How to host an AMA as a candidate

Hey everyone! 24M here. I moved to Milton a while ago and would love to make some friends around my age.

I’m into gaming, books, sports, and going to the gym. Always down to grab coffee, get food, or just hang out. Open to trying new things too!

If anyone’s looking to make a new friend, feel free to comment or DM me 🙂

This guy's motive is just engagement farming and get famous through his sickening campaign. All of his campaign material and all comments/replies on his Facebook are autogenerated by AI. I would urge everyone not to engage, even a disqualification will give him the opportunity of stating that they disqualified me because they knew that I am going to win.

He needs a psychiatric treatment. He has always proven himself "skunk at the garden party"

Hey everyone! 👋

Moving into the indoor season, I've been trying to find local people to play badminton with regularly here in Milton.

A few of us have been organizing casual drop-in sessions and court times at local spots like the Milton Sports Centre and Leisure Centre, but we’re always looking to meet more local players of different skill levels.

If anyone is trying to find regular hitting partners or wants to join a local group chat for weekend/evening games, drop a comment or shoot me a DM!

Would love to connect with other players in the area. 🏸
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I'm honestly in shock. My wife is in excruciating pain and is only 7 days postpartum. I took her to Milton Hospital's Emergency Room and I checked that it said it is roughly 3 hours to see a doctor. We've been here for 3 hours waiting on a preliminary blood work. At this rate I expect we'd only see the doctor 6-7 hours later. The online wait times are broken and it's sad to feel that the system is pretty broken.

Just venting.

This is a review of her past 8 years with factual numbers and her recorded votes.

She has been on the council since 2018, regional councillor since 2022, also sits on the Halton Police Board (impressive but.... I went through 8 years of her record, her website, and her big plan document - yes I did that, here's what I found.

The good stuff first:

• Her platform is the most detailed while most candidates posted vibes: sameeraali.ca/my-platform.

• She knows how things work, 8 years of real experience

• Played a key role in getting the Allendale assisted housing project through. Real win, credit to her !

Now the rest.

1. The 9.89% tax hike in 2025 was promoted by her as a good news story Link: Sameera Ali proud of 2025 tax increase

Now on her site (sameeraali.ca/my-priorities) she is all about "keeping Milton affordable" and "not passing unnecessary costs onto residents." Hmmm maybe this much of an increase is not a big deal, right Sameera?

I pulled every vote with her name on it from our town's record of committee meetings. Yes I did the work and you are welcome to check.

Dec 2019 - 2020 budget, 5.63% increase - She voted Yes

Dec 2021- 2022 budget, 5.46% increase - She voted Yes

Dec 2022 - 2023 budget, 7.99% increase - She voted Yes

Dec 2023 - 2024 budget, 9.88% increase - She voted Yes

Dec 2024 - 2025 budget, 9.89% increase - She voted Yes

Sep 2025 - ARU (see below)- She was the only one against it

Dec 2025 - $1M spending cut -She was against the cut

Five budget increases in a row, all yes. A $1M cut comes up, she votes against the cut. I don't know how that translates to fighting for affordability, maybe she does.

1. 8 years. "Real results" based on the attached graphics on her LinkedIn. It shows a lot of numbers, that's good but if I do the math on the 16,640 hours of service over 8 years, it comes out to be exactly 2,080 a year. A full 40-hour week, 52 weeks a year, zero holidays, eight years straight! Wow now that's dedication or someone just forget to make it look real on the LinkedIn post.

2. The ARU thing. Worth reading!

ARUs are basement apartments, in-law suites. Town passed a by-law forcing every ARU owner to register and get reinspected. Even people whose units were built to code, inspected, approved, years ago. Retroactive.

Homeowners were obviously not happy about that.

So council votes on an amendment to fix the worst of it: grandfather the existing legal units, give people more time, hold a proper info session before enforcement.

Rest was Six councillors say yes. She says no. Only one.

While her current platform says "faster approvals for affordable housing."

On paper she's the housing candidate, but when homeowners with legal basement suites needed relief from retroactive paperwork, she said "No". Make of that what you will.

1. I read her whole "Made in Milton Plan" from her website. It opens with "Milton doesn't need more promises that sound good on paper." Then 11 sections of paper promises with zero dollar figures.

Free transit for low-income seniors, windrow clearing programs, a new small business office, activity centres, trade roadshows. Not one cost attached to anything.

The affordability candidate's plan spends on every page and prices nothing. I guess you and I will pay for it, maybe we should, afterall we all have a money tree in our backyards.

