Ontario Premier Doug Ford talks to the media on a construction site in Brampton, Ont., in May 2022. Later in the year, the Ford government justified its adoption of sweeping housing legislation and the opening of parts of the Greater…

Tiff Macklem, Governor of the Bank of Canada, holds a press conference at the Bank of Canada in Ottawa on Jan. 25, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick Ellen D. Russell, Wilfrid Laurier UniversityThe Bank of Canada…

Conserving nature in cities can help protect the biodiversity within them. (Unsplash) Emma Despland, Concordia UniversityThe climate and biodiversity crises we have been experiencing for the past few decades are inseparable. The…

People protest outside the Tendercare Living Centre long-term-care facility in Scarborough, Ont. during the COVID-19 pandemic in December 2020. This LTC home was hit hard by the second wave of COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette…

Some years ago, an apocryphal tale circulated about Stornoway, official residence of the Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. The deck had been appropriated by a family of skunks, and a government work crew was duly dispatched, but the…

Many of the world’s biggest problems are being pushed down to cities—they are on the frontlines of every crisis from affordable housing to climate change and mental health issues caused by isolation and social division due to digital…

A so-called smart building. What will become of our free will when choices are made for us by technology embedded in the building? (Shutterstock) Patrick Lecomte, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)Smart buildings, which are…

Toronto's recently approved housing plan is a good step forward but it could take years before the increase in supply makes renting more affordable in the city, urban planners and experts say.Toronto city council voted on Wednesday…

BEACH METRO COMMUNITY NEWS If the Ontario government is serious about providing more affordable housing then it needs to move quickly to pass rent stabilization legislation, say a pair of East Toronto politicians.Both Scarborough…

Bill 23: The “Build Homes Without Planning Act”