Featured Stories

Peter MacLeod, Neil Hetherington and Noorez Lalani.

Join us for our June 21 panel on affordable housing

Yonge Street Staff Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Yonge Street's next Yonge Talks panel asks whether affordable housing is a right. Moderator Peter MacLeod of MASS LBP will host Neil Hetherington, CEO for Habitat for Humanity Toronto, and Noorez Lalani, vice president of MOD Developments Inc, in a passionate discussion aimed at finding solutions. The Yonge Street Speakers Series is sponsored by Toronto Community Foundation.

City Building, Speaker Series

Shrewd charity: How Toronto+acumen aims to reduce poverty with venture capital

Krishna Rau Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Founded two years ago, the Toronto chapter of a global venture fund has been investing in projects that will improve the quality of life in developing countries. Now they're working on bringing that model back to TO.

City Building, CSR, Diversity

Where are Toronto's urban manners?

Paul Gallant Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Veteran planner and author Ken Greenberg suggests we're better at sharing each other's food than sharing each other's space. But we'll learn.

City Building, infrastructure, Transportation

Queen/King West

A possible Kodak moment: Our visit to Mount Dennis finds a storied community at a crossroads

Bert Archer Wednesday, May 02, 2012

One of Toronto's mostly intensely industrialized neighbourhoods, Mount Dennis was hit hard by the 2005 closure of the Kodak plant. But a strong identity, truly diverse population--and perhaps a new transit hub--might point the way toward a bright future.

City Building

Weston

In the bag: Our slideshow of Toronto's annual spring clean-up day

Voula Monoholias Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Yonge Street photographer Voula Monoholias joined Mayor Rob Ford's crew in Amesbury Park for Toronto's annual Community Clean-Up Day. People weren't afraid to get their hands dirty.

City Building

Yonge Street Young Leaders Speakers panel

Gaining influence, step by step: Young leaders talk about following their passions

Yonge Street Staff Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Our Yonge Street panel on Toronto's emerging leadership explored strategies for nurturing and attracting talent in our city. Attendees learned that asking for help isn't the same as asking for permission... and other secrets to success.

Arts and Culture, City Building, Speaker Series

How to build a successful citizen initiative: 2 tales from the front lines

Krishna Rau Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Passion and organizing skills are keys to getting policies changed or projects revised. But the efforts of Code Blue and the Clean Train Coalition also demonstrate that timing and connections make a major difference.

City Building, Transportation

Weston, Central Waterfront

Flourishing French school systems could be the harbinger of a more bilingual Toronto

Bert Archer Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Underutilized mainstream schools are finding new life serving the GTA's diverse French-speaking communities. Is it a case of build it and they will... speak French?

City Building, Diversity, infrastructure

The pros and cons of height: Yonge Street panel stresses importance of great tower design

Bert Archer Wednesday, February 22, 2012

At Yonge Street's best-attended event yet, our experts encouraged more thoughtfulness in the design of our city.

City Building, Design, Speaker Series

Eli Malinsky of the Centre for Social Innovation.

The city's next talent incubator starts putting down its Regent Park roots

Scott Dagostino Wednesday, February 01, 2012

As part of the revitalization of Regent Park, the Centre for Social Innovation is creating a new hub to help emerging entrepreneurs, community-builders and place-makers realize their dreams. Unlike CSI's first two locations, the new space will not be "community agnostic."

City Building, Diversity, Research and Innovation, small businesses

Downtown Eastside - Old Town - Corktown

Density done right: Our Feb. 16 panel looks at creating neighbourhoods with room for everyone

Yonge Street Staff Wednesday, February 01, 2012

Join Yonge Street on Thursday, Feb. 16, for a discussion on how smart design and planning can help us get the best out of Toronto's increasing density. Our fourth public event will focus on how the city's built form can accommodate a growing population. Architects Shirley Blumberg and Charles Rosenberg and city planner Gregg Lintern will lead the discussion. Toronto Star columnist Royson James will moderate. The Yonge Street Speaker Series is sponsored by the Toronto Community Foundation and Waterfront Toronto.

City Building, Design, Speaker Series

Getting out of gridlock: The scramble to save the scramble & other adventures in TO transportation

Yonge Street Staff Wednesday, January 25, 2012

If Torontonians could only depoliticize the debate over transportation, we all might get further faster. Panelists at Yonge Street's Feet & Wheels event had more than a few ideas about how to improve the city's streets for everybody—and so did attendees.

City Building, infrastructure, Speaker Series, Transportation

Vaughan's towering new ambitions

Bert Archer Wednesday, December 14, 2011

With the Expo City development, Vaughan mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua is seeking to define his city with a dense new downtown core. Can globally inspired design create vibrant urbanity in sleepy suburbia?

City Building, infrastructure

Vaughan

Sharing cars makes sharing the city a little easier

Bert Archer Wednesday, November 09, 2011

The growth of car-sharing services like Autoshare and Zipcar suggests it's ownership of vehicles, not access to them, that's the biggest contributor to Toronto's gridlock.

City Building, conservation, infrastructure, Sustainability, Transportation