Spacing Toronto

PODCAST: Spacing Radio 085, City accounting for global chaos

In this episode: Trudeau's urban legacy, Toronto's budget, and potential economic meltdowns

By Spacing Radio

With Justin Trudeau stepping down as Prime Minister and the very real possibility of an federal election, Premier Doug Ford mulling over a snap provincial election, and President-elect Trump threatening a trade war, it’s almost impossible to predict what 2025 will hold. And yet, Toronto and other municipalities in Canada must muddle through as best they can and create an annual budget. That process has already started in Toronto. To rate Trudeau’s legacy (for better or worse... Read more

Bikes

OP-ED: Taking another look at who’s using bike lanes

Lanrick Bennett dispels some of the notions used to dismiss the value of cycling infrastructure
By Lanrick Bennett
Transit

When data beats gut feelings about traffic

What we can learn from the cities that implemented smart public transit
By Anna Artyushina
Politics

The 2025 budget and Toronto’s bursting real estate bubble

City officials warned council for years not to get addicted to real estate-linked revenues, and now we're paying the price
By John Lorinc
Politics

Look Back in Anger

The New Deal, touted as a game-changing agreement between City Hall and Queen's Park, hasn't delivered
By Michel Nayrouz
Housing

OP-ED: Why Toronto must act on Ombudsman’s recommendations on refugee shelter and housing

Toronto City Manager and City Council have made a mistake by refusing to endorse the recommendations brought forward by the Ombudsman regarding refugee shelter
By Alexandra Flynn and Elizabeth McIsaac
Bikes

Wheeling through Toronto with Albert Koehl

Sabat Ismail does a Q&A with the longtime cycling advocate about his new book
By Sabat Ismail

Housing

PODCAST: Spacing Radio 084, Two housing carols

In this episode: two different perspectives on housing in Canada
By Spacing Radio
Community

A place of refuge

Sanctuary offers support and hope for those in need in the heart of Toronto
By Shiri Yeung
Infrastructure

For Metrolinx, Queen and Spadina is an idling-bylaw-free zone

Idling dump trucks at Ontario Line construction site are spewing pollution
By Peter MacCallum
Waterfront

Follow the money to Ontario Place

The auditor-general's scathing review of the Therme deal once again raises questions about the source of the spa's cash
By John Lorinc
Traffic

The high cost of on-street parking

With cycling infrastructure facing a mortal threat, it's time for the City to banish on-street parking on transit arterials
By John Lorinc
Traffic

LORINC: Singing the gridlock blues

Toronto has reams of info on traffic flows, yet the City hasn't made it easily available to residents
By John Lorinc

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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