OP-ED: Toronto transit needs to build on what we have, not fall for old tropes
Sean Marshall argues that the best way to improve transit in Toronto is to focus on affordable, quick, and effective solutions
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Gerrard Street East Part 2, 2023-2024
Photographer Peter MacCallum continues his exploration of an east end street facing significant changes
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The Overhead: Community land trusts gaining ground
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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Joe Medwecki and the triumph of the wraparound balcony
An Annex apartment building reminds us of the potential of good design
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Who’s behind the deep-pocketed private equity firm that’s bought into Therme?
A new player has joined the Ontario Place melodrama — a mega-investor with billions to spend
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LORINC: Waymo aims to get a driverless foot in Toronto’s door
Alphabet's autonymous-vehicle subsidiary has expansion plans that includes the local market
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The Overhead: Decommodifying 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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From bridge to bench
How a salvaged river crossing became community benches in East Chinatown
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LORINC: Mayor begins to reveal her election cards
Olivia Chow's new 'luxury tax' is a silly political distraction with little financial upside for the city
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PODCAST: Episode 91, Talking Transit 2025
In this episode: TTC reliability, competing projects, the federal budget, and the car is still king.
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When did we start describing opioid addiction as “delinquent” behaviour?
Contrary to the claims of some pundits and many homeowners, the City's accelerating encampment response is not in fact being driven by progressives
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How many more highway lanes?
On the 20th anniversary of the Greenbelt, the Ford government's highway building plans turn back the clock
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Nostalgia about neighbourhood retail is not a strategy
The City's heavily compromised decision on neighbourhood retail may result in no new neighbourhood retail
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