WHY WE CAN’T GO: Debunking the Costs of Operating Public Washrooms, pt. 3

Parks Forestry and Recreation (PFR), according to City of Toronto data, operates over 1,500 parks, nearly 700 sports fields, 123... Read More

Why We Can’t Go: City Flushes Time Away, pt. 2

Anyone who spends time in cities, and not just Toronto, likely has both a mental map as well as a strategy for finding a place to go... Read More

Because this is Toronto, and because it’s important for officialdom to do certain things backwards, we’re going to spend... Read More

Going in to this election, did anyone really expect that it would come to focus so intensively on that great big ribbon of blacktop... Read More

Should residents’ associations be required to register as lobbyists? This loaded question, as it turns out, was canvassed, sort... Read More

It being election season (and Earth Day), the Ontario government news releases are arriving a dime a dozen right now, and many seem to... Read More

Why do we have a housing crisis? Let me count the ways: Low interest rates, restrictive zoning, permissive zoning, contractor... Read More

There are few things more certain about political rhetoric than the appearance of conservative shibboleths about “red... Read More

Elections matter, as the old rule of thumb goes, but maybe some matter less than others? It certainly seems, at this point, that... Read More

Here’s an odd little mystery about a freshly filed appeal by a residents association coalition of council’s new... Read More