By Shawn Micallef
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Café l’Urbanité
Maisonneuve city columnist Christopher DeWolf has restarted his Café l’Urbanité forum site after it was hacked to death last fall...
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Goodbye, Regent Park
They’ve started tearing down Regent Park. For weeks now I’ve been walking through the middle of it, on my way from Cabbagetown down to the...
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Starchitect Landing
Editor’s note: The AGO invited a handful of people and organizations from Toronto’s blogging community to be part of the media launch of Frank...
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The Hidden City Photo Contest
The Toronto Psychogeography Society was asked to judge a Hidden City photo contest started on Tropolism, a blog about all things urban and architectural...
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[murmur] vs. Hart House
Our next [murmur] audio documentary project is taking us out of the “true” public spaces of our streets, laneways and parks and into the...
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Queen West Makes Fun of Itself
Another thing making the internet rounds is this short movie making fun of Queen Street West West hipsters. The Hipster Defense League will probably be...
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Detroit Blog
My sister in Windsor sent me a link a couple weeks back to the Detroit Blog — I’ve been slowly going through his archives. All things Detroit...
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The Antisocial Libertarians of England
A neat article by George Monbiot in The Guardian about the culture of car driving in England, and his fear that “the car is slowly turning us, like...
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These bad people
Since I have the luxury of living downtown and not in a violence-prone neighbourhood, and since I don’t know anybody personally touched by violence...
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Reasonable Thoughts on Terrible Events
In these confusing days after the awful Boxing Day shootings — days full of more questions than answers, and political moves like Jane Pitfield...
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Dear Detroit
I’m visiting hometown Windsor right now. Yesterday I went over to Detroit to visit my long lost friend Emily —- I recently rediscovered her...
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No strike, but they don’t use it….
Unlike NYC, the TTC is working fine, so I found a “story” on CityNews (what was wrong with the old CityPulse name — it was cool) last...