Every week, TorontoToday runs polls asking our readers about what they think about local issues, current affairs, and everyday happenings.
In our poll roundups, we look back on what readers had to say in the past month.
In January, our readers had strong feelings that dogs should be leashed in public, and disapproved of people who vandalize speed cameras.
Our polls got an average of 397 responses.
Here's how readers responded to each question:
The FIFA soccer tournament in 2026 promises to increase tourism to the city — and headaches for residents. If you had the power to wave a wand and make the FIFA matches coming to Toronto next year just go away, would you? Readers were pretty evenly split:
Mayor Olivia Chow has announced a property tax increase with the latest city budget. A modest majority of readers backed property tax increases, so long as the city had something to show for it:
The plethora of bookstores and libraries across the city would suggest Torontonians are a bookish lot. That is likely true among our readers, as about half of you own over 100 books:
Toronto is a city full of dogs — and people who want them on leashes. "But he's friendly!" cuts no ice at all with nearly all readers, who say that dogs should always be leashed in public, other than in off-leash parks:
Reporters at TorontoToday have kept tabs on the ongoing vandalism to the Parkside Drive speed camera — which has been cut down, beheaded, and even thrown into a duck pond. Only 14 per cent of you have any sympathy with people who sabotage traffic cameras:
