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'Free At Last': Toronto Budget Chief Quits

CBC | Posted 03.19.2013 | Canada Politics

Unhappy over last-minute moves to add new spending, Toronto budget chief Mike Del Grande resigned his post on Wednesday. Del Grande, who h...

Rob Ford Votes Against His Own Budget

CBC | Posted 03.17.2013 | Canada Politics

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford appears to have the votes to pass the 2013 city budget, though he'll have to wait until at least Wednesday after councillors de...

Toronto's $200 Million Budget Hole

CBC | Posted 10.23.2012 | Canada Politics

Toronto's budget committee has voted against recommending this year's police budget as the chair of the committee vows to closely scrutinize police sp...

What's Driving Toronto's Budget Surplus?

CBC | Posted 06.28.2012 | Canada Business

Toronto’s red hot real-estate market has helped deliver an unexpected boost to the city’s bottom line. The city will offi...

Toronto's Massive Budget Surplus

www.theglobeandmail.com | Posted 06.27.2012 | Canada

Toronto's 2011 year-end surplus is a whopping $292-million -- $138-million more than city staff forecast when council signed off on this year's conten...

Toronto Mayor's Allies Go On The Attack

CBC | Posted 03.19.2012 | Canada

Toronto's 2012 budget debate is over, but the war of words continued Wednesday as Mayor Rob Ford's allies criticized councillors who pull...

Toronto Passes Controversial Budget, Protesters Pepper Sprayed

CBC | Posted 03.18.2012 | Canada Politics

Toronto's city council passed its controversial 2012 budget on Tuesday, but some of its planned cutbacks have been dropped. P...

An Open Letter to Mayor Ford: Don't Target the Voiceless

Sen. Art Eggleton | Posted 02.11.2012 | Canada Politics
Sen. Art Eggleton

As a former mayor and budget chief, I understand the difficulty that goes into crafting a budget and tough decisions that must be made about certain programs. However, I hope Toronto Council will reassess some of the proposed cuts in this budget, especially those that affect the most vulnerable among us.

How Toronto Plans To Cut Thousands Of Jobs

CBC | Posted 01.30.2012 | Canada

The city has released a document showing how it intends to eliminate 2,300 jobs in the new year. The job cuts were announced...

Toronto Budget: Small Tax Hike, 2,300 City Employees To Be Cut

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 01.28.2012 | Canada Politics

TORONTO - Mayor Rob Ford says Toronto's proposed 2012 budget holds a property tax increase to 2.5 per cent due to a number of savings.Ford says the ci...

Toronto Headed For Lockout?

CBC | Posted 01.08.2012 | Canada Business

The head of one of Toronto's unions says a lockout is almost a certainty in January because the city wants to target so-called jobs for l...

Toronto To Post Large Budget Surplus

CBC | Posted 12.11.2011 | Canada Politics

The City of Toronto is expected to have a $140 million surplus this year, thanks in large part to greater than expected revenues from the...

With Millions To Cut, Rob Ford All Ears

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 11.19.2011 | Canada Politics

TORONTO - Toronto's executive committee, chaired by Mayor Rob Ford, is meeting today to discuss proposed cuts in the recent core service report.It cou...

McGuinty: Hudak Would Make Toronto Cuts Worse

CP | Maria Babbage, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.13.2011 | Canada Politics

TORONTO - Toronto and other Ontario municipalities will be under more pressure to slash spending if the Progressive Conservatives form the next provin...

1,100 Toronto Workers Apply For Buyout

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 11.12.2011 | Canada Politics

TORONTO - Toronto's city manager released the final report of a core services review Monday, recommending which jobs, services and city-run attraction...

Why Rob Ford's Weight Is a Political Issue

Ben Johnson | Posted 11.07.2011 | Canada
Ben Johnson

The fact that Toronto's mayor is fat is relevant to the debate about his competency to do his duties. Not only does his risk for heart disease and stroke call into question his ability to remain physically healthy for an entire term, I think it also speaks to a level of personal irresponsibility and short-sightedness.

Toronto Libraries: The Souls of Our Neighbourhoods

Coun. Pam McConnell | Posted 11.01.2011 | Canada
Coun. Pam McConnell

The discussion around cutting library services comes from a place devoid of thought or emotion. It comes from a place where numbers on a balance sheet are expected to tell the entire story, when in fact they merely tell us how much things cost.

Summertime, and City Hall Makes Me Queasy

Jordon Froese | Posted 10.18.2011 | Canada
Jordon Froese

September is just around the corner, and while Rob's main job will be to try to deliver Toronto to the Conservative party, maybe we can still take it back.

Toronto's Water: A Reservoir of Ideas and Innovation

Thom Vernon | Posted 10.17.2011 | Canada
Thom Vernon

Cities like ours are surging with an enormous reservoir of creativity. We're soaking in it. If Toronto's mayor had the vision to seek innovation, our waterfront, parks and libraries might stand a chance. Toronto could take its place as a leader in sustainable revenue generation and urban planning.

Ford And McGuinty To Meet

CBC | CBC | Posted 10.16.2011 | Canada

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford will meet with Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty on Wednesday morning but the topics the two will discuss aren't bei...

Balancing Toronto's Books, But at What Cost?

Sen. Art Eggleton | Posted 10.11.2011 | Canada
Sen. Art Eggleton

Making programs and services more efficient and effective is welcome, and that should help in reducing costs and better serving public needs, but it would be naïve to assume that efficiency alone could solve the deficit. Therefore cuts, and maybe tax or user fee increases, will have to be made.

Democracy Between Elections, Part Two: Rob Ford's Public Consultation as a Circus

Hon. Carolyn Bennett | Posted 10.07.2011 | Canada
Hon. Carolyn Bennett

Recently the mayor of Toronto pulled an 'all-nighter' to hear from approximately 300 of the roughly three million people who live in Toronto. But the process for 'meaningful consultation' was fatally flawed.

Rob Ford's Jig

Thom Vernon | Posted 10.02.2011 | Canada
Thom Vernon

Rob Ford danced into office promising to "stop the gravy train" at city hall. Problem is, he and his strategy are still dancing but there is no gravy. Now that we have seen each other in that committee room, and from behind a microphone, we must connect, strategize and resist.

Rob and Doug Ford: Toronto's Brothers Grim

Jonathan Naymark | Posted 09.27.2011 | Canada Politics
Jonathan Naymark

Things indeed have to change at City Hall. No one really knows how though, because the Fords' Toronto has become reactionary, too. A reactionary public, led by a reactionary mayor and flamed by a reactionary press has led to the disappearance of any sort of intelligent discourse.

Local Food System Needs Leadership, Not Penny-Pinching

Shiloh Bouvette | Posted 09.26.2011 | Canada Politics
Shiloh Bouvette

The mayor of Canada's largest city is in cost-cutting mode and a local food policy, originally passed in 2008, has just escaped the chopping block. Well almost. As many locavores will tell you, there is the price on the grocery receipt and there are the costs that we pay elsewhere -- the hospital bills, the environmental debt and the money farmers pay out of their own pockets to stay afloat.