The collaboration of music and architecture is having its moment. This past month, ORO Editions released Music and ...

Four years ago, ABC Vancouver won a commanding majority at City Hall. This October, voters elected a very different government, leaving ABC with just one council seat. It is tempting to read that ...

On Wednesday night, Heritage Toronto announced the winners of the 51st Annual Heritage Toronto Awards, presented by Aird & Berlis. Six winners were named from 75 nominees in three categories: Book, ...

A week ago, I saw a widely shared photo of a pair of cyclist demonstrators planted in the middle of the now destroyed Bloor West bike lane, staring down a phalanx of cops, and my very first thought ...

At the beginning of September, as Toronto’s municipal election began ramping up, the city was hit with another 100-year storm. It was the fourth such storm in the past 15 years. In parts of the city, ...

This article is part of a series by Christopher Balkaran on ways to approach and engage with the municipal election campaign. This past week, the two leading mayoral candidates, Brad Bradford and ...

The housing crisis is a well-trod matter in municipal election debates, and concerns about cost of living and housing affordability have remained at the top of polls for months. Politicians running in ...

After the Ontario Court of Appeal (ONCA) shot down CycleTO’s legally innovative charter challenge that sought to stop Doug Ford’s attack on the city’s bike lanes, Queen’s Park wasted little time ...

Last April, shortly after Vancouver’s by-election, I turned the result into a game. It was admittedly a geeky one. Going into the by-election, ABC controlled seven of Vancouver City Council’s eleven ...

I’m old enough to remember when Brad Bradford’s pungent symbol of Toronto’s urban decay was the apparently misnamed Sankofa Square — according to him, a forlorn concrete trapezoid populated by addicts ...

Amazingly and shockingly, after years of public hand-wringing in Canada about the inflationary consequences of over-concentrated sectors (banking, airlines, groceries, telecom), Rogers has scored a ...

This story is published in conjunction with Spacing’s upcoming “summer reading” issue, which will be available on bookstore shelves shortly. I approach an unfamiliar neighbourhood a little east of the ...