There is a difference between incompetence and uncompetence. Incompetence is when people make bad decisions. Uncompetence is when people start to suspect that competence is something the elites do, and think to themselves, “I should perhaps do something else.” Welcome, everyone, to Toronto. Here in Toronto, the citizenry are being treated to a three-ring circus [...]

It was down by the waterfront that Doug Ford had a Ford Notion. Surveying the Port Lands, still a bleak sight despite years of diligent toil to renew them, the mayor’s older brother, right-hand man, and occasional mouthpiece decided that neighbourhood-building was taking too long, and the time had come to do something different instead. Something fun…

Transit City is dead. Years of work, and at least $49 million in local consultations, environmental assessments, engineering work and broken contracts have gone down the drain. But is the result all bad? Heresy alert: Maybe not.