Want even better parks and public spaces in Toronto? With better maintenance, programming, and events? Toronto already has a great example of a public space managed by a non-profit - The Bentway! Today’s memo is simple, how can we get more places like it? Take a read!

The Bentway is a great public space. It transformed unused space beneath the Gardiner Expressway into a park, with art, recreation, and community recreation, that attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors ever year. buildtoronto.com/memos/conser...

As rumoured, Fletcher moved for the item on Craven Road garden suites to be deferred. The consultations will continue until morale improves.

Well, isn’t this frustrating. The city published it was open to alternative solutions to allow single stair buildings. Someone has tried to put a design forward… and let’s just say it’s not going great.

Improving digital experiences for Toronto’s government isn’t a glamorous issue. But if done well, it reduces service costs, improves access and transparency (for citizens and businesses alike), and leads to more innovation and public trust. Great memo in @buildtoronto.com today! Check it out!

Toronto's digital services are stuck in the past – a patchwork of portals, paper forms, and outdated processes. From paying taxes to renewing permits, residents face a maze of separate logins, different formats, or long wait times.

It's not that boomers are any more nimby than any other generation, it's that they have more time than any other generation to spend on opposing housing. Just look at the nimbys of a new rental project downtown Toronto, or 5 new single-family homes in Aurora - lots of abundance in grey hairs.

Housing has always been at the center of my civic work, through @MoreNeighbours and my writing. So of course, my first memo for @build_toronto is housing related: OLD TORONTO MUST GROW TO RELIEVE THE SUBURBS. - - - 🌆 🏗️👇- - -

Toronto cannot keep relying on downtown towers and suburban sprawl while the old suburbs closest to the core remain frozen in time. These inner neighbourhoods – with the best transit, schools, and infrastructure – have actually lost population since 1970.

Congratulations Eric! We’ll be watching with interest from Calgary. We may not be a big city yet but we are growing fast and can certainly learn from one.

🌆🏗️ BIG NEWS🚀 I am thrilled to take on a new (volunteer) role as Chair of @build_toronto, the first municipal project of @build_canada We’ll be working with civic & business leaders to push for ideas that improve governance, growth, prosperity, and opportunity in Toronto. (Vid cut to 3M)

Toronto has the talent, energy, and openness to lead. What we’ve been missing is urgency. Build Toronto is here to help change that. 👉 Sign up for updates on our website buildtoronto.com

We are equally proud to welcome @ericlombardi.bsky.social as Chair. Eric is a civic leader and housing advocate whose work with @moreneighboursto.bsky.social has made him one of the city’s strongest voices for change.

🚀 Announcing Build Toronto Toronto is Canada’s largest city, its economic engine, and its greatest opportunity. If Toronto thrives, Canada thrives. But we all know the city faces deep challenges: unaffordable housing, strained infrastructure, governance gridlock, and a lack of urgency.

Just in time for Single Stair Summer! We support the two main calls from @ericlombardi.bsky.social to unlock in 2- and 3-BR units the same price drops we're seeing in condos: 1) Single stair buildings up to 6 storeys. 2) European elevators up to 10 storeys. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

@ericlombardi.bsky.social of More Neighbours Toronto’s got an op-ed titled: “The condo market is crashing. Here’s how we keep building as prices fall.” The answer is to bring down hard costs to make projects viable at lower prices. Single-stair, elevator, European standards – time for code reform!

Latest piece by @ericlombardi.bsky.social at @thehubcanada.bsky.social: “Our politicians want you to forget about Canada’s biggest socioeconomic challenge. Yes, it’s still housing” thehub.ca/2025/07/18/e...

STANDING OVATION for @ericlombardi.bsky.social in @thehubcanada.bsky.social 👏 👏 👏 🙌 🎉 Rarely do we see something so well articulated with the nuance the topic deserves! This is a MUST READ! "When everyone says the right thing, but no one is willing to actually do the right thing."

shorturl.at/evQIM If you've not read this piece by @ericlombardi.bsky.social yet. He's to be credited for persuasively making the non-partisan case for more housing, via private market & gov't funded initiatives. Centrists, fiscal cons, socons, & soc-dems all have cause to agree with him. #cdnpoli

Incredible new @chiosse.bsky.social video with @ilanaglazer.com on how New York became so unaffordable

More Neighbours Toronto is disappointed in City Council’s failure to legalize sixplexes across the City of Toronto. Mayor Olivia Chow should have shown clear leadership and stood up for this reform with the full spectrum of tools available to her. 1/3

Well this is awkward. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

Councillor Carroll claimed that consultations were just virtual with "a couple of More Neighbours members" phoning in. Grossly false. North York members turned out for the in person consultation and others around the city. Hugely dismissive of the time and effort that our volunteers put in.

