Community
The duality of Amazon in Scarborough – from delivering jobs to packaging community relations
By Aria Popal
Amazon’s notoriety for exploitative work conditions, harmful environmental practices, corporate tax exemptions, and stripping jobs... Read More
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 053, Food and Community
By Spacing Radio
The pandemic has been an existential threat to restaurants, cafés, and bars in cities across Canada. It’s also been a financial... Read More
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 052, Public Realm Resolutions
By Spacing Radio
We began 2020 with a bit of optimism — how could we know? We had an episode about the public realm and its importance, and spoke to... Read More
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 051, Toronto’s shelter disaster
By Spacing Radio
In this episode, we look at the housing and homelessness crisis that has escalated into a full-blown disaster during the COVID-19... Read More
What can we learn from kids who thrived during COVID-19 lockdown?
By Josh Fullan
COVID-19 has been a destructive force and cruel amplifier of inequalities for many Canadian families. In addition to the damage caused... Read More
Re-purposing Toronto’s city-owned golf courses
By Cara Chellew
Public space has never been so popular. Over the summer in Toronto, we saw streets closed for active recreation, parks filled with... Read More
Coming clean on Regent Park’s Social Development Plan
By Spacing
By Keisha St. Louis-McBurnie and Lena Sanz Tovar Earlier this year, the City of Toronto at long last approved $635,000 to partially... Read More
Farewell, Regent Park
By Spacing
By Lena Sanz Tovar and Keisha St. Louis-McBurnie Farewell Oak Street, produced by the National Film Board of Canada in 1953, presents... Read More
LORINC: Building a better residents association
By John Lorinc
We live in a society where individuals aren’t regulated in the ways in which they participate in (legal) group activities — from... Read More
FULLAN: Take the students outside this school year
By Josh Fullan
With school resuming over the next few weeks, the most important message many Canadian students can hear right now might not have... Read More