Politics
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2008 capital budget — prepare your deputations now
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. November 13 — mark it in your calendars. That’s the day the city has set aside for Torontonians tell the budget...
By Dale Duncan -
Get down with downspout disconnection
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. Illegaldownspouts.ca — okay, so this website doesn’t really exist, but in a matter of three years it might. This...
By Dale Duncan -
A day for remembering
Today is the second anniversary of the death of cyclist Ryan Carriere. Ryan was tragically killed while on his bike at the intersection of Queen and...
By Tammy Thorne -
To Milton, with love
The mayoralty in her sights, Councillor Karen Stintz has already begun to lay the foundation for her 2010 platform. With more than three years to go...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
SPACING POLL: Do you support the city’s new taxes?
Now that the dust has settled from the Great Toronto Tax Debate, this would be a good time to do a little polling. Spacing’s readers were really...
By Spacing -
TTC takeover may be tempting
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. The Toronto Star is in a tizzy over speculation that the province may want to upload responsibility of our beloved TTC to the...
By Dale Duncan -
Never ending tax talk
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. In the not-so-far-off past, any suggestion of new taxes, any at all, would be political suicide. Today, in light of all the...
By Dale Duncan -
Liveblogging/commenting the great October Tax Vote
This post is for those who may have already read Adam’s post earlier today but haven’t seen the updates. He is live blogging as the council...
By Shawn Micallef -
To tax or not to tax, that is the question
Last updated: 12:25AM, Tuesday, October 23. Today Toronto City Council will be debating and voting on a land transfer tax and vehicle registration fee...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Speaking up on taxes
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. Eight prominent developers — the kind of professionals who worry about how the land transfer tax (LLT) will affect...
By Dale Duncan -
Toronto pedestrians may get to scramble
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=BmAe-OjtX6o[/youtube] It seems Toronto is starting to think like a global city, at least when it comes to pedestrians...
By Matthew Blackett -
Mayor reveals independent panel to study the city’s books
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. This morning Mayor David Miller announced the panel of experts that will review the city’s financial books to see...
By Dale Duncan