Politics
Why is City of Toronto sole-sourcing key digital infrastructure?
By Bianca Wylie
Toronto City Council is set to vote this week on a staff recommendation to sole-source a contract for a technology system. The... Read More
Apology, Truth, and Reparations: The overdue reckoning with Canada’s slave past
By Natasha Henry
This essay is a sequel to Natasha Henry’s account of the history of enslavement of Black people in Canada prior to 1834, published in... Read More
The connections between public art and activism
By Sarah Ratzlaff
In this moment of social and political upheaval, as protesters demand racial justice in response to police brutality and systemic... Read More
COVID RECOVERY: Timid bus priority plan in Toronto needs to be bigger & bolder
By Tricia Wood
This week, the Executive Committee of Toronto City Council is considering a motion to prioritize public transit on select roadways... Read More
How public institutions fail Black children
By Emilie Jabouin
All Black lives matter. Andrew Loku, Abdirahman Abdi, D’Andre Campbell, Regis Korchinski-Paquet and numerous Black lives — which... Read More
How COVID-19 can catalyze coordination in Greater Toronto
By Gabriel Eidelman
By André Côté, Gabriel Eidelman, and Michael Fenn. The reopening in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the recovery planning to... Read More
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 047, The problem with police
By Spacing Radio
The world is taking a hard look at their police forces, the violence they use, the deaths that result, and the systemic and anti-Black... Read More
LORINC: Is Toronto missing the middle or missing the mark on housing?
By John Lorinc
A thought experiment: Imagine Toronto is a big city experiencing a housing affordability crisis and steadily worsening polarization... Read More
LORINC: Council fails accountability test on defunding the police
By John Lorinc
For all the heat and light generated by Monday’s debate over defunding or detasking the police, the compromise — or compromised... Read More
Bentham’s City: An Urban Monograph of Vancouver City Hall
By Erick Villagomez
[Editor’s Note: This piece was published over a decade ago—in what would eventually become Spacing Vancouver. In light of the... Read More