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Can we increase mass timber engineering and construction?

Spadina

Queens Quay

Ookwemin Minising

Can we stop exclusively building wide commercial arterials and allow mixed use everywhere?

Can we get small firetrucks and develop our own single stair housing rules?

Can we exempt multi family from development charges?

Taddle Creek Park

Cheonggyecheon, Seoul

Can we daylight more lost streams?

Can we tax millionaires?

Can we price congestion?

Can we redevelop parking lots, gas stations, garages and other car infrastructure?

Can we bring back Taste of the Danforth (1993-2019, 2023)?

Can we improve our enforcement of traffic laws?

Can we increase bus frequency and add bus lanes?

Can we go further to reduce plastic and water pollution?

Can we integrate natural climate adaptation and mitigation strategies into our urban landscape?

Can we realize any new major transit projects?

Can we pedestrianize any more districts?

Can we take internal transfers out of expenditures in our budget and put them in their own column, spend the reserves, and generally get more value for our public tax dollars?

Can we upzone, and more generally, decrease the amount of aspects of the built form we regulate?

Depressing ghost art at Union Station Toronto

Depressing ghost art at Union Station Toronto

Depressing ghost art at Union Station Toronto

Depressing ghost art at Union Station Toronto

Can we liven up the Union Station depression ghosts?

Potential Toronto election topics both prescient and obscure, big and small:

Men drive more than women, die on the roads wayyyy more than women, and still regularly blame women for bad driving

“Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding…” does writing this not give you pause?

I posted on *three platforms* just over *20 minutes* after Radio-Canada first misidentified this innocent trans woman as a mass shooter on national television in a 6:00pmET broadcast.

I tagged Radio Canada and Patrice Roy.

They didn't issue a correction until after 2:00pmET today.

Unacceptable.

So many beautiful baby boys are going to be named Hakimi Lebovic

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

RCMP say 10 dead in school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, BC Six victims were located dead at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, while another died on the scene, according to the RCMP. The suspect was found dead at the school from what appeared to be a self-inflic...

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Opinion: Toronto’s 2025 budget is an opaque mess that almost no one understands Toronto’s 2025 budget does not show numbers that are standard for other organizations. Most notably, past and projected surpluses get no mention at all

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

To start with, councillors should ask to see the 2025 budget alongside the city's actual results for 2023 and its projections for the 2024 results that will come out later this year. That is information well-run businesses and not-for-profits provide, and it is information that is readily available for other governments, notably the Ontario government. We should be seeing historical and projected key numbers - revenues, expenses and resulting bottom line - on a consistent basis. Toronto's budget does not show these numbers. Most notably, past and projected surpluses get no mention at all. Too few people know what is clear from Toronto's financial statements: It has consistently recorded more revenue than it has spent. In 2023, the city ran a surplus of $1.25-billion. Add that to its past surpluses, and its accumulated surplus - its net worth, reflecting its capacity to deliver services - totalled $33.7-billion. The minority who follow these numbers would bet that, when the books are closed for last year, the city will report another healthy surplus. The absence of these numbers from the budget supports a narrative that Toronto's finances are dire, and that its residents and ratepayers must either face reduced services or pay a whopping additional tax bill.

Today is Toronto Budget Day. Reminder that the city is not strapped for cash. I have my problems with the politics and priorities in the values of the budget, but this is something bigger: *any* political agenda will be failed by a poorly designed budget, besides the agenda of anti-governance

We should spend the funds we raise! A city should not have a $5B savings account!

Bluesky should work on a feature to detect screenshots from X and allow us to mute them

Line 5 Eglinton is a strong showing, especially compared to Line 6 Finch West. However, it could have been a subway.