EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto’s bike lanes
Spacing obtained the RFP for the Ford government's bike lane removal, and it looks even worse than thought
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Book Review: 75 Architects for a Sustainable World
“There is still a long way to go, many strategies to experiment with and many changes to implement, yet in the course of these intensive and dynamic...
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The Overhead: Accessible Housing
Spacing and the Balanced Supply of Housing research node proudly present The Overhead: Understanding Canada’s Affordable Housing Crisis, a special podcast series.
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Election 2026: The inter-governmental elephant in the room
The personality-drive dysfunctional relationship between the province and big cities has to stop
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Election 2026: How to Read a Candidate’s Platform
Look behind the framing to find the underlying assumptions, says Christopher Balkaran
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OP-ED: Fighting global warming with joy
If we want to adapt to a changing climate, it is time to start throwing parties
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Intersections of print culture in Toronto’s laneways
An archival deep dive into the history of "the stable" at 105 (rear) Major Street
By Leora Bromberg
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Yonge Street, Evening, November 6, 1965
Photos by Nick Loek for the Toronto Telegram
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Election 2026: Culture wars are warping cycling policy
A cycling advocate on the need to take the wedge politics out of bike lanes
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Election 2026: Let’s talk about local democracy in Toronto
Voters should be asking every candidate and ourselves: what should local democracy look like?
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Brad Bradford’s glaring judgment problem
The evidence is beginning to add up, and would almost certainly spill over into his mayoralty.
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The Return of Chloe Brown
An Q&A with the two-time mayoral candidate who is now taking on Vincent Crisanti in Ward 1
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Election 2026: How to critically listen to a municipal candidate
Christopher Balkaran analyzes the space between recognition and solution
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Jet Dreams on Toronto Island (Part 1)
Premier Doug Ford and the Toronto Port Authority, the federal agency that owns Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, have been extraordinarily secretive...
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Modernizing e-bike rules
This article is co-authored with Muskan Fatima. E-bikes are good for our cities. They offer reliable transportation for people of all ages and abilities...
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Rees Park: The rug that can tie the post-FIFA waterfront together
The waterfront as an east-west canvas for events and animation in Toronto will show its potential like never before during the upcoming FIFA World Cup...
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OP-ED: Invitation as Urban Policy
This spring, at Bloomberg CityLab in Madrid, social prescribing reached the agenda of the world’s largest cities summit for the first time. It was a...
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The truth about the University Avenue bike lanes
Over the past year, I have written multiple times about how misinformation and selective framing continue shaping Toronto’s transportation debates. In...
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The Toronto Circus Riot of 1855 — the day the clowns picked the wrong Toronto brothel
EDITOR: This is the second post of a new collaboration with the Toronto Dreams project by Adam Bunch (see the first here). The project is a series of...
By Adam Bunch