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This week’s find
Until April, only Windsor’s Auditor General could change the yearly audit plan, and council could add to it only by a two-thirds vote. By-law 72-2026 replaced that with “Council may amend the annual audit plan from time to time.” In June, the Auditor General wrote that no new investigations would start in 2026.
The City says the Municipal Act lets council assign the Auditor General work, and council may want that time spent on moving Transit Windsor into a city department. Both are on the page, with the questions worth asking.
Read the Windsor question →Quick reads
Up from $162.5 million. The city collected $113.9 million from 2020 to 2024 and spent $48.4 million. Question →
The 2026 budget cuts the levy by $10 million for stormwater; the town forecasts $26.5 million from the fee in 2027. Question →
The newest audited year on the city’s site is 2022. Question →
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Mississauga, Brampton and Windsor, side by side, from their own budgets.
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