Toronto

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…

A proposal for Budgetpedia’s advocacy position: modern accounting

When the Budgetpedia project started in 2015, our self-created mandate was to make the Toronto budget more accessible to people so support informed debate about the budget. Trouble is, it’s pretty much impossible to…

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…

How Toronto Councillors voted on the 2018 public budget review process

A naturalized view of Toronto’s 2017 operating budget

Toronto Budget Check (version 1): Children’s Services 2016

This is the third in a series of experimental presentations of budget data. We’d like to present the variance data with the 2016 budget, but until we get the data (we’ve asked for 2016 variance data at this level of detail)…

Budgetpedia’s Mission to Transform Advocates into Accountants

Toronto Budget Check (version 1): Toronto Employment & Social Services 2016

Updated: September 27, 2017. Estimated direct Transfers to Persons has been integrated into the statements (revenues and expenses), to get a clearer picture of the net cost of operating this service.