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Spacing Saturday: Sky Dome, Heritage Apartments, and the Historic Halifax Common

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Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region.

Chris Erb comments on the striking beauty of a recently published NASA photo of the Montreal region by night.

Guillaume St-Jean continues the Spacing Montreal’s ongoing photo series.

Lauren Oostveen continues the From the Vaults series with fascinating look through the rich history of the Halifax Common, first set aside in 1763. 

Crystal Melville profiles the community art project Dartmouth’s Vision Pavilion.

On a serious note, John Lorinc and Dylan Reid comment on the fiscal policy thus far of the Ford Administration.

On a lighter note, Spacing received a response from Don Cherry himself about the enormously successful Pinko buttons. While Sean Micallef comments on a great time-lapse video of the construction of the Sky Dome.

With the completion of the Western Transitway the City of Ottawa now must determine a future for a small, awkwardly shaped piece of land left over, a local community group has a proposal ready.

Mike Steinhauer takes a tour through central Ottawa’s impressive but uncelebrated stock of beautiful heritage apartment buildings.

Photograph by Jodi Green

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