I am hearing word that supporters of sixplexes on Council do not think the vote will get 50% to legalize them. But here is the thing, @MayorOliviaChow has every ability to invoke Strong Mayor powers to move it along with 1/3 of council support. (1/3) 🧵👇

Tomorrow, Mayor Olivia Chow and City Council have an opportunity to legalize sixplexes in Toronto. In today’s @thestar.com I encourage councillors to ignore the NIMBY hysteria and vote in favour. In fact, we will need to go further eventually. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Alright, sounds good, now we just need a bunch of cheap land following a world war that the city can buy followed by a sustained loss of population following the collapse of empire. www.cbc.ca/news/world/e...

Ontario is off!

My latest in The Hub: ONTARIO IS NOW THE “SICK MAN” OF CANADA. Our provinces failures drag down the country. - - - This is a longer read, but an absolutely critical discussion to have. Canada cannot thrive if Ontario holds it back. 👇

“Environmentalism is, in part, a luxury value. It depends on a foundation of stability. You can’t decarbonize a country that can’t build a train, permit a wind farm, or deliver housing.”

Great article

My latest for The Hub: “Canada can no longer afford to be governed by luxury beliefs” In this article, I take on our multi-decade habit of denying trade-offs that are real and hard. This denial is the basis of luxury beliefs that are now eroding our living standards. thehub.ca/2025/05/28/e...

In my latest for the Toronto Star, I take aim at Ontario Bills 5 and 17. While I think many of the changes in these bills are good and needed, the expansion of ministerial exemptions (MZOs) is a gateway to corruption we can’t ignore. Read it here 👇 www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Excellent and completely on point piece! @ericlombardi.bsky.social The focus should be on facilitating good developments - ones that we need and not only for people who have access to politicians. #onpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

This piece from @ericlombardi.bsky.social is excellent and worth a read. thehub.ca/2025/05/28/e...

Metrolinx has decided that they know how to run a railway better than the Germans at DB who made up ONxpress. A huge loss of talent for transit in Toronto and Canada and easily as catastrophic a move from Metrolinx as the agencies performance on the Eglinton Crosstown.

NEW BLOG POST On June 3, I'm hearing some councillors will propose adding more restrictions to the RS zone introduced in the Zoning Bylaw Renewal. So, I went deeper into the data, even more than in my last post. Read my blog or highlights in the 🧵 #yeg #yegcc www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2025/re...

Attended a "Building Complete Communities" talk hosted by @chrismoise.ca which was well attended. Excellent presentations by @jasonthorne.bsky.social, Michael McLelland of ERA Architects, Amanda O'Rourke of @880cities.bsky.social & @ericlombardi.bsky.social of @moreneighboursto.bsky.social. #TOpoli

On today's episode of the Missing Middle podcast @EricDLombardi of @MoreNeighbours makes a pitch to @fordnation on housing as an economic driver of growth that the Ontario government should absolutely lean into during these uncertain times. #Onpoli

We had an absolutely fantastic time at our social yesterday! Thank you all for coming. Big shoutout to the new volunteers who came out excited to find out how to get involved! There is still so much to do to build more homes in more neighbourhoods in Toronto. Let's get to it!

@ericlombardi.bsky.social setting the tone on dress code AND building codes!

It’s hard to emphasize how asleep at the wheel Ontario is on housing right now. I realize I’m not the most popular guy among PCs, but I hope Minister Rob Flack takes this seriously. Housing prices have been flat. But inventory is building and sales are historically slow. (1/X) 👇

Canada is Under Attack. We Need to Build. With @rmtransit.bsky.social @stevelafleur.bsky.social @ericlombardi.bsky.social

This but we call it Lombardi Liberalism 💅

my kingdom for Lombardi Conservatism

“For too long, Canada has coasted on past success, believing our place in the world was secure. It is not.” “The stakes are high. The road ahead is hard. But the competition is real. And that is cause for hope.” thehub.ca/2025/02/19/e...

Can “Canada can still function as a nation capable of governing itself effectively under immense pressure. The greatest obstacle to national renewal is not Washington. It is Canada’s dysfunctional provinces.” thehub.ca/2025/02/19/e...

Read my latest for The Hub. “A competitive race between Poilievre and Carney for prime minister is a gift. It forces them and us to be better.“ thehub.ca/2025/02/19/e...

I try not to give attention to the other place, but this one deserves it 👏 @ericlombardi.bsky.social #Canada

“Facing Trump’s hostility with moral indignation might feel good, but it won’t solve anything. Yes, we may need retaliatory tariffs to show the White House that stupidity has a price, but those alone won’t mend our own self-inflicted problems.”