Services
Transit workers’ perspectives on violence on the TTC
By Megan Kinch
According to new data from the TTC released last week, the number of violent incidents on the system rose 46% in 2022 compared to the... Read More
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
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
Measuring Toronto’s unsafe construction zones
By Mischa Young
Prior to this September’s return to school, Mayor John Tory announced that the City of Toronto will be doubling down on its... Read More
REID: The Jenga school of civic management
By Dylan Reid
For some years, I worked for an organization that practiced what I came to think of as the Jenga school of management. The... Read More
Movie Review — Trash Day: a dumpster diving documentary
By Nicole Capogna
People are buying and using more things than they ever have before and, with this, creating more garbage than a city can sustainably... Read More
WHY WE CAN’T GO: Debunking the Costs of Operating Public Washrooms, pt. 3
By John Lorinc
Parks Forestry and Recreation (PFR), according to City of Toronto data, operates over 1,500 parks, nearly 700 sports fields, 123... Read More
Why We Can’t Go: City Flushes Time Away, pt. 2
By John Lorinc
Anyone who spends time in cities, and not just Toronto, likely has both a mental map as well as a strategy for finding a place to go... Read More
Why We Can’t Go: A Report on Toronto’s Public Washrooms, pt. 1
By John Lorinc
Because this is Toronto, and because it’s important for officialdom to do certain things backwards, we’re going to spend... Read More
LORINC: Trying to police the way cops use AI-based investigation tools
By John Lorinc
Late last month, the Toronto Police Services Board released a new policy meant to guide the agency’s future procurement and use... Read More