In late September 2020, a small road crew began laying brightly coloured sheets of thermoplastic material over Downtown Kitchener’s newly redesigned and re-surfaced Queen Street. It’s a material often used to create pedestrian crosswalks or…

The Bay department store in downtown Winnipeg will close in early 2021. (Jino Distasio), Author provided Over the past year, cities have become remarkably different places. The response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has resulted in…

NATIONAL OBSERVERMike Levenston stands over a half-harvested stalk of kale, eyeing the autumnal remnants slowly disintegrating into the soil. It's a familiar scene for Levenston, an urban gardener who has been growing food and community…

THE POINTERAttention City Hall: stop squandering the public's money – especially during a pandemic. Councillor Carolyn Parrish thinks COVID-19 has only amplified the need for fiscal responsibility.She is tired of a wasteful…

From superbugs to lootings and aggressive behaviours, building within a world of ever-evolving security threats requires smarter solutions, especially when it’s something as important as our schools. You may already have heard of the term…

This has been a tough year. On January 1, 2020 not many of us predicted the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the profound effect both the virus itself and the public health response would have on our lives. Social distancing made it a…

Years ago (in 1975 and 1977), the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that a tenant could rely on its landlord’s insurance policy in certain circumstances. Many a lawyer has tried to help their landlord clients to “contract out” of the law laid…

Covid-19 may have brought the construction industry to a standstill briefly but there is an often misunderstood tax relief that can help the sector bounce back.Companies in this sector often assume they aren’t classed by the Government…

Members of the Oasis Senior Supportive Living Program pole walking in their community. The global COVID-19 pandemic has shown Canadians that we need to think differently about how we support older adults. The media and all levels of…

ShutterstockIn the face of the global health and climate crises, we look at our cities both anxiously and hopefully. We deviate from our normal patterns of behaviour to avoid close physical contact and suffer associated emotional and…