The long battle for Yellow Creek Ravine
Yellow Creek has finally found its way onto City Council's radar, but is there real money there to fix the damage inflicted by climate change?
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NEW ISSUE: On the waterfront
Issue 71 looks at the remarkable changes happening on Toronto's waterfront and potential ideas for its future
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 089, Global ideas for local placemaking
In This Episode: what is placemaking and what can we learn from placemakers around the world?
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Book Review: Rocky Mountain Modern – Contemporary Alpine Homes
“In so many ways this has been a lifelong project. Some of my earliest memories – learning to ski at Sunshine Village, in Banff, seeing Jasper...
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Out of time on out of touch proposals
The maxed-out condo tower applications are still landing in municipal planning committees, even though the condo market is D-E-D.
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OP-ED: Warning about the danger to kids from pickup trucks
Albert Koehl argues that the federal government needs to mandate safety warnings in pickup truck ads
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A walking tour of public art in the West Don Lands
Experience the first community-scale comprehensive master art plan in Canada
By Sarah Mundangepfupfu
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Toronto Parks Need a Reboot
Landscape architecture professor Fadi Masoud has suggestions for how to revitalize Toronto's green spaces.
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Marking Lake Ontario’s lost shoreline
New Heritage Toronto project will mark the 3,000-year-old water’s edge through the St. Lawrence Neighbourhood
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Fixing the Gap
Why Canada Must Recognize Bicycle Mechanics as a Profession
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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
By John Lorinc
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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