I looked at all of the City of Brampton's council minutes from the last four years - council, committees, and planning, every motion counted by who moved it. You can check them yourself: https://www.brampton.ca/EN/City-Hall/Council-Committees/meetings-agendas/Pages/Consolidated-Minutes.aspx

How much of the public business carries his name. In four years, Mayor Brown personally moved 47 motions at council. Regional Councillor Palleschi moved 190. Councillor Santos moved over 170. Councillor Keenan moved 159. The mayor moved fewer than all but two members of his council. Of his 47, 46 carried; none lost, none was deferred. Across the whole term, the minutes record about 50 votes, and two motions lost. Whatever else that is, it is not a council that debates its mayor's business. It approves it.

What the 47 motions are. Fourteen are substantive - the annual budgets, two major purchases, a development-charge cut, red light cameras. Twelve are procedural. The remaining sixteen are ceremonies, event funding, and announcements: proclamations and heritage months, letters to other governments, a twinning arrangement. At the first meeting of the term he moved $25,000 for a Backyard Rink Competition. He moved $300,000 from the rate stabilization reserve to sponsor a cricket tournament, with fee waivers. And he moved the motion directing the city's communications staff to promote the Mayor's Golf Tournament. The minutes record it in one line: "That Strategic Communications be directed to support communications with respect to the Mayor's Golf Tournament."

The pattern holds at Committee of Council, where members bring items under their own names. Brown brought 30 items in four years. Twenty-two are events, ceremonies, and letters. Nine waive city fees - a transit charter, the Rose Theatre's rent, two ball hockey tournaments, a tent permit. The minutes never state what any of those waivers cost. In May 2024 the committee directed staff to produce a tally of all fees waived that year.

What is not in his record. The campaign subjects. In four years Brown moved no motion on the LRT. The project in the record is a study, with no funding agreement. He moved no motion on the second hospital; it appears in his record once, as a 1% levy clause inside a budget motion. He moved no motion on snow clearing. The major auto-theft motion of the term was moved by Councillor Santos. Brown seconded it, after it came out of a closed session he had moved to convene. On downtown, he moved one motion in four years: a direction to staff to remove 223 Main Street North from the heritage register, to facilitate a high-rise application.

Where the decisions are actually made. Not in the open motions. 334 items this term were "dealt with under Consent Resolution - approved in bulk, without individual debate. An Integrity Commissioner report was received that way, undebated. In May 2025 the Integrity Commissioner's proposed amendments to the code of conduct were referred back to staff on consent, in the same package that added a severance allowance to council's compensation - one month's salary per year of service, up to twelve months, payable when a member leaves office. Brampton had never had one. Peel Region already pays its councillors an end-of-term allowance on the same formula, and Brampton's mayor and regional councillors sit on that council too.

64 of 78 council meetings went into closed session, covering roughly 245 items. The two largest amounts Brown personally moved - $77.9 million to purchase 175 Sandalwood Parkway West, and $108.2 million for a transit facility - were both decided in closed session first. The public motions that followed are a few lines long.

The clearest single example is the Argo transit pilot. It was approved at a special meeting on April 17, 2025, which ran from 1:15 to 1:33 p.m. The item, titled "Closed Report - Transit Innovation Pilot Project," was approved on consent as part of the motion adopting the agenda; the Clerk noted that convening a closed session was not required. In the same meeting, Brown moved an additional $8.1 million in capital funding for "Transit Innovation." The minutes of the entire term do not name the vendor or state the contract's value. The amount reported publicly is $10.9 million.

The third pattern is absence. At Planning Committee, where development applications are decided, Brown was absent at roll call for 25 of 59 meetings, and in four years he never moved, seconded, or spoke to an item. The committee dealt with 186 application files in that time and refused three.

