Bike Lanes: 2 — Ford Nation: 0
Following an injunction last spring, a new landmark ruling in the Charter case challenging the Tories' bid to rip out existing bike lanes marks a major victory for Toronto cycling and cyclists.
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Rip the bandage off rapidly, please
With the city's RapidTO bus lane plan on life-support, the city and council need to find a better way to get complex policies out the door.
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What, me worry? Yes you should, mayor
Mayor Olivia Chow failed to deliver a crucial housing reform at City Council yet is playing a dangerous game with Ottawa
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New Exhibition Flush with Public Washroom Ideas
The TO the Loo! Toronto Toilet Design Challenge exhibition reveals innovative solutions for Toronto
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Canoeing a runway
Downsview's "Runway Rivers" highlights a lost history ahead of a new transformation
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Toronto is eating its hotdog vendors
A longstanding City Council restriction is eroding Toronto's food carts, but that could change
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Derailing Dignity
Q&A with Krish Dineshkumar, whose installation explores the experiences of the migrant gig workers who deliver food by bike
By Sabat Ismail
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LORINC: What’s so scary about six-plexes?
With the real estate sector on life-support, council has prime opportunity to boost the missing housing needs of neighbourhoods
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Understanding the elusiveness of Smart Cities
What Toronto can learn from global leaders and its own experience with Sidewalk Labs
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OP-ED: Pedaling inaccuracies
Lanrick Bennett argues that MP Yvan Baker’s attack on the Bloor bike lanes ignores the facts
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Making Toronto’s parks more accessible
Park People holds its annual summit on urban parks
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The Overhead: Non-Profit Housing and Gentle Density
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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OP-ED: Their Third Space
Why Toronto’s youth deserve more than just a place to be
By Lanrick Bennett
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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