By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler
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Board of Trade gives sign of things to come?
When some of Toronto’s most influential developers and the Board of Trade backed the watered down tax package that was adopted by City Council in...
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Lobbyists: Start your registrations
More than four years after Mayor David Miller instructed staff to begin drafting legislation for the first municipal lobbyist registry in Canada...
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Board of Trade to City: More taxes, please
No, it’s not April 1. The Toronto Board of Trade, according to the Toronto Star, actually asked Toronto City Council’s Budget Committee to...
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City Hall Bits and Bites
Lobbyist Registry left blowin’ in the wind With an adequate budget finally in place, it looked like smooth sailing for the City’s Lobbyist...
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Q&A: talking numbers with Budget Chief Shelley Carroll
[Update: Councillor Carroll has issued a clarification that appears at the bottom of this post] Councillor Shelley Carroll has been the representative for...
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A Levy worth paying
You’ve got to hand it to Sheldon Levy. The head of Ryerson University may be one of the only university presidents in Ontario without a doctorate...
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Close Gould Street Rally
[Ed note: this post has been brought forward to remind those interested about this event.] Ryerson University students have called a rally for Thursday...
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The case for Toronto’s U-Pass
Vancouver has one. Halifax does, too. Same with Calgary and Chicago. Even London, Ontario is a member of this not-so-exclusive club. But Toronto...
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Asshole of the Week: Tony Bernardo
I realize it’s early in the week but thanks to Tony Bernardo of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association I’m ready to call the competition for...
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Mihevc talks recreation
Councillor Joe Mihevc has served his midtown Ward 21 for 17 years. The son of blue collar Slovenian immigrants, Councillor Mihevc began his political...
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We’re Top 10!
Toronto is among the top 10 economic centres in the world, according to Standard & Poor’s. A provider of financial market intelligence...
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Picturing DC
WASHINGTON DC — At the risk of turning this blog into Spacing DC, I’m going to share a few more public space-related photographs from my...