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Re-purposing Toronto’s city-owned golf courses

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Public space has never been so popular. Over the summer in Toronto, we saw streets closed for active recreation, parks filled with... Read More

Parks, policing, and the pandemic

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Park People’s national COVID-19 survey shows that parks have become more important than ever to Canadians during the pandemic. While... Read More

Farewell, Regent Park

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By Lena Sanz Tovar and Keisha St. Louis-McBurnie Farewell Oak Street, produced by the National Film Board of Canada in 1953, presents... Read More

RECYCLING WOES: Toronto struggles to adapt to increased contamination and lower prices

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Recycling programs across North America are struggling to cope with rising costs and declining revenues, and Toronto’s program is not... Read More

Why is urban planning so white?

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By Saquib Ahsan, Ruth Belay, Abigail Moriah, and Gervais Nash The deaths of Regis Korchinski-Paquet, Abdirahman Abdi, Ejaz Choudry... Read More

Why is City of Toronto sole-sourcing key digital infrastructure?

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Toronto City Council is set to vote this week on a staff recommendation to sole-source a contract for a technology system. The... Read More

How public institutions fail Black children

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All Black lives matter. Andrew Loku, Abdirahman Abdi, D’Andre Campbell, Regis Korchinski-Paquet and numerous Black lives — which... Read More

LORINC: Council fails accountability test on defunding the police

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For all the heat and light generated by Monday’s debate over defunding or detasking the police, the compromise — or compromised... Read More

THOMPSON: Saunders’ departure won’t fix the problem of policing in Toronto

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What can be said about chief Mark Saunders’ sudden departure from the Toronto Police Service (TPS)? In truth, I am neither happy nor... Read More

LORINC: Police can’t find road to reform even when given a map

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Would Regis Korchinski-Paquet be alive today if the Toronto Police Service (TPS) had adopted the recommendations of a sweeping 2014... Read More