My recent interview on changes happening in Canadian cities open.spotify.com/episode/0L0v...

Caught this leaving Houston - Tell me without telling me that, for some, a new stadium surrounded by a sea of parking is a little bit of heaven

Meanwhile in Canada … 🇨🇦

Chocolate making in the heart of Toronto - every city should have a golden ticket

South Beach North, Toronto (Etobicoke/Mimico) 🇨🇦

“…aligning financial feasibility with social value” for “a city that functions best when it responds to (all) the diverse needs of its residents” is the intergenerational moment for Toronto storeys.com/toronto-hous... The Crisis We Needed? Rethinking Housing In A Post-Speculation Market

Winnipeg ✈️ 🇨🇦👇

Goal line approaching - final finishing inside and out & now leasing

Toronto “returned to office” looking more likely

Redefining “office” through a community & hotel concierge lens to compete with work from home

Is there one place that explains both USMCA trade rules & current 🇨🇦🇺🇸 tariffs on all goods & services & importantly the volume of trade by category of good or service so that one might judge the facts against the myths & judge the comparative impact of any new tariffs between old friends?

Both practices of leaders & nations down through history - which appeals to the better angels of our nature? Trade: is the exchange of goods and services between parties for mutually beneficial purposes. Extortion: practice of obtaining something through force or threats.

America: scenes from your Canadian cousins today

Progress looks like this from July ‘24 to February ‘25 for this Toronto infill - 4 storey, 6 rental homes & 1 commercial unit

Buying “Canadian” product that says it’s made with domestic and imported products, is labelled “Alaskan”, melts ice faster than salt, in metric & bilingual of course - seems like next level patriotism 🇨🇦

The only further consultation you need on updating Toronto’s Avenues policies: Just talk to your kids, your extended family, friends and employees or coworkers to hear how they struggle to find financially attainable homes to rent or own in Toronto secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

A 🇨🇦 rally might exercise some emotional energy - to help keep the country together, this one almost 30 years ago in Montreal

Best Canadian made Bourbon? asking for my friends 🇨🇦

The lack of well planned transportation alternatives including frequent high speed rail within dense urban regions contributes to overtaxing the demand for airport capacity, airports which might function better (and more safely) if longer distance travel needs were met in priority

Objections included impact on “community integrity”; wouldn’t providing more local housing options actually improve community integrity ? www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

Toronto’s inner suburbs: more housing choice for more people in more places www.thestar.com/news/gta/two...

Thinking @bsky.app is like vaping after giving up cigarettes on that other place (X) / relaxing with less side effects

Building more homes in Toronto: permissive zoning ✅ eliminate charges✅ align financing options ✅ lanewayhousingadvisors.com/2025/01/cmhc...

“urban planners are not merely neutral technicians but are embedded in complex political environments.” Or as I liked to say “read the room”. Great piece by Jason Syvixay www.canadianarchitect.com/reimagining-...

Here in Canada it’s called a “double double” - from a duplex to a fourplex or homes for four households

44 homes via Toronto’s modular construction supportive housing initiative / Almost 4 years old and part of the neighbourhood

Seeing this from i395 in Miami the other day made me wonder what the transportation plan is for such a car dependent city - well it appears to include decking over an existing highway - is this headed in the wrong direction? i395-miami.com/project-rend...

Sign of the times for Toronto (thanks Miami)

Congratulations @jasonthorne.bsky.social on your appointment as Toronto’s next Chief Planner !

Downtown Toronto - office occupancy trend together with recently published transit station usage approaching or exceeding pre COVID levels are good signs of recovery; sustained social & economic headwinds still a challenging reality for so many

Share your city’s wild side … Toronto’s High Park

Kudos to @thekeenanwire.bsky.social for gaining a direct perspective from the city planner wrestling with the reality of neighbourhood building through “expectations and influence with only so much authority” www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

Mid rise under construction in Toronto’s Junction neighbourhood - updated guidelines being advanced will increase the new home potential of future projects along the city’s mixed use main streets and avenues

What we call the yellow belt in Toronto has great potential to be golden for housing.

Conspiracies about 15 minute cities? Looks like everyone bought in to a little convenience in their lives. Circles on the map show 5 minute walk time and 10 minute cycle time.

Toronto’s “The Well” - residential, office, retail & restaurants and public spaces under an open air galleria (with a deep lake-water cooling system!)

An increasingly rare sight - office building construction in Toronto - yet in cities well served by both regional and local transportation networks, access to diverse and dispersed labour markets still presents a locational advantage for downtowns

From an urbanists pov, nothing better than a jam packed Toronto subway car at 11:30 pm

Housing - Not just about “more supply” @briandoucet.bsky.social unpacks the complexity of the housing system, root causes & transformative solutions at the 32nd Annual Waterloo Planning Alumni Dinner in Toronto

Steady return to Toronto’s downtown office occupancy

A Toronto heritage moment

It really all comes down to what kind of Toronto we want for the 21st century - bikes and cars are just vehicles on streets - but famously Ontario Premier Bill Davis said in 1971 that “the streets belong to the people” after saying “we are building a transportation system to serve people …”

What’s going on? Everyone I see as I walk around in Downtown Toronto right now is bejeweled?

Anishnawbe Health Toronto on Cherry Street in the West Don Lands

Tower bridge Toronto

4 storey South Rosedale apartment buildings vintage, with additions & newly built

Signs surround square at Yonge & Dundas in Toronto

Buy someone flowers today

Toronto’s Eglinton Crosstown looking transit ready