The Toronto Star has released the 2008 edition of their Greater Toronto’s Top 50 Employers list, and it is no surprise that accounting firms are well repre­sented once again. All four of the largest accounting firms, the Big Four, made the list, along with a local single office firm, Mintz & Partners. The reasons why they […]

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Toronto released their budget this week and other than the usual tax hikes for property owners, this inter­esting post on Eye Daily about the gibberish and jargon of a city budget. It lists the specialized terms the budget contains to describe its expen­di­tures and revenues, and the list is incom­pre­hen­sible, even to me, a soon-to-be […]

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A group of Toronto bloggers are getting together this weekend for the TTC TransitCamp to brain­storm ways to improve the TTC’s absolutely horrid website. When I first heard about it a few days ago, my first impulse was to try to get involved. Then I realized, there are probably many more Toron­to­nians with much more […]

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Not through any direct experience of my own, although my landlord did take the oppor­tunity to raise my rent the maximum allowable by law a month ago, but the city has been moving up the ranks of the most expensive on the planet. Toronto of course ranks first in Canada as the most expensive place […]

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I was at the Toronto Blue Jays baseball game last night at the Rogers Centre and man was it crazy. Over 50,000 people there to watch the Jays? What is this, 1993? I had a good seat down the third base line, giving me a great view of Bengie Molina’s home run in the 4^th inning. […]

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