An encampment at Toronto’s Barbara Hall Park was forcibly cleared this week to make way for a Pride weekend event to raise money for programs to assist homelessness.
In this Toronto public housing highrise, people’s homes get impossibly hot — and opening the windows can feel like the only answer to the stifling summer heat.
Ontario is proposing to remove urban design review from development applications, saying it adds to red tape. Toronto’s Jason Thorne thinks that’s a mistake.
Long commutes, housing insecurity are costing Toronto and Hamilton’s mid-income workers like teachers and builders, and threatening the economy, according to the new report.
The proposed changes, posted quietly to a government website, would give waste producers until 2031 to hit their recovery targets for recyclable materials.
Rules requiring affordable housing were rewritten by the Doug Ford government after at least two REITs warned the quotas could result in no new housing built at all.