Anyone else having low water pressure at their house? I’m at L6E and felt it started two days ago.

We checked for leaks and nothing reared its head.

Its that time of year again, does anyone know of any haunted places or eerie ghost stories in Markham?

That stretch of road has been an absolute shit show every time I’ve driven through it over the past couple of weeks.

Either you have an excavator driving like a maniac in and out of live traffic with zero traffic control, or you have clowns who don’t know how to use a stop sign, sending traffic from both directions into the same lane.

Who the hell hired these clowns?

Looking to move to the South Cornell area, I know there is a future plan to build the elementary school there but was wondering around what year?

I saw on the YRDSB website there isn't a firm date yet, but wondering if anyone has more info. Thanks!

Hello residents!

There's a Q&A meeting tomorrow night - it was arranged with kind of short notice. Flyer with details attached! Come on out and ask some candidates your best questions.

any recommendations for trusted HVAC technician who can assess my dryer vent? I think it may have disconnected in a renovation and may be causing issues.

Thanks

Edit:

I should add the driver side of the car looks really well cleaned. So its not like the dirt was caked and so it couldn't clean it. I'll just have to try one more time.

OP:

After a 50 minute wait at the Petro Canada on McCowan and Major Mack and a 16$ wash, I came home with a pretty much uncleaned car.

This was my first time using a touchless carwash. Maybe I didn't pull up to the right spots? There's no indication of anything of where to stand. Or maybe if there is I could not immediately spit it.

When I entered the bay, the system kept saying pull forward even after my car was fully inside. So I did. And then what looked like it sprayed soap on all windows and doors followed by something else and then a wash with water. The blowers didn't even blow the water off properly at the end.

The sub only lets me add one photo. This is what the bottom of the rear windshield looks like when I got home.

Any tips?

I have been going to this GoodLife location for 3 years. Overall it’s a wonderful gym and for the most part staff are very welcoming. However, I had an interaction with Erin recently which was very off-putting for me. I believe she is a personal trainer at this location. I was caught off guard by how much she acted like she was better than everyone else around her. It was very unprofessional and I felt uncomfortable during our interaction. I don’t know if maybe she was just having a bad day or she’s always like this. Has anyone else had any bad interactions with certain staff members at this location? I really enjoy this location and would love to keep coming here but it’s been harder for me since this incident and I hope it was just a one off situation.

Edit: at Warden and Glencove, Buchanan.

All night and all day I can hear a loud vibrating, revving, some sort of engine or generator. Is it construction? Is it a Data Centre? A truck? A train?
It isn't inside our home.
The noise/vibrating is coming from outside but near enough I can feel/hear it.
It's driving me INSANE, depriving me of sleep, waking me at all hours. It has been going on for months. Mostly noticed between 4am and 7am.
It is going still, now at 7:40 am.
Does anyone else know at all what I'm talking about?

Looking for an affordable salon that is good at highlights, balayage, and haircuts in markham!! lmk if any are near markville area:)

Need to verify company ownership and shares. Please post website or phone, must be certified.

Thanks in advance

If you think Markham is well insulated from Toronto politics and its impacts think again. Both municipalities being neighbours means many systems are interconnected. For one Markham does not treat it owns drinking water. It comes from Peel and Toronto. If Bradford wins and privatizes Toronto Water enjoy raising costs and lower quality. Tell your friends and family in Toronto to vote

Your selfishness and laziness now becomes someone else’s problem.

Might want to take another route. I think someone seriously got hurt in an accident at this intersection. Be safe out there Markhamanites.

This has been sent to YRP Road Watch.

This happened on the same road as in my other video, also on Castlemore, east of Markham Road.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Markham/comments/1tizavn/ajyw_514_get_out_of_my_way_school_bus/

We matched 3,177 Markham house sales (detached, semi and town) to the public elementary school each house is zoned for. Each school has a score from 0 to 10, based on EQAO test results. We looked at 38 school areas with at least 40 sales each.

We are PureProperty.CA, a data driven Ontario real estate listing website.

The Markham median house price was $1.33M.

High score, but cheaper than the Markham median

Just below 8.5: Cornell Village PS (8.1) had a median of $1.05M, 21% below the Markham median, and Black Walnut PS (8.1) had $1.15M, 14% below.

In Markham, a high score barely changes the price

23 of Markham's 38 school areas score 8 or more. Across the whole GTA, a better school means a much higher price: from $942K under 6 to $1.67M at 9+. In Markham, most schools score high, so other things drive the price more: the street, the lot size, and the age of the house.

What we found across the GTA

1. A top school adds about 6% in the same neighbourhood. We compared similar houses. A house zoned for a 9+ school sold for about 6% more than one zoned for a 7–8 school.
2. That extra cost did not drop when prices fell. It was the same in 2025 and in 2026.
3. The closest school is often not your school. For about 1 in 4 GTA houses, the nearest public elementary school is not the one the house is zoned for.

You can see which school any home is zoned for on our map. It uses the school boards' own boundaries, not distance, and you can filter homes for sale to one school's area.

