Tag: Finances

Our current budget doesn’t make it seem likely We constantly hear about affordability these days, if you’ve been listening to the 2026 Budget talks you’ve probably heard a lot of it. Typically the only topic regarding affordability that is touched on is with regards to property taxes, but is that really the only way our…

Where does the money come from? Tax revenue maps typically report the overall tax levy on a property in dollars. This approach favours large format developments but hides how efficiently it’s generating municipal revenues. Efficiency matters! We know that the cost of most city services scale with distance. The cost of roads, transit, sidewalks, snow…