Toronto

A Spanish civil rights group says Vancouver has at least one secret police station operated by Chinese authorities. 

Indigenous communities need more than free-market solutions to systemic inequities. Ottawa Community Housing's benefits agreement, alongside a new development project in partnership with Pikwakanagan, will offer some solutions to Indigenous communities.

Cities need a youthful infrastructure that includes affordability, good jobs, safety, mobility, a net-zero focus, physical and mental health, and fun with entertainment, music and green space based on metrics young people devise. 

Protesters of all ages took to Queen’s Park Friday afternoon demanding immediate climate action as part of a global strike.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has long touted the benefits of American-style strong mayors presiding over local governments after his days working for his family’s multimillion-dollar label company in Chicago, where he admired the clout of then-mayor Richard Daley. 

It’s intergenerational warfare by proxy, one that’s been fought on the battlefields of municipal zoning bylaws and redevelopment applications, and the forces fighting for more density and affordability continue to suffer heavy casualties, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is set to give the mayors of Ottawa and Toronto greater power with so-called strong mayor legislation introduced Wednesday in an apparent bid to speed up housing development in the province.

Young people are feeling the pinch of inflation more than their older counterparts, as the ever-increasing cost of living in Toronto is forcing some to rethink their plans.

Jad Jaber is the epitome of the hard-working and highly-qualified young immigrant who Canada should be welcoming with open arms. So why is it so hard for the founder and executive director of an equity-focused non-profit to get ahead?

Grabbing groceries before they get trashed has a green side-effect, too: reducing food waste cuts down on planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, research shows.

Blood is often out of reach for patients in India's rural or overburdened hospitals. A Toronto teen wants to use technology to help.

Though many restaurants across Canada have already begun using more sustainable alternatives to plastics, the federal government’s announcement this week of the pending bans still came as an unwelcome surprise to some.

Toronto-area teenagers Anya Singh and Ella Ceroni want to turn the lights on for some of the hundreds of millions of people worldwide who live without electricity, but first they need to find a lab to help them develop their radio-wave solution.

York Region council has voted to expand its urban boundaries by nearly 8,000 acres despite opposition from environmental groups and municipalities that fear the move will lead to further urban sprawl.

Doug Ford and the PCs will certainly duck abortion questions and deride them as distracting from “real issues,” writes columnist Supriya Dwivedi.