The Federation of North Toronto Residents’ Associations Incorporated (FoNTRA) is a not for profit organization now comprised of over 30 residents’ associations, located between Bloor Street, Sheppard Avenue, the Don Valley Parkway and Bathurst Street in the City of Toronto. We monitor, investigate and help solve urban planning issues, share best practices and represent common interests of our members with all levels of government.
Current Issues
Annual General Meeting 2025 and Monthly General Meeting
We invite all members of FoNTRA to the Annual General Meeting. We encourage all member organizations to register for the AGM with Eventbrite to assist us in managing the attendee list.
The AGM will start at 6:00 pm and will precede the General Members Meeting (GMM) that will begin at the regularly scheduled time of 7:00 pm.
Ford government to appeal injunction blocking Toronto bike lane removals
Doug Ford says the provincial government will appeal the Ontario Superior Court’s decision to grant an injunction that blocks the removal of several bike lanes in Toronto. “But those bike lanes are coming out one way or another,” Ford said at a press conference in Mississauga Wednesday morning “We’re appealing it, because judges should not determine items like bike lanes.”
Ford Government’s Bill 5 is its latest “Trump like” assault on the environment and democracy
On April 17, 2025 the Ford Government quietly tabled the omnibus Bill 5, the Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act. While the bill introduces some added authority to restrict foreign ownership/investment in government procurement of things like electricity generation and mining claims/mines, the guts of the bill include a full-on attack on vulnerable species; and a new authoritarian “override power” of all environmental and other provincial/municipal laws.
Think Toronto is shabby and ugly? Changing this one thing could help halt the city’s race to the bottom
Toronto often feels shabby. There are many examples but the renovation of College Park comes to mind. The general idea was good — skating trail, landscaping, sculptural giant frogs — but the execution seems cheap and the details look rough and unthoughtful. There’s a clunky Zamboni-storing field house, expanses of lawn turned to mud and natural pedestrian routes blocked by obstacles. It should be great, like New York’s Bryant Park, but it’s shabby.
Have your federal riding boundaries changed?
In 2023 the federal riding boundaries were redrawn, and they now no longer correspond to the provincial riding boundaries (as they formerly did).
“A redistribution of federal electoral districts (“ridings”) began in Canada following the results of the 2021 Canadian census.”
There were many changes in particular to the federal electoral district boundaries within the City of Toronto, which take effect for the 2025 Canadian federal election. You can search for your district information by a number of means.
Ontario Place sewer plan an environmental disaster
We are writing in opposition to the Ontario Government’s combined sewer overflow work (CSO) at 955 Lakeshore Boulevard West (Ontario Place) that has the clear potential to spread polluted water, including sewer run off, into the West Channel around West Island at Ontario Place and the planned ‘new beach’. Combined overflow outlets run counter to herculean efforts to clean up Lake Ontario: the discharge will pollute a heavily used part of the waterfront.
