By Jake Schabas
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Thursday’s Headlines
STRIKE • Tentative settlement [ PDF – Globe & Mail ] • City employees back to work on Friday? [ Toronto Star ] • Is this the...
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STRiDAs and skyscrapers: Bike store opens in First Canadian Place
It’s not every day that you find a bike store in one of North America’s largest bank buildings. In the concourse level of First Canadian Place...
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World Wide Wednesday: Roundabouts, beaches and dumpsters
Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites...
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Wednesday’s Headlines
STRIKE • 5 Answers to your strike questions [ Toronto Star ] • Let’s get to work, Mayor says [ Toronto Star ] • Union delays contract...
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Green roof up on Eglinton West subway station
TTC workers were out watering the new green roof on top of Eglinton West subway station yesterday morning. The 9,000 square-foot garden is planted almost...
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Tuesday’s Headlines
STRIKE • Strike aftermath: Who blinked? [ Toronto Star ] • There will be a political price for chaos from strike [ Toronto Star ] &bull...
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Montreal Monday: Sewage treatment, nut trees and urban villages
Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montreal. We’ll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that...
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Monday’s Headlines
STRIKE • Do or die for strike talks [ Toronto Star ] • Why not binding arbitration over trash? [ Toronto Star ] • Deal or no deal, no one...
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Secret garden at Eglinton Flats
Biking along the Eglinton bridge over the Humber, I spotted a tiny little garden on the eastern bank of the river just north of the bridge. The garden is...
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Friday’s Headlines
WATERFRONT • Politicians celebrate waterfront’s new look [ Toronto Star ] • Hope floats on Toronto’s waterfront [ Globe & Mail ...
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Urban tree-planting in Toronto
It’s 7am on an overcast Wednesday morning. Zoe and her six co-workers stand underneath a tree along the Humber River, surveying their previous...
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Re-Burbia: Re-designing the suburbs contest
Dwell Magazine and Inhabitat.com are hosting a design competition around re-visioning the suburbs. With the goal to re-use the built environment of...