Sound, fury at Legislature, City Hall over plan to cut Council

For some, it’s an affront to the pillars of democracy. To others, it’s a welcome shift away from inefficient processes that plague City Hall. City councillors are starkly divided on Premier Doug Ford’s new bill to redraw Toronto’s ward boundaries and cut the number of council seats from 47 to 25 ahead of this fall’s municipal election. CBC

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