2. Urbanism

Shaping cities

It was an email I’d been expecting. We all knew Catherine McKenney would take a little time to rest from the gruelling mayoral campaign and come back with a different project to

Oh, what's that smell?

My column this week is about smells and how we’d describe Ottawa with our noses.  I offered a few suggestions and asked readers to submit their own. We had some fun on

Plow to the middle!

It started innocently enough with a Boxing Day 10km run I thought would be decent enough given the time elapsed since the December 23 storm. I’d gone out the day before for

What's the cost of the status quo?

When the city of Medicine Hat in southeast Alberta decided to opt for a radical approach to end chronic homelessness, there were a little over 1,100 personsexperiencing homelessness, including a little over