A gondola or a bridge to the Island?
Improving access to Toronto Island come to City Council this week, including an option that is more restrictive then it appears
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The Junction Triangle Parade
Two local organizations are putting on a parade to advocate for the opening of the Davenport Greenway promised, but not delivered, by Metrolinx
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They Were Right Here: Tracing Black People Enslaved in the Town of York
The sleuthing behind groundbreaking entries of early Torontonians in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography
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A city that prioritizes people, not just cars
Lanrick Bennett says it's time for Toronto to follow the lead of other Canadian cities and have a focused strategy for open streets
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NEW ISSUE: Collecting stories
Issue 70 explores the collections and collectors that capture unexpected slices of the city
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OP-ED: Congestion Confusion
What We Feel, What We're Told, and What the Data Reveals
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The politics of beautification and decongestion
The soon-to-be appointed traffic and the public realm 'czars' need more than just resources
By John Lorinc
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Preserving the memory of the passenger pigeon
The Royal Ontario Museum hosts the world’s largest collection of specimens of this once-abundant bird driven to extinction
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The Last Survivor of a Historic Streetscape
With the demolition of the Palace Arms building, photographer Peter MacCallum looks back on the various buildings that once surrounded it
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Q&A: Cheryl Thompson on her new book about Canadian blackface
"Canada and the Blackface Atlantic" traces the origins of 19th century theatre and dance in Canada and its connection to blackface minstrelsy
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Judge puts Ford back in his lane
The bike lane temporary injunction ruling this week offers the Ford government an off-ramp and an opportunity to act like an adult
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OP-ED: What’s in a Name?
Lanrick Bennett argues that Toronto should develop Indigenous names for Toronto's municipal wards
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Book Review – Set Pieces: Architecture for the Performing Arts in Fifteen Fragments
By Diamond Schmitt Architects (Birkhäuser, 2024) In a media and cultural landscape shaped by screens, it may seem counterintuitive that live performance...
By Erick Villagomez
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The Ultimate Guide to the Best Songs About Toronto
In the Fall 2023 issue of Spacing (coming soon to a store or mailbox near you), we shine a spotlight on five “Toronto Troubadours” — musicians “dedicated...
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LORINC: The pandemic is about cities
Viruses, in the abstract, don’t care much about their host organisms, beyond the latter’s on-board, physiological defenses. Yet it’s clear the coronavirus...
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What’s really happening at Ontario Place? (Part 1)
The investigation by Ontario Auditor-General Bonnie Lysyk into the Ford government’s removal of 7,400 acres of prime farmland and wetlands from the...
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LORINC: The Tories’ use-it-or-lose housing ruse
On the north-east corner of Bathurst and St. Clair West sits a snazzy purpose-built condo sales office, ostensibly there to promote Foret, a giant...
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Q&A with Steven Evans on photographing Ontario Place
With the chaotic Greenbelt scandal swirling in the background, the updated plans for the Ford government’s deeply contentious and destructive scheme...
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What’s really happening at Ontario Place? (Part 2)
Sequel to Part 1 of “What’s really happening at Ontario Place?“ Ontario Place was conceived by Conservative Premier John Robarts in 1968 as an...
By Ian Darragh