Totally factual, well-reasoned post. Just a few corrections:
1. The new streetcar deal is in fact being paid for by the city. They did indeed try to get the feds to pay for them, but the response was, and I'm quoting, "Fuck Off."
2. The garbage piled up because the mayor did say 'boo' to his union buddies. Generally unions don't strike when they get everything they want. The union ultimately agreed to the city's compromise offer, giving up bankable sick days for new employees, and returned to work.
3. One of the big successes of the Miller era was finding a new landfill site for Toronto's garbage. We no longer truck our garbage to Michigan, and politicians have stopped floating the idea of just burning all of it. So that's something.
4. The city barely balanced its books most years, so I'm not sure why anyone would be crediting Miller with that. The push to get the province to upload services and restore operating funding for things like the TTC is the most important issue facing our city.
5. The City of Toronto Act was about allowing the city to diversify its revenue streams so not everything came purely on the backs of property tax. This was wildly unpopular but objectively it still seems kind of reasonable. Nobody really said anything about drinking hours.
6. Transit City was the subject of several votes in City Council, all of them approved.
7. Ford has been in power for only two months.