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REID: Funding the preservation of affordable rental housing

By Dylan Reid

Toronto is in an affordable rental housing crisis. Not only have average rents increased rapidly in recent years, but existing private... Read More

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NEW ISSUE: The Ontario Line

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Our new issue’s cover section theme echoes our previous one a little. We have gone from Ontario Place to the Ontario Line. The similar... Read More

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LORINC: Speaking truth to power about Therme’s mega-spa

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Tomorrow will be an all-day spa event in Toronto. The day will end with an online “consultation” session at 6pm... Read More

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Mackenzie Place: The tallest residential building in Canada’s North

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Tools to address the affordable housing crisis facing Canada

By Carolyn Whitzman

In 2019, Canada adopted the National Housing Strategy Act, which commits all governments in Canada to “progressive realization of the... Read More

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Remembering the Hoggs Hollow Disaster

By John Cartwright

The Hoggs Hollow Disaster, which occurred on March 17, 1960, killed five Italian immigrant workers: Pasquale Allegrezza, Giovanni... Read More

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LORINC: Why aren’t Toronto’s major streets major streets?

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One day last week, Toronto history buff Jeremy Hopkin tweeted a then-and-now set of images that told an unflattering story about where... Read More

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Event – On The Boards: Alyssa Schwann + Laura Killam, April 4th

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LORINC: Is the 15-minute city’s 15 minutes up yet?

By John Lorinc

By way of spoiler alert, I’ll begin by saying I have no intention of wasting my time (or yours) rebutting the lunacy of the... Read More

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OP-ED: The emergence of the Airbnb rental shadow market is harming tenants

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