14: Spring-Summer 2009
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The evolution of the big gay dance party
The world moves in a mysterious way, its cities reform, and though there are any number of ultimately undecipherable forces at work in the way any city...
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Dupont gets it done
Dupont is the quintessential back — or above — street of the old city of Toronto. For drivers it's a shortcut across the city that avoids...
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This ain’t a library
It's a cold Wednesday night in February, and the windows of 572 College Street are steamed up. Eighty people are packed into Soundscapes Music...
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Power shortage
When I was a boy in Flemingdon Park, all of us kids who resided in the public housing units had to trek across the broad east-west hydro fields on...
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Linking health and wealth
A 2008 study by the Canadian Medical Association predicted the number of deaths from air pollution will likely skyrocket over the next two decades. By...
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Fostering new voices in city elections
Compared to its immediate predecessor, the 2006 Toronto municipal election was a bit of a bore. The mayoral race was a foregone conclusion despite Jane...
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Tracking who pays for elections
Rob MacDermid is a political science professor at York University. His Funding City Politics report was released in January 2009 by the Centre for Social...
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Lost grandeur at the curb
Nestled behind the Edwardian factory buildings of Spadina and the Victorian storefronts of Queen, a little park sits in quiet contrast to the city around...
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Opening up the past
A fascinating artifact from our city's architectural history lies in storage at Black Creek Pioneer Village. The Toronto fire of April 1849 leveled...
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The gym comes to the park
With warm weather once again gracing us with its presence, our city's parks and trails have revealed themselves anew. To some of us, seeing our...
By Matthew Blackett