— Musings —06.26.2023 08:59 PM
#TOpoli
@anabailaoTO's team ran a terrific campaign. @oliviachow ran a winning one. Congrats to all, win or lose. #topoli pic.twitter.com/D7iMiVxBbX
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) June 27, 2023
— Musings —06.26.2023 08:59 PM
@anabailaoTO's team ran a terrific campaign. @oliviachow ran a winning one. Congrats to all, win or lose. #topoli pic.twitter.com/D7iMiVxBbX
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) June 27, 2023
Looking forward to Torontonians paying more in taxes, and seeing progressive drug policies.
Hopefully Toronto will now make parking much more expensive, to fight climate change.
And a big expenditure for electric buses.
Electric buses are already on order/being delivered/coming into service/are in service/have been in service for some time now.
More expensive parking? Yes please, anything that scares drivers from city limits is good with me, stay away by all means please. We’ll be perfectly fine without you.
Drug policies depend on federal policy. You’re not going to see council trying to do anything outside it’s legal bailiwick.
You missed the biggie, natch. That tax thingie. Smallest mandate ever. Let’s see if she actually governs that way with a council that is unchanged. One could even do some hyperbolic analysis saying that there is some good news in the results for PP like some of the nonsensical conclusions being drawn about the federal by-elections but I think I will pass.
I don’t mind paying more property tax, although it’s a silly way to try to fund the needs of the city. But I know as homeowners in TO we pay the lowest property taxes in the province, and they’ve been kept too low for too long. The TTC is a filthy mess and needs it’s maintenance budget increased for one. Parks are another area of neglect.
Very few Torontonians will admit that. You live in the “greatest city in the country” as we are constantly told. So you should pay accordingly especially since many of you have won the housing lottery thanks to federal monetary policy. Should be a flat provincial mill rate. I would be all in for Olivia raising your taxes but my guess will be she will do it with business property taxes. Your loss will be our gain as the businesses move west. We have LOTS of room.
Well based on the performance of Vancouver’s former NDP Mayor, I wish Toronto good luck. You’re going to need it.
Look forward to lots of video where Olivia puts on her righteous, outraged, sanctimonius face (her late husband was the Master at that) and complains that the province and/or the feds are not giving her more money. And that’s the reason why she’s failing.
Well for one, Mike fucking Harris downloaded social housing costs onto municipalities and never should’ve done so, it’s ridiculous to ask cities to run such a system with such a limited revenue kit. His name is still mud.
Derek,
Inept and incompetent politicians of every stripe just luv to download programs without providing any funding, much less adequate funding…stupid twerps.
Ripping on Mike Harris, still? Really?
He’s been out of politics for 20 years.
Not a mention of Dalton McGuinty and the gas plant fiasco, which cost taxpayers over $1-billion to cancel. Quite the payout for Liberal friends.
Nor, did you mention Kathleen Wynne, privatizing hydro for no good reason. Bay Street loved that one.
Bro, when you live in the past, you really live in the past.
Stay current.
Not to mention Derek admitted up above that Torontonians pay the lowest property taxes in the province. But says that would be a “silly” way to fund the revenue shortfall despite the fact that they have won the housing lottery because of federal monetary policy. And then goes all 90s on us and blames Mike Fucking Harris. There in a nutshell, ladies and gentlemen, is a Toronto voter. Sorry, Doc, appealing to people like that is literally an impossible problem.
All very interesting.
https://www.zoocasa.com/blog/ontario-property-tax-rates-2022/
I really like math. Toronto revenue from property taxes for 2023 will be 4.91 billion. They are talking about a shortfall of 1.5 billion potentially and asking for people like us out in flyover country to pay for it. If they increased the mill rate to the same as Brampton, they would raise another 2.71 billion. You’re welcome.
Ridiculous whiny overrated city.
I’m all for Toronto raising property taxes.
Also they should have a parking tax downtown. Say $25/day
Look, it’s still ridiculous 20 years later that social housing is run by the cities. Ridiculous. And that’s mostly Harris’s fault. Of course McGuinty or Wynne could’ve uploaded the system back to the province so they get some blame.
The feds and the provinces aren’t giving enough for affordable housing. Subsidized housing for seniors and people with disabilities – not sure about Toronto, but in my city there’s a 5 year wait – knew a guy who had stage 4 cancer and they couldn’t come up with a subsidized apartment for him to do his chemo.
There’s the folks who have disabilities, or who are seniors, and they can’t come close to affording rent on their fixed incomes. Then there’s the folks who can work, but they can’t make enough to qualify for a mortgage because there aren’t enough affordable units – it’s a national problem impacting cities and towns across the country. So if she fails, she’ll be failing with every other jurisdiction in Canada because the feds and the provinces aren’t doing their part.
Look at a place like Calgary, where the province kicked in 300 million to build a new arena for the flames, along with a huge portion from the city. That when they have a 5 year wait for affordable subsidized housing. I’m all for sports, but wealthy franchises can build the arena without public money, and the province and city should really focus on disabled people and seniors before coughing up millions for a new arena. Hard to believe it’s the bible belt – what kind of god fearing person would allow for so much suffering and then build an arena for a privileged hockey franchise – makes no sense but that’s the kind of society we live in.
Take a look at your Dear Leader if you want to know why housing is so expensive in Canada.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/pierre-poilievre-yes-justin-trudeau-deserves-blame-for-sky-high-housing-costs
Meanwhile, the older widowed Torontonian retired civil servant female who has won the housing lottery and has an indexed pension continues to vote for Justin because he is buying off the rest of the country(not her and her ilk) with their own money. People have to be literally blind not to see it. And the hilarious thing is that they have convinced themselves that they are doing it for the right reasons. To a fault, actually. Try talking to one.
Good to hear Ford singing a different tune today.
Canada needs more competition in the grocery business.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/competition-bureau-grocery-1.6889712?
Perhaps Ms Chow and Jagmeet Singh could enter the grocery business in Toronto. After all grocery stores make excessive profits.
Chow and Singh could use union pension funds to invest in grocery stores. We’ll call them NDPGs. This would provide a fair return to the union pension funds, and also allow the NDPGs to:
a) pay higher prices to farmers
b) pay higher staff wages
c) use electric vehicles to transport groceries
d) provide much cheaper products to consumers.
The NDPGs could also only sell healthy foods; no soft drinks, high sugar foods, etc.
Don’t know if the NDPGs should be vegan only stores.
How about it Mr Singh? Ms Chow?