Allen Kerbel Park. Guy with his brown and white pitbull. Lets it crap right near the kids playground.

I ask if he's going to pick it up. He starts yelling to mind my business (I walk there all the time), swearing at me, threatening to let his dog off to kill my dog, he's going to knock me out

Ignorant and selfish.

Anyone encounter something like this?

COME BOARD

PLAY GAMES

Yes, it's a "terrible" Walking Dead meme but if you found it funny, guess what? You'll find a bunch of people that share your humour at our weekly board game night!

This week we'll be at Magnums Bar (Queen and McMurchy) playing a bunch of different board games and sharing in laughs and crazy janky plays. If you haven't played board games in a while or are starting out, don't worry our group has a lot of great folks that will help teach you and introduce you to the hobby!

We're almost over 200 people in our community and would love to have you join us! If you can't make it out for our Tuesday Event, feel free to DM us for a discord invite! We do a lot of non-public events (TTRPGS, Hiking, Foodie Tours, ETC) that keeps the community active outside of just Tuesday nights!

Who has impressed you this election?

“the DEVIL you know” is one of the strongest psychological advantages an incumbent has, but it can also become an indictment—if voters know the devil well enough, familiarity stops being reassurance and becomes the reason to change.

Financial liabilities? More than doubled.

Strategic reserve? From $200 million to about $9.5 million.

Capital backlog? $1.5–$1.6 billion sitting in previously approved projects.

Capital projects waiting? 583.

Tax freezes? Bills pushed into the future.

Sunshine List? 820 employees in 2018; more than 2,100 in 2025. The $100,000 threshold has not been indexed, so I would use the number but acknowledge that qualification.

Mayor’s office spending? More than $400,000 in non-salary expenses in 2023 and $460,000 in 2024.

Staying within his own budget? His reported non-salary spending was almost twice the approved amount in 2023 and more than twice it in 2024.

Taxpayer-funded social media? Hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Foreign travel? Frequent.

Public accounting for the return on that travel? Thin. Reporting based on expense records has repeatedly questioned what investments or jobs resulted from the trips.

BramptonU? About $630,000 spent; university abandoned.

BramptonU deliverables? City staff could not locate a number of them.

Forensic investigations? Cancelled before they were completed.

Ontario Ombudsman? Encouraged Council to revisit the decision to cancel the audits and stressed investigator independence.

Procurement safeguards? An internal audit found limited-tender contracts did not require the same conflict disclosure protections.

LRT tunnel? Announced repeatedly; construction funding still not secured as of August 2026.

World-class cricket stadium? Promised; still not built and no longer meaningfully funded in the budget.

Downtown Reimagined? Cancelled after Brown took office.

Replacement downtown transformation? Eight years later, still waiting.

Riverwalk? Delayed repeatedly.

Money collected for capital work? Huge amounts remained unspent while projects sat unfinished. The 2024 capital status report showed $3.19 billion approved across 583 active projects, with reporting identifying roughly $1.2 billion unspent or uncommitted.

Major projects funded by Brampton? Increasing reliance on debt, grants and hoped-for senior-government contributions. The 2026 budget includes projects with funding categorized simply as “other.”

Long-term liabilities? $38.1 million in 2024 to $96.1 million in 2025.

City Hall accountability? The Ombudsman has been telling Brampton for years that an independent Auditor General would strengthen public confidence. Brampton still does not have one.

City staff used during Brown’s federal leadership campaign? The Integrity Commissioner found seven mayor’s-office employees worked on the campaign during normal working hours and could not find contemporaneous leave approvals; because records were inadequate/altered afterward, the Commissioner could not make a Code finding against Brown. But... you know. We all know.

Police spending? The Peel Police budget has roughly doubled over eight years, while Brown and allies opposed a proposed audit in 2026.

Announcements? Plenty.
Ribbon cuttings? Plenty.
Finished transformational projects? That’s the question I would make him answer.

But more fundamentally, tell me this:

Which of Patrick's Brown's touted accomplishments was actually "his idea"?

LRT? Wynne / Metrolinx / Jeffrey
Hospital? Time immemorial
BramptonU? Jeffrey empaneled a working group
Riverwalk? Fennel generously, Jeffrey undeniably
Embelton Rec Centre? Part of parks plan in 2017
New Transit Facility? 2019 ish, so lets give him a maybe for execution, but was it his idea?
Howden Rec Centre? Jeffrey (Planning began March 2018)
Orangeville rail trail? His era, not his idea

So, beyond "lets finish what other started" - what exactly is his platform? What are his ideas for the next ten years?

