{"id":1536,"date":"2010-01-09T16:46:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T21:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingottawa.ca\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2013-01-21T09:24:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:24:21","slug":"spacing-saturday-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/01\/09\/spacing-saturday-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacing Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/wire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/st_patricks_high_school_-_halifax-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"st_patricks_high_school_-_halifax\" width=\"444\" height=\"285\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/images\/feature-graphics\/feature-spacingsaturday-500.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Spacing Saturday is a new feature that highlights posts from across Spacing&#8217;s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Spacing Saturday replaces the weekly features Montreal Monday and Toronto Tuesday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-atlantic.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Suffering from ill-repair and chronic under-use, the future of the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2010\/01\/07\/new-ideas-for-old-st-patricks-high-school\/\" target=\"_self\">Quinpool Education Center<\/a> (formally<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2010\/01\/07\/new-ideas-for-old-st-patricks-high-school\/\" target=\"_self\"> <\/a>Halifax&#8217;s St Patrick&#8217;s High School) is in doubt.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/author\/jakeschabas\/\" target=\"_self\">Jake Schabas<\/a> muses on what could be done to invigorate the building which has been a Halifax landmark since it opened its doors to students in 1954.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2010\/01\/08\/government-2-0-open-source-accountability\/\" target=\"_self\">A discussion among <em>Spacing Atlantic<\/em>&#8216;s Charlottetown contributors<\/a> led to an interesting look at openness and transparency in city governance both within Charlottetown and the urban community at large.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-montreal.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022  <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/01\/08\/non-residents-to-pay-for-parking\/\" target=\"_self\">Chris Erb <\/a>reviews a proposal that would would phase out free parking for non-residents in Montreal&#8217;s Le Plateau-Mont-Royal area.\u00a0 Erb argues that the plan&#8211;which still needs to go through a public consolation process&#8211;would have a positive effect on the neighbourhood by, among other things, increasing public transit use and decreasing the presence of vehicles on the streets.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/01\/04\/champ-de-pixels\/\" target=\"_self\">A public outdoor art project<\/a>, on view last week on Montreal&#8217;s Place des Festival, allowed spectators the opportunity to interact with what resembled a giant &#8220;Lite-Bright&#8221;. The installation, called <a href=\"http:\/\/pixels.nexun.ca\/\" target=\"_self\">Champ de pixels<\/a>,\u00a0 featured rows of small motion-activated lights.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-toronto.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Toronto&#8217;s mayoral race has officially begun. For a quick visual overview of the political playing field <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/wire\/2010\/01\/07\/political-spectrum-of-toronto-mayors-race\/#comments\" target=\"_self\"><em>Spacing Toronto<\/em> has charted the contenders<\/a> by their place on the political spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <em>Spacing Toronto<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/wire\/author\/hilarybest\/\" target=\"_self\">Hilary Best<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/wire\/2010\/01\/05\/environmental-assessment-assessment-gardiner-reconfiguration\/\" target=\"_self\">examines the Environmental Assessment process<\/a> for the proposed Gardiner Expressway and Lake Shore Boulevard Reconfiguration Project in Toronto. Best&#8217;s look at the Gardiner project is only the first in an ongoing series on &#8220;the Environmental Assessment process and how it&#8217;s shaping Toronto&#8221;, that will provide some much-needed perspective on the often long and expensive process &#8220;and its success in protecting our environment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-ottawa.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The decision by Ottawa&#8217;s Hartmen&#8217;s grocery store to <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/01\/07\/hartman%E2%80%99s-slowly-dissolves-its-brand-community\/\" target=\"_self\">remove a communal seating area as well as &#8220;their ancient rickety mom-and-pop piano&#8221;<\/a> has  community members irked. <em>Spacing Ottawa<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/author\/iancapstick\/\" target=\"_self\">Ian Capstick<\/a> looks at the positive role the piano and seating area played in the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/01\/04\/urbanists-diary-dirty-words-and-dead-end-streets\/\" target=\"_self\">An ongoing series<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/urbanists-diary\/\" target=\"_self\">Ottawa&#8217;s Chris Henschel and Allegra Newman<\/a> on their first-hand experience of an intensification project affecting Ottawa&#8217;s Island Park Drive, is a an excellent case study on how community needs and developer interests get balanced and fought out.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo by <\/em><em>Simon Pulsifer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacing Saturday is a new feature that highlights posts from across Spacing&#8217;s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. 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