Ontario Teachers’ earns 2.1% net return for first half of 2025

On a recent Friday, five geraniums drooped in the heat of Old City Hall’s courtyard. The city has cracked open the 1899 building for five hours each Friday, so a few locals wandered across the asphalt, unsure what they were meant to find.What they saw looked improvised: a couple of tables, security guards, plastic pots of flowers. It looked like someone had dashed into Metro with a hundred dollars and called it “placemaking.” This is not animation; it is civic drift, dressed up in grocery-store geraniums.Can the city make this place something better? Of course. It’s a time capsule of...