Black History Month 2025: Racial Discrimination at Toronto’s Nightclubs
Uncovering Toronto's nightclub segregation that started in the 1930s and lasted until the 1970s
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2025 Toronto State of the Bike Lane
Robert Zaichkowski shares his annual report on the progress (or lack thereof) towards achieving Toronto's bike plan
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Toronto, City of Gas, 1909-1936
As presented in the commercial photography of F.W. Micklethwaite Studio for the Consumers' Gas Company
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Missing the boat on the Queen’s Quay East LRT… again
The provincial parties are tripping over themselves to pledge transit funding, but somehow manage to miss the lowest hanging fruit
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NEW ISSUE: Forever Yonge
Issue 69 takes a look at the spine that defines Toronto
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The Overhead: Security for Renters
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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OP-ED: Building a waterfront together
City councillor Ausma Malik argues that Waterfront Toronto shows what can be accomplished when governments work together
By Ausma Malik
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Beginning on Yonge
To a new arrival from Montreal in 1998, the vista up Yonge Street seemed endless, and so did the opportunities
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On the edge: Photographs of Toronto’s downtown waterfront
Photographer Steven Evans captures the varied aspects of Toronto's harbour
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Chinatown Memory Collectors
Reimagining community heritage through storytelling
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 085, City accounting for global chaos
In this episode: Trudeau's urban legacy, Toronto's budget, and potential economic meltdowns
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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
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When data beats gut feelings about traffic
What we can learn from the cities that implemented smart public transit
By Anna Artyushina
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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