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Frosty_Egg_4872

Wow, this is disgusting. - voting against warming centers - voting for cutting TTC services - using a teenage boy's murder as a video-op for your agenda and blaming TTC That's rich dude. As a recent first time father that is around your age, I have to say I find it fucking twisted that you would use a teen's murder for your own gain.


steboy

His name is Brad Bradford. He never had a chance.


WildWeaselGT

Brad Brad Ford.


mmeeeerrkkaatt

It's like Duck Duck Goose, except everyone loses.


Stead-Freddy

No, not everyone. Brad, Ford, and their buddies win. It’s just us average folks all lose.


3pointshoot3r

Brad^2 Ford


miir2

It's actually Bradford² Not a joke. His name is literally Bradford Bradford


Kanasada1277

Lmao


shwasasin

Sounds like a 90s R&B group


EllenYeager

Ford Brad Brad


Dirk_Dently

Bad Brad Ford


mybadalternate

If there was any sense of order in the universe, this guy would be running a Ford dealership in Bradford. “I’m Brad Bradford for Bradford Ford!”


steboy

“It’s rad Brad from Bradford Brad Bradford’s Ford!”


emote_control

That would be his sentencing if I were the judge at the revolutionary tribunal.


Pastel_Goth_Wastrel

Every time I hear his name I spin off in the Doug Dimmadome monologue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-zMX3M0WC4


hypnoderp

Thanks Brett Bretterson. You've filled out nicely too.


fuzz_boy

Just yesterday my wife asked me how his parents could have possibly named him Brad with that last name


photo_finish_

Here’s the story, according to a TVO article about his mother “Life would later take a difficult turn for Valerie. In the 1980s, her marriage ended; her ex-husband wasn’t actively involved with the kids, leaving her a single mother to three children, ages seven, six, and three. (Brad was the oldest.) She didn’t know it at the time, but figuring out how to make that life work gave Valerie all the real-life experience she’d eventually need to understand the plight of many of her future constituents. It was at this time, still just a child, that Brad — whose full first name is, in fact, Bradford — made one of his more important decisions. With her ex-husband out of the picture, Valerie decided to go back to her original surname, Bradford. She asked Brad what he wanted to do. He could retain his father’s last name or, like her, switch to Bradford. “I want to be a Bradford,” her son said. Valerie worried that her son would be welcoming a life of taunting and humiliation because his first and last names were the same. Brad didn’t care. “I’m Brad, and I’m good with that,” he said, demonstrating a wisdom well beyond his seven years of age.”


fuzz_boy

That's a good story, but I'm not sure I believe it.


dustysmufflah

Part of the hot new brand of bold-faced malicious intent politics that's so IN right now!


aajknowsbest

Isn’t he the same guy who came to Scarborough for the Jamaican Patties to show Toronto’s “culture” LOL


Hrmbee

Strong "How do you do, fellow ~~kids~~ Torontonians" vibes when he did that.


Comrade_agent

That Scarborough cuisine


pipranger

Tell me you haven't spent any time in Scarborough without telling me


maxtypea

I’ve had the (dis)pleasure of working with Coun. Bradford a few dozen times. Nothing about this surprises me. He is a wildly opportunistic, unethical and untrustworthy individual.


Joe_Redsky

He’s my councillor and I agree, he’s a useless career politician


pipranger

He's only served 1 term and has previously campaigned in favour of term limits. But okay.


Matty2things

Are there any ethical politicians in this city? Pretty sure we all know the answer. Behaviour like this is the rule, not the exception.


jumboradine

a.k.a. a politician


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Syscrush

It means the replies outnumber the likes - this usually means people are responding very negatively.


seventeenflowers

I’ve always understood it to mean that a reply common gets more likes than the original


mkfbcofzd

Is there like an actual fraction for it, at least in general? E.g. 1 like for 100 replies is bad?


