Pandemic

Toronto

Toronto after the 1st Wave: How COVID-19 affected three key markets

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This is co-authored by Youjing Li and Shauna Brail In the fall of 2020, a University of Toronto research team set out to track key... Read More

Toronto

Poetry in community: Q&A with poet Ronna Bloom

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Ronna Bloom is former Poet in Residence at Mount Sinai Hospital, now Sinai Health System. Long before face coverings became mandatory... Read More

Toronto

Vacant Queen Street West: a pandemic photo essay

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Queen Street West has always been a revolving door of independent businesses. Starting at the bottom of Parkdale, Queen Street is an... Read More

Toronto

Urban space as a catalyst for improving mental health care

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This article is published in conjunction with the upcoming issue of Spacing, which is focused on the theme of public health. In these... Read More

Toronto

Soundscapes on College: This ain’t a library

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This article originally appeared in Spacing #14, summer 2009. It was recently announced that the iconic music shop Soundscapes on... Read More

Toronto

The duality of Amazon in Scarborough – from delivering jobs to packaging community relations

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Amazon’s notoriety for exploitative work conditions, harmful environmental practices, corporate tax exemptions, and stripping jobs... Read More

Toronto

LORINC: The vital need to renew Tower Renewal

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Almost exactly a year ago, a team of American affordable housing experts from the Urban Land Institute came to Toronto to offer up... Read More

Toronto

REID: Yes exit

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It’s the kind of thing that has always hung out at the edge of our urban consciousness, that we used to occasionally notice and find... Read More

Toronto

LORINC: Some borders matter more than others in pandemic

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A small procedural question, perhaps for the Ford government. Should we be expecting to see check-points erected on Highway 400 south... Read More

Vancouver

Video Vancouver: What’s transportation going to look like after the pandemic?

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Via CBC: In this episode, Uytae Lee explores transportation networks – and how they’ll recover after the pandemic. Are we headed... Read More