By Shawn Micallef
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High and lonely in Detroit
I’m sitting on the 54th floor of the Detroit Marriott hotel as the wind shakes this 73-story perfectly round skyscraper, the middle tower of the...
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Toronto Cyclists Union Survey
I went for a walk on the weekend with some visitors from Windsor and, as usually happens with visitors to Toronto, they remarked on the sheer amount of...
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Event Guide: Heritage Toronto Awards on October 27
One of our favorite events each year is the Heritage Toronto Awards. As I mentioned last year, these awards are an important morale booster as sometimes...
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Wall Street Bailout: There’s a bike in that pork
The Wall Street Bailout has, of course, been dominating the news the past week (along with some other minor events). Seeing American politics in action...
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Nuit Blanche: Behind the scenes with Blinkenlights
I had occasion to be up in one of the City Hall towers today and got a behind the scenes peek of Blinkenlights’ Nuit Blanche installation...
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Event Guide: CFC Media Lab prototype launch at Nuit Blanche
Images from TRANSPORT Each year the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab launches a new crop of new media prototypes created by lab residents. The...
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Viva on Strike at 4AM
Our York Region readers will have a sunny day to take a long bike ride or gridlocked drive around the GTA as Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113 will go...
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2008 Election(s): Urban rural divide
An essay in the Globe and Mail by John Duffy ran a few weeks ago but is worth reading if you didn’t see it as it explores the way the urban rural...
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2008 Election: Bored in Toronto Centre
Oh Canada! – a new anthem for a new day from missjdub on Vimeo. Things here in the Toronto Centre riding are rather boring this election season...
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Nuit Blanche performance looking for zombie participants
If walking around the city all night during Nuit Blanche is not enough for you, the Zombies in Condoland performance by Canadian artist Jillian McDonald...
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Red Rockets: I love to love you but sometimes it ain’t easy
The following piece was published yesterday in the National Post. It’s a bit of a love letter to Toronto’s iconic streetcars, but was born out...
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Slate Magazine wonders how Canada got mean
There is an election underway in Canada and, on the face of it, Canadians don’t seem particularly enthusiastic about it. Some of our own anecdotal...