Emma Paling

Emma Paling is a journalist in Toronto whose work has been published in The New York Times, CBC News, The Maple and many other publications. Her forthcoming book, The Get-Well Club, is about the Moss Park safe consumption site. For updates about the book, subscribe here.

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Candidate Summary by Emma Paling

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow: What She’s Done and What She’s Promising in 2026

Olivia Chow’s platform for re-election is all about building on her achievements, like a renovictions bylaw, TTC fare freeze, and new funding deal with the provincial government.

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Brad Bradford, Toronto Mayoral Candidate, Campaigns For Change

Mayoral hopeful Brad Bradford’s platform for 2026 revolves around crime, congestion and cost of living.

Profile by Emma Paling with photography by Nic Hotchkiss

Toronto’s Most Well-Known Defender of the Unhoused Runs for Council

As a teenager, Diana Chan McNally was briefly homeless. She’s since worked in drop-in centres and become a prominent advocate for unhoused Torontonians. In the race for Parkdale-High Park, she’s going to need to win over homeowners too.

Texas near Sherbourne Street, close to the Moss Park Consumption and Treatment Service. Moss Park’s staff have reversed more than 4,000 overdoses.

Feature by Emma Paling with photos by Jeff Bierk

The Long Last Days of Toronto’s First Safe Consumption Site

Nick says he’ll go back to Manitoulin. Texas can’t even think about the closure. Inside Moss Park in the final days of a nine-year era of safe consumption.