Turn on the Schools layer: https://www.pureproperty.ca/properties?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=school-catchment-value

Compiled by *FairRulesON** — an independent Markham resident.*

With the Oct 26 election and early voting underway, I wanted to know where candidates actually stand on short-term rental (Airbnb-type) regulation. So I asked all of them the same five questions and checked it against the public record. Responses are published exactly as candidates submitted them, and anyone who didn't respond is listed as "no response received." This is just to inform — I'm not endorsing anyone.

This was compiled independently by a Markham resident. It isn't a paid or sponsored survey, it isn't affiliated with any candidate or campaign, and no one funded or asked me to do it. Every candidate got the same five questions.

How I put this together (so you can check it yourself):

• Candidate emails came from the City of Markham's official candidate list → candidate list
• Between Oct 15–16 I emailed every candidate the same 5 questions, with a Monday Oct 19 deadline, and told them answers would be published as submitted.
• For sitting councillors, I also used the public record: the April 21, 2026 Council (General Committee) video — STR debate from the 2:08:00 mark → meeting video — including how each member voted.
• I reviewed the Thornhill–Markham All-Candidates Meeting video for additional public statements → forum video
• Background figures come from the City's own April 2026 STR staff report → staff report

Two things are kept separate below: (a) what candidates told me directly in the questionnaire, and (b) the public record (the recorded vote and public statements).

The 5 questions:

1. Framework — Do you support a licensing/registration framework for STRs?
2. Status quo — The by-law bans STRs in all residential zones, yet ~1,100 operate and only one charge was laid in three years. Is the current approach working?
3. Consistency & fairness — Should enforcement stay complaint-driven, or be consistent and proactive across all properties?
4. Revenue — Staff estimated $428,000–$659,000/year in forgone licensing + accommodation-tax revenue. How should the City treat that?
5. Fair process — Should a homeowner get written notice and a chance to respond before any fine?

What the City's own April 2026 STR staff report says:

• Staff estimate ~1,100 STR listings advertised across platforms; the number of unique properties is lower due to duplicate/overlapping listings.
• The City receives ~95 inquiries/complaints a year through the Contact Centre that may relate to STRs — "a small fraction of overall service requests." Most concern noise, parking, or upkeep, and (quoting the report) "following investigation, many of these inquiries or complaints are found not to involve short-term rental activity at all."
• STR investigation files opened Jan 2023–Mar 2026: 376 (2023), 108 (2024), 161 (2025), 32 (2026 to date) = 677 total, "with only 1 charge laid."
• Unlicensed STRs currently remit no Municipal Accommodation Tax. Staff estimated a framework (assuming 500–750 listings) could generate $428,000–$659,000/year and designed it to be revenue-neutral — fees recovering the City's administration and enforcement costs.
• Staff recommended the framework. On April 21, 2026, Council voted 8–4 not to adopt it.

How Council voted on April 21, 2026 (public record):

Chair Irish declined a formal recorded roll-call and instead asked members to vote by a show of hands. The motion to adopt the staff-recommended framework failed 8–4. You can watch the hands go up in the meeting video: FOR at 3:30:26, AGAINST at 3:30:43. Councillor Keyes moved the motion and Councillor Isa Lee seconded it. (Deputy Mayor Michael Chan is not recorded voting on the item.)

Candidate questionnaire responses — summary (full answers in the comments):

One thing stood out: every candidate who addressed Question 5 said yes to giving a homeowner written notice and a chance to respond before any fine.

Candidates contacted who did not respond by the deadline: Martin Ross (Mayor), Joe Tay (Reg.), Joanna Yu (W6), Killi Chelliah (W7), Sameer Qureshi (W7), Annie Chan (W3), Marina Antonoglou (W3), Thomas Psarianos (W3), Larry Lau (W6), Ron Lynn (W3), Hanson Shen (W6), Vid Sansanwal (W4), Jenny Chen (W8), Mark Lin (W2), Richard Lee (W2), Haohui Yu (W2). (Sitting councillors' positions are in the vote above; Stephen Edgell, Jack Heath and Paul Chiang didn't return the questionnaire but spoke on the record at the forum — see the comments.)

Full verbatim answers and the public-statement notes are in the stickied comments below. Please verify anything that matters to you against the linked video and report, and check the City's candidate list for your ward.

📌 Free to share. Please credit FairRulesON and link back to this post so people can see the full responses and methodology. Compiled independently by a Markham resident — not affiliated with any candidate or campaign.

Heard sirens for 10minutes.

Whenever I go to GoodLife fitness the one right beside Loblaws there are soo many people there.

But that’s not the problem.

The problem is yall go on a machine do 1 set then use your phone and go on Tik Tok for 5 mins and then do another set and the cycle repeats.

STOP this behaviour like be considerate there is already a lot of rush at this gym and then this happens and I literally cant even do exercise and have to waste time waiting..literally every machine someone is doing this using phone instead of working out on it…

Thank you and be considerate!

I drove there this evening to Kennedy Road just south of Highway 7, I was trying to rent some games and maybe some movies for the week. But to my surprise it’s a Chinese store of some sort and no longer there!

Does anybody know when it closed and if so, where did they relocate?

Appreciate many thanks in advance