HeyJaredCity Hall Watcher
A weekly newsletter about Toronto City Council by Matt Elliott
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All the wrong ways to talk about Toronto’s budget (opens the original)
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ELECTION 2026 RESOURCES:👟 Find your match on Council with SimCouncillor⛳️ Browse Council’s Lobbying Report Cards📽️ View City Hall Watcher’s Election Projection📊 <a href="https://ww
Quantifying Council’s chatterboxes — and quietest members (opens the original)
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ELECTION 2026 RESOURCES: 👟 Find your match on Council with SimCouncillor⛳️ View Council’s Lobbying Report Cards 🗳️ View City Hall Watcher’s Election Projection<a href="https://projection.cityhallwatcher.c
Issuing lobbying report cards at the end of the term (opens the original)
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👟 If you haven’t played SimCouncillor yet, try it out — and find your match on Toronto Council.Hey there! Back to the usual this week after last week’s milestone issue party. Though Issue #401 comes with a pretty notable number, too. Maybe we should bury it. Even if it costs $100 billion, let’s put this issue in a tunnel. But anyway, in addition to jok… <a href="https://toronto.city
Celebrate 400 issues with a game of SimCouncillor (opens the original)
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Four hundred issues. Four hundred! I know I say this at every milestone, but it really is just so enormously cool that this little indie newsletter has been able to survive and grow and thrive like it has. Thank you for reading and supporting this work. You wouldn’t necessarily think there’d be such a strong market for a hyper-obsessed municipal government newsletter that routinely runs thousands of words each
Following the money from the mayor’s property tax increases (opens the original)
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Welcome to the 399th edition of City Hall Watcher. It’s the one before the milestone celebration.But there’s still reason to get excited. In this issue, Andrey’s got answers to a question I’ve seen a few people ask over the last few months: what, exactly, did Mayor Olivia Chow’s property tax increases over the last three years pay for?It turns out a big chunk of the money went to policing. We’ve got a look at whether that’s been effective spending, and whether it’s sustainable. Two important que
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