I grew up cooking. I remember making pie early on with my grandfather, who my brothers and I called Grampy Donuts (for his amazing homemade donuts). I would regularly bake with my friend across the street, raiding our mothers’ cupboards and leaving piles of dishes.
In the GTA the question of whether an individual municipality should continue population and economic growth isn’t up for debate. That question has already been decided. But what really needs to be considered is how to grow and the decisions that GTA municipalities are in the process of making now will shape our [...]
As of today, there have been 14 pedestrian fatalities so far this month in the GTA. Eight of those have been in Toronto. To put this in context, in 2009 there were 56 pedestrian deaths in the GTA and 31 in Toronto. In both cases we’re already at about 25% of last year’s total.
And that [...]
Community sustainability is something that a lot of municipal governments are working on. Vancouver, Calgary, Whitehorse, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, Halifax and many others are adopting policies and plans to help them become more sustainable. Note that I’m saying “more sustainable”. That is because community sustainability is a moving target. Deborah Curran’s article “Wicked” in [...]
My engagement with urban agriculture started with a gift to my husband Jim a few months before we moved to Toronto. A close friend gave him eight small yellow envelops of seeds as a birthday present. The uneven typing on the envelopes read “White Queen,” “Tigerella,” “Lime Salad,” “Purple Cherokee,” “Yellow Pear,” “Black Seaman,” “Peasant’s [...]
