Torontoist » planning http://torontoist.com Torontoist is about Toronto and everything that happens in it Sun, 27 May 2012 03:02:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mayoral Candidates Talk Planning, Community, and Sustainability

One of several barber shops on the Mount Dennis stretch of Weston Road; the area is one of thirteen priority neighbourhoods. Photo by Nick Kozak/Torontoist. Selected candidates for the mayoralty of Toronto are having a debate tonight—live at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, and streaming now on 680News. The debate is co-organized by [...]

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Photo by greyvdm from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Selected candidates’ campaign rhetoric to the contrary, Toronto is not, at this moment, teetering on the brink of a fiscal precipice, about to tumble headlong to its inevitably gloomy fate. In fact, it isn’t even a city in decline. It is vibrant, it is growing, and while [...]

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Photo by greyvdm from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Each year, the executive committee of the Pug Awards looks to expand the scope of their initiative to further influence design in Toronto. Last week marked the introduction of PIMBY (Pug In My Backyard), an interactive and ever-evolving blueprint for growth that aims to cover as much [...]

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