When it comes to fighting off armed home invaders, you can count on City Councillor Brad Bradford to go to bat for his family.

And if it means saving them, he’s prepared to play a little inside baseball.

When you have a Toronto City Councillor with a baseball bat next to his bed ready for intruders, who can blame average citizens for also doing so? Certainly not everybody in the dangerous Greater Toronto Area is interested in following York Regional Police Chief Jim MacSween’s advice to “comply” with armed criminals who invade your home.

Count Bradford as one of them.

“As a parent of a two and a four-year-old, I keep a baseball bat in the bedroom,” said the Ward 19 Beaches-East York Councillor, who ran for mayor in the 2023 byelection and is expected to do so again next year. “It’s an

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