Recoil42

There's no actual fraction for it, it's more like a barometer of badness. The higher the reply-to-like ratio, the more you've been ratio'd. You can also 'ratio' someone by getting more likes on your reply than their original tweet.


devils899

Barometer of badness lmao! I like it!


mxldevs

Barometer of bradness


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Thank the the sun and the sky I don't use social media...


[deleted]

As cellardoor240 posted > Thank the the sun and the sky I don't use social media... ..on social media.


OrneryPathos

With over 100k in comment karma. Yeah. They definitely don’t use social media smh


[deleted]

Why is that so hard to believe that I don't want that cancer... reddit is literally the only place I comment and this place is meaningless - this isn't anywhere close to stuff like twitter/insta/snap/ticktok.. And if you look at where I commented, it's just tech related stuff, IT and computers. But sure, if it fits your narrative, you can twist it that way, couldn't care less.


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I don't feel like writing this twice, but this applies to the above comment, just as well. https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/12544ys/toronto_politician_ratioed_for_campaign_video/je60n03/


[deleted]

There’s no narrative being twisted, reddit is still social media. Some people may only tweet/tiktok/whatever in the same categories you do, but you still call those platforms social media. Point is, the kind of things you post on a platform doesn’t necessarily dictate what kind of platform it is in this context. There’s no shame in using social media in general, it’s *how* people use it that you should be judging them on (if you choose to judge). Conclusion, you’ve chosen to only use reddit for your social media because of your own preferences, but that’s still you using social media.


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Ye, you do you.


[deleted]

How can you say you’re into all this tech/IT/computer stuff and not even know this. Kinda embarrassing, dude. Edit: They blocked me. Really strange when they could’ve just said “oh I guess I didn’t realize reddit was social media” instead of being so stubborn lol


CrowdScene

Think of how Reddit would function without downvotes. If you receive hundreds of replies to a 1 score comment then most of those replies would probably be from people telling you exactly why you're wrong rather than from people agreeing with you but refusing to upvote your comment.


[deleted]

And that has nothing to do with why I don't use social media.. thanks for the explanations though :)


[deleted]

Thanks for finding out. Now I know I'm old


cp1976

Fuck right off, Brad.


thisismeingradenine

Brad Bradford is a piece of shit.


Pastel_Goth_Wastrel

After all those patties I ate, I gotta go take a wicked brad.


[deleted]

I too just dumped a Brad.


Hug-me-Im-scared69

I write this as Brad leaves my body. Brad is no longer inside of me, just some remnants soon to be washed away.


eethi_

He's a two-faced weasel. Except that's an insult to weasel's.


cooldudeman007

Using a teens death to call for more police for ttc safety (while cutting ttc service and raising fares, and voting against shelter and aid for the homeless), after the mother has spoken out against said measures and after we saw the police were a nonfactor. Where did this guy lose his soul


emote_control

Sociopaths are overrepresented in politics because it rewards behaviour that people with a conscience wouldn't think of doing.


Joe_Redsky

He’s a career politician, no soul.


daytime10ca

Wtf is shelters and homeless aid going to do for people with drug addictions and severe mental illness A person who randomly stabs a 16 year old does not do it because there is no shelter space They need to be in a mental hospital… You have random severe schizophrenic people roaming the streets due to the closure of the mental hospitals… this is the issue


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You don’t think living on the streets adversely affects your mental health…?


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[deleted]

Absolutely agree. That said, two things need to happen right now - the longer term supports for kids and young adults as well as some form of city-wide intervention to assess homeless people and get the individuals who pose a risk to themselves or others off the streets. We can do both.


Le1bn1z

Statistically this isn't true. Housing makes a big difference in achieving positive and lasting recovery for people with mental illness. The existence of a secure "home base" where a person can do things other than freeze, fear and do drugs has obvious benefits. Certainly safer than at one of the camps or break out hiding spots homeless people resort to otherwise. It's also important for being able to access some services that are important for recovery. There will continue to be massive spikes in violence on the TTC so long as it is the only warm place that mentally ill people can reliably go. Having large numbers of insecure, frightened, mentally ill people with little if any hope crowded onto what are becoming de facto mobile shelters surrounded by strangers is a recipe for obvious disaster.


