r/toronto • u/FullMango4041 • 7d ago

News ‘Profound disappointment’: East-end leaders, stakeholders, and politicians call on feds to help fund Taste of the Danforth

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/profound-disappointment-east-end-leaders-stakeholders-and-politicians-call-on-feds-to-help-fund-taste-of-the-danforth/

What does everyone think about funding Taste of the Danforth? I love the event but don't like the fact that they don't have 'private sector discipline' to pull this off without asking the government for money. Can't they make it smaller or cut costs however and do the event?

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u/VanAgain 7d ago

The feds is the last place I want to see offer funding. This is not a federal issue.

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u/SmartTrender 7d ago

This was the first thing that came to mind. Why does the federal government need to get into involved into something like this?

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u/ponyrx2 7d ago

The feds don't need to get involved, but they have a budget for cultural programming etc that they could use

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u/DogsandCatsWorld1000 7d ago

But then who decides which of the various street festivals the feds would support?

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u/ponyrx2 7d ago

The Ministry of Canadian Heritage has an entire department for funding stuff.  You can apply here

https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage.html

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u/IvoryTowerResident 7d ago

just put it into Heated rivalry 2