Dave Meslin has 100 common-sense remedies for Canada’s broken politics

In the 2005 book uTOpia: Towards a New Toronto, a collection of optimistic essays about urbanism, municipal politics and civic engagement, activist Dave Meslin published an imaginary City Hall newsletter dated spring 2019. It included a number of fanciful, hopeful news items, among them an announcement that the city was de-amalgamating more than two decades after having formed a “megacity” with six other municipalities, that it had abolished all commercial billboards and that the fed