In case you hadn’t checked recently, there are, according to the Toronto Parking Authority’s very helpful “Find Parking” map, ...

What the f*#k is a software developer doing on a housing panel? It’s not the kind of question I usually entertain, but when a friend sent it to me while scrolling through an event listing, I had to ...

Several weeks ago, the members of Bridging the Design Gap, an informal design charette, posed the question: ‘when is a bridge more than just a ...

Looking west down Queen Street At eleven yesterday morning I learned that Global television wanted to interview me, an arborist, about the late changing ...

They are the least-thought out public spaces in Ottawa and yet they are used hundreds of thousands of times in a day. Many people spend more time in and ...

TTC • TTC bus driver suspended over coffee break probe [ Globe & Mail ] • TTC driver caught on break suspended [ Toronto Star ] • Idle pass machines ...

Author: Alain de Botton (Pantheon, 2006) I recently found myself speechless after a follower of my writing asked me why I’ve never addressed beauty ...

The City of Toronto has been named a “role model city” by the United Nations Environment Program for Supporting Urban Ecosystems. It’s part of an initiative the UN calls “Generation Restoration,” part ...

Here’s a shocker: Save and except a two-line statement, the Mayor of Toronto had nothing whatsoever to say about the Conservative government’s Titanic ...

How does one know if the main street running through a neighbourhood, or on a route to work, is becoming more congested?

Urban Green • Government needs strict rules before homeowners can safely go green [ Toronto Star ] • Thank city’s ‘clean and beautiful’ ...

HALIFAX – As winter hits Nova Scotia each year, the Out of the Cold Shelter (OTCS) fills up quickly with people who have and had no other options of ...