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I feel free to say that it is tiresome for you, RC8 and others to continue to insist that you somehow are subsidizing the suburbs. Have either of you ever actually looked at the budgets? I am sure that neither of you have. For your convenience I will give you the following to chew on. The...

While I have not had a good look at the TDSB's data, off the top of my head I would think that the best course of action would be for them to close all the middle schools. Go up to grade 8 in P/J, 9+ in high school.

The Greater Toronto Area has just posted a record decline in sales of land for future residential developments, suggesting that home and condo builders are reacting to the decrease in housing sales by tempering their appetite for new construction. Investments in such land fell 45 per cent from...

Hmmm...

What does this have to do with Ford or Smitherman? My comments were directed at you. Maybe all your degrees obstructed that from you.

RC8, What a bunch of elitist clap trap. The irony of Jane Jacobs warning of credentialism rings true in your comments. You should feel free to ignore her warnings though, she only had a high school education. Do you ever wonder how anyone could have sided with her over Robert Moses, with his PhD?

$4 billion per year. That is how much the province gets in gas taxes per year. Ontarians bought 16.2 billion liters of gasoline (2010). 14.7 cents per liter in excise tax, 8% provincial portion of HST (~6% after ITCs). That alone provides 3.35 billion. Add in HST on new vehicle sales ~1.2...

$600,000 For planning and site preparation (I would love to know what has been done), seem absurd. The Now article should have asked Brookfield what it cost them. That would have added to the debate.

Where do you get this stuff? Would you care to put some number on the table?

So what you are really suggesting is that guns should not be licensed. ;)

You don't tend to find expenses on a balance sheet. They are on the income statement. Even there you will find that labour in non service industries are usually not the largest expense. Maybe you should look at Intel's Income statement. Or any other semi conductor manufacturer. Also have a...

The propoganda machine avoided MoM price changes. Those paint a different picture.

I have read it. What Matt offers is a red herring. Which you, and others are glad to follow. The net budget can be changed with no change in spending. Ford said look at the gross budget and see how spending has been controled. Matt says spending has risen nearly the same as under Miller...

That is not the issue. Matt pointed to the changes in the net budget as opposed to the gross as indication of control of spending. This is incorrect. In the year that the LTT and VRT were introduced if Miller had increased spending by the same amount as they raised, the gross would change but...

At least you got being a dupe correct. Glen 2 RRR 0 Matt 0. Did you know that Miller's net buget hides his use of ~400 million of reserves. I sure if he used them all in one year both you and Matt would applaud his ability to concurrently raise spending and lower taxes.

RRR, Matt knows little about how the budget works. Check out my post on page 653.

Mayor David Miller should have gone to court weeks ago to bar striking garbage workers from blocking residents at trash transfer stations, says former mayor Mel Lastman. "I think the way we're treating the citizens of Toronto is disgraceful," he told CTV News Channel Monday evening. Residents...

Nice. Those old Yamaha's have such good sound, like the old Pioneer SX receivers. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13645_3-20082026-47/how-can-30-year-old-receivers-sound-better-than-new-ones/

What I am saying is that after telling numerous people about being assaulted, she attempted to entice the the mayor into doing the same to her assistant. Or at least getting a photograph which implied such. She was quoted as saying "'We need to get a picture with Rob Ford's hand near your butt...

Perhaps because she stated otherwise.