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By Star Editorial Board | April 22, 2019 | Sometimes a door is just a door. And sometimes it’s a lot more than that. Consider, for example, the doors that Toronto city council has decided in its wisdom won’t be allowed by right: entrances to secondary suites that are at the front of a house. … Read more
By KONRAD YAKABUSKI | PUBLISHED APRIL 5, 2019 | Canadian housing policy is, for the most part, a mess. Politicians talk endlessly about making housing more affordable. But most of their interventions in the housing market have had the opposite effect. At the very least, they’ve generated unintended consequences that have distorted the incentives faced … Read more
By Gilbert Ngabo | Star Reporter | Nov. 9, 2018 | An outgoing councillor seemingly trying to draw attention to a “too-tall building” instead brought focus on the city’s low density- zoned areas with critics and city planners saying the real travesty is not a 75-storey highrise in the distance but the lack of higher-density … Read more
By: Jessica Mach | September 19, 2018 | Most Toronto residents think that building new homes would help the city’s affordability crisis, but many of those same people are having trouble mustering up enthusiasm for new builds in their own neighbourhoods. A staggering 88% of residents in Toronto, as well as 86% of people living in the surrounding suburbs … Read more
By Tabatha Southey | April 6, 2018 | It can be difficult to explain a love of Toronto to your friends if they, say, live in London or New York. Trying to sell people on why one sticks with Toronto, you find yourself saying the civic equivalent of “Look, it’s really good in bed.” Toronto’s certainly … Read more
Urban bellyachers are challenging the long-held notion of Toronto the Tolerant. Here’s a look at some of the city’s most controversial developments, and why their detractors are so mad
By Edward Keenan | Columnist | Jan. 3, 2016 | Back in June, I wrote a column making fun of many of the busybody neighbourhood complaints that make the news, ones I characterized as “petty, whiny jerkiness.” Exhibit A in that argument was the Cabbagetown fight against a local park splash pad, which some neighbours quoted in press … Read more