Last month, the City of Toronto approved a $30 billion new housing plan that positioned the city as a public builder and called for significant funding from the provincial and federal governments,…
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Toronto getting back in the housing business with $30 billion plan
When a plan comes with tag of it being a “generational transformation,” that is setting the bar pretty high. But the new $30 billion housing plan from the city of Toronto could…
City set to unveil long overdue people-centred plan for Avenue Road
The City of Toronto is unveiling new designs for Avenue Road at an open house event on Oct. 18 at Timothy Eaton Memorial Church, 230 St. Clair Ave. W., signalling progress in…
Hockey Canada releases plan to promote equity, diversity and inclusion
Article content CALGARY — An audit to address gaps in pay equity, a reworked recruitment strategy and ensuring Indigenous representation in event bids are among the deliverables in a diversity and inclusion…
Is new Toronto BIA trying to upend the approved Reimagining Yonge plan?
Despite having an approved plan in place awaiting construction, a local BIA in Toronto is creating its own vision for Yonge Street at odds with the city’s REimagining Yonge project. Plans for…
Developers propose sky garden to ease neighbour concerns over new condo plan
Toronto development company The Gupta Group has submitted a settlement offer complete with a new sky garden to the city of Toronto for its proposed development at 906 Yonge St. in Yorkville….
Plan for world’s biggest nuclear plant in Ontario is the wrong solution
David Suzuki is a world-renowned scientist, broadcaster, activist, co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation and author of more than 30 books on ecology (written with files from senior editor Ian Hanington). Last…
City approves plan to bring pickleball to all corners of Toronto
If you’re looking for a fun, sociable, and invigorating way to keep fit in Toronto, look no further than pickleball. At yesterday’s city council meeting, a move to rapidly expand the fast-growing…
City has ‘jumped the gun’ according to group opposed to midtown condo plan
City staff are recommending approval of a 12-storey condo development to takeover the site of a beloved neighbourhood hub at Yonge and Roxborough, and the local residents association says city planners are…
Upscale Toronto nabe criticized for protest of 10-storey building plan
Residents of Cabbagetown, one of Toronto’s oldest and most protected neighbourhoods, are protesting a new amendment that would allow for the construction of a 10-storey building in the downtown Toronto area. Cabbagetown…