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Miller Loses Bid to Save Tourists
Or tourism funding anyway. The red sharpies are flying over at City Hall, in a last ditch effort to strike-thru to fiscal solvency. On the chopping block is city funding for Toronto Tourism, which is being downgraded from $4.2 mil to $500K, despite the protestations of a certain Mayor of the Coif. The Coif says relations with the organization will be harmed by such a financial fallback, but TT is estimated to have a budget of $27 mil this year, so TOist will not be losing any sleep over friendship bracelets cut.
Also being considered as a money-saving measure are parking permit hikes, which will likely rise from $8.50 to $10.00 per month, because Howard Moscoe says “if you can afford a car, you can afford to pay the extra $1.50 a month.” We don’t know how Moscoe possesses such omniscient knowledge of city drivers and their pocketbooks, but if that’s what it takes to get us out of the red, we’ll let it slide, Mr. Moscoe.