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December 7, 2020 Nick Falvo

The Progressive Economics Forum: Homelessness planning during covid

The Calgary Homeless Foundation has just released a 12-city scan of homelessness planning during COVID. It’s a national study (which I authored). My ‘top 10’ overview of the study can be found here.

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October 1, 2020 Adam Clare

Things Are Good: Floating Trash Bins a Great Success, May Influence Policies

We’ve been following the installation and study of Seabins in Toronto for a while now. Good news just keeps happening from these floating garbage cans! Floating trash collectors were put in the Toronto harbour a few years ago and the research team behind the project keeps finding interesting things. The

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September 30, 2020 Adam Clare

Things Are Good: Bike Lanes Save Lives in Toronto

Here in Toronto we’ve seen little to no changes in our urban space during the COVID-19 pandemic. Other cities have been closing streets and making more room for people while in Toronto we’ve closed a couple streets on the weekend and gave up sidewalk space to private enterprise. Neighbouring communities

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April 15, 2020 John Klein

Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Canada, Ontario, etc.

Ended up stumbling onto The Agenda, and this episode was great for anyone interested in the plague, or in city planning to respond to it. If you want to be able to speak constructively about when we’ll start going back to work, restart the economy, or get back to normal,

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January 12, 2020 Unknown

Accidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links

This and that for your Sunday reading. – Gary Younge writes about the need to respond to a bleak reality with the dedication to imagine and create something better. And Vickie Cammack and Donna Thomson highlight how the response to a climate breakdown includes mobilizing our capacity to care for

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November 18, 2019 Adam Clare

Things Are Good: Decolonize Games at the Toronto Biennial

This coming Saturday (Nov. 23) from 2-5pm you can play a game which challenges the colonial narratives present in too many games. Presented as part of the Toronto Biennial, Unsettling: Settlers of Catan uses the bases of Settlers of Catan to get players to think about all sorts of assumptions

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November 5, 2019 Adam Clare

Things Are Good: Toronto’s Food Waste Powers its Garbage Trucks

Toronto’s garbage trucks are being fuelled by the very thing they are picking up on their routes. The trucks pick up food waste (in a separate bin from recycling and trash) and transport them to a holding facility where the food further decomposes. Since 2015, Toronto has been working to

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October 15, 2019 Adam Clare

Things Are Good: Floating Garbage Bins Succeed in Toronto

@PortsToronto Infrastructure VP Chris Sawicki talks to media about how our new Seabins work to capture rubbish from #singleuseplastics to #microplastics smaller than a grain of rice. pic.twitter.com/ZWMClUIJzZ — PortsToronto (@PortsToronto) October 10, 2019 Toronto just announced that the Seabin trial project was a success and now they are expanding

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October 4, 2019 Nick Falvo

The Progressive Economics Forum: The use of homeless shelters by Indigenous peoples in Canada

I’ve written a blog post about the use of homeless shelters by Indigenous peoples in Canada. The post is inspired by recently-accessed, internal analysis done by staff at Employment and Social Development Canada. One point raised in the blog post is that there is no clear indication from the presentation

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September 25, 2019 Nick Falvo

The Progressive Economics Forum: Trudeau’s proposed speculation tax

I’ve written a blog post about the Trudeau Liberals’ recently-proposed speculation tax on residential real estate owned by non-resident, non-Canadians. The full blog post can be accessed here.

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September 25, 2019 Adam Clare

Things Are Good: Seeding Utopias & Resisting Dystopias with The Multiversity Collective

The Multiversity Collective wants you to think of a better world by exploring alternatives.The collective was created to explore the full potential of Toronto by imaging future worlds (or alternatives to today) that are fully aware of -and engage in – multiple ways of knowing. It’s a call to envision

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September 3, 2019 Adam Clare

Things Are Good: Toronto’s Bloor Bike Lanes Boost Local Businesses

Despite being only 2.4 kilometres long the bike lane on Bloor street in Toronto was heavily contested. It was debated in local politics for decades and was only declared permanent recently. During the debate car drivers demanded the “right” to occupy land at the expense of others while maintaining an

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May 7, 2019 Warren

Warren Kinsella: Tory is the best Grit

Here’s a poll that will rock Toronto and Ontario politics. And it is not a bad idea. At all. Full story here. It could take a Tory to topple the Tories and lead the Liberals back to power, a new poll suggests. Toronto Mayor John Tory, a former Progressive Conservative

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April 25, 2019 Nick Falvo

The Progressive Economics Forum: What Impact will the 2019 Federal Budget have on Canada’s Housing Market?

I’ve written a blog post about what the recent federal budget means for Canada’s housing market. Points I make in the blog post include the following: -The budget contains several initiatives designed to make it easier for households of modest means to become homeowners. -Such initiatives are often framed as

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March 30, 2019 David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics: On Milton Acorn, on his birthday, Canada’s People’s Poet

Today was the birthday of Milton Acorn, the People’s Poet, who lived rough, and died before he was eligible for the Old Age Security, even under the old rules. For those of you who have missed him until now, Milton Acorn is not only Canada’s greatest poet, he may be

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March 22, 2019 Merran Smith

Carbon49 – Sustainability for Canadian businesses: Will Canada Miss the (Electric) Bus?

Electric buses are making a real—and rapidly growing—dent in emissions: as Bloomberg reported, electric buses will displace 270,000 barrels of diesel a day by the end of this year. But despite being home to four prominent electric bus manufacturers, Canada’s transit fleets have been slow to adopt this climate-change-fighting technology, lagging behind

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March 22, 2019 Merran Smith

Carbon49 – Sustainability for Canadian businesses: Will Canada Miss the (Electric) Bus?

Electric buses are making a real—and rapidly growing—dent in emissions: as Bloomberg reported, electric buses will displace 270,000 barrels of diesel a day by the end of this year. But despite being home to four prominent electric bus manufacturers, Canada’s transit fleets have been slow to adopt this climate-change-fighting technology, lagging behind

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March 22, 2019 Merran Smith

Carbon49 – Sustainability for Canadian businesses: Will Canada Miss the (Electric) Bus?

Electric buses are making a real—and rapidly growing—dent in emissions: as Bloomberg reported, electric buses will displace 270,000 barrels of diesel a day by the end of this year. But despite being home to four prominent electric bus manufacturers, Canada’s transit fleets have been slow to adopt this climate-change-fighting technology, lagging behind

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December 10, 2018 Edgardo Sepulveda

The Progressive Economics Forum: Rent Control in Ontario

I’ve just published my new analysis of Ontario’s proposed rent controls and develop an evidence-based comprehensive alternative proposal at the CCPA’s “Behind the Numbers” blog.    

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December 8, 2018 Alheli Picazo

A. Picazo: A guide to Faith Goldy and reporting on bad actors

For Canadaland on September 26, 2018 On January 25, 2018, Roosh V — real name Daryush Valizadeh, a rank misogynist and denizen of the so-called “manosphere” — hosted a live-streamed discussion of “tradthots” in the far right. A “tradthot” is a female internet personality who preaches “traditional” values and gender

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