When an outside check arrived. In May 2023 the Ontario Ombudsman sent council a letter about audit best practices. Councillor Medeiros moved to refer it to the Audit Committee. Brown moved instead to refer it to the Budget Committee, with a direction that staff calculate the costs arising from the Ombudsman's earlier letter and identify how to recover them - costs the motion attributed to "false and defamatory remarks." The mayor's motion was voted on first and carried 11 to 0. The Audit Committee motion then lost 2 to 9.

The other side of the record. A complete account has to include what he moved that mattered. At the first meeting of the term, he moved to suspend payments on the Bovaird House barn project and have its costs reported publicly. This year he moved a cut of at least 30% to residential development charges, and a red light camera program. The record does not show a mayor who never governs. It shows a mayor who governs selectively - and what he selects, most often, is the announcement layer.

Why it matters. On October 26, Brampton is not choosing between two flyers. It is deciding whether the way this city has been run for four years continues. The campaign describes a builder. The minutes - the only record of the term that is not campaign material - describe something more specific: a mayor whose name is on the ceremonies, the events, and the announcements, and not on the issues that matter to the people who live here - the LRT (no committed funding), the second hospital (no committed funding), snow clearing, auto theft. His largest decisions were made on consent or behind closed doors. You can weigh that record however you like. But it is the record.

This a drone view of the massive custom quadruple house being built near the corner of Mississauga Rd and Queen St, right next to Lionhead Golf Club. Any guesses as to who the owner is and what they do?

Craving some steak and eggs.
Any spots recommended that’s clean, decent quality and not too expensive

All new duos are might ship in December because of people like this ordered and its not even shipped yet but has decided that will upsell something that people can buy it in store, if you cannot afford it you should have planned better, not just blindly ordering limited stock items.

I hate this group and the other who does the same thing with poke cards from costco.

I tried to post this. I am not sure if it was approved.

I wrote an op-ed about my experience at Arkham Aslyum aka the mental health ward at Willaim Osler Health Centre.

Here is the link: https://thewhimsicallymundane.wordpress.com/2026/10/22/mental-health-is-a-joke-but-its-not/?fbclid=PAb21jcAVHqX1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mAnNydGMGYXBwX2lkDzU2NzA2NzM0MzM1MjQyNwABp-tLma0FhcipYdVAqVO5fnHbeBWeRJCiXmzMYv8qPl3khaW-yKjtuQIvygzx_aem_E3hFV5TAxSmRS4Q9YSr_Og

this is not my story. it is everyone's story who has been cycled through that nightmare.

please read. please share.

this has been sent to the hospital and THEY ARE INVESTIGATING 💁🏾‍♀️

How do we stop this? I live by a school and every other time I go for a smoke I see people dumping either a few black bags to larger things into the school dumpsters.

Do you think if we had license plate readers cameras in those areas they would stop ?

It becomes very bad with raccoons, Coyotes and rats.

People on Facebook are claiming that today was the last day for returns at that location, and the closing date is December 27.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2211354491/posts/10163559378499492/

It opened in 2007 as a Lowe's: https://www.bramptonguardian.com/business/lowes-set-to-drop-the-hammer-on-brampton-tool-buffs/article_d99605f5-8d5e-5a86-9816-66ef774d6cee.html

Great food, great board, great times!!

Thanks again to the Grotto tea lounge for hosting us :)

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Hello everyone,

This is my first time posting here. I haven’t voted yet, and I’m still unsure who to vote for in Brampton Wards 9 and 10.

I’d appreciate any honest opinions or recommendations on which candidates would best represent our community and why.

Helloo I’m 21 year old female and I’m looking to meet some new people and make some friends around my age! I was wondering if there are any clubs or rec programs with female members in the city that I could join. I enjoy hiking, video games, board games and I’m open to try new activities!

If anyone wants further reason why the Argo thread should be looked at more closely, and why the contract with Argo needs to be investigated, look no further than Lion Bus in St. Jerome QC, where the RCMP raided their offices yesterday, as part of a criminal investigation into insider trading.

