Unsung Heroes of the Third City
2011 will be remembered as the year when inequality moved from the margins to the mainstream of public discourse. No longer just the purview of anti-poverty activists, progressive economists and [...]
2011 will be remembered as the year when inequality moved from the margins to the mainstream of public discourse. No longer just the purview of anti-poverty activists, progressive economists and [...]
Here’s my latest op-ed on urban issues for The Toronto Star. They have a habit of changing my titles; this one was originally “The Age of Urban Unrest?” Last week, New York [...]
I was truly honoured when the people at MANIFESTO (www.themanifesto.ca) asked me to write a tribute to Jack Layton for this year’s festival guide. Thanks to MANIFESTO’s executive [...]
Much ink has been spilled over the UK riots. Naomi Klein wrote a good piece for The Nation and David Harvey posted some interesting comments on his blog. I find myself agreeing with most of what [...]
Note: This piece appears in the opinion section of today’s Toronto Star under a different title: Life in ‘Third City’: Nasty, brutish, and short. I will post a longer version [...]
In my latest op-ed for The Toronto Star, I explore the issues facing urban youth this election. Which party speaks for urban youth this federal election? Over the past few weeks, media [...]
The Shock Doctrine is coming to Toronto! In my latest contribution to Canadian Dimension, I argue that Mayor Rob Ford’s strategy has much in common with the right-wing machinations [...]
In my latest op-ed on urban issues for The Toronto Star, I discuss the legacy of a little-known urban arts program that developed a number of Canada’s finest hip hop and Rn’B [...]
Last week I made another appearence on DisRespect Radio to discuss the G20 protests in Toronto and the criminalization of dissent. DisRespect host Geoff Langhorne and I touch on how media failed [...]
Last week was not a good one to be living in the “in-between city,” the term urbanists use to describe areas wedged between the outer suburbs — with their sprawling residential neighbourhoods — [...]