The small business ratio -- 2.50 as noted in the table -- reflects a tax-ratediscount on the first $1 million assessment of specified properties: i.e. properties that are not large office buildings, large shopping centres or parking lots. As anexample consider a free standing reta...
The cities ofVancouver,Kelowna,Toronto,Mississauga, andMontreal. likely won’t see much relief in the coming years either as the will to build remains low. The fact is that current home owners and real estate investors, and banks don’t want to see home prices fall. Policies will followed ...
TorontoSkyline of Toronto. The concentration of the manufacturinglabour forcein mill towns and coke towns gradually undermined traditional social structures and relations. Problems of public order, health, housing, utilities,education, andmoralswere aggravated by the influx of newcomers from the countrysid...
Toronto is about to go through the same, as conservative-leaning Mayor John Tory, after resisting the idea for years, has now come out proposing big tax increases to pay for more housing and transit. Calgary is having its own struggles over property-tax increases after giving a big chunk o...
City of Toronto. (2017).The sharing economy.https://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=2953f17aef812510VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD. City of Vancouver. (2015).Greenest city—2020 action plan.http://vancouver.ca/files/cov/greenest-city-2020-action-plan-2015-2020.pdf ...
Against the backdrop of severe global warming, the low-carbon city pilot policy, with carbon emission reduction as its main objective, is an important initiative for China to fulfil its international commitment to carbon emission reduction and promote a green and low-carbon development strategy. How...
In the Netherlands, citizens are held responsible by the law for managing rainwater on their own property. In practice however, it has been found that Dutch residents often rely on local governments [31,32]. The downside of this national commitment to flooding is that citizens’ initiatives in...
“I was asked to tip for an online order of baby formula,” said Green, a new mom and radio announcer in Toronto. “I wasn’t using Instacart or tipping someone for delivery. It was just a regular online order and I was asked to tip at the check out to ‘show support ...
City of Toronto. (2017).The sharing economy.https://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=2953f17aef812510VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD. City of Vancouver. (2015).Greenest city—2020 action plan.http://vancouver.ca/files/cov/greenest-city-2020-action-plan-2015-2020.pdf ...
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