Opinion

If Rob Ford were actually a conservative instead of a spoiled, rich Baby Huey, he’d have saved us $1 million or more a year by not dumping poisonous fluoride into our drinking water. Conservatives don’t believe in medicating people without ...

You could say a tsumani of growth has engulfed Toronto, a building boom that the central city has not seen since the late 1960s. To get a handle on the extent of growth, I added up the number of applications ...

It’s 2013 and do you know where your city is? A good question for anyone in Toronto, and a particularly good question for anyone living Downtown. Currently there are some 324 residential and commercial developments in various states of realization ...

How good ideas can be thwarted by political change! Former Mayor David Miller tried to deal positively with the difficult fiscal deficit of our megacity of Toronto. He wrestled with the permanent fiscal straitjacket imposed by the Mike Harris’ “Common ...

Every year the number of bikes on the road seems to double. The city doesn’t have the will to build more infrastructure for this rising demand. I often see cyclists dangerously close to fast-moving vehicles, or cyclists on the sidewalk ...

Mayor Rob Ford has built his entire successful political career on labelling Toronto residents as “taxpayers” instead of “citizens.” It is a simple-minded but effective emotional appeal to a Ford Nation comprising one third of voters. It ignores the responsibilities ...

A great number of us have visited a casino at one point or another. Happy sounds come from the slot machines, the lighting is just right, the seating is comfy, free drinks are offered and there are no windows or ...

Jack Layton and I were very close. He always recognized me, even when running into me on the street when no one could know we’d be in the same place that time. So I believed he really knew me and ...

By Stig Harvor – The frantic pace of sales of new condos is finally slowing down. September sales were down 34% over September a year ago. Is it because of an oversupply of units? After all, the Toronto skyline today ...

She called me out of the blue in 1994 or 1995 and said, very timidly, that she would like to do some kind of community organizing about Toronto issues. We met, I found her shy, and we worked together to ...