:* I came to the talk page to make the same point  made in 2008.  The article doesn't offer any help to readers to understand the powers of the Assembly  or of the Mayor.  Three months later  disagreed.  Sorry Bjenks, I see your disagreement as due to a failure of imagination. 

 :: I live in Toronto, Ontario.  In Ontario, and other Canadian provinces, municipalities are "creatures of the province".  Ontario mayors and municipal councilors have weak powers, at least compared with their opposite numbers in the USA.  While they can set property taxes, they can not, for instance, set a sales tax, as was done in NYC. 

 :: Further, they don't get the final say, over planning matters.  Developers who own property in Ontario municipalities routinely submit development plans to the city they expect to be rejected, with relative confidence that the unelected Ontario Municipal Board, after a very short hearing, will over-ride the municipal decision, and rubber-stamp their plans. 

 :: So, Bjenks, that the top section lays out the conditions under which the Assembly can over-ride the mayor is not really helpful, if we don't know how powerful the city government is, as a whole.  This article still needs to explain the city's local powers.