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Municipal Golf Courses Have Taxpayers Tee'd-Off

Jordan Bateman | Posted 08.06.2012 | Canada Politics
Read More: Abbotsford, Golf, Saanich, Thunder Bay, Ontario, British Columbia, Property Taxes, City Hall, Jordan Bateman, Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Municipal Golf Courses, Taxpayers, Canada Politics News
Jordan Bateman

Golf revenues are slowly on the decline across Canada. Some B.C. leaders have missed the simplest way of fixing this problem: getting taxpayers out of the golf game all together. It's one thing for taxes to go to essentials like water, sewer or public safety, it's another thing to know you're subsidizing luxuries like municipal golf courses. If you can find a service listed on YellowPages.ca, government shouldn't be providing it.

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Toronto Union, City Reach Deal

CP | Paola Loriggio, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.06.2012 | Canada Politics
Read More: Cupe 416, Toronto, Cp, Toronto Strike, Toronto City Workers, Toronto Union Negotiations, City Hall, Toronto Labour, Toronto Union Deal, Toronto Union, Video, Canada Politics News

TORONTO - An 11th-hour tentative deal between the City of Toronto and the union representing its outside workers has set a hard line for any upcoming ...

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Toronto Union Given 'Take It Or Leave It' Offer

CBC | Posted 04.04.2012 | Canada
Read More: City Hall, Cupe 416, Toronto Union Negotiations, Rob Ford, Toronto, Cbc, CUPE 416 Offer, Toronto Union, Canada News

The city and its 6,000 unionized outside workers appear to be nowhere near reaching a new labour deal as a weekend deadline for an agreem...

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Death and AIDS Action at Toronto City Hall

Thom Vernon | Posted 11.28.2011 | Canada
Read More: City Hall, HIV/AIDS, Rob Ford, Toronto, Hiv, Kristyn Wong Tam, Budget Cuts, Public Health, Mayor Rob Ford, Shelley Carrol, Aids, Health Care, Kpmg, Canada News
Thom Vernon

If somehow you have gotten through the last 30 years without HIV/AIDS impacting your life, kudos to you. For the rest of us, it's been different. That's why Toronto's Mayor Rob Ford's proposed cuts to funding to HIV/AIDS prevention and services has provoked outrage.

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