Politics
There could have scarcely been a more succinct visual metaphor for the chronically dysfunctional relationship between City Hall and Queen’s Park than the... Read More
BRADFORD OP-ED: Making 2021 Toronto’s year of the missing middleThe year 2021 comes with high expectations, expectations to get back to the work we started pre-COVID and to build back stronger when... Read More
Book Review – Here & Gone: Artwork of Vancouver & BeyondText and watercolours by Michael Kluckner, Midtown Press, 2020 I could not have imagined Vancouver becoming such a city of contrasts... Read More
MESLIN: If a billboard falls in a forest… Part 4Exactly fifteen years ago this week, I received this short and uplifting e-mail from Toronto city staff: January 12, 2006 Hi Dave, We... Read More
LORINC: Yonge Street’s new missionIt sometimes seems as if the ‘whither-Yonge Street’ question has been loitering on the edges of our civic debates ever since the... Read More
Sam Carr and Toronto’s Soviet spiesSam Carr walked out of the Don Jail on a crisp autumn day in 1942. He had been living underground for two years, and detained for the... Read More
BRADFORD OP-ED: Making 2021 Toronto’s year of the missing middle 
LORINC: Yonge Street’s new mission 
Weston Road as my main street 
LORINC: Tall or small is a false choice between main streets and intensification 
COVID-19 stimulus spending needs to be wise to the perils of road building 
LORINC: Crombie's resignation from Greenbelt Council reminds us to look upstream