By Matthew Blackett
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Building on history
Exhibition Place is Toronto's Plains of Abraham, and Fort York is our citadel. If this comparison seems far-fetched, it may be because we have a lot...
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Diagnosing the city’s ailments
Spacing asked Toronto's Medical Officer of Health, Dr. David McKeown, to draw the connections between urban planning and public health. As it turns...
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Lifting the spirits of dead trees
The next time you're admiring the wilderness of High Park, you might find some of the vegetation staring back at you. Throughout the park, four...
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The fight to poster
Toronto City Council is trying to enact a by-law that would drastically limit postering in Toronto. Public pressure forced a re-examination of the...
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Scarborough coming together
The threat of rain notwithstanding, Nayla Rahman is all aglow — and not just because she is dressed in lavender from her headscarf to her toes. Her...
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Where the lines blur Brown
I once heard Browns Line described as the ugliest street in Toronto, but I didn't bother to confirm this until recently. Browns Line is rather famous...
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'Food isn't a class issue’
Nick Saul is the executive director of The Stop Community Food Centre, an organization in the Davenport West neighbourhood whose range of services...
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Bob Kemp and the amazing watering cart
The heavy rains in the summer of 2008 made it easy to forget that 2007 was Toronto's driest summer ever recorded. While people can seek shade and...
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The longhouse and short of it
Next time you are on the 401 heading east out of the city, take the Kennedy exit and head north until you're just past L'Amoreaux Park. Take a...
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Why are there no lamp posts on Yonge?
The apparent lack of lamp posts south of Charles and north of Grosvenor on Yonge Street is at first unsettling, suggesting that the stretch of sidewalk...