Bradford FactsIndependent fact-checks of public statements made online by Brad Bradford, Toronto city councillor for Ward 19, Beaches-East York.https://bradfordfacts.egglify.app/en-CAMissing Context: Bradford praises Tory's record. The 911 wait he campaigns on peaked in Tory's last year.https://bradfordfacts.egglify.app/fact-check/tory-record-911-response/https://bradfordfacts.egglify.app/fact-check/tory-record-911-response/Priority 1 response averaged 12.8 minutes in 2010 and 23.1 in 2023, Tory's final year. It is now 13.5, which the police service calls a 42% improvement.Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTpolicingelection-2026False: Bradford says Chow never joined the mayors' call to action on drugs. She voted to join it, with him.https://bradfordfacts.egglify.app/fact-check/chow-absent-drug-crisis/https://bradfordfacts.egglify.app/fact-check/chow-absent-drug-crisis/Council declared Toronto's support for the mayors' Solve the Crisis campaign in October 2024. Chow voted yes, Bradford voted yes, and it carried 22-0.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTdrug-policyelection-2026Unsubstantiated: Bradford says Bloor West businesses watched sales fall. Nobody measured it.https://bradfordfacts.egglify.app/fact-check/bloor-west-business-sales/https://bradfordfacts.egglify.app/fact-check/bloor-west-business-sales/The City monitored this corridor for two years and never published a business figure. No study of a Bloor bike lane has ever found sales fall.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcyclingelection-2026Missing Context: Bradford would move the bike network to ravines and quiet streets. Toronto already has that network.https://bradfordfacts.egglify.app/fact-check/cycling-network-quiet-streets/https://bradfordfacts.egglify.app/fact-check/cycling-network-quiet-streets/Over 75% of Toronto's network is already low-stress, and arterials cut it into islands. On that network most of the city reaches fewer than 5,000 jobs.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcyclingelection-2026Missing Context: Bradford says Toronto has neither safer roads nor less congestion. Deaths back him up. Injuries and the City's own traffic index don't.https://bradfordfacts.egglify.app/fact-check/safer-roads-less-congestion/https://bradfordfacts.egglify.app/fact-check/safer-roads-less-congestion/2025 was Toronto's second-safest year on the roads since 1998. Deaths in 2026 are at a seven-year high, the one measure that backs him.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTroad-safetyelection-2026Misleading: Bradford says families are "counting the minutes" waiting for 911. That wait was cut in half two years ago.https://bradfordfacts.egglify.app/fact-check/1000-officers-pledge/https://bradfordfacts.egglify.app/fact-check/1000-officers-pledge/His numbers are real; the need isn't. 911 response is back at 2010 levels, and Toronto fields more officers per crime than Montreal. The shortfall his chart draws as 70% is, on Toronto's own service record, zero.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTpolicingbudgetelection-2026True: Bradford says Chow's letter to the Prime Minister never mentioned crime. We read all four pages. He's right.https://bradfordfacts.egglify.app/fact-check/chow-carney-letter-public-safety/https://bradfordfacts.egglify.app/fact-check/chow-carney-letter-public-safety/Four pages, four sections: homes, transit, a fiscal deal, rising costs. Not a sentence on bail, auto theft, organized crime, policing or community safety. He described the document exactly.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTpolicingelection-2026housingFalse: Bradford says Chow declined every chance to act on public safety. She voted for his own safety motion in March.https://bradfordfacts.egglify.app/fact-check/chow-every-chance-public-safety/https://bradfordfacts.egglify.app/fact-check/chow-every-chance-public-safety/One counter-example kills a universal claim. In March, council adopted a transit-safety motion Bradford moved himself, and Chow voted for it, twice. The wider record says the same thing five more ways.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTpolicingelection-2026transitMissing Context: Bradford did vote for an island airport referendum. He mentioned it 64 minutes after the fight was over.https://bradfordfacts.egglify.app/fact-check/island-airport-referendum-vote/https://bradfordfacts.egglify.app/fact-check/island-airport-referendum-vote/The votes are real, four items from March to July, referendum included. But it is entirely a voting record: no public word from him on the file until 64 minutes after Ottawa settled it.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTwaterfrontelection-2026Unsubstantiated: Bradford says Toronto loses trained officers to rival forces. The service's budget blames retirement.https://bradfordfacts.egglify.app/fact-check/officers-lost-to-other-forces/https://bradfordfacts.egglify.app/fact-check/officers-lost-to-other-forces/Toronto Police's budget notes blame a 1990s hiring freeze reaching retirement, and never mention other police services. No data shows where leavers go.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTpolicingbudgetelection-2026