Tank: Canada's cities, like Saskatoon, have the people, not the power
You need not look as far away as Toronto if you want to confirm the perception that Canada’s cities remain the playthings of the provinces.
The drama created by Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s reduction of Toronto city council seats in the middle of a civic election has come to symbolize the provincial-municipal power struggle.
It hardly ranks as much of a struggle, though, with provinces not just holding all the cards, but making up the rules of the game as they go.
That same dynamic ap
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