School of Cities

So let's get into this with Dr. Carolyn Weitzman.

She's a senior housing researcher and an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto School of Cities and also the very successful author of Home Truths, Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis.

Doctor, welcome to the program.

Thank you, Rob.

So my guests have written this great paper.

links in the show notes called chain drain and brian boyer he teaches urban technology at the university of michigan runs its center for innovation in detroit greg lindsey dear friend of mine is the urbanist or an urbanist in residence at the university of toronto school of cities you may remember him from when he was on a few episodes back a little while now actually talking about how the screen killed the city they basically spent a year interviewing people across this whole chain of architects engineers developers planners contractors venture capitalists and and operators and whatnot.

So if Ben told us how to build something really well, Brian and Greg are asking, how can we do that a thousand times over and build up this knowledge and competency in an industry that can actually get good at doing things better, faster, cheaper, and applying the lessons into what gets created? How's that sound? Good? You're just ready for me to shut up and get into an episode now, aren't you? Anyway, without further ado, this is Brian and Greg on Challenger Cities talking about chain drawing.

it gets published audio only nobody needs to see three men sitting in offices or spare bedrooms masquerading as officers and just talking on a talking heads anyway gentlemen this is a pleasure greg you've done this before you were very good on it before so like you said you set your bar you now have to break that um brian welcome lovely to have you here i'm very excited to talk to you guys about changering and what that is but before we get there Greg's done an intro on this before.

The Trump tariffs that took effect August 22nd, hitting dairy, alcohol, auto parts, and more, widened the vulnerability of the Toronto regional census area to 10% of all employees, including people working for dairy processors and local breweries that export to the U.S., according to new research.

In the Toronto area, we estimate that U.S. tariffs have the potential to impact more than 8,000 businesses, almost 250,000 jobs, employment by place of work in the city, and over 200,000 residents, states a blog post by researchers that include Tara Vinodrai, a professor of economic geography, and Karen Chappell, professor of geography and planning who is director of U of T's School of Cities.

Why Toronto's dairy industry is unexpectedly at risk.

While Canadians often associate dairy with Quebec farmers, major dairy processors including Gailey, Lactalis, Saputo, and Agropure maintain office distribution and or industrial operations across the greater Toronto area and represent some of the region's largest food industry employers, according to the blog post.