Photo by Marc Lostracco. In upcoming months, Toronto's summer temperatures will once again strain the power grid, and the demand for more power means more power generation—and consequently, more pollution. For Ontario customers wishing to utilize renewable energy sources, there are currently only two options: expensively retrofit your property to generate some of its own electricity, or sign up with Bullfrog Power. For many condo owners and apartment dwellers, neither of those options have......

The proposed big box development in Leslieville has been getting a lot of attention lately, and not because it's a welcome addition to the retail streetscape in the east end. The land, the soon-to-be-former home of Toronto Film Studios, is currently zoned for employment purposes, which means that it's supposed to be used to provide jobs that pay better than retail. The city and SmartCentres, the property developer, have danced all the way to the......

The Star weighs in on Dalton's new rent laws. The big improvement is that landlords can no longer jack up the rent permanently after making repairs, tying rent to inflations, and guaranteed hearings for those about to be evicted by non-payment of rent. Star columnist Thomas Walkom doesn't think it's enough and doesn't actually do anything to help with skyrocketing rents. The man apparently responsible for yesterday's cabbie murder may have attacked a second cabbie......

Bruce Mau's exhibit Massive Change, which takes over the AGO until May 29, scares me. It's not Avigdor Cahaner's featherless chicken or the sexing up of military design that's got me a little freaked out by Bruce Mau's exhibit/manifesto. What scares me is the blind faith that Mau puts in design and technology. It starts from the moment you walk and a sign poses the question "Now that we can do anything, what will we......