blogTO's Derek Flack warns about the worsening of Toronto's housing shortage.

In the latest bit of troubling news related to Toronto's real estate market comes a report from the Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD), which suggests the city's soaring housing prices are a sign of trouble on the horizon ( Read more... )

Torontoist's Alex McKeen reported on a consultation process in Regent Park regarding a test project on guaranteed minimum income in that community.

Mike Connell has a strong opinion on how to cook the perfect steak. A cook for the Yonge Street Mission, he enjoys his job and is quick to say so ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes the continued rise in rental prices for apartments.
• Centauri Dreams looks at a time in the Earth's history when there was a lot of atmospheric oxygen but not much life.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting there is an authentic lack of gas giant planets beyond 10 AU.
• Itching for Eestimaa notes the British politicians who favoured ( Read more... )

Part of me is surprised by the news, as reported by the Toronto Star's Kenyon Wallace and Mary Ormsby, that Toronto was not keeping systematic track of the many hundreds of homeless dead. More of me is unsurprised.

Toronto’s top public health official says the city’s new program to track all homeless deaths will provide invaluable data to better ( Read more... )

The Toronto Star's Fakiha Baig reports on the challenge facing the Daily Bread Food Bank this holiday season.

The Daily Bread Food Bank is behind on its food collection goal for the holidays by about 900,000 pounds as more people are choosing to donate money over food, according to executive director Gail Nyberg ( Read more... )

Since Ben Spurr's Toronto Star article has come out, John Tory has emerged as opposing the idea. Myself, I think that an rejigging of the subsidy system to account for the incomes of individual users regardless of their age might be the best way to do this.

For nearly half a century, Torontonians have been assured of at least one perk of growing ( Read more... )

CBC News' Lauren Pelley reports on one proposed solution to the emergency situation of homelessness in winter that, frankly, Toronto should have embraced earlier.

Freezing temperatures and over-capacity shelters have led to a push from housing advocates to open Toronto's two armouries for emergency use by the city's homeless community ( Read more... )

NOW Toronto's Ian Gormley argues that rising real estate prices threaten to push the Torontonians who drive the music industry out of the city.

A recent study by the Martin Prosperity Institute illustrates the financial quandary local musicians face. Using data from SOCAN and the Toronto Music Advisory Council, we mapped out the epicentre of the ( Read more... )

The Toronto Star's Jennifer Pagliaro reports on findings that Toronto's budget cuts will hurt the vulnerable disproportionately.

A group of academics and representatives from community agencies assembled by the city say Mayor John Tory’s request for across-the-board budget cuts unfairly impacts the city’s most disadvantaged and vulnerable ( Read more... )

Britain's The Guardian takes a look at Regent Park, with an eye towards judging if its transformation represents an exclusive gentrification.

Paintbox Bistro is a typical modern restaurant: high ceilings, framed art and hand-built wooden tables, serving everything from snacks to wraps to flank steak by a chef who did time in trendy Toronto ( Read more... )