City Budget Watch Blog

About City Budget Watch

Social Planning Toronto's City Budget Watch is back for the 2019 City of Toronto budget process! We'll be bringing you up-to-date reports and analysis on each step of the City budget process from launch date on Monday, January 28, to final votes at City Council on March 7. We'll let you know how you can learn more, get involved, and have your say on the 2019 budget. 

The City Budget Watch Blog is authored by Beth Wilson. Beth is our lead on policy and research at Social Planning Toronto, starting at our organization in 2002. She has a Master of Social Work (MSW), Policy, Organization and Community.

Budget Resources

	Our choices will determine if we are Toronto the Good, our op-ed in the Toronto Star
	“As Torontonians, we like to think we’re a caring city, where no one is left behind. We like to believe in the slogans. They make us feel good. The truth is, hundreds of thousands of us have been left behind, and every day that number grows.”
	A City Left Behind: Poverty Reduction, Election Promises, and the 2019 Budget, our progress assessment of Council’s progress on the Prosperity Pledge in its preliminary Budget
	(The news isn’t good.)