
Christopher Hume
Christopher Hume, speaker, freelance writer and former urban issues columnist and architecture critic of the Toronto Star
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2 months ago |
thehub.ca | Christopher Hume
Go figure. Despite having endured a building boom that has lasted three decades and changed the face of urban Canada, we now face the worst housing crisis in the country’s history. Finding a place to live, let alone affording one, is a national obsession. From coast to coast, Canadians are fed up and stressed out. Trying to explain this contradiction has preoccupied politicians, pundits and professionals for years, to no avail. Yes, interest rates play a role, as does inflation.
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Dec 8, 2024 |
thehub.ca | Christopher Hume
Commentary 9 December 2024 An aerial view of a watch party in Toronto, July 9 2024. Cole Burston/The Canadian Press. New York is the best city in the world, but is the most beautiful. Abu Dhabi may be the richest, but Vienna is the most livable. Though Tokyo has the largest population, London is the most global. These are just some of the findings of various urban surveys released in recent years.
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Nov 7, 2024 |
thehub.ca | Christopher Hume
Commentary 8 November 2024 The sun sets as traffic moves along Highway 401 in Belleville, Ont., December 21, 2021. Lars Hagberg/The Canadian Press. Like the road to hell, Highway 401 is paved with good intentions. And if Ontario Premier Doug Ford gets his way, the country’s busiest and most congested highway will also be tunnelled—with the best of intentions, of course.
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Sep 26, 2024 |
thehub.ca | Mike Colledge |Christopher Hume
Commentary 26 September 2024 Supporters of federal Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre in Ottawa, March 31, 2022. Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press.
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Sep 25, 2024 |
thehub.ca | Christopher Hume |Stacy Kauk
Commentary 25 September 2024 A man rests outside a tent at a homeless camp in Vancouver, B.C., June 13, 2020. Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press. An old man at the back of the streetcar sitting in a pool of his own urine stares into middle space clearly unaware of where he is or what’s happening around him. He is lost. But for his silence, he himself is a cry for help. Yet those around him are more focused on ignoring him than helping.
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Gordon ("Greed is good.") Gekko would be proud.

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