CITY HALL
• Giambrone?s big exit? [ Now Magazine ]
• City not keeping business tax pledge: Board of Trade [ National Post ]
• Fresh union drive at City Hall [ Toronto Sun ]
TRANSIT
• Merchants file $100M lawsuit over St. Clair transit project [ National Post ]
• TTC plans suicide barriers on Yonge line [ Toronto Star ]
MAYORAL RACE
• Rob Ford: fat chance [ Now Magazine ]
• Pantalone fundraiser draws 600 [ Toronto Star ]
• Rob Ford poised to join mayoral race [ National Post ]
• Smitherman’s words come home to roost [ Toronto Star ]
OTHER NEWS
• Bikes on blur [ Now Magazine ]
• Psychogeography: Cleaning up the underbelly [ Eye Weekly ]
• Dumb like diesel [ Now Magazine ]
• How the G20 crashed our wedding [ Toronto Star
• Faux house doesn’t fool neighbours [ Toronto Star ]
• New program gets kids to school safe [ Toronto Star ]
• Spring cleaning in Toronto: shopping carts and bikes [ Toronto Star ]
• OSCPA meets with Toronto Humane Society workers amid infighting [ Globe & Mail ]
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I see Andrew Cash wrote up the Georgetown/Pearson train meeting at City Hall earlier this week. When he addressed the meeting himself, he introduced himself as the NDP Federal Candidate for Davenport. Perhaps he should consider appending that to his NOW column, too?
Here is the press release regarding the tax rates…
http://wx.toronto.ca/inter/it/newsrel.nsf/7017df2f20edbe2885256619004e428e/fdb0affec49958a2852576f0006aa456?OpenDocument
NB. The majority of the $ 257 million in ‘tax relief’ referred to is not an actual reduction. It is a result of raising the rates less than the residential rate. Most of the small businesses in your neighbourhood will, even with the reported 3% reduction, will see their taxes rise due to CVA capping adjustments (5%).
2016 is Toronto’s 2012. By then all properties will be at their full CVA amount. By then all the areas that make Toronto interesting will be crippled by the onerous taxes. Kensington, Ossington, The Beach, etc. will be crushed.
Toronto-area transit project on hold [Globe and Mail]