From where I sit, Doug Ford’s triumphalist yodelling this week about the Toronto Islands airport sounds much less like an ...

Blair Scorgie is a Toronto-based Registered Professional Planner and Urban Designer. He is the Managing Principal of Scorgie Planning, and a Sessional Lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University.

As Astral’s wretched street furniture deal limps towards its inevitable conclusion, Toronto’s litter bins are back in the ...

Rent Control and Rent Hikes In Ontario, we have rent control on buildings occupied before November 15, 2018. That means the landlords for these buildings can only raise rents for current tenants once ...

Following last week’s revelations about “Project South” — a far-ranging probe into police corruption that netted indictments against seven Toronto cops, one retired officer and three other suspensions ...

Built in 1910, two years before the Titanic, the city’s famous side-wheeler ferry is the last of its kind on the Great Lakes. With a new electrified ferry fleet on the horizon, the question needs to ...

The first part of this series focused on the section of Gerrard Street East between Broadview Avenue and the Carlaw-Pape development zone slated for a future rapid transit station and residential ...

In the past few days, Toronto’s chronically testy conservation about mobility glommed onto the disappointing launch of the Finch West LRT (Line 6), which crawled along on its maiden journeys thanks to ...

In the intricate machinery of urban governance, one figure looms large but largely out of sight: the City Manager. Appointed by City Council, not elected by the public, this individual is the city’s ...

In the intricate machinery of urban governance, one figure looms large but largely out of sight: the City Manager. Appointed by City Council, not elected ...

There’s a word that shows up a lot in housing debates—one that tends to end conversations rather than deepen them: viability. I hear this word constantly in comments to articles I write and in the ...

"Fish Market, Toronto," Joseph Clayton Bentley, 1837. Credit: Toronto Public Library. This article is published in conjunction with Spacing issue 71, which focuses on Toronto’s waterfront. The issue ...