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City Hall Gets Redesign, 905ers Pissed About Taxes, Loblaw Workers Ready For Strike

By Ron Nurwisah, Boy Reporter

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Mayor Miller is announcing today that there will be a major competition to redesign Nathan Phillips Square.
Olivia Chow wants her colleagues in Ottawa to stay away from Porter Air. The upstart airline is starting flights on October 23rd.
A fire broke out in a Humane society foster home early this morning. A brave boyfriend saved many of the animals but sadly two cats died.
Higher residential property taxes has 905ers pissed off at those of us here in the 416. Apparently the 905 is also subsidizing Toronto’s social programs. Both areas can agree on one thing though, this is Queen’s Park’s fault.
A union has released a survey that estimates that there are 40,000 illegal immigrants in Toronto with about half of them working in construction.
Tie Domi is in trouble with his wife again for allegedly violating a restraining order.
Police are looking for the driver involved in a hit-and-run with a senior on Roncesvalles and Marion.
Loblaw workers have voted in favour of a strike. They haven’t confirmed when they will go on strike yet and are still negotiating with management.

Photo by Aperturish from the Torontoist Flickr Group.

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  • Marc Lostracco

    GTAers shouldn’t complain too much about their taxes considering that urban sprawl is much more expensive per capita to pave, plow, and pick-up garbage, as well as provide public transportation, electricity, and waste removal systems for.
    And anyway, the city collects property tax on every highrise unit even though the building’s floorplate only covers a certain amount of physical real estate (basically, we’re paying taxes on the three-dimensional airspace you inhabit — which is OK, I guess). It’s almost as if they taxed each floor in a suburban house.
    Even though social services, for example, are much more expensive in the city core, it’s still cheaper to for a city to be dense and high rather that spread-out. In many respects, taxes from downtown now subsidize services in the GTA.
    Complaining too much about downtown social services taxes without addressing the issues behind urban sprawl is getting a little too close to the “moral” tax area. Also, most of the victims of homelessness and drugs originally came to the core from the outlying areas for reasons of access, community or support that any major city offers.

  • rek

    Highrises may take up less actual ground space, but they’re high-density. Just as you have to drive further to pick up garbage in the ‘burbs, or lay longer cables and pipes, you get more garbage per square foot out of a highrise than you would out of a cluster of 2 storey residential buildings on the same space.