Government

With Transit City looking like a sickly, frail patient about to have its plug pulled, where will urbanists look in Toronto to feel...

Canada last had an election in the fall of 2008, after which coalition hilarity ensued. Of course, about the only person to come...

Back when the Ontario government introduced time-of-use billing to hydro, it had two simple purposes: to reflect the higher costs...

Toronto’s city council tackles three of Rob Ford ’s biggest priorities today: cutting councillors’ office...

Blame Air Canada, the CBC and Stephen Harper : the rest of the world just isn’t that in to us. The latest Monocle magazine has a...

Not all the blame for G20 abuses needs to be heaped on Bill Blair —it looks like the Ontario government may come in for some...

All over Toronto are towers built between the end of World War II and the 1980s—and far too many are eyesores. One of David...

The Province of Ontario has been rolling out its all-day kindergarten program for a while now—first as a pilot project, and the...

Earlier this year, the federal government announced Bill C-12, a proposal to add new seats to the House of Commons in the areas...

Canada’s record of almost doing interesting things and then chickening out (cough, cough) is unbroken: after an Ontario judge...

The torrent of gossipy revelations from Wikileaks’ latest outpouring—this time, classified diplomatic cables from...

The shockwaves of the 2008 recession are still travelling through the economy, even as countries struggle to get back on their...

One of Stephen Harper ’s low-profile priorities is a plan to bring all of Canada’s provincial securities regulators under one...

Like all good Canadians, we can’t help but notice when Canada is mentioned in international media, whether it’s The Daily Show...

That sound coming from Queen’s Park could easily be confused with a government in near-panic over hydro bills, but Dalton...

One traditional definition of “chutzpah” is for a person to kill their parents and then beg for mercy as an orphan. Stephen...

Some of the prime culprits blamed for the crash of the global economy are derivatives traders, those shadowy business folk who...

Next week, the feds will outline Bill C-32, better known as the Copyright Act, which is expected to profoundly shift this...

Ontario’s governing Liberals have had a rough year— eco-fees , the HST , sex ed curricula —but that’s so much better than...

Back in May, when Toronto Police began installing 77 new closed-circuit security cameras on downtown streets in preparation for...

Some days, the Canadian Senate is a place where unelected, largely unaccountable public servants try to get through their days...

Weizhen Tang told his investors they deserved to be rich and only he could make them so. Even now, after he lost all their money and was charged with running one of the country’s largest Ponzi schemes, his disciples still want him to keep trading. They believe it’s the only way they’ll get their $30 million back

In the seemingly endless merry-go-round that is the G20 blame game, we've been presented with numerous scapegoats. Was the huge...

Being a Conservative MP must be tough these days. There’s the boss, who doesn’t make winning elections easy. Then there’s...