Spacing Toronto

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

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
Architecture

Doors Open: St. Lawrence Hall, Commerce Court North, and the TD Centre

Although I don’t often go there myself, except to pass through on my way to Union Station or to meet my dad after work at his office, the central...
By Matthew Hague

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
Film & Video

Archival film of the 1990 Toronto Pride celebration

Today at Noon the City of Toronto kicks off Pride Week by raising the rainbow flag at City Hall and to celebrate here is a new video of the 1990 Toronto...
By Shawn Micallef
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

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
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

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