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Brennan Doherty

Brennan Doherty is a Toronto-based writer. His work appears in the Toronto Star, TVO, VICE World News, Future of Good, and Maisonneuve.

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Analysis by Brennan Doherty , Inori Roy and Wency Leung

Toronto’s Encampments, By the Numbers

Recent analysis by The Local shows just how widespread encampments have become, and how the City’s clearing efforts simply pushed unhoused Torontonians from one park to another.

Photographer Nick Kozak has been documenting Sesisheili’s journey through the city’s parks for the last four years. The story of how Sesisheili got to Clarence Square is, in many ways, the story of this era of encampment policy in Toronto.
Feature by Brennan Doherty with photography by Nick Kozak

Another Year, Another Encampment, Another Eviction

For years, unhoused people like Davit Sesisheili have gone from park to park, moving when the City evicts them. With new data, and reporting and photography that spans years, this is the most comprehensive, intimate portrait of Toronto’s failing encampments strategy.

Feature by Brennan Doherty

After 20 Years, Torontonians Will Have to Wait Even Longer for an Accessible TTC

Until this September, the TTC reported being on-track to meet its 2025 deadline for provincially mandated accessibility improvements. The transit authority had two decades on the clock—where did it go wrong?

Analysis by Brennan Doherty

Where Toronto’s Mayoral Candidates Stand on Public Safety

It's one of the city's most complex policy problems, and a political lightning rod. Here's what the platforms of frontrunners in the mayoral race—Olivia Chow, Mark Saunders, Josh Matlow, Mitzie Hunter, Brad Bradford, and Anthony Furey—say about making Toronto safer.

Short Feature by Brennan Doherty

For Scarborough Bus Riders, a Long Wait Gets Longer

The TTC is implementing a new round of cuts to bus services on March 26. Many of the biggest wait time increases are in Scarborough.

Colin Mahovlich is one of 11 candidates running for the council seat vacated by Denzil Minnan-Wong. Photo by Yader Guzman.
Analysis by Brennan Doherty

Ward Profile: In Ward 16 — Don Valley East, Who Speaks for the Renters?

The majority of residents in Don Valley East rent. But in a city dominated by the politics of property owners, who will represent them?

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