In this case the goal is to dilute the voting power of poor neighbourhoods in order to resist left candidates. The record shows substantial success, given the arrival of left winners after the change.

Increasing mixing is how gerrymandering works. Sewell got elected when the right split (in general that is how the left wins the mayoralty). You do have to remember that the left has never held a majority in Toronto. Don't blame us! :)

Overlay the two maps and tell me what you see.

It has to do with who votes and who gets pandered to. In the strip wards the homeowners in the north turn out at higher rates than the renters in the south. So the renters get drowned out.

Heap, Sparrow, Sewell, Jaffary all got elected south of Bloor St.

History matters. If you screw up history you probably screw up the future.

All right, more carefully. The bit at the bottom is probably like 10 people living in the King Edward and he Royal York. Castle Frank is a bit of leakage from Rosedale.

You (and the article) are ignoring the political history (not a surprise, it is well buried).

The big transformation was the change from strip wards to block wards. Which gave downtown representation they had not had before that.

That map illustrates my point. No high income neighbourhoods south of Bloor street. The rich neighbourhoods did not elect reformers, they were already well represented.

You don't know the history. I was there. Before Crombie et al there was no such thing as an upscale downtown neighbourhood. There was some commercial gentrification (Yorkville), but all the housing was low rent. Walk through Sussex-Ulster and every third house had a room to rent sigh on it.

The simplest fix is to start taxing on frontage. This is why old
Toronto is so efficient.

You got real numbers on this?

Did not your (current/previous?) employer publish that data for Halifax?

PS The website is broken so it is hard to find.

They have already "fixed" that one. The current size of Ottawa is ridiculous.

I think user base of 1 is the magic answer.

Do you understand the code? I am assuming you don't get 3AM phone calls.

The point of the Festival was so that people would forget about the chicken strike.

The Mothers of Invention White Album is better than the Beatles.

At what point do you recognize that the only motivator for the Liberal party is power?

Also, how old is the "black cats vs white cats" story? Hint, it was Tommy Douglas.

I agree that the tax system needs fixing and tax planners are a scourge, but trashing OAS is far too blunt a hammer. Not treating capital gains as income on the same footing as wages is a vastly bigger problem.

GIS/OAS is designed not to be handouts to rich people.

You can't afford the maintenance on a house if you are collecting GIS. You can collect OAS but it's taxable (and subject to clawback) and unlikely to be large.

You are being factually incorrect.

Neoclassical economics says it's for the ultra rich.

GIS is means tested. OAS is taxed and clawed back.

GIS is straight up means tested, OAS is taxable and clawed back for high income earners. Find another hobby horse.

The same private equity owned the shrimp. It was classic Milo Minderbender.

Probably the money.

Got a link?

Where?

OK, state of good repair projects that aren't. That would be a problem.