{"id":33234,"date":"2024-04-14T22:05:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T02:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=33234"},"modified":"2024-04-14T22:05:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T02:05:37","slug":"toronto-wants-to-manage-storms-and-floods-with-a-rain-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=33234","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Wants to Manage Storms and Floods\u2014With a Rain Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/rain-tax-toronto-canada-climate-change-weather\/?bxid=5dfac0863f92a458a45dfe60&amp;cndid=20773990&amp;esrc=OIDC_SELECT_ACCOUNT_&amp;source=Email_0_EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&amp;utm_brand=wired&amp;utm_campaign=aud-dev&amp;utm_content=WIR_Daily_041424&amp;utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_041424&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=nl&amp;utm_term=WIR_Daily_Active\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Toronto-Rain-Tax-Science-1267879839.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Outcry reached such a crescendo last week that the city canceled public hearings on the tax, which is intended to help offset the hundreds of millions spent managing stormwater and basement flooding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/rain-tax-toronto-canada-climate-change-weather\/\">Toronto Wants to Manage Storms and Floods\u2014With a Rain Tax<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>as usualy, no one wants to pay, ex. everyone pays when floods happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outcry reached such a crescendo last week that the city canceled public&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[870,400,431,205],"class_list":["post-33234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-floods","tag-taxes","tag-toronto","tag-water","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33237,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33234\/revisions\/33237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}