By Shawn Micallef
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TIFF goes to Montreal
I was content to let the Toronto International Film Festival pass by without any personal involvement — even riding out my way around Yorkville to...
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[murmur] & the Junction Arts Festival
[murmur] is pleased to announce we have launched our latest project in Toronto’s Junction neighbourhood as part of this weekend’s Junction...
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N8R TXT brings location based poems to your mobile phone
Toronto artist Amos Latteier has just launched N8R TXT, a public art project where you can send in an SMS with your location, anywhere in Ontario, and...
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Good news from Detroit: Kwame Kilpatrick resigns
The breaking news from Detroit City is that Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will resign from office later this month as part of a plea bargain after admitting he...
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P Diddy weighs in on transportation issues
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yh1NHRP3NA[/youtube] It’s unclear if this video is a joke or not, but the AP and CNN seem to be taking it...
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Road Trip: Digby, Nova Scotia
Spacing Associate Editor Shawn Micallef visited his (other) ancestral homeland — Nova Scotia — in early July. The first post in this (delayed...
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Cities at night from space
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEiy4zepuVE[/youtube] A neat video showing photographs of cities from space with a resolution and quality not seen...
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1982 Flashback: Margaret Atwood on Toronto
Found deep in the electronic archives of the New York Times is this long 1982 travel article on Toronto by Margaret Atwood. It’s got the usual...
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San Francisco’s Urbanist on Toronto
As has already been noted here on Spacing Toronto, a delegation from the San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association (SPUR) visited Toronto for...
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“Thunderdusk” and the “sunset of the century”
In the last 1/2 hour I’ve been getting texts and reading Twitters about the “sunset of the century.” Something about a storm and the...
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Malta observed: Quiet days at the beach
Spacing Associate Editor Shawn Micallef is in his ancestral homeland of Malta and was guest blogging on the Wired Malta blog this past weekend and has...
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Malta observed: Paceville and the End of Europe
Spacing Associate Editor Shawn Micallef is in his ancestral homeland of Malta and guest blogging on the Wired Malta blog this weekend and will be...