Hold The Applause

Hold applause for city's budget

50 min. ago

Praise for Toronto's municipal budget reached an embarrassing crescendo at the city's executive committee Tuesday as councillors took turns cheering what they had wrought.

Miller's balanced budget claim has a special slant

Mar 27, 2008 04:30 AM

In 1808, novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott wrote, "O what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive." Prophetic, those words were, considering the manipulation of facts, circa 2008, at Toronto City Hall.

Concerning this year's $8.2 billion city budget, we've been told: This is Toronto's "first balanced budget since amalgamation," a milestone achieved on introduction of the budget in January, not after painful cuts and tortuous deliberation....