Transit Toronto

LORINC: New transit funding will help developers instead of low-income families

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Nothing quite smells like an election coming ‘round the corner than large deposits of transit funding. The federal Liberals liberally... Read More

Photos Toronto

Recording Hart Massey’s Factory and Concert Hall

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In 1986, I photographed the historic, sprawling Massey Ferguson farm machinery plant in Toronto just as demolition work was getting... Read More

Housing Vancouver

Transit gain doesn’t have to equal renter pain

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Allan Fernandez knows his building’s days are numbered. Others like his in Burnaby have already been bulldozed to chips, replaced by... Read More

Events Vancouver

Virtual Artist Talk in Celebration of Asian Heritage Month

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Artist Talk In Celebration of Asian Heritage Month Date: Thursday, May 13, 2021Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM PDTAdmission: This virtual... Read More

Pandemic Toronto

LORINC: How over-crowding has made housing lethal during pandemic

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There were so many truly awful details about the death, from COVID-19, of 13-year-old Emily Victoria Viegas — Brampton’s wall-to-wall... Read More

Podcast Toronto

PODCAST: Spacing Radio 055, Post-Pandemic Transit Ridership

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Before the pandemic, the Toronto Transit Commission was actively looking for ways to grow its ridership. Now, after taking a hit in... Read More

History Toronto

EXCERPT: Indigenous Toronto, Stories That Carry This Place

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This essay is excerpted with permission from Indigenous Toronto: Stories That Carry This Place (Coach House Books, 2021). NOW THAT WE... Read More

Pandemic Toronto

Toronto after the 1st Wave: How COVID-19 affected three key markets

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This is co-authored by Youjing Li and Shauna Brail In the fall of 2020, a University of Toronto research team set out to track key... Read More

Transit Toronto

COVID-19 and TTC ridership: putting the pandemic in historical perspective

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When the TTC Board met on 10 February 2021, understandably, most media and public attention was focussed on the fate of the... Read More

Politics Toronto

LORINC: Is the new federal budget green or red?

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After the federal Liberals’ $10/day childcare pledge, there’s no doubt that climate spending was the other big political bell-ringer... Read More

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