By Liz Clayton
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Transit Furniture Sign O’ The Times
NEW YORK — The American obesity epidemic always seems most visible in my native Midwest — but evidence of the national widening can be found...
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Exciting new trash bin graces NYC’s Union Square
NEW YORK — Though waste receptacle culture here in New York City regularly makes me hearken back longingly for Toronto’s more progressive (if...
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Chicago’s Festival of Maps
CHICAGO — Not much sounds more appealing than a Festival of Maps, and Chicago delivered that holiday gift (and continues to deliver it) in its...
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Washington DC: Without Representation
WASHINGTON, DC — It is still fall right now in Washington, DC. Leaves cling to trees and only occasionally scatter in a yellow pile. This is my...
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Canada, let her keep a memento
“I could fill up the lake with the things I didn’t say Had a good run anyway Had a good run anyway” — Final Fantasy, “The CN...
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Community Garden Paves Way for “Improvements”?
So-called “Bloorcourt Village” residents were startled to see the former Concord Avenue Community Gardens south of Bloor suddenly more barren...
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Have a book, leave a book. Need a book, take a book.
Though it would surely strike fear in the heart of illegal-newspaper-box-hating Mayor David Miller, a recent trip to Chicago witnessed an act of public...