Challenge: Torontopia

Your goal is to make Toronto the worst place to live. Make it a den of immoral people or a gigantic slum. You can use any POD from the Yonge Street rebellion to the Reforms of 1880.

On your marks. Get set. GO!
 
some minor POD with almost no immediate effects but thanks to butterflies, ww3 occurs and toronto is one of the nuked cities, thus one of the worst places to live :D
 
During the October Crisis, the FLQ got hold of several small nuclear weapons, stolen from USAF bases in Canada.

Parliament responds by tripling Quebec's equalisation payment.
 
The US Conquers Canada in the War of 1812.
In order to get the Canadian Loyalists on side the Madison Doctrine dictates that there is much less Federal Intervention in Canadian States.

When the FBI (in whatever name it takes ITTL) is formed it has no jurisdiction in Canada for long time. In this time, Organised Crime takes root in Toronto, and weedles it's way into Machine Politics and maintains domination over the entire state of Ontario. The Police are filled with gangland cronies and are paid to do nothing at the highest level. Prostitution is rife and well-paid. All of Americas big Crime Families own property in Toronto.
 
The US Conquers Canada in the War of 1812.
In order to get the Canadian Loyalists on side the Madison Doctrine dictates that there is much less Federal Intervention in Canadian States.

When the FBI (in whatever name it takes ITTL) is formed it has no jurisdiction in Canada for long time. In this time, Organised Crime takes root in Toronto, and weedles it's way into Machine Politics and maintains domination over the entire state of Ontario. The Police are filled with gangland cronies and are paid to do nothing at the highest level. Prostitution is rife and well-paid. All of Americas big Crime Families own property in Toronto.

How do you solve the border problem, do they just hike past wooded areas?
 
I like to point at the Fruit Machine. Imagine Mounties travel the city, enforcing random Fruit Machine tests. Preferable with killings of the fruits. That is the standard Sci Fi dystopia.
 
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