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CHARTER CITY
TORONTO

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DOUG FORD'S WAR
ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

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POWERS AND AUTONOMY

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PODCASTS

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DEBATES

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MUNICIPAL FINANCES

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CITIES

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CHARTER CITY POLITICS

 

THE LATEST

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Burlington Mayor Endorses Charter City Toronto
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Municipalities Shoved Aside as Province Imposes Zoning Orders
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Ontario Green Party Votes to Study Charter City Proposals
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Doug Ford's Government Undermines Conservation Authorities
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Province Bans Municipal Ranked Ballots
 
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CHARTER CITY TORONTO IN THE NEWS

PictureCharter for Toronto finds support from MP Adam Vaughan, John Tory, Academics
TORONTO STAR Jennifer Pagliaro 5 Nov 2019

Picture​Toronto should have control over its own future
TORONTO STAR Editorial  5 Nov 2019

PictureHow a City Charter could fend off 'political interference' from Queen's Park
CBC NEWS  Nick Boisvert 5 Nov 2019

PictureResidents Group Has a Plan to Give Toronto More Power
TORONTO STAR Jennifer Pagliaro 5 Nov 2019

PictureCitizens' Group Unveils Proposal for a Toronto City Charter
GLOBE AND MAIL Oliver Moore 5 Nov 2019

Picture1400 Pack Church to Hear About Charter Cities
Charter City Toronto 18 June 2019

PictureCCTO's Doug Earl; York Prof Tricia Wood talk Charter Cities with TVO's ​Steve Paikin.
 The Agenda with Steve Paikin 2019

PictureConstitutional amendment 'Only Way' to ​protect new deal for cities
​TVO's The Agenda 20 Aug 2019

PictureCould ‘charter city’ status protect Toronto from provincial meddling?
TORONTO STAR ​Jennifer Pagliaro  19 June 2019

PictureMaking Toronto a ‘charter city’ a longshot. But longshots have to start somewhere
TORONTO STAR Edward Keenan 20 June 2019

PictureMy motion to establish Toronto as a Charter City
 Josh Matlow, City Councillor 13 Sept 2018

 
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PODCASTS

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Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps and Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson: The Case for Local Power
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Toronto Star reporter Jennifer Pagliaro explains Charter Cities
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CCTO's John Sewell talks Charter Cities with Jennifer Keesmat
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Former Mayor John Sewell and CCTO's Doug Earl talk about Charter Cities
​(STARTS AT 16 MINUTES IN)
 
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DEBATES

TORONTO STAR: THE BIG DEBATE

Doug Earl argues the city should have more authority and that it should be entrenched in a Toronto city charter. 

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IS A CITY CHARTER THE BEST WAY FORWARD FOR TORONTO?

TORONTO STAR 26 Nov 2019

Political science professor 
Kristin R. Good writes that increased municipal autonomy is a good idea, but the charter goes too far.


SPACING.CA DEBATE

​Dear Toronto:
​We need to talk about city charters


By Zack Taylor

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​​In defense of Toronto becoming a Charter City
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By Doug Earl

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How much authority should Toronto, and other Ontario cities, have to run their own affairs
without interference from the province?

 
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DOUG FORD'S WAR ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

PictureOntario moves to axe ranked ballots from municipal elections
CBC NEWS Oct 20, 2020

PictureOntario’s got 99 problems and ranked ballots ain’t one
TORONTO SUN Mitzie Hunter, Kate Graham 21 Nov 2020

PictureKingston reacts to Ford's revocation of ranked ballots
KINGSTONIST Tori Stafford  21 Oct 2020

PictureOntario opposition leaders condemn Ford's move to scrap ranked ballots
CBC NEWS Oct 23, 2020

PictureOntario Issues Downtown Zoning Orders Without Telling City
KRISTYN WONG-TAM 26 Oct 2020

PictureHow the Ford government is upending the local planning process
TORONTO STAR PODCAST
Noor Javed Jennifer Pagliaro  30 Oct 2020

