By Dylan Reid
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Gift Guide: Phoenix Print Shop Holiday Cards
If you’re planning on sending holiday cards this year, consider getting them from Foundations of Print, a program run by Phoenix Print Shop that...
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Event Guide: Book launch – “There Never Was a Better Time”
Local historian Doug Taylor (who is one of my neighbours) recently published his book There Never Was a Better Time, a fictionalized retelling of his...
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Dept. of Funny Signs: Lawn Chair Parking
I saw this “official graffiti” stencil on Queen West just east of University, in preparation for the annual Santa Claus Parade this weekend. I...
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Event Guide: World Town Planning Day
There’s a World Town Planning Day! Who knew? I didn’t, although perhaps some of our readers had heard of it. And it’s happening this...
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Bike Share Programs: community or commercial?
As Toronto contemplates introducing a large-scale bike-sharing program, a key decision it will have to make is whether the municipality (or a related...
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EVENT GUIDE: Ways to walk this week
As Toronto’s October “Festival of Walking” draws to a close, here are a couple of interesting walking-themed events for the week. The...
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EVENT GUIDE: Lawrence Heights walking-cycling consultation
As part of a revitalization project for the Lawrence-Allen area, including Lawrence Heights, the City of Toronto is asking local residents about...
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Walking Adelaide West
On probably the last warm day of the year, I went for a holiday Monday walk along Adelaide Street West, where it becomes a local street after Bathurst...
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Metrolinx Regional Transportation Plan consultation
Metrolinx, the provincial agency charged with sorting out the Greater Toronto Area’s transportation woes, has come out with a draft Regional...
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Babylon: Myth and Truth – the prototype of the big bad city
When I visited Berlin this June, I was excited to have the opportunity to visit an exhibition I had read about called Babylon: Myth and Truth, at the...
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Dept. of Funny Signs: allergic to art
I find the idea of that it’s possible to be allergic to a piece of art inherently funny, but it seems particularly apt at a time when the Prime...
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NUIT BLANCHE: impressions
Words on steel drums (Euphemisms for the intimate enemy, Ruark Lewis), Liberty Village For Nuit Blanche this year, I focused on Liberty Village...