Excerpted with permission from Canada and the Blackface Atlantic, published in April 2025 by Wilfrid Laurier Press. Thompson, ...

Image of Vancouver Freeway Protests in the 1960s. Courtesy of the "Vancouver 1960s freeway protests" YouTube. It seems to us ...

The Centennial Fountain at Hornby and Georgia. Photographed here in 1969, it was built in 1966. Item # CVA 780-62. In 1966, Grouse Mountain’s first ...

Cross-posted from Eye Daily. Last week, the Government Management Committee (usually one of the more boring committees of council) approved a strategy to ...

Twenty-nine community groups are facing eviction from a public institution this month that has served Villeray-Saint Michel-Parc Extension for nearly 100 ...

Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside ...

The Journal de Montréal wouldn’t be a tabloid if it didn’t like to plunge head-first into the murky waters of sensationalism. Its attempts to ...

A city’s arts form an ecosystem. It’s easy to focus on the big features – the trees, as it were – but the true health of the system lies in the understory, in the buzz of life at the ground level, in ...

Click on poster for higher resolution Next week, the Urban Planning Association at Concordia University will be hosting a seminar focusing on public art ...

Last summer, I wrote an article in NOW magazine about pedestrians crossing in the middle of a block, noting that it is in fact legal to do so, so that ...

HALIFAX – Whether or not you were able to attend October’s 4Days “unconference” in Halifax, there’s a second chance to feast ...

Between 2021 and 2023 architectural and documentary photographer Steven Evans trained his eye and camera on Ontario Place as plans for its future were unfolding. That work culminated in his book As It ...