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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Matthew Blackett

  • Every station club

    Over at Torontoist, David Topping has been posting an image every day, for 69 days, of a Toronto subway station, and today is the final day of the...

  • Streets to Screens: August 31

    STREETS TO SCREENS Toronto Public Space Committee fundraiser The Mayor of Tent City (Canada, 2005 • 53min) Director: Rosalie Bellefontaine &bull...

  • Port Authority appoints new board members

    Toronto waterfront, 1918 Yesterday, Spacing reported that the release of federal government report (the Tasse Report) assessing the need for the Toronto...

  • Friday’s headlines

    • Who said cops are lazy? Well, a Toronto Star reader did and asked the Fixer why, after nine years of amalgamation, the Toronto Police HQ on College...

  • Scarborough councillors see the LRT light

    We wrote the other day about a closed-door meeting about the future of the Scarborough RT. The Scarborough Mirror has a report on it: Several Scarborough...

  • More on subway extension

    TTC and York Region officials are applying pressure to Ottawa, according to the Toronto Star, after the Conservatives said they are not ready to commit to...

  • Three people don’t make it “mixed reviews”

    The Star has an article today about the Queen’s Quay pedestrian/bike lane experiment. They had quotes from three residents who didn’t seem...

  • TTC Today: no firm funding, bad mojo at helm, future of the RT

    The federal Conservatives has said that funding for subway expansion is not firm. From the Toronto Star: Federal funding to help extend the Spadina subway...

  • We tear down the good to erect the bad

    Toronto skyline, 1931 Christopher Hume had an excellent piece in the Star yesterday. His opening three paragraphs are a reminder of what we’ve let...

  • Saturday’s public space headlines

    • Roadsworth getting his street cred [ Toronto Star ] • A problem with the Beav on Ward’s Island [ Toronto Star ] • A garden of...

  • Stockholm syndrome, part II: BIKES

    I just returned from a week in Sweden and was quite taken by the country’s advanced urbanity. I have a couple posts to make about my trip with some...

  • More stolen bike tales

    Over at the blog The Tea Makers, there are images of a fellow who CBC security wants to chat with. He has been seen working on bike locks in 30 second to...