Gentrification

• Canada Malting site in St.Henri still abandoned

  Community groups are still fighting the city on redeveloping the former Canada Malting Plant sight. They want the site taken off the speculative real-estate list.

  Environment

  Jun 18
  
• Debate over future of Côte-Saint-Luc Road heats up Hampstead election campaign

  The dispute is over whether the Hampstead section of the major thoroughfare, between Dufferin Street and Holtham Avenue, should be up-zoned to allow for 10-storey buildings.

  Politics

  Oct 24, 2021
  
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• City of Hamilton prepares for encampment court challenge on Friday

  City of Hamilton staff estimate that up to 150 people are currently living rough, cycling through 30 to 40 encampments throughout Hamilton, most of them within city parks.

  Politics

  Oct 14, 2021
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• After tough moving day, calls grow for more affordable housing in Quebec

  An affordable housing public interest group complains the Quebec government isn't investing enough to build new homes for vulnerable tenants.

  Canada

  Jul 2, 2021
• Halifax urged to address north end gentrification as municipal election nears

  'African Nova Scotian community members are being squeezed out of their homes and communities because of untenable increases in rent and housing prices.'

  Canada

  Oct 12, 2020
• Montrealers battle over reasons why their booming city is plagued by empty storefronts

  The city last month began holding public consultations to gather suggestions on what to do about the estimated 15 per cent of street-level retail space that sits empty.

  Canada

  Feb 2, 2020
• City of Regina to solicit feedback on a proposed Sask. Drive makeover

  The City of Regina has a plan to turn Saskatchewan Drive into a more pedestrian-friendly, tree-lined "Grand Avenue"  over the next five years.

  Dec 30, 2019
• After 78 years, Saint-Henri store to shutter amid construction, taxes and changing neighbourhood

  Libéral, a mainstay on Notre-Dame Street, is closing its doors after 78 years in business.

  Canada

  Dec 3, 2019
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• New research shows food insecurity especially high for north-end Halifax residents

  "The social determinants of health point to a higher rate of food insecurity based on lower income rates, immigrants, marginalized communities."

  Health

  Oct 16, 2019
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• Park Extension residents say evictions on the rise amid gentrification

  Park Ex counts three-quarters of its households -- which earned $38,000 on average in 2016 -- as renters, according to Statistics Canada.

  Aug 31, 2019