Shortly after 5 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam (Ward 27, Toronto Centre–Rosedale) reached an agreement over the phone with a demolition company, to halt work that had begun that morning at the back of 81 Wellesley Street East. An hour later, as the equipment was moved to the front of the property, a [...]

The year is almost over and everyone is in a celebratory mood, but what about all the loose ends? Here are four 2011 mysteries, and estimates of our chances of seeing them solved in the future. Rob Ford’s Telephone Manners When Rob Ford repeatedly called 911 on a CBC crew that had arrived unannounced at [...]

After moving into the zigzagging towers of The Masters zipped into the Markland Wood neighbourhood, this couple spent more time together enjoying nightly swims, sipping fine wines despite the stares of the medieval citizens depicted on their wallpaper, practicing their golf swings, and spending quality time in the sauna. They also took advantage of the [...]

Lindvest Properties is closer to launching their nine-storey Hariri Pontarini–designed B.streets Condos, named for the Bathurst and Bloor intersection just to its north, and, along with the launch of their new website, they’ve released new renderings of the building. The images provide a better view of the building’s highly articulated facade, designed by partner-in-charge David [...]

One of Martindale’s tents, on a side street near Trinity Bellwoods Park. If you can’t afford a condo on Queen West, have you considered a lovely makeshift tent in the heart of Trinity Bellwoods Park? It wouldn’t come with a stainless steel refrigerator, and you’d never be able to fit a seventy-two-inch HDTV in there, [...]

Photo by picturenarrative from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. When it comes to politics in most condo buildings, vampire rules are in effect: no politician can cross the threshold unless invited in, and best that they come after dark. While hundreds of thousands of voters in the GTA live in condominiums, their voices are rarely heard [...]

For every condo high-rise that goes up, a parking garage does down. Several levels usually. But in many of the downtown towers, especially along Queen’s Quay, not all the young and eligibles who live there have cars. Some simply don’t need them, others have made a conscious decision, whether financially or ecologically based, not to [...]