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Neighbourhood Watch

Bracing insights into Canada’s always uneasy relationship with our closest friend

He Told Us So

A veteran contrarian on why free trade is failing

Spending Like There’s No Tomorrow

Why don’t Canadians save more of their resource wealth?

Evan Castel

Evan Castel is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Geography and Urban Planning at the University of Toronto and a fellow in the Collaborative Program in Public Health Policy at the University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health.

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Evan Castel

Great Places, Everyone

The future is fine at the intersection of neuroscience and urban design. May 2016
After my first year of architecture school, a lucky break landed me a summer job at a healthcare design firm. Their manifesto was simple: good buildings promote good health, and good coffee—to be brewed hourly by the junior hire, me—promotes good design. In Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life, Colin Ellard points out that these two beliefs might be converging at neurons not terribly far…