Toronto’s affordable housing crisis déjà vu
The lack of housing was so acute in Toronto in 1944 that the acting mayor, Robert H. Saunders, posted notices in newspapers warning families not to move to Toronto. This newspaper ad is included in an eye-opening exhibit at the City of Toronto Archives until March 27, 2025. The exhibit includes phot...
ANALYSIS: The election is all about the economy. So what's the state of our finances?
Obsidian artifacts unearthed in Alberta offer new clues on prehistoric trade routes
Obsidian artifacts unearthed in Alberta offer new clues on prehistoric trade routes
Obsidian artifacts unearthed in Alberta offer new clues on prehistoric trade routes
The housing sub-plot in the federal election
Though it seems like an eternity ago, Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives circa 2023-24 desperately wanted this election to be about the ruinous cost of housing (and Justin Trudeau, of course). Poilievre starred in numerous extended and effective videos — e.g., “Housing hell: how we got there and how w...
What does 'middle class' mean in Canada, and who does it leave behind?
ANALYSIS: Canadians are talking about big projects. Let’s try small ones first
Non-profit housing is an economic no-brainer
Canada is acting quickly to reposition our trade economy to become more resilient, diverse and self-reliant. We need a similar re-calibration of Canada’s housing system to address our deepening affordability problem. Housing is foundational for a strong Canada, and we must focus on housing that is m...
The Hudson’s Bay Company is facing liquidation. Its historical impact lives on
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Why queer nightlife is faltering in Canada’s biggest cities
Noise police, rising commercial rents and restrictive city bylaws have stifled nightlife in Toronto and Montreal
LORINC: The coming American brain drain will be Canada’s gain
In the face of the relentless ratcheting up of the Trump administration’s economic assault on Canada, we’ve seen basically three types of government responses: almost immediate and very specific retaliatory tariffs, long-term and somewhat diffuse pledges to bolster Canada’s internal economy (i.e., m...
If Ottawa adds books to list of goods subject to countertariffs, many Canadian authors and publishing houses would be affected
The complex supply chain that carries books from publishing houses to Canadians’ shelves often requires them to be printed or warehoused in the United States – especially among the major multinational publishers, which account for the vast majority of books sold in Canada. Mr. Carney’s book, for instance, was published by Penguin Random House Canada’s Signal imprint. It’s one of potentially thousands of books written by Canadian authors and published by a Canadian house that is still made in the United States, and could therefore be susceptible to countertariffs.
This dynamic both complicates the easy sloganeering of “Buy Canadian” and, should countertariffs be imposed on U.S.-printed books, could threaten the well-being of independent bookstores, which already face thin margins and steep competition from much larger retailers Indigo and Amazon, the latter of which also has capacity to print books on demand in Canada.
Bookstores could also be forced to either absorb major price in