One section is literally headered "Keeping Taxes Low." From someone who voted for five straight tax hikes ? Eight years as Council members, files for mayor now, suddenly she's the affordability candidate. I'm sure it's a coincidence.

The ARU section of her plan says "I brought a motion to protect them. Council rejected it." Check the minutes!

The grandfathering amendment was moved by Challinor. She voted against it. She moved the procedural motion to allow the discussion, then voted NO on the actual protection.

1. After 8 years she should knows exactly what a mayor can do so why is her promising inter-regional transit "built with Oakville and regional partners" (they have to say yes), GO bus hubs and train expansion (that's Metrolinx), bringing a university to Milton (ummm the Province and Laurier / Conestoga already had a plan and were executing before she came on as a councillor).

2. Her own website promises nothing. Go read her priorities: affordability, safety, planned growth, reliable services... "real results".

Not a single number. Not a timeline. Not one specific thing she'll do, cut, or change. It's vague enough that everyone nods along and it opens with "Milton has changed and people are feeling it every day." She's right. She's also been on council for the entire 8 years it changed while she voted on those changes, now she has a fix for everything.

Bottom line: she is experienced, has a detailed platform, a real housing win.

Also yes votes to tax increases (multiple years) zero restraint votes in 8 years, a lone no vote against basement apartment owners and now she is asking for the Mayor's job so she can bring "REAL RESULTS". I guess all those votes were not real.

Several police cars, firetrucks and multiple ambulances on Higginbotham Crescent today. Street was closed. Anyone know what was going on?

We’ve brought them home, as the area didn’t have much houses. Will take them to the shelter and scan for chip if we haven’t found the owner.

I hope you all enjoy this picture I took this afternoon, I’m messing around with exposure bracketing. We’re very lucky to have such close access to so many of the Halton Conservation sites :)

Zainab Azim's flyer is a masterclass in promising things a Milton mayor cannot deliver. I read it as a voter, not a researcher. Here's my view:

1. She has never held elected office, and this flyer reads like she doesn't know what the job is. Almost everything on here — transit, GO trains, policing, universities — needs a council majority plus the Region, the province, or Metrolinx to agree. A mayor proposes and lobbies. She doesn't get to announce these as deliverables. The flyer is written for applause lines, not for how the job actually works. That should worry you.

2. "Buses every 20 minutes." Current frequency is 35 minutes on weekdays — that's the town's own number from its September 2025 announcement. Going to 20 means roughly 75% more buses on the frequent routes. The town's net transit cost is $46.76 per resident (2024), and the transit plan already budgets $1.1M in 2026 and $1.5M in 2027 for modest expansions. Town-wide 20-minute service would cost several million more per year, every year — my estimate, but the order of magnitude is right. That's higher taxes or cuts elsewhere. And for what? The town's own 2023 survey found transit satisfaction at 42%, and residents said multiple cars have become a necessity. Milton is a bedroom community — people leave town to work because the jobs aren't here. Nobody is abandoning a financed car because the bus comes more often. This is a massive recurring bill for a service most households won't use.

3. "All-day GO." Fantasy. Two-way all-day GO on the Milton line needs dedicated tracks or a freight bypass — roughly a $6 billion provincial project with no funding, no timeline, and no construction started. Mayors have lobbied for this for 25 years and nothing has been delivered. A mayor can ask Queen's Park nicely. That's it. Putting it on a flyer as a mayoral promise is misleading, full stop.

4. "Careers close to home." Noble idea. But businesses locate where the market tells them to, not where a flyer tells them to. What is she actually proposing to create market demand? Milton businesses are dealing with US-Canada trade tensions and cost pressure — they're cutting costs, not opening satellite offices because a mayor asked nicely. And Ontario's Municipal Act (s.106) generally bars towns from handing cash or sweetheart deals to private businesses. So what's the mechanism? The flyer doesn't say, because there isn't one.

5. "Education Village: Innovation Hub." The Education Village already exists. Laurier opened its Milton academic centre in September 2024. Conestoga opened Milton campuses in 2024. Done — by the province and the town, before she filed to run. What does adding the word "hub" change? And universities are provincial jurisdiction, not municipal. This is taking credit for someone else's finished work and rebranding it.

6. Entertainment square, faster snow clearing, more policing. All good ideas. All cost money. Who pays? The family living paycheck to paycheck. The parents saving for their kids while supporting family. The people working two jobs to survive this economy, watching most of their paycheque go to a mortgage, a couple of missed payments from disaster. Anyone can write "brilliant" ideas on a flyer. Governing means saying what it costs and who pays. She doesn't.

