Sleep well Toronto homeowners, your nightmare could be coming soon
byToronto homeowners had better hope their city’s red hot real estate market doesn’t cool off anytime soon. If and when that happens, living in…
Hume with a View
King Street awaits the royal treatment, but not until the cars are gone
byEvery so often, Toronto wakes up to the fact it’s a city, not a series of parking spots connected by concrete and asphalt. It’s…
The fight to save Toronto’s past will determine its future
byAt the rate Toronto is growing, the city’s past faces a bleak future. Old buildings, many of them heritage sites, are fast disappearing. More…
Taxpayers or investors? A radical concept for Toronto
byLong before it began, expectations for 2017 were low. After the last 12 months, which were a genuine annus horribilus, the focus was more…
Tory’s tolls won’t end Toronto’s cash woes, but will help down the road
byThis is the way Toronto’s new world begins, less with a bang than a whimper. On Tuesday night, city council did what it has…
Tolls, transit, towers – Hume looks back on Toronto’s year of civic fogginess
byIf it’s true all’s well that ends well, 2016, as awful as it has been for Toronto, will end better than it started. Thanks…
Can Toronto keep up with itself?
byKristyn Wong-Tam had no illusions her call for a year-long moratorium on tall towers would be taken seriously. As the downtown councillor (Toronto Centre—Rosedale)…