Featured Stories

Adrian Kostic, CEO of VIV, a dating app that connects people with businesses.

Designing Digital Main Street

Andrew Seale Wednesday, March 11, 2015

How Toronto is partnering with local businesses, technologists and designers to create a digital city on top of the analogue one.

City Building, Small Businesses

Queen/King West

Samuel Boakye of the Success Beyond Limits Program.

Breaking bread to build community

Igor Bonifacic Wednesday, February 25, 2015

How Success Beyond Limits took advantage of a special meal to foster civic engagement among the youth of Jane and Finch

City Building

The 506 College slides through the snow outside MaRs.

TO 3 For All: Villa Toronto, Next Stage, and the Body

Yonge Street Staff Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Arts and Culture, City Building

CKX participants pieced together strategies around sharing community knowledge like you'd piece toge

Pioneering new ways of measuring a city's success

Paul Gallant Wednesday, December 03, 2014

The inaugural CKX Summit explored how open data and collaboration can transform communities.

City Building

Financial District, Central Waterfront, Queen/King West, Entertainment District, Downtown Eastside - Old Town - Corktown

Greg Yuristy, founder of Smart Green Technologies.

Greening the roof over your head: A look inside a growing industry

Tiffy Thompson Wednesday, November 19, 2014

With help from one local company, Toronto's paving the way – and the roof – for sustainable building initiatives.

City Building, Sustainability

Financial District, Central Waterfront, Church & Wellesley - Yorkville - Annex, Entertainment District

Taking Toronto's Vital Signs: We're prospering, but some challenges threaten to take root

Hamutal Dotan Wednesday, October 08, 2014

Every year since 2001, the Toronto Foundation has pulled together data, case studies, and other information to create a comprehensive assessment of the state of our city. Toronto, it's time for your annual checkup.

City Building, Employment, Infrastructure, Small Businesses, Transportation

Toronto taps craft beer market

Andrew Seale Wednesday, October 01, 2014

The city's small batch brewery scene is exploding. In honour of Oktoberfest, we introduce you to breweries from the west end's Junction Craft Brewery to the east end's Left Field to learn more about the narrative of Toronto's craft beer rapture.

Arts and Culture, City Building, Local Food, Small Businesses

Leslieville - The Beach, Bloor West Village, Roncesvalles-High Park, Pickering - Ajax - Whitby

The return to making and the rise of urban manufacturing in Toronto

Elena Yunosov Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Toronto is getting its manufacturing groove back. We take a look at the contemporary companies making manufacturing, and locally made goods and products, a priority.

Arts and Culture, City Building, Design, Digital, Employment, Small Businesses

Downtown Eastside - Old Town - Corktown, Queen/King West, Parkdale

How local is your beer? Craft brewers increasingly employ seasonal, regionally-grown ingredients

Issue Media Group Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Despite our love of local brews, many of the ingredients in our favorite beers are not sourced locally. Yet that's changing as brewers tap into the local farming movement in their communities to add more fresh ingredients

Arts and Culture, City Building, Employment, Local Food, Small Businesses

Central Waterfront, Downtown Eastside - Old Town - Corktown

Black Creek Community Farm, a hidden urban oasis near Jane & Finch

Rachel Bloom Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Black Creek Community Farm is a small, seven-acre farm in the Jane and Finch neighbourhood that is bringing fresh local produce and unique learning opportunities to one of the city's most challenging areas.

Biodiversity, City Building, Diversity, Employment, Local Food, Small Businesses, Sustainability

Rendering of the Sky-o-swale at the East Scarborough Storefront.

Reaching for the Sky-O-Swale

Jamie Bradburn Wednesday, July 23, 2014

How professionals and community youth collaborated to bring a new landmark to East Scarborough's Kingston-Galloway-Orton Park neighbourhood. The Sky-O-Swale is at once an eco-friendly water filtration system and a community gathering space.

Biodiversity, City Building, Design, Infrastructure, Sustainability

Scarborough City Centre

North By Northeast art project aims to transform Toronto one alley at a time

Sheena Lyonnais Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Thirty-one new murals will be painted across Toronto over the next week in an effort to beautify alleyways, improve walkability, and enhance the safety of Toronto's laneways. It's part of a larger strategy to imagine what the future of this city's story could be, a narrative as told by artists.

Arts and Culture, City Building, Design, Tourism

Queen/King West, Church & Wellesley - Yorkville - Annex

World Pride timed to open the floodgates for gay tourism in Toronto

Bert Archer Wednesday, June 18, 2014

LGBT tourism is poised to crack $200 billion for the first time this year. With Toronto hosting the fourth annual World Pride celebrations, we look at how our city has the potential to set the global stage for Pride celebrations and welcome a new wave of tourists.

Arts and Culture, City Building, Diversity, Tourism

Church & Wellesley - Yorkville - Annex

A round-up of innovative medical developments happening right here in Toronto

Sarah B. Hood Wednesday, June 11, 2014

In the latest in our series reporting on innovations coming out of MaRS Discovery District, we look at several cutting-edge medical advances currently in development--from revolutionary cancer treatments to personality-based patient care.

City Building, Digital, Healthcare and Wellness, Research and Innovation, Small Businesses

Kensington Market - Little Italy - Little Portugal, Markham

Look up: Toronto is abuzz with rooftop beehives that boost the city's ecosystem

Andrew Seale Wednesday, June 04, 2014

The MaRS Discovery District's bee initiative adds its hives to the growing list of urban beekeepers using rooftops to enhance the biodiversity of Toronto's concrete jungle--and source delicious, organic, homegrown honey while they're at it.

Biodiversity, City Building, Conservation, Local Food, Research and Innovation, Small Businesses

Roncesvalles-High Park, Kensington Market - Little Italy - Little Portugal, Financial District