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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler

  • Walking Washington’s 14th Street

    WASHINGTON, DC — I flew down to the Washington, DC area earlier this week to celebrate Christmas with my Jewish family. Staying in the suburb of...

  • The Agenda: this week at City Hall

    Toronto City Council has a heavy agenda [PDF] to get through at its meeting scheduled to run on Tuesday and Wednesday. Here are highlights of some of the...

  • Lobbying for a Registry: Exhibit C

    I didn’t intend for this to become a recurring feature but it seems Lobbying for a Registry may be just that — at least until there’s a...

  • Sponsor a Councillor

      Today’s Executive Committee agenda is stacked. There’s the capital budget, union station revitalization, increased funding to the lobbyist...

  • Amen!

    Toronto City Councillor and Budget Chief Shelley Carroll released a statement this afternoon in response to federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty telling...

  • Civic Double Jeopardy

    I must have blinked during the restructuring of City Council’s governance model because I was shocked when I was told there wouldn’t be...

  • Lobbying for a registry: Exhibit B

    The MFP scandal is Exhibit A in the case for a lobbyist registry at the City of Toronto. Exhibit B was presented yesterday by Councillor Norm Kelly, who...

  • A public-private re-Union

      Calling Union Station a gateway to Toronto, Mayor David Miller unveiled the revitalization plan for Union Station in the heritage building’s Great...

  • “We can’t afford to do business this way”

    Toronto-based think tank the Wellesley Institute has published a landmark report on the administrative burden felt by community organizations that rely on...

  • Woulda, shoulda, coulda, didn’t

    Chalk this up to a “shoulda been” election promise. Yesterday, Ontario NDP leader Howard Hampton called on Premier Dalton McGuinty to raise...

  • Move it along, nothing to see here

    Alok Mukherjee, chairman of the Toronto Police Services Board, sent out a notice today to inform the world that he had started a blog. Immediately...

  • FairDevelopmentCharges.to

    For those of us who find fault with the real estate and development industries for being more concerned with building profits than cities, October was our...