Should rich drivers pay more for their parking fines than poor ones? In less than a week the Occupy Vancouver group has shrunk from a mass of about 4000 to a few hundred campers. Fortunately for those living in...
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Vancouver's City Manager shrugs off criticism of costs for private staff parties What follows is the next installment in our ongoing CityCaucus.com Redux series whereby we republish some of our more popular stories. Mike Klassen first published this doozie...
Continue reading CityCaucus Redux: City Manager says $34,000 a "drop in the bucket".
Why do some civic politicians in BC think a municipal auditor general is so scary?If you happened to be walking in downtown Vancouver this week, you might have bumped into one of the 1,000 or so municipal politicians attending their...
Continue reading UBCM politicians shouldn't be so afraid of a new auditor general.
Happy New Year to all of our readers! It's New Year's Eve and the staff at CityCaucus Towers are all grumbling today about the fact we've asked them to work until 5 pm. Unfortunately we need them to stay...
Continue reading Goodbye 2010! Hello civic election year.
Ford or Smitherman? Follow @CityCaucus on Monday night for our 'e-analysis' of the Toronto contestTorontonians go to the polls on Monday and beginning at 5pm PST CityCaucus.com will be live blogging and posting tweets @CityCaucus on the battle for mayor...
Continue reading CityCaucus.com endorses George Smitherman for Toronto mayor.
Toronto mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson bows out of the race Eric Mang returns with his comment on the fascinating race for Mayor of Toronto.Sarah Thomson has run out of money and has barely inched the polls in her favour....
Continue reading Sarah Thomson drops out of Toronto civic election.
People using their car in Montreal better be prepared to pay a bit more for the privilege of doing so If you're a taxpayer and living on the outskirts of Montreal, you better get ready to hold on to...
Continue reading Montreal commuters hit with parking tax to pay for transit.
Local business owners say enough is enough when it comes to the 21% tax Robertson and his TransLink colleagues imposed on parking lots in VancouverLast week Vancouver's business community launched their Drive Out the Tax campaign aimed at getting Mayor...
Continue reading Drive out the tax campaign hitting its stride.
Edmonton chose not to put high profile items on the chopping block in their 2010 Budget While Vancouverites are being told by their Vision elected officials that 2% is the maximum tax hike they will permit this year (0%...
Continue reading Edmonton and Coquitlam finalize budgets and raise taxes by 5%.
Eric Mang asks if 20 bucks saved by the garbage strike is really worth handing backI like paying taxes because I like a society that strives for greater egalitarianism through the redistribution of wealth. I realize that taxes, being...
Continue reading Tax rebates, fairness and Toronto's lower-income earners.
Must Vancouver resign itself to an aging demographic and a high cost of living? Vancouver like many cities around the world is getting older, thanks largely to low birthrates but increasingly because it is simply too expensive to live...
Continue reading Vancouver can remain vital for families and seniors alike.
Five people died in Montreal when an overpass collapsed. Some say Canada's growing infrastructure deficit in our cities is to blame.As our cities age, the issue of infrastructure replacement becomes increasingly more critical. In some Canadian cities, the lack of...
Continue reading Some Canadian cities face a bigger infrastructure "crisis" than others.
Mayors gather to ask for transit funding - Vancouver Sun photo Metro Vancouver mayors gathered last week with their hands out for more transit cash. The above photo says it all — Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts at the podium...
Continue reading Leadership...or photo op?.
Name: David ChudnovskyDonation to COPE: $2200 (in-kind contribution)Intrepid BC Legislature reporter Sean Holman of Public Eye Online had a Vancouver civic campaign donation item cross his desk, reporting that David Chudnovsky's MLA office supplied telephone equipment in support of COPE's...
Continue reading Know Your Donor: David Chudnovsky, MLA.
In the week that was in Canadian Cities, Toronto Mayor David Miller assured City taxpayers that the current recession won't mean he'll have to dip into their pockets any further this year. Miller commits that Toronto can live within...
"Only left wing mayors can offer these types of corporate tax breaks"In what could easily be described as one of his better speeches, Mayor Gregor Robertson was sporting a conservative blue tie as he addressed the Vancouver Board of...
Continue reading Vancouver Mayor offers big tax breaks to developers.
Why is it that Vancouver's disadvantaged are not given priority for the new social housing units being constructed at the Athlete's Village? I’ve been reading a lot of stories lately about how the cost of social housing in Vancouver has...
Continue reading Vancouver taxpayers subsidize social housing for Burnaby residents.
I recently sent a note to fellow columnist Allen Garr about a column he wrote in the Vancouver Courier regarding those new community gardens popping up all over the City of Vancouver. Garr and I don't often see eye-to-eye, but on...
Continue reading Why is City of Vancouver supporting $350 tomato plants?.
I was on the radio yesterday for my weekly appearance on CKNW's civic affairs panel when the calls started to roll in about how upset people were that the annual fireworks festival was a victim of our recession. For hundreds...
Continue reading Loss of summer fireworks festival a big blow to Metro Vancouver.
Taxes. Taxes. Taxes. It's that time of the year for many city governments across Canada. They are preparing preliminary drafts of their budgets and asking the public for input into what priorities should be funded. In BC, a number...
Continue reading Vancouver tax hike could hit over three times rate of inflation.
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