For Mayor of Toronto · 2026Housing First
Build more homes, protect community continuity and create complete neighbourhoods where people can afford to stay, form families and belong.
Homes, roots and complete communities →Jamie Atkinson for Mayor · 2026
Toronto Leads Again.Toronto’s Next 50 YearsFrom Megacity to GigaCity
Yet again, the world is looking to us to continue our legacy as the city of firsts. Our next great challenge — if we choose to accept it — is to make Toronto the AI capital of the world. But this cannot be achieved simply by enabling cities around the globe to learn about and use AI to improve their communities. We must lead by example.
Jamie Atkinson’s 50-year vision begins with the priorities residents feel now and builds toward a capable, connected and human-governed GigaCity.
A complete, fully costed 50-year plan for Toronto — built for the next decade, the next generation and the next century.
Jamie Atkinson’s five immediate priorities
Fix what residents feel every day.
Toronto cannot prepare for the future by ignoring the present. These are the first public priorities within Jamie’s complete 50-year plan.
Cleaner and Safer Streets
Use better maintenance, prevention and carefully controlled human-supervised robotics pilots to deliver visible results in streets, parks and public spaces.
A cleaner, safer Toronto →Climate Action & Resilience
Protect people from flooding, extreme heat and unhealthy air while building a cleaner, greener and more resilient Toronto.
Explore climate action, clean air and flood protection →Transit That Connects Us
Improve daily journeys while making Toronto the heart of a connected Canadian corridor from Windsor to Québec City.
Give people more of their lives back →A City That Works
Create One Front Door to Government so residents can get clear help, visible timelines, human support and accountable follow-through.
Make City Hall easier to navigate →
Priority 1 · Housing First
Homes, roots and complete communities.
Housing success is keys in doors — not press releases.
The Toronto Roots and Community Continuity Guarantee will help long-rooted residents, people forming families and residents at risk of displacement remain part of Toronto’s future through transparent, inclusive and lawful criteria.
More homes across TorontoCoordinate approvals, infrastructure, construction capacity, public land, transit and community services.
Housing FirstExpand permanent and supportive housing pathways for people experiencing homelessness.
Indigenous-led housingPartner with Indigenous housing providers and communities on culturally grounded homes and supports.
SkyHighExplore a housing-first landmark community where height serves homes, families, accessibility and public value.
Priorities 2 and 3 · Visible care and climate protection
A city that feels cared for — and protects people earlier.
Cleaner streets, safer public spaces, cleaner air and stronger climate resilience are practical tests of whether City Hall can deliver.
Cleaner and Safer Streets
Visible results residents can see every day.
Improve maintenance, lighting, prevention and neighbourhood care. Carefully controlled, quiet and human-supervised service robotics can assist with repetitive cleaning, inspection and hazard-reporting work while public workers remain accountable.
Explore a cleaner, safer Toronto →
Climate Action & Resilience
Cleaner air. Cooler neighbourhoods. Better flood protection.
Prepare Toronto for flooding, wildfire smoke, extreme heat and infrastructure stress through prevention, public information, clean-air spaces, greener neighbourhoods and focused support for vulnerable residents.
Explore climate action, air quality and resilience →Priority 4 · Toronto: the heart of the connected region
One connected corridor. More opportunity.
Toronto should prepare for Alto’s eastern connection while leading the next strategic conversation west to Windsor.
Proposed westward extension
Toronto Union → Pearson/West GTA → Cambridge–Waterloo Gateway → London → Chatham-Kent Parkway → Windsor
Official Alto network under development
Toronto → Peterborough → Ottawa → Montréal → Laval → Trois-Rivières → Québec City
A stronger corridor can connect homes, jobs, universities, healthcare, manufacturing, culture, tourism and international gateways while giving Toronto a larger, more resilient regional economy.
The western extension is Jamie Atkinson’s proposal for future federal, provincial and regional partnership. It is not part of Alto’s current official scope.
Priority 5 · A City That Works
City Hall should not be a maze.
One clear starting point. Human backup. Visible timelines. Accountable follow-through.
One Front Door to Government would give residents a simpler way to reach 311, permits, housing help, flood-protection support, accessibility services, translation, licensing and other City services without needing to understand the internal structure of government.
The next decade will shape the next century
Toronto can help shape the transformation — or live with decisions made somewhere else.
Artificial intelligence, robotics, clean energy, biotechnology and advanced transportation will change how people work, travel, build, learn, create and interact with government.
Toronto needs leadership that can do both: deliver visible improvements now while preparing the city for the changes ahead. Smarter Leadership means thinking before spending, coordinating before building and protecting people before things break.
The promise, the capacity and the measure
Smarter Leadership → Universal Extended Intelligence → Human Flourishing
Responsible tools should expand human capability. People remain responsible for judgment and decisions. Better lives remain the measure.
Smarter Leadership
Think before spending, coordinate before building and protect people before things break.
Universal Extended Intelligence
Give residents, workers, communities and public institutions better access to knowledge, training and human-governed tools.
Human Flourishing
Measure success by more time, safer homes, easier journeys, stronger opportunity, dignity, belonging and trust.
From Megacity to GigaCity
A Megacity is large. A GigaCity is capable.
A GigaCity learns, coordinates, anticipates, protects, builds and delivers while remaining accountable to people.
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One investment, many benefits
Connect transportation, housing, energy, food, climate, culture and technology instead of treating them as isolated files.
Explore the GigaCity principle →02
The Intellectual Lifeboat
Give residents and public leaders access to knowledge, safeguards, training and human support in the intelligence age.
Explore smarter decisions →03
Crunch and Munch Toronto
Connect data-centre heat, year-round food production, skills, district energy and community resilience.
Explore food resilience →Toronto Creates Again
Show the world what Toronto can make.
Who Let the Kids in the Candy Kingdom is part of a broader creative-economy vision: back Toronto’s artists, performers, designers, craftspeople, filmmakers and creative technologists while telling an original story the city can be proud of.
Technology should extend creativity — not replace creators. The project can create opportunities for writers, performers, costume makers, set builders, musicians, animators, VFX artists, crews and emerging talent while helping Toronto project imagination and confidence.
A city that works for people
Toronto needs leadership intelligent enough to use every responsible tool available.
The goal is not technology for its own sake. The goal is homes people can afford, cleaner and safer streets, cleaner air, protection from flooding and extreme heat, easier journeys, services that work and a city prepared for the future.
Technology assists. Humans answer. Human flourishing is the measure.
Pilot in public
Use bounded pilots with clear purposes, safeguards and human responsibility.
Measure in public
Publish outcomes, burdens, costs and lessons honestly.
Improve in public
Correct failures and scale only what works.
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