Featured Stories

One track mind: Will artists come to love our new streetcars?

Yonge Street Staff Wednesday, October 03, 2012

Just like the CN Tower and Maple Leaf Gardens, our current fleet of streetcars define the city. Will the sleek new ones become as iconic?

Arts and Culture, Transportation

Spreading the wealth: What the Vital Signs report reveals about Toronto's economic success story

Paul Gallant Wednesday, October 03, 2012

The Toronto Community Foundation's annual survey takes the city's pulse in areas ranging from health and the environment to culture and transportation. They're complex, intersecting issues. But following the money is as good a way as any to determine our civic health.

City Building, Speaker Series

We're taking a break for Thanksgiving

Yonge Street Staff Wednesday, October 03, 2012

Yonge Street is taking a one-week break for Thanksgiving.

Keen & green: How an innovative mentoring program connects new Canadians with environmental jobs

Sarah B. Hood Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Many newcomers are attracted to Canada by the promise of a green environment. The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority is making sure the brightest and best of them can do their part.

City Building, new canadians, Sustainability

Pickering - Ajax - Whitby

Not so sour grapes

Kelli Korducki Wednesday, September 19, 2012

A wine company whose profits go to charities has come up with an ingenious way to engage consumers in giving. Could the model work elsewhere?

City Building, small businesses

Freeing data & building collective identity: Q&A with Vital Signs panelist Mary Rowe

Paul Gallant Wednesday, September 19, 2012

The vice president and managing director of New York's Municipal Art Society returns to her old stomping ground for our October 11 Yonge Talks panel on the Toronto Community Foundation's new Vital Signs report. We talked to her about the city's growth spurt and how she thinks Toronto can build on its success.

City Building, infrastructure, Speaker Series

Keesmaat kismet: Has the city's new chief planner arrived at the right time?

Bert Archer Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Our new chief planner has joined the city's building boom mid-party. But Jennifer Keesmaat's Toronto-loving pro-pedestrian approach might be what we need to liven things up.

City Building, Design, infrastructure

Our panel & talkback on Toronto's Vital Signs report

Yonge Street Staff Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Each year the Toronto Community Foundation releases its Vital Signs report, which provides a snapshot of the health of the city across 11 issue areas, ranging from safety and housing to health, wellness and the gap between rich and poor. The report flags both the progress Toronto has made on these issues and the challenges the city continues to face. At our free October 11 Yonge Talks event, sponsored by the Toronto Community Foundation, president and CEO Rahul Bhardwaj will present key Vital Signs findings and discuss them with special out-of-town guest Mary Rowe of the Municipal Art Society of New York.

City Building, Speaker Series

Yonge Street Reader Survey

Yonge Street Team Monday, September 03, 2012

Thanks for reading our publication and showing interest in the people and companies driving change in our community. To help us better understand you and improve our coverage of the issues you care about, could you please take 60 seconds and answer a few questions? We greatly appreciate your interest and continued support.

How we can grow our own (not so) exotic ingredients right here in the GTA

Sarah B. Hood Wednesday, August 22, 2012

In a project to help local producers meet the demands of Ontario's increasingly diverse population, scientists are building better beans (and okra, peppers and other veggies, too)

Diversity, Healthcare and Wellness, Research and Innovation, Sustainability

OP-ED: Why affordable housing is a key human right

Kenneth Hale Wednesday, August 22, 2012

After Yonge Street's two panels this summer on affordable housing, we asked attendee Kenneth Hale of the Advocacy Centre for Tenants-Ontario to write about the Charter challenge the group is making on behalf of people who are struggling to obtain adequate housing. Here's his argument.

City Building, Speaker Series

We're taking a holiday... back on September 12

Yonge Street Staff Wednesday, August 22, 2012

While the sun is still shining, the Ex is still serving up thrills and the beaches are still lively, we're taking a couple of weeks off for summer holidays. We're back with fresh, new Yonge Street news and features on September 12. Have a great Labour Day!

You are what your community eats

Jaime Woo Wednesday, August 15, 2012

The transformation of Malvern has meant more than just reclaiming it from gang violence. Bringing people together around food and green spaces has been an integral ingredient.

City Building, Diversity, Healthcare and Wellness, Sustainability

Scarborough City Centre

Where even time-strapped professionals can find time to help newcomers improve their prospects

Krishna Rau Wednesday, August 08, 2012

Just because it's a breakneck pace doesn't mean it doesn't work. ACCES's speed mentoring program offers new Canadians the chance to make a lot of contacts very quickly.

CSR, Diversity, new canadians

Wearing our diversity on our jersey: How the Pan Am Games plans to deliver one of its key promises

Kelli Korducki Wednesday, August 01, 2012

Ontario's Pan/Parapan American Games won't just be showcasing athletic and organizational prowess. They'll be putting the breadth and dynamism of the GTA's population on the world stage.

City Building, Diversity, infrastructure

Central Waterfront