NEW ISSUE: We like movies
Our fall 2025 issue (#72) explores how film shapes both the mythology and the reality of Toronto
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Winners of the 50th annual Toronto Heritage Awards
The winners of the 50th Annual Heritage Toronto Awards were presented on Monday, October 20, 2025 at the Carlu event venue. Spacing has been the media...
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Running the City
What the Toronto Waterfront Marathon can teach us about public space
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LORINC: We built it, but now will we ride it?
Toronto, Metrolinx, and TTC need to promote Crosstown LRT aggressively so Torontonians start riding a project we've complained about for over a decade.
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 90, Bless this urban mess
In This Episode: we talk incremental change, embrace urban chaos, and take a stroll down Toronto's laneways
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How Toronto Forgets Its History (Again)
Visitors to the new North Market will learn virtually nothing about the site's 223-year history, which is a truly shocking oversight
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Michael McClelland receives Special Achievement Award from Heritage Toronto
Co-founder of ERA Architects has been a long-time advocate for Toronto's built heritage
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Ontario Stockyards, 1991
Once upon a time, the Stockyards District was actually stockyards. Photographer Peter MacCallum shares his photos from that era
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Arthur Erickson Centennial Symposium – A Summary
Arthur Erickson often referred to the workplace as an ‘atelier’, and many of the distinguished architects who worked with him over the years...
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LORINC: Is the 401 Tunnel an off-ramp or money pit?
Ford says Carney understands why Ottawa should fund his 401 tunnel — here's hoping the prime minister just says no
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It’s not about speed cameras on Parkside
The City could make practical improvements to pedestrian safety on the west side of Parkside. The question is, why wait?
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Reading List: Unplanned Suburbs
Much of Toronto’s early expansion took the form of shacktowns on the edges of the city, which provided housing for working class families and profoundly shaped Toronto’s evolution
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EVENT: On the Edge – Photographs of Toronto’s Downtown Waterfront 2023-2025
Photographer Steven Evans launches his exhibit with a panel discussion
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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