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Nicholas Hune-Brown

Nicholas Hune-Brown is an award-winning magazine writer and Senior Editor at The Local. Follow @nickhunebrown, email nick@thelocal.to.

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News About The Local by Nicholas Hune-Brown

Meet Wency Leung, the Newest Member of The Local

The veteran reporter, who’s worked everywhere from Cambodia to Prague to Vancouver, will cover health and education

Editor's Letter by Nicholas Hune-Brown

Welcome to Finch West

The LRT doesn’t open until next year at the earliest, but it’s already transforming Toronto’s northwest.

News by Nicholas Hune-Brown , Inori Roy and Tai Huynh

Olivia Chow is Mayor

Chow becomes the first progressive mayor in 13 years, the first female in the role since amalgamation, and the first non-white leader in Toronto history.

Profile by Nicholas Hune-Brown

Where Has Olivia Chow Been?

After almost a decade out of public life, years spent training grassroots organizers, the former NDP MP is leading the polls for Toronto mayor. What does Chow’s time out of government say about what she might do if she finds herself back in?

Editor's Letter by Nicholas Hune-Brown

How We Misunderstand the Housing Crisis

The “housing crisis” isn’t a crisis for everyone—for some it’s a windfall. That fact infuses every aspect of our response to it.

Short Feature by Nicholas Hune-Brown

What is the PATH?

Below ground, the hair stylists, dry cleaners, baristas and sushi chefs are ready. But are the office workers coming back?

Editor's Letter by Nicholas Hune-Brown

The First Wave of a New Era

Everyone got COVID while making this issue. Welcome to the “living with it” era of the pandemic.

Perspective by Tai Huynh and Nicholas Hune-Brown

A Week After Launching RAT Tracker, We’re Still in the Dark

What we learned from our participatory data project asking Torontonians to share rapid antigen test results.

Editor's Letter by Nicholas Hune-Brown

The Way We Work

How decent jobs became precarious labour, and what we can do about it.

Feature by Nicholas Hune-Brown and Tai Huynh

Second Doses Missing Those Who Really Need Them

With the Delta variant making second dose distribution urgent, new data reveals Toronto’s highest-risk neighbourhoods are being left behind.

Photo essay by Yader Guzman with introduction by Nicholas Hune-Brown

Bringing the Vaccine to Where it’s Needed

Relief, joy, and no hesitancy at a pop-up clinic at Jane and Finch, the postal code with the lowest vaccination rates in the city.

Investigation by Nicholas Hune-Brown

The Vaccine Rollout is Leaving Toronto’s Hardest-Hit Postal Codes Behind

New data reveals that Ontario’s vaccine strategy is missing the most vulnerable areas of Toronto.

Editor's Letter by Nicholas Hune-Brown

A Year in Toronto

In a year of “unprecedented times,” the world didn’t split apart in ways that were terrifying and new. It cracked along familiar seams, over and over again.

Editor's Letter by Nicholas Hune-Brown

Last Week, In Review

As the first tentative positive signs emerged, it was tempting to look beyond the week—to try to trace the curve past where it flattens to the point it sinks beneath the horizon. It's too early for that.

Feature by Nicholas Hune-Brown

The Toronto Basketball Powerhouse Nobody’s Ever Heard Of

The kids don’t get free sneakers. The team has to haggle for gym time. The coaches are unpaid. So what makes Toronto Basketball Academy so good?

Feature by Nicholas Hune-Brown

Children’s Village Forever

Ontario Place designer Eric McMillan invented the ball pit, built the epicentre of kid-life for a generation of Torontonians and, for a brief moment, promised to revolutionize the way we play.

Feature By Nicholas Hune-Brown

The Roma of Flemingdon Park

Jen Quinlan was just trying to get Roma kids to the dentist. She ended up picking a fight with one of Canada’s richest real estate companies.

Feature by Nicholas Hune-Brown

Treating Toby Nicol

One percent of the population accounts for a third of health care spending. Can a program for some of Toronto’s neediest change that?

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