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Planned 42-unit apartment in Toronto’s Grange area takes a common European approach to design, By his own admission, artist Charles Pachter has for years had a lucrative side hustle, buying, renovating and flipping older buildings in Toronto’s Queen West area and at the edge [...]

Byline: John Lorinc Calgary-based Eavor Technologies is poised to become a global cleantech success story, with an asterisk--about which, more in a moment. Tapping into Alberta's deep reservoir of drilling [...]

Governments across America support cleantech companies, and shares there are up since 2020. So why are cleantech stocks down in Canada?, Calgary-based Eavor Technologies is poised to become a global cleantech success story, with an asterisk—about which, more in a moment. Tapping into Alberta’s deep reservoir of drilling and chemical engineering [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC In the late 1940s, when William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal government began publishing 'catalogues' filled with floor plans for modest homes meant to relieve a crippling post-Second [...]

When veteran set designer Nigel Churcher decided to rebuild his home, he ran into regulatory snarls, the sticker-shock of development charges and a host of unexpected hurdles, From the sidewalk, the fourplex that Nigel Churcher, a veteran Toronto art director and set designer, built over the past several years fits into the cheerful eclecticism of Little Italy [...]

Evidence shows that weather influences investing choices. Can acting on that knowledge lead to better returns?, Have you ever found yourself gazing pensively out the window, pondering the steadily darkening fall days or the unappealing prospect of hauling the dog out for a walk in a [...]

Shoeb Mohammad, an assistant professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at Ontario Technical University, wrote his PhD thesis on corruption--but his interest in the field isn't merely academic. In the early [...]

New research suggests governments that want to promote progress need to distinguish between corruption and legitimate incentives, Shoeb Mohammad, an assistant professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at Ontario Technical University, wrote his PhD thesis on corruption—but his interest in the field isn’t merely academic. In the early [...]

The St. Hilda’s towers in Toronto, a 350-apartment complex, have been undergoing a so-called ‘deep retrofit’, For about 50 years, the three brick towers have loomed large over the intersection of Dufferin Avenue and Eglinton Avenue West in Toronto, a monument to a previous generation’s ambition [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail About a year ago, Utile, a Montreal-based non-profit that develops and operates student rental housing, began leasing up its most recent [...]

Some builders and REITs have stepped into the breach, either by acquiring and transforming hotels or developing their own projects, About a year ago, Utile, a Montreal-based non-profit that develops and operates student rental housing, began leasing up its most recent project – a 205-bed apartment dubbed l’Ardoise (The Slate), [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC On paper, the project looks like precisely the kind of housing Toronto city officials and councillors say they want more of. Eight fairly spacious two- and three-bedroom [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC Almost a decade ago, Toronto developer Montcrest Asset Management (then known as NYX) bought and rezoned a corner lot on Bayview Avenue, north of Sheppard Avenue, with [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail In the run-up to a gathering of Liberal Party VIPs at a Toronto hotel in February, 1977, a small crew of [...]

Calling himself a mathematician who did law in his spare time, he had a passion for public-interest law, which led to appearances at inquests into police shootings of Black men and at high-profile inquiries, In the run-up to a gathering of Liberal Party VIPs at a Toronto hotel in February, 1977, a small crew of activists called the Committee Against Racism concocted a scheme [...]

Byline: John Lorinc In an apparently unprecedented power move, the intelligence chiefs from the so-called Five Eyes gathered on a stage at Stanford University in California last fall to fire [...]

New technologies are blurring the lines between illegal corporate espionage and legitimate competitive intelligence, In an apparently unprecedented power move, the intelligence chiefs from the so-called Five Eyes gathered on a stage at Stanford University in California last fall to fire a shot across [...]

Byline: John Lorinc Even by marketing standards, the positioning seemed too rich by half. In mid-January, Manulife announced that its health insurance policyholders would henceforth be required to source about [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC When designers Coryn Kempster and Julia Jamrozik decided to move back to Toronto after 20 years of living abroad, they set out to find an apartment with [...]

Will high tech modular housing construction crack the affordability crisis?, According to some housing affordability advocates, the solution to soaring construction costs will involve buildings pieced together from preassembled room-sized modules that are winched into place and then fitted together [...]

Blair Scorgie of Sajecki Planning has pitched the city’s planning department to permit mixed-use development in all Toronto laneways, Updated: December 08, 2023 When Nadia Galati was growing up around Dufferin and Eglinton, they’d pay visits to their grandparents, Alfonso and Caterina, who lived in the heavily Italian-Canadian enclave [...]

Public-private partnerships have only worsened the delays and cost overruns that plague government megaprojects, leaving some jurisdictions seeking a better model, Updated: November 21, 2023 Seen from the clarifying distance of a decade, the hyped-up promises weren’t just cringeworthy but so far off the mark as to be mere guesswork. In [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC Toronto-based journalist and editor On Aug. 27, 1980, residents of Winnipeg and Ottawa woke up to a piece of disturbing news. The Ottawa Journal and the Winnipeg [...]

Byline: John Lorinc Earlier this spring, on the steppes of southwestern Ontario, federal and provincial pols gathered to announce that Volkswagen would soon begin constructing a mammoth electric vehicle battery [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC TORONTO -- They are the unsung workhorses of all high-rises: the slabs of poured concrete that separate one storey from the next, and one unit from its [...]

Byline: John Lorinc Over the past five years, Canadian policy makers at all three levels of government have become enamoured with a set of measures ostensibly designed to take some [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Mridul Sharma, a 27-yearold political analyst, lives with a roommate in a condo near the top of a 45-storey [...]

Byline: John Lorinc The young influencer's pose is both iconic and ubiquitous: Modelling a fashionable sundress, she turns one way and then the other, with only the presence of the [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- A few years ago, before the fight to eliminate exclusionary zoning became a talking point for politicians across the [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail It was hailed as a breakthrough - a private member's bill that sought to amend Ontario's Planning Act to allow a [...]

Byline: John Lorinc During a much-watched speech in Washington this past October, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland touted a new post-globalist way of thinking about trade. 'Democracies must make a conscious [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- In the past few years, Frank Giralico, a sales representative for Capital North Realty, was doing a brisk trade [...]