Day: 15 October 2025

Life’s Lessons: if you earn it, you deserve it

TORONTO – I confess to not being a fan of President Donald Trump. Nor do I bear him any animus. His approach to the daily challenges that Life may throw our way appear different from the ones my parents laid out for me and my siblings. And, from a professional perspective, it is “my job” to critique so that our readers may have a balanced view of a politico whose weight on the scales of “good or bad” has a bigger impact than the insignificant expression of “right or wrong” expressed by ordinary citizens otherwise consumed by the need to mind their own business. 

$1 billion pressure on City’s budget: Tax increases getting closer?

TORONTO – Toronto’s budget opens with a $1 billion pressure on the operating budget and an $18 billion infrastructure need over the next decade, said a few days ago Councillor Shelley Carroll, chair of the City’s Budget Committee. Mayor Olivia Chow then doubled down, stating that “times are tough” implying that this year, as in the previous two of Chow’s administration, property taxes will increase.