Housing

Three areas that will help relieve Toronto’s housing crisis

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George Popper is a Toronto architect While Toronto desperately needs affordable housing, I believe the first step towards that goal is... Read More

Housing

LORINC: What’s the big idea behind Housing Now?

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John Tory’s executive committee convenes today to consider, among other items, the fleshed out implementation strategy for the first... Read More

Housing

LORINC: How reducing development charges will spur the ‘missing middle’

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While city council tries to figure out how to confront a made-in-Toronto housing affordability crisis, Ontario’s Progressive... Read More

Culture

Life on the Line: Light in the Tunnel

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                                                                        (Alex Garant, “Midnight”) By Sarah Ratzlaff For... Read More

Transit

Is good regional transit planning impossible?

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Image: Christof Spieler, Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of U.S. Transit, Island Press. The recent news from Vancouver is... Read More

Walking

REID: Pedestrian buttons 2 – the rise of the audible signal

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Four years ago, I wrote a piece explaining the different kinds of pedestrian buttons and how they work. The piece was in response to... Read More

Politics

LORINC: Subway upload: negotiating when you have no cards in your hand

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As has been widely noted, the Ford government’s approach to nearly everything has a kind of malevolent Bozo-the-clown vibe, with an... Read More

Housing

A modest proposal for reforming Toronto’s Land Transfer Tax

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By Zack Taylor Few topics have pre-occupied Toronto’s budget watchers more over the past decade than the city’s land transfer tax... Read More

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