Preville on Politics

Condominium Connect-the-Dots

Posted on November 15, 2007 by Philip Preville

So here we are: condominium sales have overtaken home sales for the first time ever. But I will refrain from crowing about the ascendancy of downtown vibrancy over suburban isolation. If you didn’t read Ivor Tossell’s insightful article about condo life in the Labour Day weekend edition of the Globe and Mail, now would be a good time to check it out. Stacking boxes one atop the other might be more efficient and ecological than lining them in a row along a street, but it doesn’t necessarily create a stronger sense of community.

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Philip Preville

Veteran freelance writer Philip Preville lived much of his life in Montreal and Edmonton before he was lured, like so many Torontonians before him, by the promise of more work and a better living. A National Magazine Award winner and former Canadian Journalism Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Massey College, Preville writes Toronto Life’s politics column. He lives with his wife and one-year-old son in Riverdale, just close enough to the Don Valley Parkway that he can hear it when he steps outside his house—but just far enough away that it doesn’t keep him awake at night. On his office wall hangs a 1938–39 press pass belonging to his grandfather, Elias Gannon, who wrote for the Montreal Star.


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