Spacing Toronto

A call to preserve Kensington Market

The new documentary "Kensington Market: Heart of the City" highlights the voices of people in the market and their fears for its future

By Shiri Yeung

Kensington Market: Heart of the City is a neighbourhood documentary that’s been in the making since 2016. “It’s really a look into the heart of the city of Toronto, how it came to be, the state that it is today and what it will become in the future,” says director Stuart Clarfield, a Toronto resident and community advocate. The film’s lengthy production reflects the challenges that come with being self-produced and self-funded. The film ultimately benefited from this extended... Read more

Parks

OP-ED: Private cars are not the accessibility solution High Park needs

The City needs to deliver on promise of a shuttle rather than reversing the momentum towards a car-free High Park
By Jessie Ye
Bikes

Toronto to Ford: Stay in your lane

Mayor Olivia Chow needs to spend some political capital to halt Ford's ridiculous veto over bike lanes
By John Lorinc
Waterfront

Watch this space

The Ford government's deal with Therme shows the area around the spa will never truly be a public space, senior editor John Lorinc writes
By John Lorinc
Traffic

Why is the Board of Trade shilling for The Big Doug?

We should be debating actual solutions to congestion instead of a highway tunnel scheme that will never be built
By John Lorinc
Podcast

PODCAST: Spacing Radio 082, Toronto’s political gridlock

In This Episode: Doug Ford to ban bike lanes, Toronto cyclist throughout history, and who should take charge of the TTC.
By Spacing Radio
Architecture

The Lives of 233–235 Spadina

Once one among many handsome 19th-century mansions on Spadina, this house has managed to outlast its contemporaries by constantly adapting.
By Peter MacCallum

Urban Design

LORINC: The public space embarrassment that is College Park

Five years after a major rehab, the open space at Yonge and College has already gone to seed
By John Lorinc
Podcast

PODCAST: Spacing Radio 081, Talking Transit ’24

In This Episode: Is the TTC reliable? Will the Eglinton Crosstown ever open? And Doug Ford's literal track record.
By Spacing Radio
Events

Ontario Place premieres at TIFF

Filmmaker Ali Weinstein captured the people using Ontario Place in a moment of limbo between the onset of the pandemic and the redevelopment
By Ian Darragh
Services

LORINC: Booze in the corner store

Ontario's move to allow alcohol to be sold in convenience stores won't produce any of the ills we've been warned about
By John Lorinc
Transit

Re-visiting the subway art of ‘Atmospheric Lens’

During a hot and wet summer, with renewed criticism of TTC station design, our critic considers the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre station
By Sinead Doherty-Grant
Walking

Exploring Toronto through its Indigenous heritage

First Story, available through the Driftscape app, is the perfect way to discover new parts of the city
By Trent Weston

Culture

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...
By Todd Harrison
Pandemic

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...
By John Lorinc
Waterfront

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...
By Ian Darragh
Housing

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...
By John Lorinc
Waterfront

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...
By John Lorinc
Waterfront

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

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