Elections
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Election 2026: A failure of political imagination
A week ago, I saw a widely shared photo of a pair of cyclist demonstrators planted in the middle of the now destroyed Bloor West bike lane, staring down a...
By John Lorinc -
Election 2026: Why are mayoral candidates ignoring the climate crisis?
At the beginning of September, as Toronto’s municipal election began ramping up, the city was hit with another 100-year storm. It was the fourth such...
By How-Sen Chong -
Election 2026: Who Has the Power to Deliver?
This article is part of a series by Christopher Balkaran on ways to approach and engage with the municipal election campaign. This past week, the two...
By Christopher Balkaran -
Election 2026: Making elections accessible
This article is reproduced from Spacing‘s current “Issues & Influencers” issue focused on the municipal election and what comes...
By Catherine Dumé -
Election Night Watch Party!
WHAT: 2026 Election Night Watch Party WHEN: Monday, October 26th • 7-11pm (we’ve changed start time to 7pm from 6pm) WHERE: Pauper’s Pub (2nd...
By Matthew Blackett -
London, Paris, Toronto: A tale of three biking cities
I spent some time in the past couple of weeks in London and Paris, and there’s an emerging point of contrast between these two alpha-cities that has...
By John Lorinc -
Election 2026: Who gets to live in the city?
The housing crisis is a well-trod matter in municipal election debates, and concerns about cost of living and housing affordability have remained at the...
By Andrea Gunraj -
Election 2026: For a joyful, resilient and connected Toronto, let’s start at the park
Is there somewhere to sit in your local park? Do people linger, or hurry through? Is there a safe, shaded way to get there? Do neighbours who disagree...
By Natalie Brown -
Election 2026: Can candidates debate in depth?
This article is part of a series by Christopher Balkaran on ways to approach and engage with the municipal election campaign. Toronto faces a long list of...
By Christopher Balkaran -
NEW ISSUE: Issues & Influencers
For every municipal election since we started Spacing, we’ve published a special election-focused issue in advance of the polls. This year, we decided to...
By Dylan Reid -
EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto’s bike lanes
After the Ontario Court of Appeal (ONCA) shot down CycleTO’s legally innovative charter challenge that sought to stop Doug Ford’s attack on...
By John Lorinc -
Election 2026: The inter-governmental elephant in the room
In the hall-of-mirrors that is the current mayoral election, as my colleagues John McGrath and Matt Elliott noted, we had the following weirdness last...
By John Lorinc