SaltWalks: Vancouver, Nanaimo, Toronto

Partnerships for Affordable Housing: Lessons from Melbourne, Portland, Vancouver and Toronto

Recent deliberative planning theory has developed the idea that partnerships between governments, the private sector, and community advocates are the best way to create innovative solutions to ‘wicked’ policy problems, such as affordable housing. The worst case scenario, however, is that these partnerships are merely a new version of urban growth machines: collusion between governments and priv...

The unmet demand for walkability: Disparities between preferences and actual choices for residential environments in Toronto and Vancouver.

OBJECTIVES Individual preferences for residential location, neighbourhood character and travel options are not always met. The availability and cost of housing and several other factors often require compromise. The primary objectives of this study were to examine neighbourhood preferences, quantify unmet demand for more walkable environments and explore associations between the built environme...

ASAC Toronto

n today’s globalized business environment, North American workplaces are becoming increasingly diverse. In Canada a growing number of ethnic minorities and women has increased their percentage of the existing workforce (Cox, 1991a, 1994; Wilson, 1996). The Canadian paid labour force is now comprised of approximately 60% women and visible minorities, and this trend continues to increase (Statist...

Toronto rising.

managed to lure chemical geneticist Guri Giaever away from Stanford University two years ago, part of the inducement was a new, bigger lab, and part was a prestigious government-funded research chair. But the biggest factor in the move, Giaever says, was the colleagues with whom she would be working. “In terms of what I’m doing, I would pretty much say hands down that Toronto is the best place ...

Toronto Unit