By Toronto standards, it is a borderline miracle that the Trillium ferry is still operational. Built in 1910, two years ...

The October 2026 Toronto election may seem like a long way off, but intentions to run have already been declared and campaign ...

See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** ...

There is no shortage of distortion in our public discourse right now. Context-free photos. Selective anecdotes. Partial ...

We still don’t know when the Eglinton Crosstown LRT will open. It could be any day – the testing is all done. Or it could be ...

The edifice of economic theory constructed over the last two centuries, to an extent in the shadow of physics, has been ...

Back in the summer, Therme went public with a somewhat perplexing development in its corporate life — a €1 billion merger of its two, somewhat related, operating divisions: Therme Erding, which owns ...

In the past few days, Toronto’s chronically testy conservation about mobility glommed onto the disappointing launch of the Finch West LRT (Line 6), which crawled along on its maiden journeys thanks to ...

On previous episodes of this series, we’ve talked about the impact of an over-financialized housing market. It adds to the affordability crisis, and leads to eviction and displacement. In this episode ...

In the intricate machinery of urban governance, one figure looms large but largely out of sight: the City Manager. Appointed by City Council, not elected by the public, this individual is the city’s ...

In 1864, Fydor Dostoevsky wrote his seminal Notes from Underground, a novella exploring existentialism and alienation in a large city – in his case, St. Petersburg – the premise of which in many ways ...