Nicholas Hune-Brown

The “housing crisis” isn’t a crisis for everyone—for some it’s a windfall. That fact infuses every aspect of our response to it.

After almost a decade out of public life, years spent training grassroots organizers, the former NDP MP is leading the polls for Toronto mayor. What does Chow’s time out of government say about what she might do if she finds herself back in?

Chow becomes the first progressive mayor in 13 years, the first female in the role since amalgamation, and the first non-white leader in Toronto history.

The veteran reporter, who’s worked everywhere from Cambodia to Prague to Vancouver, will cover health and education.

Toronto’s aging population was expected and predictable. But from housing to health care, it often feels like the city has been caught by surprise.

When Phil Verster was announced as Metrolinx’s CEO in 2017, there was universal praise. But with an $856,000 salary and a tenure defined by cost overruns and years of delays to projects like the Eglinton LRT, critics want him out. How did it go so wrong?

Toronto’s cultural institutions are reeling and its artists are struggling. What’s lost when a city no longer supports the arts?

The economy being dreamt up in Toronto’s boardrooms is a green-in-spirit at best, greenwashed at worst.

Toronto’s public education system has been underfunded for decades. Kids are paying the price.

Grief, and hope, in the downtown eastside neighbourhood with the lowest life-expectancy in the city.