Rules

WTFTO is open to public participation, but it is not a free-for-all. We want community leads, tips, concerns, and firsthand information that help expose what is broken, ignored, or badly handled. To keep the site useful, credible, and fair, submissions have to meet some basic rules.

What you can submit

• Story tips, local concerns, and civic issues affecting Toronto and the GTA.
• Firsthand accounts, timelines, documents, photos, or links that help explain what happened.
• Issues involving transit, planning, development, public spending, neighborhood problems, accountability, and other matters of public interest.

What not to submit

• No doxxing, private addresses, phone numbers, or personal details about private individuals.
• No threats, harassment, hate, intimidation, or calls for people to be targeted.
• No knowingly false claims, fake documents, or made-up allegations.
• No dumping copyrighted material you do not have the right to share.
• No spam, self-promotion, or irrelevant nonsense.

How moderation works

Every submission is screened before anything is published. Community-powered does not mean unfiltered. Tips may be edited for clarity, checked for obvious problems, combined with reporting, or held back if they cannot be verified or safely published.

Submitting something does not guarantee publication. WTFTO may shorten, rewrite, verify, fact-check, request more detail, or decline material that does not meet editorial standards.

What we expect from contributors

• Share information honestly and as accurately as you can.
• Stick to what you saw, experienced, documented, or can reasonably support.
• Do not use the site to settle personal grudges or smear private people.
• Only send material you have the right to share.