Head Space
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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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'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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Our home and native archaeology
Kris Nahrgang is telling me about his uncle. "In the 1970s he and some friends took some shovels to one of the old cemeteries downtown," he...
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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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The Artful Target: Q&A with Richard Florida
So, are you tired of hearing about Richard Florida yet? You wouldn't be the first in Toronto to feel that way about the most celebrated urbanist since...
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Culture among street youth
Rudy Ruttimann was recently awarded a Vital People grant from the Toronto Community Foundation for her work with Sketch, where she is the executive...
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Atom Egoyan’s cinematic city
Atom Egoyan‘s new film, Chloe, is a remarkable achievement in Toronto’s sad sack history of being Hollywood North, the place that doubles for...
By Matthew Blackett