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    A sign urging physical distancing when using elevators is seen in a high-rise building in downtown Toronto on May 8, 2020. (Colin Perkel/CP)

    Coronavirus has highlighted Canada’s biggest urban design challenge—elevators

    In cities like Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary, where condo dwellers and office-goers rely on elevators as the first and last leg of their commutes, a ride on the lift has become a risk rather than an inconvenience

    How the elevator changed everything

    A book review of “Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator” by Andreas Bernard

    Pushing our buttons

    The end of the wait for the elevator

    Science and industrial design join together to try to make elevators more efficient

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    Megapundit Extra: How to overreact to a tragic balcony collapse

    The Ottawa Sun‘s incomparable Earl McRae is mad as hell that there are no inspection laws on the books for Ontario’s apartment balconies. Fair position. And then…