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In my third year of being trans, I discovered that I like dancing. This was a surprise. Dancing is meditative, therapeutic – healing even. Now I try to go dancing as often as I can. This the story of how I learned I love to dance.
In their rush to conform, to obey, are tech industry leaders planning to discriminate against me?
Unlike housing or wealth inequality or climate change, traffic safety is almost entirely in control of my local municipality. My city councillor doesn't have jurisdiction over air pollution, or carbon taxes, or whether we roll back the clocks. But the city of Toronto does have jurisdiction over how my local roads are designed and built.
Comparing new dwelling building permits per capita per year between select U.S. states and select Canadian provinces
The moment had arrived, the needle was ready.
Before the pandemic, fully remote work was rare but now it's rapidly expanding. If lots of workers stand to earn good, tech-industry salaries while living outside of tech-industry hubs, could this lead to more gentrification?
If scores of landlords become insolvent due to the global pandemic, we should bail them out directly – and nationalize their assets. We could greatly expand the social housing stock, and use it to protect tenants and the homeless.
Rent controls are criticized for acting as a severe disincentive to new and existing rental construction. In this paper, I documented contemporary Canadian housing policy initiatives and investigated the theoretical and empirical record of rent controls in other jurisdictions. I then argue that rent controls' most important aspect is their regulation of the provision of security of tenure — which should be seen as a right of tenants as well as homeowners.
An op-ed summary of my paper on why rent control is good, which was published in the Toronto Star. TL;DR: rent control gives tenants security of tenure — which should be seen as a right of tenants as well as homeowners.
When you next walk through the residential streets of Toronto's west end, take a look at the houses around you. Before long, you'll see the azulejos.
I once had to do a bunch of work in Visual Basic for Applications and wire together a Word document with an Excel spreadsheet. This blog post documents all the things I wish I'd found by googling.
Let's talk about the Queen, shall we? Elizabeth Alexandra Mary has been the Queen of Canada and fourteen other countries since 1952. She is now ninety years old, and she's not getting any younger.
I attended a public meeting organized by city hall councillors Mike Layton and Joe Cressy to discuss Westbank's planning application for the Mirvish Village redevelopment.