PictureFord ramps up use of special orders to rezone land without appeals
TORONTO STAR Victoria Gibson 30 Oct 2020

PictureDevelopers getting provincial zoning orders donated $25K to Ontario PCs
TORONTO STAR Jennifer Pagliaro  2 Nov 2020

PictureToronto slams provincial evasion of planning rules for West Don Lands
CBC NEWS  27 Oct 2020

PictureDoug Ford's War on Toronto
TORONTO STAR Editorial ​6 May 2019

PictureDoug Ford’s misguided war on Toronto
GLOBE AND MAIL Editorial ​13 May 2019

PictureFord’s strategy of hitting municipalities with budget cuts, service downloads is ‘risky’ politics, expert says
TORONTO STAR David Rider  ​3 May 2019

PictureCity Manager: provincial cuts will cost Toronto nearly $180M in 2019
GLOBE AND MAIL Oliver Moore / Jeff Gray  ​9 May 2019

PictureList of Ontario Municipalities Against Public Health Cuts Grows
TORONTO STAR Mitch Potter ​5 May 2019

PictureFord government restores OMB rules for development disputes
TORONTO STAR
Tess Kalinowski / Jennifer Pagliaro 2 May 2019

Picture28 Ontario mayors slam province for downloading costs, forcing tax hikes
CANADIAN PRESS 30 April 2019

PictureOakville residents take stand against 'horrible' prospect of amalgamation
​CBC NEWS Nick Boisvert  ​2 May 2019

PictureOakville mayor fearful of Doug Ford’s ​"hidden agenda"
inhalton​ ​Paige Petrovsky 3 March 2019

PictureToronto makes decisions and Doug Ford keeps changing them
TORONTO STAR Jennifer Pagliaro 17 April 2019

PictureOntario leaves Toronto hanging on housing; more budget uncertainty
CBC NEWS Matt Elliott  ​12 April 2019

Picture​Ford reveals plan for Toronto transit ​ without city's mayor
CANADIAN PRESS ​10 April 2019

PictureDoug Ford's subway takeover: an expensive ​train wreck
NOW MAGAZINE​ ​David Miller 30 March 2019

PictureNew, smaller TO council costing more than previous
BLOGTO ​4 March 2019

Picture​Why our municipal crisis goes beyond Ford and Toronto
​GLOBE AND MAIL ​​Doug Saunders​  14 Sept 2018

PictureDoug Ford Says the Ontario need not respect the Constitution or the​ rule of law​
PRESS PROGRESS ​​11 Sept 2018

PictureToronto cuts show "paternalistic' ​city-province relationship: ​Edmonton Mayor
​HILL TIMES ​By Beatrice Paez​ 29 Aug 2018

Picture​Chretien, Romanow, McMurtry attack Ford’s use of notwithstanding clause
​MACLEAN'S ​14 Sept 2018

Picture​Turning Ford’s attack on Toronto into a movement for democratic renewal
TORONTO STAR
Dennis Pilon, Roger Keil, ​Bryan Evans,Greg Albo  29 Aug 2018

Picture​Ford gov't skips all public consultation on bill to slash TO city council​
iPOLITICS  ​Marieke Walsh  10 Aug 2018 

PictureConstitutional principles should prevent Ontario meddling in Toronto’s election
TORONTO STAR​ Craig Scott  2 Aug 2018

PictureNo one is coming to save us
NATIONAL OBSERVER ​Desmond Cole  31 July 2018

PictureNearly half of Torontonians oppose Ford’s council cuts
TORONTO STAR​​ Jennifer Yang  29 July 2018

PictureThe legal case against Ford’s assault on local democracy
SPACING TORONTO Alexandra Flynn / 30 July 2018