I hate "going negative" but lets talk about this:

What good is knowing the devil?

Had this today morning. Not sure if its red tailed hawk. Do i need to call city for anything. Other bird was probably pigeon.

Two informal polls show Wesley Jackson as the candidate most likely to score an upset victory this October.

1) Nextdoor user Tekken Walker ran a social poll, which garnered over 200 votes in total.

2) Social Media Creator and Regional Councillor candidate Mike Dancy created a poll on BramptonEast.com, while I have no data on the number of votes cast, the existence of that poll was advertised on FB, IG and Reddit, among other places.

When the participants are not "self selected" and the actual public weighs in, the trend is clear: Wesley Jackson is emerging as the candidate of choice for voters looking for a change of leadership in City Hall.

These types of polls tend to reach engaged voters. To see this change on October 26, we need to reach the disinterested voters, the one who show up at the polls, just vote for the name that sounds most familiar, and hope for the best. Its how incumbents get re-elected for no real reason. That's who we need to reach. Its starting to happen, but theres only a few weeks left.

You can support the campaign in many ways:

- tell a friend, tell your family
- share this post on your socials
- deliver flyers in your neighbourhood
- go door knocking and spread the word
- arrange a neighbourhood meet and greet
- display a lawn sign at home or at work
- donate to our campaign at WesleyJackson.ca so we can print more signs, advertise further, or host more events

Together, we can build a city that works for you.

There's open houses at the Fernforest, Queen St W (between McLaughlin and Chinguacousy), Vodden, and Mississauga Road at Steeles stations, but extending beyond this week, lasting until October 21.

They're also setting up next weekend at the Farmer's Market and all four Home Depots.

Thoughts?

Hi all, as the title says, I’m looking to buy Indian sweets and I am looking for good recommendations. I’m near Main and Bovaird, but don’t mind traveling a bit for good quality sweets. Thanks!

Got targeted with this ad last night. Brown's campaign is running an ad - the police union endorsement - authorized by the Patrick Brown campaign. The contact email on it: [database@thebrampton.city](mailto:database@thebrampton.city).

That domain is "Mayor Patrick Brown's Community Engagement Portal," branded as the City of Brampton. It's built on NationBuilder - and NationBuilder isn't just website software, it's database software. Every name, email, phone number, and home address entered on that site feeds a supporter database, under the account brampton.nationbuilder.com.

Who gets taxpayer money to build and manage databases for the mayor's office? From an earlier news article in The Pointer on expenses, a company called Solarit Solutions: about $101,000 across 22 invoices for "Database Building, Management & Audience Engagement," starting November 2024. Before that, the same firm billed about $158,000 for "Social Media Campaigns." Whether that's the database behind this site, the invoices don't say - and the site itself names no operator and has never had a privacy policy.

Brampton's own policy, GOV-120, says using the city's brand, resources, or data for election messaging counts as a contribution from the City itself.

This isn't about a contact email. It's about a mayor with no integrity doing whatever he wants - the rules are for everyone else.

For the community, remember that these are violations in plain sight. If you value respect for your tax dollar, and good governance, go out and vote on Oct 26.

Just people deciding it's a good idea to squat in the streets. I'm not good with age, but it seems be men between 20 and 50.

Worse, they aren't even squatting properly. They're on their toes . Everyone knows a proper squat goes down to your heels for support.

I just like to see the 2000 pound IQ tests wander the neighbourhood and enact Darwin's law.

Are front lawns no long good places to sit/squat/do whatever?

Looking to get out today? It's the second last farmers market downtown on Main St, theres a Art Market at Cityside Cafe, and it's "doors open" today and theres Free Admission and behind the scenes at PAMA.

Leaves are starting to turn in Gage Park!

Get out and enjoy the day!

any suggestions for places I can go and study before 9 am? the library near me opens at 10 am, and I want to build an early morning schedule where I can go somewhere, dedicate a couple hours to study, and then come home and chill. theres a timmies near me which is alright, but it gets loud at times. any help/insight would be appreciated. TIA!

Someone has deployed airborne pyrotechnics near Chinguacousy park, and I'm wondering why.

