Globe and Mail
November 17, 2008

Vancouver is now heading into the future under the leadership of a civic coalition that says it represents a new brand of political party and a new way of doing politics. (Keep reading…)

globeandmail.com June 30, 2008

According to some doomsday scenarios, spiking gas prices could turn the cul-de-sacs and two-car garages that surround North America’s cities - built over the past 60 years and designed for the convenience of people with cars - into tomorrow’s slums. (Keep reading…)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(((( T h e B u l l e t ))))~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A Socialist Project e-bulletin …. No. 127 …. July 18, 2008 ______________________________________________________________ (Keep reading…)

No New Homes in Premier’s Homelessness Plan

TheTyee.ca October 12, 2007

Premier Gordon Campbell has constructed an intricate array of innovative responses to B.C.’s sprawling homelessness crisis — but he’s not building more housing. (Keep reading…)

CUPE PRESS RELEASE May 4, 2007

Over half of the country’s mayors met this week and made a decision. They are refusing to be held hostage by the federal government and their apparent commitment to corporate interests. (Keep reading…)

YES! Magazine Monday 26 February 2007

The city of Oakland is creating jobs as unlikely allies push a green and local agenda to revitalize a depressed urban economy. (Keep reading…)

Stefan Kipfer

In the City of Toronto, the 2006 municipal elections brought few surprises. Incumbent Mayor Miller was declared the winner seconds after the polls closed. The composition of City Council changed little. Most incumbents were reelected comfortably. NDP and labour-backed candidates failed to unseat right wingers like Case Ootes and Cesar Palacio. But thanks to the election of Gord Perks in High Park, Anthony Perruzza in Downsview, and Adrian Heaps in West Scarborough Mayor Miller can count on still stronger support from Council. Since the City of Toronto Act gives the mayor the power to appoint the new executive committee, we can talk about a veritable ‘Miller regime’. (Keep reading…)

November/December 2004 Issue

Movies and television programs regularly invoke imagery of big cities as sites of pleasure and prestige — places for people to wear glamorous clothes, flag a cab in rhinestone-clustered stilettos, and taste the culinary delights of the latest trendy “fusion” restaurant. While the image of cosmopolitan opulence certainly does not convey the full story of Canadian cities, this type of “urban evolution” does provide a glimpse, at least in part, of what an ideal capitalist city aspires to be — a mecca of entrepreneurial opportunity, individual prosperity and rampant consumerism. (Keep reading…)

November/December 2004 Issue

I am part of the massive migration of Aboriginal peoples to the city. I was raised by a single mother who moved us to Edmonton (and many other places) from the Heart Lake First Nation to avoid residential school for my siblings and me. Since then, and I have been on my own since I was 16 years old, I have lived in many sites: small towns, the bush and the highways, but the longest period of my life has been in the Urban Rez, especially Winnipeg and Edmonton. (Keep reading…)

November/December 2004 Issue

If you look hard enough in the midst of Winnipeg’s sprawling and decaying inner city, you will see scattered islands of remarkable creativity and collective action: innovative community development (CD) initiatives battling the seemingly relentless spread of urban poverty. Most Winnipeggers are oblivious to this struggle: they choose not to know about it — or to care. (Keep reading…)