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  • Pigeon Condo Talks

    This is last minute, for today’s talk, but we’ll pretend everybody is reading this on a Blackberry or Palm Treo while moving around the city...

  • Native Tree Walk at Brickworks

    June 11th 2-4PM Join arborist, Todd Irvine, for a guided tour of the native trees within the stunning quarry and adjacent ravine of the Don Valley Brick...

  • Live, from North York

    Hello from historic Gibson house, one of the City of Toronto’s many fine museums. I just went over to the historic plaque, to see why it was...

  • Live from Etobicoke Centre

    Sitting in the parking lot of Mongomery’s Inn “Etobicoke’s Museum” on the banks of the mighty Mimico Creek at Islington and...

  • T.Ode Continues (to battle road rage)

    This morning our trailer was parked along the side of St. Lawrence Market until about noon, on the west side. Airstreams were built for Montana, not...

  • The Networked City … and Saturday Tour

    The Networked City Walk along Yonge Street from Dundas Square to the waterfront and you will hear stories about the neighbourhood, revisit the old Bulova...

  • Dog Eat Dog

    Samual L. Huntington wrote his famous and controversial “Clash of Civilizations” essay back in 1993, holding that the next big war will fought...

  • Airstream Locations this week

    T.Ode finally launched on Friday night with a visit from the Mayor and Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, the Poet Laureate, and we have been travelling around the...

  • This Weekend, The Bottom of Yonge, for your pleasure

    Tonight there is reason to go to the foot of Yonge Street. More specifically, a parking lot on the south side of Queens Quay. There, between 6-9pm...

  • Trees in the Sky

    Why do so many Toronto street trees die, but as Detroit Blog shows, trees can grow just fine on the top of abandoned skyscrapers. Maybe if we abandoned...

  • The Yellow Slasher

    Bikeshare sent us a press release about many of their bikes being vandelized lately. I suppose it’s one of those things that makes you wonder about...

  • TSA Film Series: In the Public Realm

    Toronto Society of Architects Film Series: In the Public Realm May 19, th, 7:30 p.m., FREE Royal Ontario Museum – Glass Room, 4th Floor, 100...