Any one know how to care for this little guy who hit a window?

Edit: Thanks for all the suggestions :) Contacted the Toronto Wildlife centre, hopefully they’ll get back to me tomorrow.

For now, it’s resting in a large box in a warm, quiet room. Feels odd to leave it there just in the dark, but that’s the advice. Didn’t seem to want water I brought to its beak with a spoon, and I won’t be able to hunt spiders for it, so feeling a bit useless. Hope it’ll be okay.

Edit: Thanks for pitching in, everyone. He held on but I guess it wasn’t meant to be, he’s gone. Idk why I feel like maybe keeping him in the box wasn’t the best thing (ventilated obviously- it’s just that total darkness feels weird, they do have a “mind”), but I followed the wisdom.
No animals got to him and he was warm, so maybe that’s the best we can do. Thanks again!

These images show how Brampton's Mayor and city councillors voted on every recorded vote listed by the City of Brampton for the 2022-2026 term, from November 2022 through December 10, 2025. Each row is one vote, with the date, the meeting, the topic, and each member's vote: green for Yes, red for No, grey for Absent, and yellow for N/A (the Mayor wasn't at that committee meeting). The number on the right is the final tally (Yes-No-Absent), and a red tally means the motion was lost. A recorded vote is one where members' individual votes were formally noted in the minutes, so many decisions are not shown here because they passed without one. An asterisk marks entries where the City's published record contains an inconsistency, such as a tally that doesn't match the votes listed. Source: City of Brampton, "Term of Council Recorded Votes." For the official record, check the meeting minutes or contact the City Clerk's Office.

I was surprised to see how many voted against affordable housing. Seems like Toor was absent the most.

I know many landlords in Brampton received this note for access for a Fire Safety Inspection.

I had the inspection today (Oct 2, 2026) for my upstairs unit and my rented basement, and want to share how it went – for people who still waiting for it.

1. I live in a house built in the 1960s, and my basement was officially legal since the early 2000's, so houses with newly added rental units would probably have less concerns. Also, because the day was inconvenient for me, I called and they change the day to the next one.
2. I have no fire extinguishers - they are not required for basement apartments or for a whole-house rental in most of Ontario, including Brampton. And if you chose to have them, they will be checking their monthly visual inspection logs, I believe.
3. The inspectors were checking locations and testing smoke alarms, carbon monoxide (CO) alarms (which are required for houses that have gas feed for natural gas furnace, water heater, fireplace, or have attached garage), fire-safe doors (and that they close by themselves when left ajar!), the electrical room, the furnace room – for fire-safe insulation in the ceiling, sprinklers in the furnace room, the type of ceiling (I still have drop ceiling tiles in the basement bedroims, which is okay fir bedrooms inly), the furnace, the water heater, and the free-of-obstruction furnace. Three inspectors went through my top floor, then the basement, opened most closet and storage room doors, and took a lot of photos for their report (!).
4. Although my house is old, they said my place was much better than average, with a couple of small observations I need to fix. One of them: I need to replace a little plastic door on the ceiling for the water shut-off valve with a metal one, and they advised me to keep a log of testing smoke and CO detectors once a year; they will email me the log form.

Good luck to all. I understand it is important, but stressful.

I wanted to add a photo of the notice, but don't see this option here.

Hi everyone! If you are looking for a space to create art while meeting like-minded people in the community, check-out this Art Hive happening every Saturday in Brampton! It is free and open to all ages!

Feel free to drop-in anytime from 1-4pm every Saturday! No need to bring any materials as we have it all at the Art Hive! See you there! 🎨🖌️🫟

Has a new cafe opened at the indigo on 52 Quarry Edge Dr? I used to go there for work but haven't swung by in a while. Nothing said online either.

And stand up for Brampton! So you can leave dumpsters on property for over 6 months and park as many cars as you want, wherever you want, whenever you want.

Did his volunteers not care about plopping sign right in front of 6+ month old dumpster, where street sign is missing, and cars are parked on road 24/7. Or in front of cars parked on side of house with who knows whats going on with that driveway with tire storage. Like tell me you really don't care without telling me you don't care.

Maybe Paul should add these photos to his mailers.

9 sites total

A group of us coming from Toronto to check it out

https://www.doorsopenontario.on.ca/pages/events/brampton