Shawn Micallef

City Hall and Ottawa can do more to let housing get built — but Doug Ford is the one with the power to lift barriers in an instant. His record says he doesn't want to, Shawn Micallef writes.

The bridge, a relic from another, more recent age evoking a Toronto that is nearly gone, is to be dismantled.

In the last month I've attended two concerts at History, the music venue on Queen Street East in The Beach neighbourhood.

The damning auditor general report regarding the poor state of city parks is a sad confirmation of what anyone who has visited a Toronto park has known for a long time: the parks division is deeply dysfunctional.

Shawn Micallef is a Toronto-based writer and a freelance contributing columnist for the Star. Follow him on Twitter: @shawnmicallef Las Vegas, Ontario?

The peculiar interest Ontario’s premier takes in very local issues is proof that municipal government matters despite efforts to diminish and quash actual local control.

The idea is an exciting one, but we’ve been teased with the promise over and over again, only to be disappointed.

The recent public pushback against new shelters by politicians and residents makes it seem as if the last few years haven’t taught us anything.

Photographer Steven Evans has captured the devastation wrought on the one beautifully landscaped west island

The Eglinton Crosstown is a hard thing to write about yet again, because Metrolinx keeps us in the dark about what’s going on with it.