The 2024 Budget Launch Spectacular

City Hall Watcher #262: Breaking down a $17 billion budget, with a focus on property taxes, reserve draws, road safety reductions and more. Plus: a chat with the Budget Chief.

Hey there! Toronto’s proposed 2024 budget has emerged from its cocoon and resembles, as it always does, a freakish, confusing, complicated butterfly. Let’s try to make sense of it before it flies away.

I covered some of the basics in Friday’s special issue — which probably should have been titled, per a reader suggestion, “Gone With the Windrow,” but my …