The Toronto Taxpayers Coalition wants to stop mayoral candidate Olivia Chow.
A “Stop Chow Now” campaign was launched this week by the organization that claims it is a “non-partisan advocate for the municipal taxpayer, supporting lower taxes, less waste, and responsible spending.”
Say what you want about the accuracy of political opinion polls – one thing they can do very well is illustrate trends.
Believe it or not, the Toronto mayoral candidates are actually talking about policy.
Since the start of the campaign, the Rob Ford controversies and the nastiness between the John Tory and Olivia Chow camps have gotten all the media attention.
Over the past couple of weeks, however, all the camps have put forward solid — if not interesting — traffic and transit platforms.
With just 373 days to go until the Pan Am Games, the race to spend $20-million or more on city pet projects – dressed up as games legacy projects – is off and running with a vengeance.
And it seems the city’s bureaucrats have learned their lessons well from their TO2015 colleagues – whose fiscal skills seem to be limited to revising the Pan Am Games budget upward from an initial $1.4-billion to now $2.5-billion to what I suspect will be closer to $4-billion by the time all is said and done a year from now.
With just 373 days to go until the Pan Am Games, the race to spend $20-million or more on city pet projects – dressed up as games legacy projects – is off and running with a vengeance.
And it seems the city’s bureaucrats have learned their lessons well from their TO2015 colleagues – whose fiscal skills seem to be limited to revising the Pan Am Games budget upward from an initial $1.4-billion to now $2.5-billion to what I suspect will be closer to $4-billion by the time all is said and done a year from now.
Soknacki calls move ‘Toronto’s largest-ever tax cut’
Former Scarborough councillor David Soknacki started his campaign for the Toronto mayoralty Tuesday, Jan. 16, by going to Scarborough and saying its residents don’t really want a subway extension.
What they want is the best form of transit, and that’s the light-rail line the province had agreed to fund and which city council until last July had supported, he said in an interview.
“It provides more stops, it serves more people. It’ll be built faster,” Socknacki said.