{"id":8235,"date":"2010-09-18T07:48:36","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T12:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=8235"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:51:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:51:37","slug":"spacing-saturday-joe-beef-election-influence-and-alphabet-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/09\/18\/spacing-saturday-joe-beef-election-influence-and-alphabet-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacing Saturday: Joe Beef, Election Influence and Alphabet Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4079\/4922320119_4c79d079c3_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"ss\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/images\/feature-graphics\/feature-spacingsaturday-600.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"so\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-ottawa.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ian Capstick explains his theory for how citizens can <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/09\/14\/save-your-money-and-still-influence-the-ottawa-election-anyway\/\">influence the mayoral election<\/a> without spending a dime through a coordinated effort of engaging social  media with a message of the values and messages people want to see from  candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Dwight Williams continues his look into the history of Ottawa street names by looking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/http\/\/spacingottawa.ca\/2010\/09\/13\/ottawas-alphabet-village\/\">alphabet soup<\/a> found in the Tremblay Rd area.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sa\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-atlantic.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Emma Feltes is on the road in Western Canada and takes some time to celebrate Canadian <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2010\/09\/16\/the-best-of-the-west-cycling-infrastructure\/\">cycling infrastructure<\/a> victories there.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"st\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-toronto.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In an open letter to mayoral candidate George Smitherman, Shawn Micallef implores the candidate to change the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/09\/15\/an-open-letter-to-george-smitherman-be-more-like-wendel-clark-not-tie-domi\/\">character of the campaign<\/a> by switching from being a Tie Domi to a Wendel Clark.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the Spacing Editors! This week Spacing was awarded the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/09\/14\/spacing-receives-2010-jane-jacobs-prize\/\">2010 Jane Jacobs Prize.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sm\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-montreal.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alanah Heffez takes a look back into the history of Montreal through the historical character of <a href=\"..\/2010\/09\/12\/where-the-wild-things-were-joe-beefs-canteen\/\">Joe Beef<\/a> and his raucous canteen in the 19th century port district. The story is   a fascinating and honest look into lower class in Canadian cities at   the time.<\/p>\n<p>The borough of Plateau-Mont Royal announced this week that it will follow on its bylaw to <a href=\"..\/2010\/09\/13\/good-ad-bad-ad\/\">ban bill boards<\/a> becoming the first part of Montreal to do so. Alanah Heffez explores   the history of such movements to speculate on whether the law will be   upheld.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Simon Cocks<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Ian Capstick explains his theory for how citizens can influence the mayoral election without spending a dime through a coordinated effort of engaging social media with a message of the values and messages people want to see from<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/09\/18\/spacing-saturday-joe-beef-election-influence-and-alphabet-soup\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Spacing Saturday: Joe Beef, Election Influence and Alphabet Soup&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7834],"tags":[4706,283,4776,4614,5340,4799,2981,5483,2044,125,153,293,1842,5455,151,152,2833],"class_list":["post-8235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-blog-network","tag-canada","tag-dwight-williams","tag-emma-feltes","tag-george-smitherman","tag-ian-capstick","tag-jane-jacobs","tag-joe-beef","tag-mayoral-candidate","tag-montreal","tag-ottawa","tag-plateau","tag-shawn-micallef","tag-social-media","tag-spacing-saturday","tag-toronto","tag-western-canada"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spacing Saturday: Joe Beef, Election Influence and Alphabet Soup - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/09\/18\/spacing-saturday-joe-beef-election-influence-and-alphabet-soup\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spacing Saturday: Joe Beef, Election Influence and Alphabet Soup - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. 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