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...
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Cities are missing topic in the 2025 federal election campaign (UPDATE)
With the debates this week, the parties still have time to advance urban-oriented platform planks
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OP-ED: Feeling the thermal comfort
Toronto takes a step towards future-proofing public spaces against climate extremes
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Toronto, City of Gas, 1909-1936, Part 2
From the commercial photography of F. W. Micklethwaite Studio for the Consumers' Gas Company: day to day operations, and the photographic process
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Toronto in the 2025 Ontario election
After over a decade, the Liberals are back on top of the votes in the city - but not the seats.
By Dylan Reid
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 087, Building housing with election planks
In this episode: campaign promises, court injunctions, and taking Doug Ford to court (again)
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Book Review – platform.MIDDLE: Architecture for Housing the 99%
Written by 5468796 Architecture (Arquine, 2024) In an era where towering residential skyscrapers increasingly shape urban landscapes—often with...
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Bringing Poetry Back to the TTC
The story behind "Poems in Passage," the new program once again adding verse to your transit trip
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The housing sub-plot in the federal election
The race is laser-focused on Trump and tariffs, but the three national parties have trotted out housing affordability strategies
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LORINC: The coming American brain drain will be Canada’s gain
U.S. researchers are running for the exits and Toronto will be an obvious destination
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2025 Global Placemaking Summit comes to Toronto
Register now for this unique four-day event, June 8-11
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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