Dawn doesn’t so much break over Toronto on marathon morning as creep in behind the sound of trucks, radios, and zip-ties. Streets that usually hum with commuters now sit in temporary silence, lined ...
As befits a fall when the Blue Jays have again become contenders, the $10 billion-plus question hanging over the ...
Change in cities is often slow, when using official channels. There is a desire to achieve the perfect plan, one that ...
What happens when four different reports give four different answers to the same housing question? Every few months, a new ...
The north portion of St. Lawrence Market is arguably the second most historic spot in the post-colonial city, after Fort York. A public market has been operating there continuously since 1803, which ...
Vancouver’s former Mayor Kennedy Stewart might’ve called the Broadway Plan tenant protections the “strongest” in Canada, but tenants say it’s important to ...
On 11 August 2025, the city replaced the damaged automatic speed enforcement camera. This is the seventh camera since November 2024. Unless you live in a hermetically sealed box, you likely know that ...
In my earlier Coriolis Effect series (Part I, Part II, and Part III), I argued that city planning has been quietly absorbed into the logic of the developer’s spreadsheet. What once was a public ...
We think of suburbs as places where the middle classes go to leave the city. But Richard Harris’s book Unplanned Suburbs: Toronto’s American Tragedy, 1900 to 1950 (1996) reveals that, for several ...
John Bossons is a retired economist and spokesperson for the Midtown Ravines Group Because the summer of 2025 has been all about infernal heat and drifting smoke, as opposed to the Biblical downpours ...
"Fish Market, Toronto," Joseph Clayton Bentley, 1837. Credit: Toronto Public Library. This article is published in conjunction with Spacing issue 71, which focuses on Toronto’s waterfront. The issue ...
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