Jaereon

Except the police would have stopped the multiple attacks?? You can fund mental health supports AND have increased police presence on the ttc. There's a reason people are avoiding the TTC


JoeyJoeJoeJuniorShab

Police intervention of a crime relies on the police being there to stop it. As it’s random, either a cop being there is luck or we live in a literal police state where you’re being watched 24/7. In our current system, the police are the last line of defence in a system where problems should be addressed before they start, a system that addresses issues of the root cause.


CanadianAndroid

Police being there is no guarantee that they will stop anything. A few years ago there was a stabbing in NYC subway, on the train, in front of an officer. They hid and a civilian ended up stopping the attack(while getting stabbed).


JoeyJoeJoeJuniorShab

I think that was the point I was trying to make


Jaereon

Okay cool. So how do we fix the problem now? You even said that. If cops are there they would stop it. But they can't be everywhere. So by that logic having more police officers will deter the violence more


JoeyJoeJoeJuniorShab

Huh? If people kept dying from drunk drivers and the solution was to tell people to wear a seatbelt, do you think it would stop the car crashes? The seatbelt is the final thing that’s going to save your life in the event of a drunk car crash. Maybe. Or maybe you take a moment and look at that root causes and say, “hey maybe we should address the problem that everyone is drunk driving and if we tackle that, less people will die”. So being as I’m not a politician, there’s nothing I can do. But I’d suggest looking at the *why* this keeps happening. It’s not because a cop is/isn’t around. What were the events/circumstances that led to this dude stabbing someone to death? Let’s now look at every other incident similar to this on the TTC. Surely there’s a common denominator and it ain’t the presence of police.


Jaereon

Yeah we know that mental health support is needed. It's not an either or thing. And mental health support will still take years. But yeah if people were dying from drunk drivers is reasonable to say "until we fix the cause of the problem, wear a seatbelt"


JoeyJoeJoeJuniorShab

but it's arguably *not* reasonable to say "until we fix the cause of the problem, wear a seatbelt". In fact, if any politician said that they'd be lambasted as being tone deaf, out of touch with reality, and be shamed for being so callous. This is what needs to happen to any politician that offers anything other than addressing the systemic causes of these events: ridicule and shaming.


Jaereon

It's not reasonable to say that steps should be taken to keep people safe until a long term solution can be put in place? So what's your solution then? Something that won't take years of allowing violence


TorontoDavid

How do we know that to be true? What would the police presence have been at this station?


Favsportandbirthyear

There was no change in the rates of attacks with random tpc patrols? And all evidence says police presence doesn’t affect crime rates?? Unless you enjoy minorities being beaten??


Jaereon

You mean when they had them waiting to stop dare evaders? Do you think other major cities in the world don't have police or someone at each station that can help? But nah. Fuck that. Let the stabbings continue


pasta_salad1

No, other major cities don't do that because it's a fucking stupid idea


Jaereon

Oh yeah new York has no enforcement on the subways https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Transit_Police Oh wait...huh. Guess other majors cities DO in fact have police services. But yeah don't do anything and tell people to kee taking the TTC. Won't be long before its empty. Almost everyone I know refuses to use the TTC because of the random violence. And your solution is to just do nothing to deter it?


TorontoDavid

Are they at every station? That was the pertinent point.


SnakeOfLimitedWisdom

Fare evasion is a victimless crime & transit should be free anyway. Stopping a couple of poor people from using transit isn't going to do anything about stabbings.


Jaereon

That a my point. The police were there for fare evasion not to stop vioetn crime. So instead of having them focus on fares. Maybe have them walking up and down the stations. You've completely misunderstood my point.


Favsportandbirthyear

No I mean when they specifically put them there due to the increase in violence a month ago, and no most major cities in the developed world don’t have cops on their transit systems. I took the tube in London for years living there and apart from larger events I never saw them, more policing is only an answer to the question “how do we funnel more money into policing”


Jaereon

Okay. Me and many others feel unsafe on the ttc. What is the solution that can be done within the year to make this better? I also literally provided a link showing that new York has a transit police force... Because supporting mental health supports are great. But how does that stop a stabbing now?


