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Nicholas Hune-Brown

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

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News by Nicholas Hune-Brown , Wency Leung and Inori Roy

Toronto Stays Red, But Conservatives Make Inroads in the GTA

The Liberals take the GTA, and the country, as the Conservatives improve on their 2021 performance.

Editor's Letter by Nicholas Hune-Brown

Conservative Candidates Aren’t Talking to the Press. That’s a Problem.

Across ridings, and across media outlets, local candidates from one party are refusing to speak with the media.

Feature by Nicholas Hune-Brown

How J.D. Vance Became a Flash Point in an Election in Durham

With anonymous letters flying and a union leader warning off voters, Conservative candidate Jamil Jivani’s close friendship with the American V.P. has entered the race in Bowmanville-Oshawa North.

Feature by Nicholas Hune-Brown

After the International Student Gold Rush

Foreign students were harmed by the policies that brought them here, and they’re being harmed once again by the policies shutting them out.

Editor's Letter by Nicholas Hune-Brown

What do Changes to Immigration Mean In a City of Immigrants?

The last year has seen sharp changes in attitudes and policies around immigration across Canada. Nowhere are those changes felt more than in Toronto.

Feature by Nicholas Hune-Brown

Moss Park’s Lost Years

Grief, and hope, in the downtown eastside neighbourhood with the lowest life-expectancy in the city.

Editor's Letter by Nicholas Hune-Brown

Failing Our Students

Toronto’s public education system has been underfunded for decades. Kids are paying the price.

Editor's Letter by Nicholas Hune-Brown

Toronto’s Green-ish Economy

If we want to write about the environment, we need to write about business.

Editor's Letter by Nicholas Hune-Brown

The Value of Art and the Cost of Losing it

Toronto’s cultural institutions are reeling and its artists are struggling. What’s lost when a city no longer supports the arts?

Feature by Nicholas Hune-Brown

The Transit Boss Torontonians Love to Hate

When Phil Verster was announced as Metrolinx’s CEO in 2017, there was universal praise. But with an $856,000 salary and a tenure defined by cost overruns and years of delays to projects like the Eglinton LRT, critics want him out. How did it go so wrong?

Editor's Letter by Nicholas Hune-Brown

How the City Is Failing Aging Torontonians

Toronto’s demographic shift was expected and predictable. But from housing to health care, it often feels like the city has been caught by surprise.

Announcements 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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