Tag: pandemic
Downtown’s in flux â again. Can a new city hall blueprint fix it?
A downtown with Canada’s highest office vacancy rate.
Eight months in, little uptake on city hall cash to turn core offices into housing
Eight months after being introduced, London’s subsidy to turn empty office space into homes has a grand total of one project with money committed to it, while one more is publicly known to be in the works. Reporter Jack Moulton takes a look at why uptake has been so tepid in a city flush with […]
Local couple creating biodiversity through public pollinator gardens
Having insects chomp at the plant life in your garden could seem like a downer for some, but for one local couple, it’s a major victory. “People will get upset because something is eating the leaves (of their plants), but we get excited when we see something is eating the leaves because then we’re thinking […]
Witness holds firm under defence questioning at bush-party murder trial
As hard as he tried, Emily Altmannâs defence lawyer couldnât get Rachel Johnson to admit she was in a Snapchat video on her best friendâs phone. Thatâs because, she said repeatedly, it wasnât her. The video in question was found on the cellphone of Altmann’s best friend, Isabella Restrepo, and showed mere seconds of Restrepo […]
Baranyai: Quebec proposal takes health care rationing to new level
If trying to lure doctors to a community smells desperate, reassigning them has the stench of battlefield medicine, Robin Baranyai argues.