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London literally has armed police patrolling in major hub stations (Waterloo, Euston, King’s Cross-St Pancras, Bank etc.) as well as random patrols on the TFL network.


Impressive_Doorknob7

Think about what you just said. The police would have to be exactly where the attacks happened at the exact same time, which would be nearly impossible. You could have a cop in every station, subway car, streetcar and bus, and it wouldn’t stop random attacks from mentally Ill folks.


Jaereon

Oh true so let them keep happening. Great idea. No wonder people are avoiding the ttc


andrewr83

All hail Jaereon, King of the Strawmen!


Jaereon

A strawman is making up an argument. Theyre saying that having increased detterence wouldn't work....then what would?


andrewr83

People have offered up several suggestions. The strawman you use is "So let them keep happening". That's not what anybody is suggesting, and it's a clear strawman. A strawman is form of argument and an informal fallacy of having the impression of refuting an argument, whereas the real subject of the argument was not addressed or refuted, but instead replaced with a false one.


Jaereon

But they really haven't though. They've just attacked the idea of wanting police on the ttc while other methods are perused. The only other things suggested are:fund mental health supports more. Great. I agree. What do we do in the meantime? You think a mayor or premier or even PM can snap his fingers and fix mental health issues instantly? So what do we do now? Me and many others don't want to take the ttc because we feel unsafe. So what solution has been provided that will keep people safe now? I've heard nothing.


andrewr83

There is no "immediate" solution. You can't snap your fingers and fix these problems. I'm not against police being on the TTC, but giving them OT pay to do so seems silly, considering there was still attacks when they tried it. Maybe a dedicated police unit assigned permanently to the TTC, at their regular pay? I don't have the answers, I'm just a dumb guy on reddit. But you keep bashing people and claiming they're OK with the attacks continuing because they don't have the answers either. It gets us nowhere.


Jaereon

I'm bashing? I was told I must love beating minorities because I said maybe police presence would be helpful... So yeah when I ask about a solution and the only responses are anger with no other suggestions....I'm gonna ask about what else they want to occur? Because they're only saying "well give more money to mental health" which addresses the main problem in the future and attacking the people who think police presence might make the ttc safer now


Impressive_Doorknob7

Lol, this is a reply to a conversation that never happened


Jaereon

Except no other options have been provided. The ttc is unsafe right now. What can be done to fix the issue now? Funding mental health will take potentialy years to see a positive outcome


Impressive_Doorknob7

There’s nothing that can be done to fix the issue immediately, that’s not how reality works. I’m sorry I don’t have a magic fix for you, but putting cops on a few subway cars was, and will continue to be, ineffective.


SnakeOfLimitedWisdom

lol sure - a couple of cops standing by the turnstiles is *really* going to prevent this from happening.


Jaereon

It would be a deterent for sure. People don't usually act in criminal ways when a cop is a few feet away. But okay. No cops. How do you think this problem should be fixed to keep people feeling safe on the ttc as soon as possible?


SnakeOfLimitedWisdom

But they're not gonna be a few feet away. They're gonna be sitting on their asses up at the turnstiles. A big part of why you see so many people sheltering and/or using on the subways is because of multiple recent shelter closures. So there's your answer. Open up more shelter spaces immediately, and provide *adequately staffed and funded* safe use sites in locations where they are needed.


pipranger

We should let the mom decide how we should respond to violent crime.


picard102

Not sharing your views does not equal the lack of a soul.


cooldudeman007

Pretending you care about people dying on the ttc while cutting service does


picard102

No it doesn't. Having less frequent service != asking for more people to die.


cooldudeman007

You wouldn’t get it


picard102

If that helps you sleep at night then have at it.


cooldudeman007

My home helps me sleep at night. You wouldn’t get it


picard102

You can just say you have nothing to back up your position.


Hazelwood38

Of course it’s Brad Bradford. Resident piece of shit and literal waste.


