Density, as Sean Micallef argues in the Toronto Star, is a good thing for Toronto, indeed necessary if it is to be inhabitable by the many and not the few.

Toronto has a grudge against apartments, a sentiment expressed in various ways ( Read more... )

At the Toronto Star, Shawn Micallef takes issue with a private restaurant in the Financial District.

Have you been to the Accountant Zoo, Toronto’s newest downtown attraction? It’s on the northwest corner of Yonge and Adelaide Sts. where people strolling by can watch accountants in their own habitat. It’s not a petting zoo though; the accountants ( Read more... )

I agree almost entirely with Edward Keenan's argument in the Toronto Star that philantrophy should be used as a supplement, not as a replacement, for initiatives (and spending!) by governments.

Tuesday morning, Mayor John Tory announced that private donors had given the city $3.4 million to help continue to fashion a giant park out of parts of the ( Read more... )

NOW Toronto's Peter Biesterfeld reports on how Ontario's policies have lead to a marked worsening of poverty.

After decades of intensifying austerity and eroding income supports, social assistance in Ontario is now so wretchedly inadequate that people are unable to feed themselves properly, retain their housing or maintain their health ( Read more... )

Torontoist's Tannara Yelland reports on a good idea re: Toronto's housing crisis that needs more thorough implementation.

With a dearth of affordable housing options in the city, municipal administrators have long known they need to do more to ensure that Toronto residents can actually afford to be Toronto residents. In 2009, City Council adopted ( Read more... )

At Torontoist, Chris Spoke makes a compelling argument for densification in lower-density neighbourhods. This makes perfect sense to me: A diverse city needs diverse housing.

Though Toronto continues to add housing at a rapid pace compared to many of its counterparts, it might not surprise you that new development is largely concentrated in the ( Read more... )

The Toronto Star's Betsy Powell reports on how a former rooming house on Sherbourne Street is being transformed into an AirBnB hostel. This does not seem like progress.

For 30 years the boxy, Second Empire-style building at 180 Sherbourne St. operated as a licensed rooming house for some of Toronto’s neediest residents ( Read more... )

• The Boston Globe's The Big Picture shares some of that newspaper's best papers from last month.
• blogTO shares Nuit Blanche photos.
• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about the divide between journalism and content creation.
• Centauri Dreams considers the Rosetta probe.
• Dangerous Minds shares photos of the suitcases left by patients at an American ( Read more... )

Spacing Toronto's John Lorinc writes about Toronto's need for investment in housing, private and public.

On and off since the early 1990s, when Paul Martin and Joe Fontana concocted an impossibly progressive policy agenda that became Jean Chrétien’s Red Book, the federal Liberals have nursed a fantasy about returning to the glory days of the ( Read more... )

The Toronto Star's Betsy Powell reports on a grim Toronto Community Housing rooming house on Parliament Street, in the heart of Cabbagetown.

Rick Keegan uses dark humour to describe life in and outside his Cabbagetown rooming house, a fetid, bug-infested three-storey Victorian that attracts a roster of transients who gain entry by kicking in the ( Read more... )