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EXCERPT: Displacement City: Fighting for Health and Homes in a Pandemic

By Shawn Micallef

The following is the afterword by Spacing‘s Shawn Micallef in the new book Displacement City: Fighting for Health and Homes in a... Read More

Waterfront

LORINC: Can the Ontario Science Centre save Ontario Place?

By John Lorinc

Here’s a strange little detail about the 20-car pile-up that is the Ontario Place redevelopment scheme: Shortly before... Read More

Politics

LORINC: John Tory’s housewarming gift to the new police chief

By John Lorinc

In the early 1980s, when inner city crime was soaring in many large metropolitan areas, a pair of American sociologists concocted what... Read More

Housing

LORINC: Toronto’s Rooming House deal: Solving the ultimate puzzle

By John Lorinc

Toronto is a city whose residents are encouraged (or encourage one another) to dislike certain things, but who have also forgotten (or... Read More

Spacing

NEW ISSUE: Ontario Place

By Dylan Reid

A decade of neglect has transformed Ontario Place into an accidental playground. As you will discover in our cover section, what was... Read More

Photos

As is: Photographs of Ontario Place, 2021- 2022

By Steven Evans

In advance of Spacing’s upcoming issue focused on Ontario Place, we are sharing some of photographer Steven Evans’s images... Read More

Housing

LORINC: The devil will be in the details of John Tory’s housing action plan

By John Lorinc

Update: Council passed Mayor John Tory’s Housing Action Plan, with a raft of tweaks, including a provision to require parking... Read More

Community

Visualizing the Impact of COVID-19 on Toronto

By Shauna Brail

This week marks the third anniversary of the original COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan. While many have moved on from COVID-19... Read More

Neighbourhoods

Rexdale deserves a spa: An invitation to Therme

By Chloe Brown

Therme Canada’s proposal for a spa is better suited for Woodbine Entertainment’s renewal plan, and would allow the City of... Read More

Waterfront

LORINC: 10 questions about the Ontario Place redevelopment

By John Lorinc

At some point this week, City officials will upload the Ford government’s zoning bylaw amendment application for the Ontario... Read More

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