Spacing Toronto

MAYOR’S RACE: Will the next mayor slay Toronto The Good?

The city's stultifying provincialism needs to catch up to 21st century urbanism

By John Lorinc

In the middle of a mayoral by-election that includes an idiotic sub-plot about park drinking, Ontario officials yesterday served up this gem: under an agreement with the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario, 7-Eleven convenience stores will be allowed to sell beer and wine, with the proviso that patrons consume said beverages in new seating areas in their stores (emphasis added). Imagine: you and your date retreat to the local strip mall to nestle between the ATM and the wall... Read more

Infrastructure

The future of the Gardiner Expressway

This post has been compiled by Matthew Blackett and Robin Chubb At a news conference today at Waterfront Toronto headquarters, it was officially announced...
By Matthew Blackett
Bikes

Bike Safety, circa 1958

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOfo2d4N16U[/youtube] Nothing like some good ol’ fashioned bike fear mongering, 1950-styles. I’m...
By Matthew Blackett
Infrastructure

More thoughts on the Bathurst Street Bridge

Today Christopher Hume weighed in on the impending transformation of the Bathurst Street Bridge (aka The Sir Isaac Brock Bridge) that we discussed here...
By Shawn Micallef
Events

Events Guide: bike ride, stilt walking, clean-up, and more

WHAT: Toronto Bicycling Network’s Saturday Morning Ride WHEN: May 31, 9:30 am – 12 pm WHERE: Boardwalk Pub (1681 Lake Shore Blvd. East) Kick...
By Patricia Simoes
Headlines

Friday’s headlines

GARDINER • Chop Gardiner, Miller says [ Toronto Star ] • Bridge’s makeover a rare chance [ Toronto Star ] • Waterfront plan would...
By Monika Warzecha
Politics

BREAKING NEWS: Front Street Extension officially cancelled

The Front Street Extension and the Gardiner Expressway are having their legs cut out from beneath them. Spacing has learned that the City of Toronto and...
By Matthew Blackett

Food

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this (food) wall!

Street food is in the news again, and it’s annoying. It’s annoying because it has been so bungled up and delayed that it has invited ridicule...
By Shawn Micallef
Headlines

Thursday’s headlines

CYCLING • Cycling activists demand safer roads [ Toronto Star ] • A ghostly reminder of the dangers of cycling [ Toronto Star ] • Respect...
By Monika Warzecha
Bikes

Events Guide: Memorial ride for cyclist killed last week

What: Memorial ride for cyclist killed at Eglinton and Braemar When: May 29, 2008 – 9:00 am (followed by a memorial from 9:45 am – 10:15am...
By Matthew Hague
Film & Video

Filling the Finch Station Lot

Astroboyboy123 posted this interesting time lapse video last week on YouTube of commuters arriving at one of the Finch Subway station’s parking lots...
By Sean Marshall
Events

A look at Toronto the Good

Spacing would like to thank everyone who came out to the Toronto the Good party last night. We’re also grateful to our event partners ERA...
By Matthew Blackett
Bikes

Event Guide: The Pee-wee Herman Picture Show

WHAT: The Pee-wee Herman Picture Show, a fundraiser for the Toronto Cyclist Union WHEN: Thursday May 29 — two shows: 7pm and 9:30pm WHERE: Bloor...
By Dale Duncan

Politics

MAYOR’S RACE: Will the next mayor slay Toronto The Good?

In the middle of a mayoral by-election that includes an idiotic sub-plot about park drinking, Ontario officials yesterday served up this gem: under an...
By John Lorinc
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
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
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
Elections

ELECTION: Voter turnout in 2022

Ever since John Tory was elected mayor of Toronto in 2014, voter turnout in municipal elections has been in decline. In 2010, the year Rob Ford was...
By Sean Marshall

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