
After nearly three years of freewheeling spending, Mayor Olivia Chow wants to head into Toronto’s fall election with a low-tax budget. That’s after bringing in two of the biggest tax hikes in living memory – 9.5% in 2024 and 6.9% in 2025.
On Thursday morning, Chow will introduce her budget with a proposed 0.7% property tax hike combined with the annual 1.5% city building fund for a combined tax increase of 2.2%.
I do not see hope for recovery. All things considered Toronto’s permanent state of decline was sealed with Chow’s election.









Those who equate democratic action with tyrannical abuse in the name of international law will not be remembered as cautious but as complicit.

