municipal finances

2:30AM
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Toronto’s proposed sales tax is a cautionary tale for all Canadians

Irresponsible spending and borrowing leads to tax increases today or in the future.


5:00AM
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Employee compensation dominates GTHA municipal spending

Nineteen of the region's 26 municipalities spent more than 60 per cent of their budgets on employee compensation and contracted services.


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Sudbury’s debt binge may come back to bite

The municipality's average per-capita debt increased from $196 to a projected $2,700.


9:41AM
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Should cities remain creatures of the province? Yes

There’s no appetite among the general public to give the City of Toronto constitutional status.


10:42AM
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Ford/Tory row exposes cloudy nature of municipal finances

On the spending side, Toronto topped the region at $4,010 per person.


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Burnaby relies heavily on industrial property taxes

At 44.9 per cent, Burnaby’s heavy industry tax rates were more than 22 times higher than its residential tax rates.