TL/DR . . . electric bus maker does a pump and dump, where the CEO sells his shares just ahead of a bankruptcy declaration. Nothing fishy, but, oh look, 100s of million in federal dollars poured into Lion Bus. Here's a link to get you started. The parallels are frightening to this resident.

Patrick Brown's "Law & Order" mailer landed in my mailbox this week. Six pages of promises. Promise number one: 700 more uniformed officers over the next four years.

So I did what the mailer doesn't. I priced the promise - using Peel Police's own numbers.

Start with the fair point: the mailer's core claim is true, as far as it goes. Peel has fewer officers per resident than Toronto and the national average, and that's the service's own published figure. Nobody's against closing a real gap.

But check it against the neighbours, because that's where the story changes. At 144 officers per 100,000 residents, Peel is tied with York and Durham and ahead of Halton. Peel is not short of officers. It is short of value. It spends about $470 per resident on policing, the most in the GTA, more than Toronto's $386. Divide the budgets by the badges and Peel spends roughly $280,000 per officer, against about $220,000 in Toronto - 27% more for every officer on the street. That difference is overhead: the structure, the command, the layers between the taxpayer and the officer on the street. There is an efficiency problem here, and it is the first thing a serious mayor would attack. Brown's answer is the opposite: don't fix the cost, just buy more of it. Which is why this is not really about whether the police need funding. It's about who pays for it, and what the man making the promise tells you about your taxes while he makes it.

Here's the record. Peel Police's budget: $423 million in 2019. $837 million in 2026. It has doubled in eight years. In 2025 alone it jumped 23.3% - $144 million in a single year.

Here's how it reaches you. Police are about 19% of your total property tax bill, collected through the Region of Peel. In 2026, police alone accounted for half of the Region's entire tax increase (1.77 of its 3.36 points) - more than every other regional service combined.

And your total tax bill has gone up 21.8% in three years. Brown's word for that is "zero." His zero covers only the city's own slice of your bill - about 40% of it. The rest is where his police budget lives, and he is the one driving it. This is the cost-of-living squeeze nobody at City Hall will name. It's not just groceries and gas. It's a mayor who votes for the biggest increases on your bill, then campaigns on the word zero.

He is not a bystander to any of it. Brown has sat on the Peel Police Service Board since 2018. That board sets the police budget. It also sets the chief's pay. When a motion came to cap the 2025 increase at 18%, every vote for the cap came from Mississauga members. Brown wasn't one of them. Carolyn Parrish quit the board over the 23.3%. Brown stayed, and publicly commended the 2026 budget. The board he sits on also made Chief Duraiappah the highest-paid police chief in Canada - $604,449 in 2025, up from $299,196 in 2020.

Now price the promise. Peel Police's own 2026 budget costs an added staff member at $194,090 a year. Run it: 700 officers is about $136 million a year region-wide by year four, $340 million over the term, 16% more on the police budget.

Now here is the math on what that does to a Brampton tax bill. Peel splits the police bill between Brampton and Mississauga by assessment - Brampton carries about 38%, Mississauga the rest. Brampton's share of this promise alone is about $52 million a year. On your bill, that's roughly +3.1% - about $225 a year on the average Brampton home. Three per cent sounds small. Stack it. Your bill is already up 21.8% in three years; this one promise takes the rise past 25%. And unlike a one-time fee, it never comes off. It's $225 more next year, and the year after, and every year after that.

And that's just the hiring inside this one promise. It doesn't count the three new police facilities the same mailer promises, with the capital bills and the overruns that always follow.

Now zoom out, because the promise sits inside something bigger. Peel Police's own forecast, approved by the board Brown sits on, takes the budget from $837 million today to $1.23 billion by 2029 - up 46% in the next three years. The 700 officers aren't on top of that number. They're inside it. This is the plan. Run Brampton's share of it through the same math and the average home is paying roughly $640 more a year for policing by 2029 than it does today - about 9% more on the total tax bill, from police growth alone. And if the last eight years are any guide, the real number lands higher still. Brown sits on the board that approved this trajectory. He has never been its brake. He is its salesman.

