Metropolitics

Visible Minorities, Visible Risk: Toronto's Unequal Eviction Burden

Prentiss Dantzler & Khalil Martin & Abigail Meza — 2025-09-16T05:00:00Z

In Toronto, who gets evicted isn't random—it follows the city's racial and economic divides. Canada's data practices hide crucial details about who is most at risk.
Evictions are a leading cause of housing insecurity in cities worldwide, disproportionately affecting lower-income households and non-white racialized groups. In Canada, although attention to evictions is growing, there is limited research available. As the most populous city in the country, Toronto is home to a diverse set of

- Essays / evictions, social class, poverty, housing, tenants, rental, rental housing, minorities, precarity, Canada, Toronto

The Struggle to Preserve Hanlan's Point Beach as Queer Social Infrastructure

Ahmed Allahwala — 2024-05-28T05:00:00Z

The march of neoliberal urbanism poses grave threats to nature and the people that use it. In this article, Ahmed Allahwala considers how activism against the City of Toronto's plans for a music venue on Hanlan's Point Beach, an important site for 2SLGBTQ+ life and history as well as a sensitive coastal area, might inform preservation struggles against such threats, in and beyond Toronto.
Nestled along a wooded stretch of environmentally sensitive freshwater dunes, Hanlan's Point is a sandy

- From the Field / beach, LGBTQ+, queer, social infrastructure, Canada, Toronto

15 Years of Researching Cities and Pandemics

S. Harris Ali & Creighton Connolly & Roger Keil — 2021-02-09T06:00:00Z

Beginning in 2006 with pioneering work on responses to the SARS crisis in global cities (and in particular Toronto, Hong Kong and Singapore) and expanding their work recently in the context of Covid‑19 and its link to suburbanization, S. Harris Ali, Roger Keil and Creighton Connolly have been working on metropolises and pandemics for the past 15 years. Their analyses help us to understand the current Covid‑19 crisis in its urban dimensions.
Interview by Sophie Didier.
Globalization, viruses

- Interviews / Singapore, Covid-19, coronavirus, Hong Kong, Toronto, health

The mixed success of Toronto's metropolitan merger

Guillaume Poiret & translated by Oliver Waine — 2013-11-20T05:50:00Z

While the debate on local-government reform rages on in France, Guillaume Poiret looks back at the municipal mergers that took place in Toronto in 1997. Although amalgamation has not resulted in the kind of demergers seen in Montreal, it has not had the anticipated economic benefits either, and leaves the metropolitan question – and the attendant democratic challenges – unanswered.
Since the City of Toronto Act, or Bill 103, of 17 December 1997, the City of Toronto has comprised the former

- From the Field / governance, local governance, intercommunality, metropolis, territorial reform, Canada, Toronto