Archive Of VoteJohnRichardson.ca
This is a good place to keep a bit of personal history. For various elections I used the site: VoteJohnRichardson.ca
Here are archived versions of the site for different elections over the years:
2015 Federal Election – VoteJohnRichardson.ca
Around 2014 – Toronto Ward 29 Election
Municipal Election 2019 – Toronto Ward 29
And going back to 2006, here is the John Richardson Election site.
Toronto Tenants Pay High Rents Because of Discriminatory Tax on Tenants
“It is assumed that because rental housing is a business, that higher rates of taxation can be charged, even though those levies are passed on dollar-for-dollar to the tenants under landlord and tenant laws, and even though the majority of tenants are renters because they have lower incomes and can not afford to be homeowners. Of course, since the tax levies are ultimately paid by tenants as part of our rents, most tenants unaware of the real source of any increased taxes, nor that over 20% of our rents are in fact due to municipal property taxes.”
– http://www.ontariotenants.ca/taxes/toronto-property-taxes.phtml
You can see the difference in the tax rates here.
I am amazed that that few people seem interested in this issue. If you are a Toronto tenant or landlord you need to make your voice heard…
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December 31, 2010
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/914288–battered-but-unbroken-bussin-has-no-regrets
Robyn Doolittle
Former Ward 30 councillor Sandra Bussin talks about the election and her future plans
Sandra Bussin says she knew she was toast long before voters made it official on Oct. 25.
Throughout the city, entrenched left-wing incumbents who had been power players under David Miller appeared beatable for the first time in years.
Perhaps none was more vulnerable than Bussin, the sharp-tongued council speaker and former deputy mayor. Continue reading
As David Crombie carries his tray around the crowded cafeteria-style restaurant in downtown Toronto, he smiles and waves to several customers who recognize him.
Some 31 years after he left city hall, Crombie is remembered fondly by these noon-hour patrons as the “tiny perfect mayor,” arguably the best in Toronto’s history. Continue reading
April 29, 2010
Robert Benzie
With the transition toward the harmonized sales tax starting Saturday, Ontarians should brace for levies on numerous goods and services to rise to 13 per cent, including flights within Canada.
AARON HARRIS/THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE PHOTO
Book soon and “beat the tax.”
That’s the advice of Revenue Minister John Wilkinson to anyone making recreational plans for the summer. Continue reading
Friday, March 26, 2010
David Akin, Canwest News Service
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2730283
MONTREAL — With three former prime ministers and his predecessor looking on, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff opened a weekend “thinkers” conference here with an exhortation to fix what he called “the break” between the country’s political class and its citizens. Continue reading
Toronto is your city! Get out and vote!
Canada is one of the world’s great democracies. Democracy is something that you do! Democracy is not something you watch! To put it another way:
Democracy is NOT a spectator sport!
You must get out and vote!
The voter turnout in the 2006 elections was not just low – but abysmally low. In Toronto Ward 29 approximately 12,000 people voted. That’s 12,000 out of a possible 33,705. That’s a very low percentage turnout – marginally more than 33%. Toronto’s City Councillors are the representatives of only those who took the time to vote. The winner in our Ward – Ward 29 – received less than half of those 12,000 votes. Therefore he was the choice of at most 17% of eligible voters.
The residents of Toronto have come to expect and been forced to tolerate:
– garbage strikes – see how Toronto’s Councillor’s voted
– a substandard TTC that creates conflicts with its riders
– A city council which allowed councillors a pay raise in the midst of a recession
– A city council that may favor the interests of special groups over taxpayers
– A city council that will finance a city councillor to launch a lawsuit against a taxpayer
– A city council that spends your money without lawful authority
– A dysfunctional property tax system
– A property tax system that discriminates again tenants who live in buildings with more than seven apartments
and more.
That’s what you get if you don’t get out and vote.
My name is John Richardson. I have been your neighbour in Ward 29 since 1984. I would like to serve you as your city councillor in Ward 29. I look forward to meeting as many of you as can from now until October 25, 2010.
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