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Pride and Prejudice

Amy Gottlieb tells Mary Breen about her memories of Pride Day 1981, protesting the bath house raids

It’s getting to be that time of year – queer or straight, people will be busting out the rainbow garb and glitter. Toronto hotels and restaurants will once again be overflowing with post-pandemic Pride tourists, and companies will flaunt their allyship with sponsored window displays, floats, and advertising. It’s been a good fifty years since Canada’s first Pride events. They were mostly small-scale social gatherings or political protests where the gay community (as it was then... Read more

Bikes

North York Mass bike ride this Sunday June 8 at 3pm

Join us for a fun-filled ride as we ride en masse through North York: it’s time to make every Toronto street a cycling street. START: 2300 Yonge...
By Tammy Thorne
Headlines

Friday’s headlines

• On-job drug testing defended as deterrent [ Toronto Star ] • No testing yet for booze, drugs [ Toronto Sun ] • TTC union calls marijuana...
By Monika Warzecha
Media

TTC.ca beta site goes live

As mentioned yesterday, the TTC web site now has a re-designed beta version ready for public consumption. My initial impression is that it’s...
By Matthew Blackett
Spacing

Spacing named Small Magazine of the Year, Editor of the Year

Spacing is happy to share some good news with our readers: the magazine was named Small Magazine of the Year by the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors...
By Spacing
Culture

Luminato: opening weekend free events

This year’s Luminato festival kicks off tomorrow and continues until June 15. Here’s a look at some of the best free, outdoor events happening...
By Todd Harrison
Headlines

Thursday’s headlines

TRANSIT • Drug tests for TTC staff? [ Toronto Star ] • TTC worker’s death on job spurs calls for drug tests [ Globe and Mail ] &bull...
By Monika Warzecha

Media

TTC.ca beta site to be previewed tomorrow

A year and a half ago, Spacing teamed up with Reading Toronto, BlogTO and Torontoist to gather ideas from our readers on how the TTC could improve its web...
By Matthew Blackett
Community

Nobody Waved Goodbye

If you have Rogers digital cable I urge you to check out MPIX On Demand, channel 309 in Toronto, and watch “Nobody Waved Goodbye.” It’s...
By Shawn Micallef
Events

Heritage Toronto walking tours this weekend: Eglinton Park, and the Yonge Street Music Scene

This weekend’s Heritage Toronto walks are a great (no charge) way to get out and explore the city: Eglinton: From Farmland to ‘Yonge and...
By Matthew Hague
Headlines

Wednesday’s headlines

TRANSIT • New LRT lines will head east [ Toronto Star ] • TTC driver charged with drunk driving [ Globe and Mail ] • TTC bus driver charged...
By Monika Warzecha
Food

Unsung City Beautifiers: Fruit & Flower Shops

As Pug Award fever reaches its apex tomorrow night, I thought it might be time to shine a light on smaller-scale design issues. The area where I live, on...
By Leah Sandals
Headlines

Tuesday’s headlines

• When the Gardiner falls, so will T.O. [ National Post ] • The Gardiner must die! [ National Post ] • Save the Gardiner! [ National Post ...
By Monika Warzecha

History

WATCH: Amazing archival videos of Toronto Pride 1988-1995

Between 1988 and 1995 (save for 1991 when he did not have a camera) Toronto editor and filmmaker James Leahy documented Toronto Pride, both the street...
By Shawn Micallef
Elections

MAYOR’S RACE: Toronto’s not very green election

With 102 candidates on a ballot that may look more like a scroll than anything else, you’d think someone would be talking about carbon, and what the...
By John Lorinc
Photos

Farewell to Malabar, Toronto’s former costume emporium

Malabar Limited, the famed costume emporium, closed in March 2022. Although it had been a fixture of downtown Toronto’s cultural landscape for 99 years...
By Peter MacCallum
Waterfront

EXCLUSIVE: What is the source of Therme’s financing?

When Infrastructure Ontario executes public-private partnership arrangements, there are numerous permutations — design-build-finance-maintain, outright...
By John Lorinc
Civic Engagement

Pride and Prejudice

It’s getting to be that time of year – queer or straight, people will be busting out the rainbow garb and glitter. Toronto hotels and restaurants...
By Mary Fairhurst Breen
History

The Toronto Circus Riot of 1855 — the day the clowns picked the wrong Toronto brothel

EDITOR: This is the second post of a new collaboration with the Toronto Dreams project by Adam Bunch (see the first here). The project is a series of...
By Adam Bunch

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