 
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CHARTER CITY POLITICS

PictureLiberal Leadership Candidate Backs ​Charter Cities
16 Aug 2019

PictureFederal Greens Endorse Charter Cities
3 June 2019

PictureNDP: Curb Province's Power Over City Governance
19 July 2019

 
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CITIES

PictureToronto used to be a metropolis model. ​So what happened?
GLOBE AND MAIL Jack Diamond 10 Oct 2018​

PictureFor Canadians: cities perform better than provinces
ABACUS DATA  Spring 2019

PictureThe Very Way Cities Like Toronto Are Run Is Making Inequality Worse
HUFFINGTON POST
Brittany Andrew-Amofah 17 June 2019

 
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MUNICIPAL FINANCES AND RESOURCES

PictureTory says COVID-19 will cost Toronto city hall $1.5 B under 'best case scenario'
CBC NEWS 17 April 2020

PictureCOVID-19 crisis creates chance to re-examine provincial funding of cities
TORONTO STAR
Enid Slack Tomas Hachard 6 April 2020


PictureJohn Tory: city forced to contemplate 'devastating' service cuts without federal, provincial funding
CBC NEWS 22 May 2020

PictureFeds should double Gas Tax for cities, FCM Says​
​iPOLITICS 23 July 2019


PictureWhy Ontario cities are struggling ​to make ends meet
 TVO's The Agenda 23 July 2019

PictureToronto is continually shortchanged on government funding
MACLEANS​ ​Armine Yalnizyan ​31 Jan 2017

PictureA sales tax could raise $2.5 billion for GTHA
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives 29 Jan 2019


PictureCities make power play for new fiscal order with eye to 2019 federal election
CTV NEWS Jordan Press  24 ​Sept 2018

Picture​​Tory urges 'complete rethink' of city's tax powers for 2018 budget​
​CP24 ​Chris Fox / ​16 Feb 2017


 
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POWERS AND AUTONOMY

PictureWhat we expect from regional and city governments is increasingly out of step with their powers
CBC NEWS OPINION Tomas Hachard 27 Nov 2020

PictureRethinking municipal power in the time of COVID-19
 THE PROVINCE Alexandra Flynn 19 April 2020

PictureWe literally were not able to seek an injunction under the law, the province had to do it: Tory
TORONTO STAR David Rider 26 Nov 2020

PictureToronto’s top doc asks province for stricter COVID-19 rules. Why doesn’t the city itself act?
TORONTO STAR Jennifer Pagliaro 2 Oct 2020

PictureToronto deserves its independence
TORONTO STAR ​Royson James  21 Sept 2018

PictureWhat's the most democratic and effective way to govern a city the size and economic import of Toronto?
GLOBE AND MAIL
Richard Florida + Alan Broadbent 19 Aug 2018

PictureWhy cities deserve more autonomy and respect
TORONTO STAR ​Shawn Micallef  ​24 Aug 2018

Picture3 ways Toronto could become more autonomous from Ontario
MACLEANS Michael Mendelson 31 ​Jul 2018

Picture​It’s time to re-examine ​the scope of municipal powers
GLOBE AND MAIL  Marcus Gee  22 Oct 2014

 
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ALBERTA CITY CHARTER NEWS

PictureProvince 'Ripped up' Charter Deal with City: Edmonton Mayor
​CBC NEWS 24 Oct 2019

PictureAlta gov't revokes City Charter Framework for Calgary, Edmonton
​​GLOBE AND MAIL  25 Oct 2019

PictureCharter funding for Calgary takes hit in Alberta Budget
​CALGARY HERALD  ​24 Oct 2019

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ABOUT US

The goal of Charter City Toronto is the adoption of a constitutionally protected City Charter for Toronto and other large Ontario municipalities who want one.

A Charter would assign greater autonomy, new sources of revenue and protection from undue provincial interference in local affairs.

We're a group of independent residents of Toronto who believe cities are the most important level of government in our confederation, and that they should be accorded the respect, authority, resources and protection necessary for them to fulfill their responsibilities.

 
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