Cities

A sun sets behind the frame of a new home construction.

Ontario’s new law should make planning faster — not move the work elsewhere

A woman holding a microphone gestures with her hand as other citizens look on.

Provinces should fund citizens’ assemblies to rebuild local democracy

A crane operating in an open-pit mine against a grey sky with smoke billowing from a coal generating plant in the background.

Resilient communities need more than GDP growth

Three men sit, kneel or stand on the roof of a home covered in metal brackets.

Canada’s electricity strategy is overlooking its most powerful asset

A tent, trash, and personal belongings at a homeless encampment on Notre-Dame Street in East Montreal.

Cities are managing the visible signs of social failure with homelessness

Electric-trolley wires connect overhead as a dozen people cross the street.

Canada has three immigration realities, not one

Cyclists ride along a bike lane in downtown Toronto.

Canada needs a deeper municipal bond market

Pothole in a Montreal's street.

Cities are closer to Canada’s problems than they are to the money

A worker in a white helmet stands on scaffolding near the support beams for a roof.

How Build Canada Homes can build affordable housing fast

Workers work on a house frame wrapped in plastic against a clear blue sky.

Build Canada Homes: The shift to prefabricated housing is more complex than it seems

Students filling out participatory budget idea submission form.

Participatory budgeting is a low-risk, high-return democratic upgrade

The water has risen halfway up the basement window in the home, which is surrounded by a stand of trees. Pieces of wood swirl together in the water, which is brown.

Canada has “flood amnesia.” Lessons from the Dutch would help treat it

Access to nature shouldn’t be a privilege

Floods, fires and mudslides: The climate-insurance crisis in real estate

Three cyclists use the lane, which is painted in fading green. A white car passes them.

Ontario can’t lead on road safety without cycling infrastructure

A-frame wooden homes sit side by side on a road. They are surrounded by mature trees but the paint on each is peeling.

Effective rural policy is critical to Canada’s security, stability and sovereignty

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