Toronto Star
Heather McGregor
Last published Oct. 2025 · On our record since 2012
Where this writer stands
Housing2 pieces
Public supply and demand controlsMarket supply and deregulation
“If we want to mitigate harm to thousands of children, then we urgently need more shelters, plus major investments in poverty reduction from all levels of government.” Read the piece
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Recent work
- Here’s what ‘thinking of the children’ would really look like when it comes to homelessness in TorontoOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 14, 2025
- If you really want Toronto to ‘think of the children,’ then you should back its plan to build more sheltersOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 13, 2025
- Opinion | Gender-based violence claimed 58 lives in Ontario this year. It’s an indictment of our collective failure to keep women and girls safeOpinion · Toronto Star · Dec 5, 2021
- Poverty reduction central to building back betterOpinion · Toronto Star · Aug 16, 2020
- Opinion | Gun control is a women’s issueOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 13, 2018
- National affordable housing plan urgently neededOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 27, 2016
- National affordable housing plan urgently needed | Toronto StarOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 26, 2016
- It’s time to build dignity into Ontario social assistanceOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 9, 2012
- It’s time to build dignity into Ontario social assistance | Toronto StarOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 8, 2012
- Toronto shelters: why mess with success?Opinion · Toronto Star · Jan 11, 2012
- Toronto shelters: why mess with success?Opinion · Toronto Star · Jan 10, 2012
- Toronto shelters: why mess with success?Opinion · Toronto Star · Jan 10, 2012