real noise, of course, has come from the many protests over the past two years from Hamas sympathizers who occupy the streets in her ward without a permit and the neighbouring downtown ward shouting “Free Palestine,” “Death to Jews,” and other hateful chants, often using sound equipment and banging pots and pans.

Malik, who was revealed to have cheered on Hezbollah more than 10 years ago, appears to have no problem with the noisy Jew-hating protesters. Ditto for most of the rest of council.

The same goes for the screaming drug addicts who take over the streets and sidewalks near safe injection sites and outside the harm reduction shelters that she was so eager to situate in her ward.

That noise is also fine by Malik.

Diane Chester lives right behind the newly opened emergency shelter at 629 Adelaide St. West, run by St. Felix Centre.

Despite promising a “good neighbour policy before the shelter opened, she says the powers-that-be have completely ignored their noise concerns.

As of this week, she has written 42 e-mails and sent videos about what she calls the “constant, ongoing and completely unacceptable” noise from the HVAC equipment on the shelter’s roof.

The constant “loud, maddening, droning hum” persists from 5 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. daily, she says.

She has not heard one word from Malik.

Chester says when she saw the pickleball story, she was “appalled” that Malik has had no interest in responding to the neighbourhood about the noise from the shelter.

Let’s not forget encampments where emboldened squatters endeavour to terrorize those who simply want to use their local parks.

I had a bunch of Antifa types chase me out of Dufferin Grove Park this past summer. One threatened to follow me home, but I suspect he was too drugged up to do so.

Constituent Brenda McDougall says Malik has been consistently MIA when it comes to the mess that has been created on The Esplanade with the push for one-way bike lanes.

That has created huge traffic problems, she says.

She says Malik does not answer calls or e-mails — only communicating with constituents with a newsletter that lists all her accomplishments.

McDougall suggests her priorities are all screwed up.

”There are so many problems in her ward and she focuses on this.”

But truly, we can’t expect much from Malik and any other members of council when Toronto’s mayor spends virtually every weekend dancing (and not very well) at some diversity event—while Toronto burns.

Or she does some silly schtick as if she were a TikTok celebrity.

The latest dance was done last weekend after Chow and councillor Lily Chang declared a section of north Toronto “Little Iran” complete with street signs.

And here is Chow apparently trying to promote the Blue Jays.

It seems every day we see yet another example of the incompetence and pure foolishness of Toronto’s Marxist council.

On Thanksgiving night, a crew of at least seven or eight city trucks (no doubt working on double time) were on Eglinton Ave moving the bike lane’s concrete barriers.

I spotted them while walking our dogs and my heart skipped a beat.

Could it be that they’re taking out the lanes, I wondered.

But no. I was informed that they were moving them to allow the snowploughs easier access.

They were improving the snow-clearing access, not for cars but for the three or four food delivery employees on bikes who will use the lanes in the winter months.

We are truly governed by morons.

Whether noise or so many other issues, these fools are adept at turning a deaf ear to the concerns of taxpayers who put them in office.