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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

  • Fruit in the City

    In this week’s Eye Weekly, I wrote about a new organization starting this summer called Not Far From the Tree. The brainchild of fruit tree...

  • Big Apple’s road work

    Cross-posted from Eye Weekly. New York’s city council approved implementing congestion charge Monday in a “close” 30-20 vote. (According to the...

  • Council Minutia

    Cross-posted from Eye Weekly. It’s a slow week at City Hall. With few meetings, Rob Ford gaffes or controversies to report, I thought I’d...

  • Green Fleet is a go

    Cross-posted from Eye Weekly. This morning city council unanimously passed its Green Fleet Plan [PDF], which will accelerate the greening of city-owned...

  • POLL: Should the mayor have more power?

    Old City Hall council chambers, 1951 The independent fiscal review panel that Mayor David Miller put together to provide the city with advice on how to...

  • One book: The great divide

    John and Bridget were living together in a part of town called Riverdale. David had educated them (whether they wanted to be or not) in the history of...

  • Climate-change adaptation

    Cross-posted from Eye Weekly. OK, so maybe not everyone has gotten the message, but over the past 15 years or so (or perhaps more, depending on your...

  • Air quality control

    Cross posted from Eye Weekly. Big cities are notorious for their smog, but aside from car exhaust, do we really know what’s in our air? Figuring out...

  • Paying to play

    Cross-posted from Eye Weekly. Today’s top story: the city has a plan to raise user fees for recreation programs. The intent of the plan is to invest...

  • Is it time for party politics at city hall?

    During all the hullabaloo over bringing in the land transfer and vehicle registration taxes — not to mention the outrage that ensued when Mayor...

  • Top issue for 2008

    Cross-posted from Eye Weekly. Without a doubt, the defining issues at city hall for 2007 were the new taxes and the city’s faltering finances. These...

  • When animals fight back

    Cross-posted from Eye Daily. In Toronto, raccoons and squirrels are par for the course, but as I learned this summer, just because they’ve adapted...