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  • Activate the Park

    Activate the Park Butterfield Park, south end of OCAD building 100 McCaul Street Thursday March 30, 3-6pm If you have a some free time on Thursday...

  • Newmindspace subway party tonight

    Just in from the HQ of newmindspace SUBWAY PARTY TONIGHT The theme: “Oh, the places you’ll go!” by Dr. Seuss. Think bubbles and...

  • Developing Vaughan

    Today’s development story is not about the waterfront. Its about “downtown” Vaughan. It seems developers like the idea of the Spadina...

  • Waterfront takes next step

    From the Toronto Star today: Today, an old cement block warehouse will come tumbling down on King St., east of Toronto’s downtown. The demolition of...

  • Google and transit

    We had this recent post about the TTC and Google getting together to make a trip planner map called Google Transit. Portland is the only city currently...

  • Sit-in at Parkdale’s Globe

    Some community members of Parkdale are a little upset that the new World Peace Monument does not include benches. They claim the Parkdale BIA purposely...

  • How to take the zazz out of Pizzazz

    On a day when transit advocates like myself should be cheering (see money influx from Ontario budget announced today), I want to highlight a transit...

  • Update on destroyed sidewalk carving

    A quick update on the sidewalk carving destroyed by City staff on Wednesday. James from Broken Pencil who originally tipped us off, says “I watched...

  • Canadians believe subway likely terrosist target

    Canadians believe a terrorist attack on their country is unlikely but feel if one did happen, the Toronto subway is the most probable target, CTV is...

  • Sidewalk carving removed

    A reliable source (a Broken Pencil magazine editor) has told Spacing that the sidewalk carvings found at King and Simcoe, made by a man who asked for...

  • SPACING: Comments on the Spacing Wire

    Some of you may have noticed that we are now allowing comments on the Spacing Wire. We will turn on the comments function for posts that we feel need to...

  • The TTC and Google

    As we posted back on December 8th, 2005, the TTC is hoping to get our system into the Google Transit feature. From the Star: Google has asked the TTC for...