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Artis Lane - sculptor painter, The modernist design of Toronto City Hall was a result of a competition after the original proposal was negatively received the photo was taken in 2008 Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario the Romanesque Ontario Legislature is one of the most prominent monuments in the city forming a terminating vista at the end of University Avenue to the east of the legislature are a number of governmental buildings with the best known being the Whitney Block Constructed over many decades they embrace a number of different styles the provincial government have been unwilling to pay for structures as lavish as those of the private sector and few of the provincial buildings are of much prominence Two of the most distinct and well known structures in downtown Toronto are the old and current city halls the Old City Hall was built in 1899 and is a prominent example of the late Victorian Romanesque Revival style Across the street is the starkly different new Toronto City Hall opened in 1965 This brashly modernist structure was designed by Finnish architect Viljo Revell it fronts Nathan Phillips Square which was also designed by Revell Today both buildings are considered symbols of the city the 3D Toronto sign was installed in Nathan Phillips Square for the 2015 Pan American Games Post-secondary educational institutions, Main article: Toronto FC fans. . To finance operations the municipality levied property taxes in 1850 Toronto also started levying income taxes. Toronto levied personal income taxes until 1936 and corporate income taxes until 1944 Until 1914 Toronto grew by annexing neighbouring municipalities such as Parkdale and Seaton Village After 1914 Toronto stopped annexing bordering municipalities although some municipalities overwhelmed by growth requested it After World War II an extensive group of suburban villages and townships surrounded Toronto Change to the legal structure came in 1954 with the creation of the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto (known more popularly as "Metro") in 1954 This new regional government which encompassed Toronto and the smaller communities of East York Etobicoke Forest Hill Leaside Long Branch Mimico New Toronto North York Scarborough Swansea Weston and York was created by the Government of Ontario to support suburban growth This new municipality could borrow money on its own for capital projects and it received taxes from all municipalities including Toronto which meant that the Toronto tax base was now available to support the suburban growth the new regional government built highways water systems and public transit while the thirteen townships villages towns and cities continued to provide some local services to their residents to manage the yearly upkeep of the new infrastructure the new regional government levied its own property tax collected by the local municipalities On January 1 1967 several of the smaller municipalities were amalgamated with larger ones reducing their number to six Forest Hill and Swansea became part of Toronto; Long Branch Mimico and New Toronto joined Etobicoke; Weston merged with York; and Leaside amalgamated with East York This arrangement lasted until 1998 when the regional level of government was abolished and Etobicoke North York East York York and Scarborough were amalgamated into Toronto the "megacity" Mel Lastman the long-time mayor of North York before the amalgamation was the first mayor (62nd overall) of the new "megacity" of Toronto which is the successor of the previous City of Toronto Existing by-laws of the individual municipalities were retained until such time that new citywide by-laws could be written and enacted New citywide by-laws have been enacted although many of the individual differences were continued applying only to the districts where the by-laws applied such as winter sidewalk clearing and garbage pickup the existing city halls of the various municipalities were retained by the new corporation the City of York's civic centre became a court office the existing 1965 City Hall of Toronto became the city hall of the new megacity while the "city hall" of the Metro government is used as municipal office space The census metropolitan areas listed below are within the Greater Golden Horseshoe Not all land within the Greater Golden Horseshoe is part of a Census Metropolitan Area; some Census Metropolitan Areas are partly in the Golden Horseshoe and partly outside it Toronto 5,928,040, Arrowsmith School 3.1 Collaboration with Black Lives Matter Toronto Ontario Canada Business directory. . This section needs to be updated Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information (July 2012). . . History Deaths Total Shootings Extended Simcoe (Simcoe County Barrie and Orillia) 479,650 Hotel Ritz 4.3 Crown and Clergy reserves First Nations.

Ontario has grown from its roots in Upper Canada into a modern jurisdiction the old titles of the chief law officers the Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General remain in use They both are responsible to the Legislature the Attorney-General drafts the laws and is responsible for criminal prosecutions and the administration of justice while the Solicitor-General is responsible for law enforcement and the police services of the province the Municipal Act 2001 (Ontario) is the main statute governing the creation administration and government of municipalities in the Canadian province of Ontario other than the City of Toronto After being passed in 2001 it came into force on January 1 2003 replacing the previous Municipal Act. Effective January 1 2007 the Municipal Act 2001 (the Act) was significantly amended by the Municipal Statute Law Amendment Act 2006 (Bill 130) Politics, 64 147, Further information: Canadian soccer clubs in international competitions. 3 Residential rentals Integrity Commissioner, 1 Establishment Etobicoke Board of Education History. . ; Shelley Niro - painter installation artist filmmaker Individual awards; . .