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Monthly Archives: October 2005

  • The city’s tax straightjacket

    Royson James wrote an interesting explanation of Toronto’s confusing property tax system today, as property owners across the city received their...

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  • [murmur] Launches on Spadina!

    Please join us tomorrow (Thursday Oct 20th) at Grossman’s Tavern (379 Spadina Avenue at Cecil) from 6-9pm for a (free) reception celebrating the...

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  • Tar Babies

    Last weekend I visited the ancestral suburban split-level homestead in dear Windsor, Ontario for Thanksgiving. There is no public transportation there...

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  • Thank you, John Sewell

    John Sewell, the former mayor of Toronto from 1979-81, has been writing about city issues for Globe and Mail, Eye Weekly and NOW for 18 years. This week...

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  • Toronto’s Bike Plan gets the gears

    Spacing managing editor Dale Duncan wrote in Eye Weely about Toronto’s Bike Plan, and the bike lane proposal that would stretch across Bloor and the...

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  • The Cold War Against St. Clair

    How is your St. Clair boycott going? Mine is going just fine — I even (mostly) shut my eyes yesterday as I crossed the pariah avenue while out for...

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  • Ode to the Bollard

    The simple bollard: a punctuation mark in a mature urban environment; a marker of mediation between conflicting modes of transportation; a tiny totem of...

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  • The Toronto Effect

    According to the Star today: Toronto is becoming more architecturally diverse and denser which is helping some people give up their cars with the added...

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  • Urban Leadership Awards

    The Canadian Urban Institute, the nation’s leader in progressive civic policy development, annually recognizes people and organizations with their...

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  • Metropass Affinity Program

    File this under: WHY ISN’T THE TTC COMING UP WITH THESE IDEAS? The Metropass Affinity Program (MAP) is an initiative by the Sierra Club of Canada...

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  • The value of public space in dollars

    There is no real way to express the value of the public realm of a city. But we can certainly measure its importance to our consumer-driven economy as...

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  • No way, Segway!

    The City of Toronto did the smart thing yesterday by rejecting the idea of a pilot project that would allow Segways on to our sidewalks. Robyn Reisler...

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