Maps

This is what the Toronto subway tastes like

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Union Station tastes like fried onions. James Wannerton knows this because he tastes words. Due to a rare and unusual neurological... Read More

Events

EVENT: Haphead Toronto premiere January 22

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This Thursday, January 22, Haphead — an 8-episode webseries set in Toronto in the year 2025 — will premiere on the big screen at the... Read More

Transit

The new American streetcar: A visit to Detroit, Cincinnati, Atlanta, and Tampa

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Cross-posted from Marshall’s Musings, the author’s personal blog I recently went on a short vacation, driving down Highway... Read More

Traffic

LORINC: Tory needs to use new traffic data to fight congestion

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To absolutely no one’s surprise, Mayor John Tory has emerged as the kind of leader who looks both ways — all puns and double entendres... Read More

Politics

LORINC: What the Hebdo killings, and their aftermath, say about global cities

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Yesterday’s massive demonstrations — in Paris, as well capitals around the world, including Toronto – offered a vivid reminder... Read More

Infrastructure

The great Toronto bridge swap of 1928

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The Canadian Pacific Railway had two 243-ton problems in early 1928. Its two newest and most powerful locomotives were due to be ready... Read More

History

Sir John A. Macdonald, drunk and in flames

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It’s one of the best-known facts in all of Canadian history: our first Prime Minister drank. Like, a lot. Sir John A. Macdonald... Read More

Spacing

Remember the greenhouse gases

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Toronto’s intense debate about transit and mobility has focused on access, cost and travel speed. Another important issue, one that’s... Read More

Community

BURALE: The reality of fighting poverty

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If cities had New Year’s resolutions, Toronto’s should be a poverty reduction strategy. According to the new report on child poverty... Read More

Spacing

Good Reads: Winter Edition of Fort York’s newsletter Fife & Drum

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The winter edition of the Friends of Fort York’s quarterly newsletter, Fife and Drum was released recently. It’s  been a busy... Read More

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