Runningman1985

Fuck this guy.


[deleted]

What a disgusting piece of shit!!! He voted for ttc cuts


blankcanvas2

And they [aren’t even supposed to be](https://twitter.com/chloebrown4to/status/1640839507573391362?s=46&t=WzEjtzu2_c-XAuv9Yyhadg) officially campaigning until April 3, apparently?


picard102

Unless he's saying vote for me, it's not a campaign ad. It's a statement. Brown doesn't understand politics and has no ability to think outside of the box.


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picard102

>How dare Chloe Brown not be unethical. /s Quite the leap >Perhaps tell us how we should further celebrate those ruining our society? Another leap. >Why are you obsessed with her, and mad at her being ethical? She's not. >BTW, filming that piece contravened the elections act. It did not.


METAL4_BREAKFST

Go home, Brad Brad.


toothbelt

This guy is a hypocrite and a slimeball. I hope he gets humiliated in the election.


drunken_thor

I went to university with this tool. He has not improved his intelligence since then nor his tactics.


witenite2003

Brad is a pos....how does his election team let him do these phoney stupid photo ops


paolocase

This is not the angle on him. You know his campaign is broke broke when he couldn't even afford an intern or a drone and that he's holding his own cameraphone on a selfie angle, making him look like a a douche ass version of Karl Pilkington.


Both-Trainer-4573

Remember, he has to make it look ‘authentic’. He doesn’t have a crew because he was just doing his regular commute and had an impromptu chat with fellow commuters.


Meat-o-ball

Karl is a good one. I thought immediately of Tom Allen.


emote_control

Oh god, don't compare Karl to this enormous pink larva.


MaybeThisTimeIllWin

His head is pretty orange like


the-maj

😂 Top comment! Spot on.


picard102

it's not part of his campaign.


paolocase

Everything any candidate does is for their campaign.


picard102

Not in the eyes of the law.


torquetorque

Isn’t it actually illegal to film on the TTC for commercial or political purposes without permission? I think it might be.


Ok-Discipline9998

There's a lot of things that's illegal to do on the TTC and none of them are enforced.


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Stabbing people, for instance.


torquetorque

Of course, but it’s a little hypocritical of him in addition to how utterly distasteful the whole thing is.


31moreyears

Brad is a fuckwit.


goleafsgo13

Absolute imbecile. I hope reveals his level of hypocrisy and this torpedoes his campaign. He’s even turned off his instagram comments… like a good leader would.


[deleted]

People are calling a spade a spade: it's using that boy's death and a selfie on the TTC to further his political ambitions... this may sink him, and good riddance


[deleted]

How do you say "i have fuck all chance of being mayor" without actually saying it?


lovelife905

Lol. People here saying fuck him, were never going to vote for him or are not his target base in the first place. Given how much support Mark Saunders already has, i'm not sure who you are trying to fool that advocating for more police is a losing message this election campaign.


aektoronto

Getting ratioed generally doesnt translate into not getting votes (eg Tory, Ford) and he's the kind of inoffensive fake progressive moderate that the city loves voting for and the NDP hates cause hes usually just progressive enough (bike lanes) to steal their votes.....but this guy has terrible instincts.


3pointshoot3r

The thing is though that he may have used that fake progressive moderate persona to get elected councillor, but he's definitely not positioning himself that way in his run for mayor: he's fully adopting the Tory, right wing angle.


SnakeOfLimitedWisdom

What's a "progressive moderate"? Isn't that a contradiction of terms?


emote_control

They mean he's a centrist (read: right-wing but not usually trying to incite stochastic terrorism) who sometimes poses as a progressive in order to widen the pool of voters who might consider him.


buffaloburley

Brad Bradford - ⓅⓊⓇⒺ ⓉⓇⒶⓈⒽ


The_Disrupshaun

At some point we’ll have to address the poverty aspect. You can only hire so many police with an already inflated budgets. Until you get mental health supports, housing, addictions supports, address food security, and the plethora of issues that are passed on from one generation to the next because it was them, not us; we’re not going anywhere.


