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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler

  • Rate your councillor

    A web site called RateYourCouncillor.com recently started up and it wants you to, you guessed it, rate your councillor. While unclear who or what is...

  • Ballot questions

    The mayoral aspirations of Minister George Smitherman and, to a lesser extent, Michael Pinball Clemons, have been the subject of dozens of column inches...

  • Conservatives flout sign laws

    Update (June 12): The City of Toronto has told Spacing that it does not intend to enforce the signs by-law as it pertains to video screens at gas stations...

  • 311 threatens lazy pols

    This week the Toronto Star spent a few column inches discussing the lethargic pace of the City of Toronto’s attempt to bring a 311 telephone service...

  • Sun rises to own defense

    More than a month after Councillor Howard Moscoe went to City Council with a motion accusing the Toronto Sun of being a deadbeat tenant, columnist Sue-Ann...

  • Press gallery rent upped

    Media outlets that occupy space in the city hall press gallery are going to have their rent increased but still won’t be paying full market value...

  • TTC Strike: Mayor to revive “essential service” motion

      The Executive Committee of Toronto City Council will consider whether to ask the provincial government to designate the TTC an essential service on May...

  • TTC STRIKE: in a nutshell

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IXpibN7Hug[/youtube] People who dig details might quibble here and there but this YouTube clip is the best...

  • TTC STRIKE: TTC service resuming

    UPDATE at 8:05pm: TTC service is in the process of resuming. According to the Toronto Star, TTC Chairman Adam Giambrone says that service will gradually...

  • TTC STRIKE EXCLUSIVE: details of the No vote

    A source familiar with TTC contract negotiations has told Spacing that the proposed contract voted on by ATU Local 113 members on Friday had no new...

  • TTC STRIKE: Back-to-work legislation to be passed Sunday

    UPDATE (6:30PM): TTC talks break off. From the Toronto Star: Talks have concluded between the TTC and its largest union. It will be up to the province to...

  • TTC STRIKE: Workers to walk out at midnight

    Sixty-five per cent of TTC workers rejected the contract recommended to them by their union executive, prompting a strike set to begin at midnight. The...