Housing Toronto

REID: Funding the preservation of affordable rental housing

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Toronto is in an affordable rental housing crisis. Not only have average rents increased rapidly in recent years, but existing private... Read More

Spacing Toronto

NEW ISSUE: The Ontario Line

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Our new issue’s cover section theme echoes our previous one a little. We have gone from Ontario Place to the Ontario Line. The similar... Read More

Waterfront Toronto

LORINC: Speaking truth to power about Therme’s mega-spa

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Tomorrow will be an all-day spa event in Toronto. The day will end with an online “consultation” session at 6pm... Read More

Architecture

Mackenzie Place: The tallest residential building in Canada’s North

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EDITOR’S NOTE: In Spacing #29/2013, photographer Jesse Colin Jackson and anthropologist Lindsay Bell wrote about MacKenzie... Read More

Housing

Tools to address the affordable housing crisis facing Canada

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In 2019, Canada adopted the National Housing Strategy Act, which commits all governments in Canada to “progressive realization of the... Read More

History Toronto

Remembering the Hoggs Hollow Disaster

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The Hoggs Hollow Disaster, which occurred on March 17, 1960, killed five Italian immigrant workers: Pasquale Allegrezza, Giovanni... Read More

Infrastructure Toronto

LORINC: Why aren’t Toronto’s major streets major streets?

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One day last week, Toronto history buff Jeremy Hopkin tweeted a then-and-now set of images that told an unflattering story about where... Read More

Events Vancouver

Event – On The Boards: Alyssa Schwann + Laura Killam, April 4th

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ON THE BOARDS: ALYSSA SCHWANN + LAURA KILLAM (Presented by the West Coast Modern League) TUES, APRIL 4, 2023 – 5:00pm to 7:00pm Hosted... Read More

Civic Engagement Toronto

LORINC: Is the 15-minute city’s 15 minutes up yet?

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By way of spoiler alert, I’ll begin by saying I have no intention of wasting my time (or yours) rebutting the lunacy of the... Read More

Housing Toronto

OP-ED: The emergence of the Airbnb rental shadow market is harming tenants

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A few weeks ago, a story broke about a family of five who relocated to Toronto from Switzerland for a ten-month work assignment... Read More

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