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LORINC: A first-responder service for mental health crises

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This column was originally published in Spacing‘s fall, 2020, edition. City council’s executive committee yesterday voted... Read More

LORINC: Calculating the pandemic’s carbon footprint

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Does your Blue Bin runneth over? On my morning dog walks, I’ve noticed in the past several months that a growing number of blue bins... Read More

Re-purposing Toronto’s city-owned golf courses

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Public space has never been so popular. Over the summer in Toronto, we saw streets closed for active recreation, parks filled with... Read More

Parks, policing, and the pandemic

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Park People’s national COVID-19 survey shows that parks have become more important than ever to Canadians during the pandemic. While... Read More

Farewell, Regent Park

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By Lena Sanz Tovar and Keisha St. Louis-McBurnie Farewell Oak Street, produced by the National Film Board of Canada in 1953, presents... Read More

RECYCLING WOES: Toronto struggles to adapt to increased contamination and lower prices

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Recycling programs across North America are struggling to cope with rising costs and declining revenues, and Toronto’s program is not... Read More

Why is urban planning so white?

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By Saquib Ahsan, Ruth Belay, Abigail Moriah, and Gervais Nash The deaths of Regis Korchinski-Paquet, Abdirahman Abdi, Ejaz Choudry... Read More

Why is City of Toronto sole-sourcing key digital infrastructure?

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Toronto City Council is set to vote this week on a staff recommendation to sole-source a contract for a technology system. The... Read More

How public institutions fail Black children

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All Black lives matter. Andrew Loku, Abdirahman Abdi, D’Andre Campbell, Regis Korchinski-Paquet and numerous Black lives — which... Read More

LORINC: Council fails accountability test on defunding the police

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For all the heat and light generated by Monday’s debate over defunding or detasking the police, the compromise — or compromised... Read More