Karygiannis was first removed from office in early November after Toronto's city clerk said he could no longer continue in his role based on a supplementary financial statement filed after the 2018 municipal election.

Around 24,000 city employees who are members of CUPE Local 79 could legally go on strike or be locked out by the city as early as 12:01 a.m. this Saturday.

Their jobs include garbage and recycling collection, water treatment, road maintenance and snow clearing.

Toronto city council voted in favour of expropriating the air rights, if need be, to build the massive Rail Deck Park over existing train tracks in the city’s downtown core.

In order to pay for the major projects identified, TTC staff said the upper levels of government need to come through with funding.

A total of 60,408 people were employed in the Toronto technology sector in 2019. That’s a 16.6 per cent increase over 2018

The staff presented the City of Toronto 2020 budget on Friday morning to the committee that will ultimately shape it over the coming weeks.

In a year-end interview with Global News, Mayor John Tory reflected on some of the challenges the city faces while entering a new decade.

“Unilateral changes in a vacuum of silence without consultation is not the way to build smart, thoughtful policy."

The move will cause the levy to increase by an extra eight per cent over the next six years.