The mailer's other numbers bend the same way. "706 officers hired" is gross hiring - net strength grew by 241 last year, and Brown's own website says 785. His numbers don't agree with each other. The 911 improvement is real, but Peel Police's own figure for 2025 is a 12-second average answer, not the 7 seconds in the mailer - which compared a worst case then to an average now.

None of this is hidden. It's in his mailer and in Peel Police's published budgets. He takes the credit at the photo op. He takes none of the bill. The endorsement on page one calls him "the strongest municipal voice in Canada for front-line policing." It should come with a footnote: the most expensive one - for you.

Patrick Brown has already told you what's coming next year, and the three after that. Another promise he won't price, another budget he won't brake, another tax bill he'll call zero.

Eight years of this: your money, their secrets. A mayor with no integrity who does whatever he wants.

Vote Patrick Brown out on October 26.

where in brampton?

are there any neighbourhoods or streets decorated for halloween worth checking out?

Evening all

Just hoping to pick everyone's brains on recommendations for affordable drop in boxing classes?

Not looking for a membership currently as I can realistically only go once a week (or bi-weekly depending on price) with my current work schedule.

Max willing to spend would be $40-$50 (at that price would probably go bi-weekly).

Any recommendations? Feel free as well to give shout outs to anyone looking for clientele if they're just starting out coaching.

Talking with Daljit Singh about the school trustee position. Daljit is a candidate in wards 9-10 for the public school trustee position

Trustee's are between a rock and a hard place right now and we had a good talk about being involved in your child's education.

Argo's Brampton contract is up for renewal in November. It's Patrick Brown's pet project - a $10.9 million deal the taxpayers paid for. And Brown hasn't shared a single insight on how it's gone. No ridership numbers. No performance data. Nothing.

So I did some digging. Argo Corporation is publicly traded - TSXV: ARGH - which means its books are public. I went through 14 of their filings. Here's what I learned.

Start with the obvious objection: transit is a public service. Nobody expects it to make money. Fair enough. That is not the test. The test is whether the people running it can manage money at all.

Here is their record. $106 million in accumulated losses, across three lives - Facedrive, Steer Technologies, Argo. $13.4 million of it added in the 18 months to June 2026. Cash on hand: $640,000. Working-capital hole: $15 million. Going-concern warnings in every filing - the auditors' way of saying this might not survive.

That is the company holding Brampton's $10.9 million.

The structure is a maze - a listed holdco, an operating sub, legacy entities, a 42.7% stake in a food company it signed away the votes on, and buses it doesn't even operate itself. CEO Praveen Arichandran isn't an employee; he bills US$16,667 a month through his own private company, collected zero in cash last year, and is owed $1.6 million. Chief Business Officer Qamar Qureshi: same arrangement, $304,000 paid, another $376,000 owed on paper.

Here's where it gets concrete. $2.18 million in 12% loans went to the officers' own private companies, secured against everything Argo owns - first in line ahead of everyone. So ask what happens if this company doesn't survive the contract: the city's prepaid money becomes an unsecured claim, standing behind the insiders. We've seen this movie - when Argo's Steer EV subsidiary went bankrupt in October 2024, unsecured creditors were told they'd get nothing.

All of this is in Argo's public filings on SEDAR+ - sedarplus.ca, search "Argo Corporation."

And look at what the structure does to the money. The city's $10.9M doesn't buy buses. It goes to a holdco, through an operating sub, out to fleet partners the filings don't name - while the officers bill through private companies and hold secured loans against everything. Every layer has a claim on the money before a passenger ever boards. How much of each dollar actually reaches the road? The filings don't say. The structure makes sure you can't follow it.

So is Brampton getting good value for $10.9 million? Nobody can answer that. Not from the filings. Not from the city. The FOI came back 1,492 pages, 86% blacked out, the contract withheld. No ridership. No renewal clause. No metrics. A public company, a public contract - and the value is unknowable by design.

