The 124th annual Police Games, featuring athletic competitions such as bicycle races, obstacle courses, police dogs and tug-of-war contests between divisions of emergency services personnel, returns to the Rogers Centre on Sunday, Sept. 10, 2006, from 2pm to 5pm in ...

By Frank Touby – While Neocons argue that government regulation is anathema to an effective marketplace, their masters in big business find it just the other way around. Having a government-regulated oligopoly is a sure way to wealth and power ...

By Stig Harvor – New construction in Toronto today is no longer defined by clear rules. The only rule is: Let’s make a deal. Deals involve two parties: The developer and the city. As in all deals, the two parties ...

By Stig Harvor – Higher and ever higher condo towers are popping up all over our city. Why do people want to live in these tall towers? One reason developers give is that people like views. But if you live ...

By Stig Harvor – Big plans in the works for waterfront, portlands During the indolence of summer, our awareness is deflected from many issues that occupy us other times of the year. Vacations and enjoyable outdoor activities fill our time. ...

By Stig Harvor – The Great Debate on the future of the elevated Gardiner Expressway has yet to begin. A lot of studies and a lot of noise have been provoked over the years by supporters and opponents of this ...

By Stig Harvor – Is the preservation of a single historic building worth the destruction of the wider and also historic district around it? This is a question raised by the proposal of a high-rise condo development known as Five ...

By Stig Harvor – A lot of people in our city today are asking what good are existing, legally binding building bylaws if there is no effective way to enforce them? Huge high-rises are sprouting up all over the place ...

By Stig Harvor – Suddenly, out of seemingly nowhere, a completely new idea for the development of our derelict waterfront explodes at city council. It is the grandiose idea of a Toronto bid for the World’s Expo Fair of 2015. ...

By Stig Harvor – In Toronto, and particularly Downtown, private vehicles and public transit are locked in a constant struggle. Cars, trucks, buses and streetcars fight for space to move on crowded streets. In terms of occupied road space, streetcars ...