Politics
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Community Centres…and The Costs We Don’t See
On a weekday afternoon, a community centre in Vancouver hums in a way that rarely makes it into policy announcements. A seniors’ exercise class wraps up...
By Erick Villagomez -
UCS #93: Value for Money – Vancouver-Style
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings...
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UCS #92: If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: Special...
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LORINC: Toronto’s repackaged progressivism on menu at City Hall
A thing I didn’t have on my bingo card for 2026: that City-run grocery stores would suddenly become an all-encompassing symbol of municipal...
By John Lorinc -
UCS #91 – Vancouver’s New Needy #2
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: UCS #84...
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Caste, Cities, and the Hidden Architecture of Inequality
Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents offers one of the most compelling reframings of inequality in recent public discourse. Rather...
By Erick Villagomez -
The politics of Island Airport during election year, Part II
From where I sit, Doug Ford’s triumphalist yodelling this week about the Toronto Islands airport sounds much less like an expansion plan than a...
By John Lorinc -
Adjusting the Committee of Adjustment
Blair Scorgie is a Toronto-based Registered Professional Planner and Urban Designer. He is the Managing Principal of Scorgie Planning, and a Sessional...
By Blair Scorgie -
To the Dogs
As far as pet owners are concerned, the big news that broke in 2025 is that there are now four times more pets in Canada than children under the age of...
By mariastanborough -
The Overhead: Rent Control and Rent Hikes
THIS EPISODE: Rent Control and Rent Hikes In Ontario, we have rent control on buildings occupied before November 15, 2018. That means the landlords for...
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UCS #87: Selective Illumination
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: ABC...
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UCS #86: Godzilla over Seabus terminal…
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings...
By Urban Cartoon Syndicate