Flags across the country are being lowered for a guy from downtown Toronto. What on earth is wrong with Canada?
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Flags across the country are being lowered for a guy from downtown Toronto. What on earth is wrong with Canada?
Read more...There is a difference between incompetence and uncompetence. Incompetence is when people make bad decisions. Uncompetence is when people start to suspect that competence is something the elites do, and think to themselves, “I should perhaps do something else.” Welcome, everyone, to Toronto. Here in Toronto, the citizenry are being treated to a three-ring circus [...]
Read more...Think the hockey riots in Vancouver were the west-coast equivalent of the G20? You’re wrong – and here’s why.
Read more...It was down by the waterfront that Doug Ford had a Ford Notion. Surveying the Port Lands, still a bleak sight despite years of diligent toil to renew them, the mayor’s older brother, right-hand man, and occasional mouthpiece decided that neighbourhood-building was taking too long, and the time had come to do something different instead. Something fun…
Read more...So, has social media fixed everything yet? It’s election time, and if ever there was a time to fix everything, this is it.
Read more...Transit City is dead. Years of work, and at least $49 million in local consultations, environmental assessments, engineering work and broken contracts have gone down the drain. But is the result all bad? Heresy alert: Maybe not.
Read more...Question-and-answer sites have a long heritage, but the quest to perfect the model keeps yielding lemons. Some, like Yahoo, are great big sour ones. Others are small and maybe even sweet, but restricted in scale and not terrifically lucrative. Right now, though, two services are competing to reinvent the model.
Read more...Pine Point didn’t vanish, exactly. You can’t demolish a community without leaving debris, debris of many sorts, and it turns out that that debris has been preserved in a most poignant and remarkable way.
Read more...There’s an awful lot David Miller didn’t do personally. So why was life in his Toronto so worthwhile?
Read more...For a service with hundreds of millions of users, plenty of people seem to actively dislike Twitter. And its defenders should take note: the haters have some good reasons to feel the way they do.
Read more...Well hello!
I'm a Toronto-based writer and editor, with a focus on technology, culture, urban affairs, business and politics.
My eBook, "The Gift of Ford" – an essay on Toronto's mayor, and the city's future - is now available through Random House of Canada's new Hazlitt imprint.
A frequent contributor to The Globe and Mail, my work has also appeared in many of Canada's top publications, including The Walrus, the Toronto Star, Report on Business Magazine, Toronto Life, and Spacing Magazine.