I have that spreadsheet. I think the confusion lies in what is being measured. The Graph I showed is from the 2009 Toronto employment survey. It counts the number of jobs located in the city. The Invest Toronto historical data uses Stats Can employment figures. Compare between the two. In...

Why is the 'centre' always lumped with the left? It is a spectrum. The right and the left will both overlap into the centre. The right-cente can equally claim victory as can the left-centre can claim a loss.

Is your monitor crooked? Just where do you see that Toronto had ever matched its 1989 employment peak? It also curious how you recognize that growth in York Region is responsible for increases in employment, but ignore growth in Toronto. It must be a mystery to you why Toronto had an...

Check again. Toronto has yet to match it's 1989 level of employment. Keep in mind that even if it did, that does not take into account population growth. If Toronto had the same number of jobs as 1989 the unemployment level would still be a lot higher...

Yes I did. As noted page 12 here............. http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/2005/agendas/council/cc051026/pofedp2rpt/cl001.pdf In 1989, total employment in the City of Toronto peaked at almost 1.5 million workers. Since that time, employment in the city has at best languished. In fact, it...

I pointed to them because of the findings, not recommendations. But yes, I have read the reports. I have also discussed with Dr. Golden about them. The reason being is that I disagreed about the long term benefits of the proposed solutions, and the underlying cause. It was not a radical...

More Miller Math, Claiming a surplus after draining more than 3 billion from reserves.

We could have predicted these results after reading these reports.... http://www.unitedwaytoronto.com/downloads/whatWeDo/reports/PovertybyPostalCodeFinal.pdf http://www.unitedwaytoronto.com/downloads/whatWeDo/reports/LosingGround-fullReport.pdf

Since city budgets are online, you you care to point out on which line you can see this?

The mood of the electorate was a simple of result of the dynamic that Machiavelli described........ Hence it is to be remarked that, in seizing a state, the usurper ought to examine closely into all those injuries which it is necessary for him to inflict, and to do them all at one stroke so...

The same way that there are large disparities in home prices in Toronto, the same applies in the 905. Perhaps more so. The 905 region includes far areas and some very distant towns like Mount Albert and East Gwillimbury. None of this really matters though. What you should be comparing is...

It cannot be done because it would be an indirect tax, ultra vires to the city.

Transit city is a monument to David Miller. People in the suburbs, watching their employment migrate to the 905 regions have little interest in transit expansion that does not serve their needs. Priority neighborhoods need hope and opportunity, not basketball courts for politicians to point to...

If this was a layperson I would have not bothered to comment. He is an economist that clearly does not understand economics. That makes him an idiot.

Hugh Mackenzie is an idiot. He believes that Toronto's fiscal problems are the result of not being able to tax renters and businesses more. http://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/Ontario_Office_Pubs/oab_taxes.pdf

I don't believe that Rob is unintelligent. To the contrary. I believe that Miller, who has a degree in economics and is outright dismissive of the simplest principals of land economics, is unintelligent. Miller cares about how he is perceived, first and foremost. In all honesty I think...