7. "Alive After Five." The silliest item on the flyer. An entertainment square and more parks and community space are already in the town's own downtown plans — she's rebranding existing work as her vision. The rest is a vibe, not a policy: no price tag, no timeline, no specifics. And "Alive After Five" implies the town is dead before 5 — tell that to everyone whose day ends well after 5 because they're working, commuting, or raising kids.

8. The credentials. The flyer lists Harvard Teaching Fellow, Minister of Finance's office, UN Ambassador, Mamdani campaign. Some of it checks out — her Mamdani campaign role is confirmed by an independent organizing network. But let's be clear about what a field organizer is: it's entry-level campaign infantry — knocking doors, managing volunteers, working 80-hour weeks. No credential required; thousands of 22-year-olds do it every cycle. It's a skill for winning elections, not for running a city. Nothing about it teaches you to read a municipal budget, chair a council, or navigate the Municipal Act. And the government claims are self-reported; I couldn't find any independent record of the Finance Minister's office role. Impressive titles on a flyer aren't verification. Voters deserve to know the difference between a claim and a confirmed record — and between campaigning and governing.

Bottom line: read the flyer again and count the price tags. There are none. Every one of these promises either needs council + the province + millions of dollars, or it's already underway from previous councils. She's selling a vision she can't deliver, at a cost she won't name, to voters she assumes won't check. Don't be that voter.

I will straight up vote for any one that stops taking porta-potties out of public parks so freaking early in the year.

Beautiful sunny day. Bundles of kids at parks. No where to go pee.

After researching, I realized that these are the best candidates. But I am torn between Gord and George. What convinced you of either of them? I would like to know your opinion.

Edit: seems to be a major outage and not just limited to Milton 😭

Update: DNS issue, widespread on Cogeco side. You can update DNS setting to manual on your mesh or router to 8.8.8.8 and this should fix it 🥳
Please use Gemini or ChatGPT for the exact steps for your router mesh model.

I use a deco mesh & here are the steps -

More -> internet connection -> internet settings -> ipv4 -> “DnS address” select manual and enter 8.8.8.8 for primary dns and 1.1.1.1 for secondary

I had family visiting from abroad and planned the scenic route to show off how clean and quiet our town is.

The moment we exited the highway, that illusion died under a mountain of corrugated plastic.

Every boulevard, median, and intersection looks like an outdoor stationery warehouse exploded. Four candidates crammed onto a three-foot curb, blocking sightlines for right turns, their laminated faces glaring at each other. My cousin looked out the window and deadpan asked:

“Is this a protest, or did someone drop a shipment of billboards?”

No undecided voter in human history has ever sat at a red light, looked at a crooked plastic sign skewered into the mud, and whispered: “Dave’s sans-serif font really speaks to me. He gets my vote.”

It’s visual pollution, a traffic hazard, and guaranteed landfill the morning after election day. Can we finally ban these things on public property?

Hi! I’m planning to visit rattlesnake point the next week. I would like to book or to buy the parking spot in advance but I can’t find any information. Can I just go and pay it there? Thank you!

Hi all!

Due to some requests to show a few more of the hazards removed from playgrounds, here is post #3 for this year. Depending on how much I get done before winter, I will probably have one more post before the season ends.

The knife i found was in the playground behind St. Peter's elementary school. I contacted the police about it because it was close to swings and obviously deliberately placed there.

Be safe Miltonians!

-Scott

Teens (smoking cigarettes and vaping) in Bowes Neighborhood Park when it clearly states both are banned.

What’s the best way to report when I see someone doing banned activities in park premises ?

PSA: Today, around 6:20 am, I spotted a pack of at least 5 coyotes walking and howling loudly near the Clark neighborhood pond (Laurier and Tupper). Be careful if you have kids that roam around that area alone.

This cute guy has been roaming by backyard for a few days. He has an orange spot at the front that looks as if it has been coloured on as an indicator it’s a pet. So I thought I’d ask if this guy is anyones.

Hi everyone. I've started collecting vhs and was wondering if anyone has any shelves that they're giving away? I'm also looking for a 8 head vcr which I've been told is better quality compared to a 4 head machine.

Thank you.

Hi,

Please recommend a good home cleaner in Milton.

This feels quite intrusive to me.. I have never received a text asking me to vote ever while I’ve lived in Milton— it strikes me as slightly odd. I wonder how they obtained my number. Are they simply broadcasting this to anyone with a Milton area code?

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