So the worry is simple: a vendor whose own auditors warn it may not survive, holding prepaid public money, behind a structure so convoluted that value can't be measured - and a renewal in November, decided in the dark.

Which brings it back to the start: the original $10.9M was approved in a closed session with no public staff report. Either nobody did due diligence, or somebody did and signed anyway. Which is worse?

Eight years of this: your money, Patrick Brown’s secrets. A mayor with no integrity who does whatever he wants.

Vote Patrick Brown out on October 26.

I'm assuming this is coming from the Hindu Temple on Gore Road, this is louder than anything I've ever heard in ANY public space

There are some other good changes in here, but I feel like it’s important to know that they’re not just “reliability adjustments” as stated on their website; some of them are blatant removal and buses and what not. There are also not that many cuts! But they are to collector and supporter corridors that don’t run super frequent so this can definitely hurt ridership, so I’m not a huge fan of the specific routes targeted.

New things:

54 County Court

- Will now service Havelock Drive previously serviced by the suspended 56 Kingknoll

- It will face a genuine adjustment where service will now operate at a 20 minute interval (from 10/12 minutes) during the Monday-Sunday daytime, at 34 minutes (from 36 minutes) in other period. This was also done since this route interlines (becomes) Route 52 McMurchy.

Other Adjustments

52 McMurchy

- Since it interlines with the above 54 County Court, this route will also run every 20 minutes during the Monday-Sunday daytime. (from 25 minutes). It will continue to operate every 45 minutes during the evening and night periods.

5/5A Bovaird

- Route 5 eastbound will now begin earlier at 3:26 am instead of 4 am. Eastbound service will now end at 11:46 pm instead of 12:20 am

- Route 5A eastbound will now begin earlier at 5:26 am instead of 6 am. Eastbound service will now end at 8:11 pm instead of 8:55 pm

23 Sandalwood

Due to unreliability, Saturday midday service will be adjusted from every 28 minutes to every 33 minutes. Additional running time will be given, to ensure buses are more reliable.

Cuts:

2 Main

AM/PM Peak service will be reduced. Currently buses operate every 20 to 22 minutes during this period. They will now operate every 25 to 28 minutes.

Midday service will also be reduced. service also currently operates every 20 to 22 minutes during this period. They will now operate every 30 to 35 minutes.

26 Mount Pleasant

Buses currently run every 22 minutes all day Monday to Friday. They will now run every 30 to 32 minutes.

Some other routes will also face schedule adjustments and retimings. No frequency changes necessarily. These include Route 3 McLaughlin, 4/4C/104 Chinguacousy, 29 Williams, 35 Clarkway, 50/50A Gore Road, 53 Ray Lawson, 58 Financial Drive, 60 Mississauga Road. Check schedules if you need any of these routes!

I should also probably mention, because Brampton Transit has done no proper advertising of said routes but, for people who live along Bonnie Braes Drive and needed route 55, service has been limitedly restored through a Route 53A Ray Lawson (has been the case since August 4th). Trips leaving Gateway (WB) leave at 12:50 pm and 2:00 pm, and leaving Creditview Road (EB) at 9:00 am, 10:00 am, 1:30 pm and 2:40 pm.

They are operating a similar service along Royal West Drive (since September 7th), whoever benefited from the 60s service along there, they are also operating a limited service branch of the 60, called the 60A Royal West. Operating several round trips leaving Mount Pleasant GO at 7:30 am, 10:00 am, 12:00 pm, 2:15 pm and 5:00 pm. These I believe are interim measures to test the waters for how well transit service could perform im these areas, although I highly doubt they were do so well if they don’t advertise more run them more attractively.

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do you get your ducts cleaned every year like or are there any signs or symptoms that you need to get your ducts clean

I'm very curious. Did you as a town vote for the people who implemented them?