Another day, another damning report on Canadian housing unaffordability. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has published an aptly-named report titled ‘Unaccommodating‘ which looks at how much Canadians need to earn per hour to afford a one- or two-bedroom apartment in Canada’s urban centres. Affordability is determined by something called
You ever heard of a guy named Ken Griffin? No, not Ken Griffey, the greatest slugger to ever appear in Tony La Russa Ultimate Baseball for Windows. Ken Griffin is the 45th-richest person in the world. Wikipedia tells me he’s an investor, hedge fund manager, and founder and CEO of the global
You’ve probably heard by now that Google spinoff Alphabet Inc.’s spinoff Sidewalk Labs wants to put a “smart city” touch on Toronto’s waterfront. The vision will be realized through a high-tech development called Quayside, which “leverages some of the world’s best urban design and emerging technology” to create a neighbourhood
Last year, Toronto’s housing market was on fire. So much so that the city was named the world’s hottest residential housing market. This year? Not so much. In fact, Toronto’s housing market has cooled off to such an extent that the city isn’t just slipping globally – the Ontario capital
Walking through Toronto, it’s hard not to rue a landscape increasingly dominated by glass and steel. But what if there was a way to incorporate the Great Outdoors into the city’s building boom? That’s what architect Brian Brisbin of the Toronto firm Brisbin Brook Beynon is looking to achieve with the
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