The People’s Budgeting: Those Park Stairs Make Sense

Toronto is in financial difficulty because it gave a huge raise to its staff

A restatement of Toronto’s 2018 budget using natural categories

This article was substantially expanded on January 26, 2018

Since founding the budgetpedia.ca project in 2015 I’ve been researching and pondering the Toronto budget. After all you have to…

A naturalized view of Toronto’s 2017 operating budget

The Park That Ate Toronto: The Creation of Budgetpedia

Budgetpedia explores Toronto’s city budget, with the long term goal of exploring the finances of any municipal budget. The website scrapes data from many different publications to build a comprehensive view of the city’s finances. It…

Base comparison of Canadian City municipal finances

This is a guest post by Victor Leung, CPA

Toronto is a world class city with its elaborate infrastructure, variety of cultural and sport facilities and a complex transit system to name a few. For a city to continue…

Functionally, the Toronto budget isn’t that hard to understand

People at the City of Toronto are obsessed with presenting the budgets for agencies (arms-length organizations like police, transit, and library) and divisions (under the direct control of the City Manager, like Parks…

A clearer view of the 2017 Toronto operating budget: a cash surplus

Toronto Budget Check (version 1): Parks, Forestry & Recreation 2016

Introduction