To prepare you for the Toronto municipal election happening now until October 26, we've prepared an expert panel on the council races that stand out across the city.
Matt Elliott is a Toronto Star Columnist and publisher of the City Hall Watcher newsletter, and Inori Roy is Features Editor at The Local who's been working to track every candidate for every ward in Toronto.
Please enjoy, and don't forget to hit the polls.
21 Sept 2026
The Overhead: Accessible Housing
In this episode, we talk about the physical and systemic barriers facing people living with a disability who are trying to access housing in Canada.
University of British Columbia Adjunct Professor Colin Phillips and Balanced Supply of Housing Research Manager Alina McKay co-authored the report "The Right to Accessible Housing: Identifying Needs and Building the Right Supply." In it, they document the many challenges people with disabilities face finding and securing safe and appropriate housing.
As McKay says, the right to housing for people with accessibility needs is often ignored from the first interaction:
"When we think the housing journey, we can really think about where discrimination might happen, and the first place it happens is when folks with disabilities... is looking for housing and there's a for-rent sign posted, someone approaches the landlord, 'I'd like to rent this unit,' and the first thing they hear back is, 'Oh, sorry, it's not available.' Because of that first encounter, often that landlord sees someone with a disability and will make the decision. It's discriminating against that person... and we've heard from participants that that happened a lot."
How do we ensure people with accessibility needs have safe, suitable, affordable housing?
17 Aug 2026
Episode 95: Saving Toronto
First: a little rant about Doug Ford's island airport expansion plans, which have (at least for now) been grounded.
Next, the book Saving Toronto: 10 City Builders Tell Us How is available now. It's a collection of essays organized by themes like governance, transit, and housing. We asked public policy analyst Anne Golden and urban designer Ken Greenberg, who co-edited the book, how it came together, and if we can actually achieve what the title says and save Toronto.
Then, David Shellnutt (The Biking Lawyer) tells us about the double standards Toronto cyclists face from police, compared to motorists, and a violent assault the TPS carried out last June.
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