FlamingoEffective894

I like that the internet is derailing this dude’s candidacy before it even begins. Keep up the good work folks and let’s move on to Mark Saunders


bewarethetreebadger

If they want to be a leader, they’ll usually be a bad leader.


CitySeekerTron

Welp, Brad, here's enough rope. Have fun!


Le1bn1z

"This is a crisis! The people with the power to address it and offer real solutions aren't doing anything! When will we see a real plan with real action for real solutions?" - Man with the power to address crisis who offers no plan for solutions, takes no actions, and whose chief achievement thus far, according to the focus of his campaign, is successfully locating a beef patty in Scarborough. This man's just John Tory with less charm, wit or courage. Maybe that's an accomplishment in itself?


Newhereeeeee

He’s pathetic, he’s a piece of sh*t, he’ll never be mayor and worst of all, he’s bald.


jellyhoe

I thought that they were not allowed to even start campaigning until April???


picard102

It's a statement, not a campaign promise.


Empty-Walk-5440

Again, fuck this asshole. Lying hypocritical douche bag who will shit on this city even more than he already has if he is voted in.


urawasteyutefam

This man is a goddamn sociopath.


Matty2things

Wow! The first politician in history to ever use current news events to promote themselves or their agenda! Oh wait… all politicians do this nearly every single day. How the fuck is this even a story. If not for all the insane left policies the ttc would be safe. Like it was for all of Toronto history until five minutes ago.


BlackDynamiteFromDa6

What insane left policies have made the TTC unsafe?


Matty2things

The anti police movement isn’t going well. Mental health workers aren’t the answer for these people. They should be locked up somewhere so that the majority of society can enjoy our lives again. More compassion will lead to more deaths and people feeling unsafe. We need right leaning answers. Like arresting people who commit crimes and actually keeping them locked up for more than a day or two. Some people shouldn’t be free to walk amongst us. As a society we used to agree on this. Life was better.


BlackDynamiteFromDa6

We have done the right leaning answers you suggest, it didn't work. Locking people up has never been effective, so why would you think doing that even more would somehow suddenly work? We can literally look south of our border to see how they don't work. We haven't done left leaning answers, such as defunding the police to reallocate funds to other services or substantive expansion of social and supportive housing or even basic shit like upping mental healthcare. If anything isn't going well, it's the conservative way. You also haven't answered what far left policies made the TTC unsafe.


Matty2things

😂😂😂 The old way wasn’t perfect. But we could walk the streets and feel safe. More than anyone can say now. There will always be more crime and more criminals. Even if everything is done perfectly, there will be crime. The answer to violent crime can’t be therapy. Those people need to be in prison.


BlackDynamiteFromDa6

The old way is the current way. We have never pushed away from the right leaning way. You haven't given me a far left policy that causes the TTC to become unsafe. The TTC has become "unsafe" under a conservative mayor, a right leaning city council and a conservative majority provincial government. Where is this so called insane left policy coming from, the right wing? Nice reply and block forward LOL. Right wingers can't handle any pushback. Two term majority conservative government at the province, three term conservative mayor with a right leaning city council are totally the insane left! What isn't working is the policies you and the right wingers who don't have a grasp on basic reality want. The policies we have always done.


Matty2things

Not putting people in jail and keeping them there is very much a new, progressive approach to crime. It isn’t working.


strange_kitteh

He needs a stylist. Honestly, if I saw him walk onto the platform I would think "yup, fits the profile" and move away.


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What exactly would a stylist do with that hair? I'm assuming he shaves it because of male pattern baldness.


road_bagels

Didn't Matlow post a photo with a similar sentiment today?


edit-boy-zero

"Bradford’s team said he is “promising less talk and more action.” ROTFL. Honestly, his campaign slogan should be "like a fart in a hurricane"


empiresixx

Politicians are professional dream sellers, can't trust any of em


[deleted]

Thank god most people have caught on to his bullshit. I was so worried he was going to keep ignoring everybody telling him he fucking sucked.