Politics
LORINC: The never-ending war between Queen’s Park and City Hall
By John Lorinc
There could have scarcely been a more succinct visual metaphor for the chronically dysfunctional relationship between City Hall and... Read More
BRADFORD OP-ED: Making 2021 Toronto’s year of the missing middle
By Brad Bradford
The 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
MESLIN: If a billboard falls in a forest… Part 4
By Dave Meslin
Exactly 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
Reading List: John Sewell, “The Shape of the Suburbs”
By Dylan Reid
When John Sewell’s book The Shape of the Suburbs: Understanding Toronto’s Sprawl came out in 2009, I read it soon after publication... Read More
LORINC: Crombie’s resignation from Greenbelt Council reminds us to look upstream
By John Lorinc
Of course, the Ford government responded with misdirection and a bit of money. In the wake of David Crombie’s weekend resignation from... Read More
COVID-19 stimulus spending needs to be wise to the perils of road building
By Nicholas Sanderson
In times of economic crisis, stimulus spending is important. But spending it wisely is even more important. In the midst of the... Read More
Ten tips for the cycling advocate at City Hall
By Albert Koehl
When Bells on Bloor was formed in 2007, we thought that convincing City Hall to install bike lanes was simply a question of... Read More
LORINC: Tall or small is a false choice between main streets and intensification
By John Lorinc
At its meeting Monday, the Toronto Preservation Board (TPB) voted to adopt a set of staff recommendations that seemed, to some... Read More
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 051, Toronto’s shelter disaster
By Spacing Radio
In this episode, we look at the housing and homelessness crisis that has escalated into a full-blown disaster during the COVID-19... Read More
A case for compassionate design in housing standards at Toronto shelters
By Kellie Chin and Naomi Shewchuk
For thousands of Toronto residents, housing precarity and homelessness are a lived reality. But for many others, the issue grew... Read More