Decommodifying Housing On previous episodes of this series, we’ve talked about the impact of an over-financialized housing ...

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 2023, the Vancouver City Council recently adopted a motion titled “Uplifting the Downtown Eastside and Building Inclusive ...

Steel girders that used to carry cars across the Don River now carry conversations on a quiet stretch of East Chinatown.

In the intricate machinery of urban governance, one figure looms large but largely out of sight: the City Manager. Appointed ...

I’m not especially interested in carrying the beer (or wine) for a bunch of people who can buy super expensive homes. But ...

See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** ...

This year has been one of major change. But what doesn’t change here is talking about transit. It’s the return of Tricia Wood ...

Vancouver’s former Mayor Kennedy Stewart might’ve called the Broadway Plan tenant protections the “strongest” in Canada, but tenants say it’s important to ...

The Networked City Walk along Yonge Street from Dundas Square to the waterfront and you will hear stories about the neighbourhood, revisit the old Bulova ...

For the second installment of The Urbanist’s Guide to Vancouver, we present a list of some of the great and interesting public spaces in and around ...

Last summer, I wrote an article in NOW magazine about pedestrians crossing in the middle of a block, noting that it is in fact legal to do so, so that ...