Politics
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What, me worry? Yes you should, mayor
In a sit-down Q&A with The Globe and Mail‘s editorial board published over the weekend, Mayor Olivia Chow swatted aside concerns about whether...
By John Lorinc -
The Slow Emergency
The crisis in Vancouver’s housing system isn’t explosive—it’s quiet, procedural, and often disguised as progress. Recently made public, the Broadway...
By Erick Villagomez -
UCS #59: What’s a Waste of Money?
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: Hosting...
By Urban Cartoon Syndicate -
LORINC: What’s so scary about six-plexes?
When I look out my office window, trying to think up a lede, I find myself staring at the grey-stuccoed side-wall of a house kitty corner to mine, which...
By John Lorinc -
Understanding the elusiveness of Smart Cities
As Canadian cities strive to navigate rapid urbanization, climate change, and digital disruption, “smart city” strategies have emerged as a popular, and...
By Zachary Spicer -
Entitled to Flip
In Vancouver today, rezoning doesn’t necessarily mean building. Increasingly, it means something else: securing entitlements — legal permissions that...
By Erick Villagomez -
The Trifecta of Control: Stealth. Speed. Complexity.
In the 1960s, planning decisions in Vancouver—like many North American cities—were made behind closed doors. Freeways bulldozed working-class...
By Erick Villagomez -
What Brasilia’s “Bike Reporter” can teach Toronto cycling advocates
As a young man, Afonso Ventania raced bikes competitively, but retired at 26 and decided to go into journalism. He spent several years covering sports and...
By John Lorinc -
One more housing bill and no new homes
How many bills does it take to build the homes Ontario says it needs? The recently re-elected Doug Ford government would have you believe it takes...
By Michel Nayrouz -
UCS #54: King Eby
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings:
By Urban Cartoon Syndicate -
Reversing the Ford government’s biking backlash
At a time when Washington has launched a scorched earth attack on virtually all federal climate policies, the Ford government’s hyper-partisan...
By John Lorinc -
A gondola or a bridge to the Island?
There was a burst of side-taking last week after the ever-green topic of improving access to Toronto’s pre-eminent public space bobbed, again, to...
By John Lorinc