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Church Street is being pedestrianized — that wasn’t so hard, was it?
The recently approved pilot project proves the City can rubber-stamp such initiatives without endless consultations and excuses
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THE OVERHEAD: When Policy Pauses Public Ownership
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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LORINC: Mayoral candidates need to take on King Doug
This fall's election must be a referendum on the Ford government's destructive incursions into the City's business
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OP-ED: Yonge Street deserves pedestrianization
Other cites have done it, we can do it too, says Shane Gates
By Shane Gates -
A Different Kind of Cycling Campaign
It's time to close the loop
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Jet Dreams on Toronto Island (Part 2)
Secret environmental assessment says jets will harm Toronto’s waterfront and residents
By Ian Darragh
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Jet Dreams on Toronto Island (Part 1)
What would it cost, who will pay, and who benefits?
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OP-ED: Introducing “Care Blocks”
How an urban planning strategy crafted in Colombia could address Toronto’s care crisis
By Obaid Khan -
Dufferin street studios, 2017-2018
Photographer Peter MacCallum captured the last days of one of the former factories that became artist and craft studios before being redeveloped
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Book Review – American Bridge: Reinventing Building, Making History
Author: Gregory Dreicer (MIT Press, 2026) We tend to think of infrastructure as something we build. Concrete, steel, timber—assembled into roads, towers...
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LORINC: The finicky business of planning Ookwemin Minising
The City and Waterfront Toronto released their new planning vision for the Portlands, but will it solve the problems that have dogged Liberty Village for years?
By John Lorinc -
OP-ED: Get Those E-Bike Delivery Guys!…Some Education
Cycling advocates host three Safe Cycling Sessions for bike delivery riders
By David Shellnutt
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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