Ontario

Fractured transportation plans from different Toronto area municipalities make regional transit planning a challenge.

With the city mostly built out, and more residents looking to live in the urban core, Toronto planners and developers are busy building the city upwards.

Plans are underway in Toronto for the development of a huge public park along the city's Lake Ontario waterfront. Like many big cities, Toronto is utilizing abandoned and underused industrial lands to create an attractive destination.

Toronto has been planning on redeveloping its waterfront for years, but the process is slow-moving. Across the world, a similar physical layout in Stockholm is boasting quick planning and successful implementation.

Governments concerned about sound urban planning need to pay more attention to the role played by anchor public institutions, such as public libraries, in invigorating local economies, writes urban strategist and former Winnipeg Mayor Glen Murray.

Entrepreneurs and transit agencies are trying to help riders cope with their fears of germs on trains and buses.

The city's suburban express-bus network has attracted attention from transit administrators from the U.S. due to its high-tech and rider-friendly service.

The City of Toronto lacks a grand design, and needs to "think big" if it wants to fulfill its promise, argues a recent column in the Toronto Star.

A major new greenfield project 20 miles from Toronto intends to create a European-style town centre that mixes uses and de-emphasizes cars.

A recent opinion piece questions the wisdom of regional plans that promote public transit over accommodating more cars.

Small efforts, rather than grand gestures, can help a community improve the city in tiny increments.

Dam builder Dennis Messner has overanalyzed his upcoming construction project, calling himself an "integration-minded postmodernist". Pretty advanced thinking for a beaver.

In the face of large-scale manufacturing job losses, Ontario's Kitchener-Waterloo region still manages to lead the nation in economic development and innovation.

A host of major construction projects and renovations -- including an opera house, art gallery, and ballet school -- are set to boost Toronto's cultural industries. But will international tourists follow?

In this op-ed, a bicycle commuter advocates ignoring certain traffic laws and putting cyclists in cars for "critical mass" rides, in order to draw attention to the need for better bicycle facility planning.

It might have required a jolt from an audit of the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation, but there is increasing evidence that plans to spruce up the area are working.

Louisette Lanteigne created a website to report environmental problems in her neighborhood. She is being sued for libel by a developer.

Nimbyism is gaining quite a following in Toronto -- leaving some detractors to worry that the movement is strangling all growth in the area.

Despite a Pedestrian Charter, the Canadian city is decidedly unfriendly towards those on foot.

The lack of grocery stores is making access to healthy food almost impossible for residents in many neighborhoods.