Reading Time: 4 minutes Tory has managed the city with grace and dignity. And he has kept the lid on taxes
Category: Municipal
Turning an inner-city wasteland into a thriving cultural hub
Reading Time: 4 minutes How the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, a bastion of contemporary art, resurrected a community and why others should follow its lead
Doug Ford’s abuse of power for petty personal gain
Reading Time: 3 minutes The premier is ignoring very real problems across Ontario in order to settle a personal vendetta with Toronto city council
A tale of two cities and their wildly different spending habits
Reading Time: 3 minutes Vancouver taxes and spends far more than neighbouring Surrey. But do Vancouverites get value for their greater investment?
Canada needs to become more densely populated
Reading Time: 3 minutes We need a larger internal market that would create economies of scale and further economic productivity growth
The high-stakes battle between Doug Ford and Toronto city council
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s entirely possible that the federal government could wade into the pitched fight between the new Ontario premier and Canada’s largest city
Lawlessness and shootings on the rise in Toronto
Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s been a significant amount of violence in Toronto since the vehicle-ramming attack in April. And too little information from police
City hall holds the key to solving Canada’s urban housing crisis
Reading Time: 3 minutes As centres for jobs, education and innovation, municipalities play an outsized role in Canada’s continued prosperity
Different rights for different groups of Canadians?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The assertion that we are on treaty land should not allow anyone to impose expectations or rights beyond the societal standard
Vancouver mayor’s pipe dreams and twisted perspectives
Reading Time: 3 minutes Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson’s attacks on Trans Mountain pipeline based on falsehoods and nonsensical enviro-rhetoric