In 2007, I spent the summer working in Dublin, Ireland for a boutique real estate consulting firm called Urban Capital. (For those of you who are from Toronto and know the industry, there’s no connection between the Urban Capital in Dublin and the Urban Capital… Read More
Tonight I saw one of Toronto’s new streetcars cruising down King Street. They’re still in test mode and the first batch won’t go into operation until this August, but every now and then you’ll see one circulating around the city. This was the first one… Read More
With Toronto preparing to deploy the first batch of its new streetcars this summer, there’s been a lot of talk about streetcars in general. Rob Ford has said he wants to get rid of them all together and I hear a lot of other people… Read More
Atlantic Cities just posted an article on the world’s 5 largest housing bubbles. In descending order of real growth, they are: Israel Norway Switzerland Canada Germany Not surprisingly, Canada is on the list. There is, of course, lots of talk both locally and abroad about… Read More
BRANDON DONNELLY 