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By Shawn Micallef

  • Interactive 05

    Interactive 05, a celebration of interactive culture in public space, is on until Monday at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre down on Front Street...

  • This just in from Etobicoke…

    The other day, we reported on Doug Holyday’s proposal to sell Nathan Phillips Square naming rights to make some money. Our Etobicoke correspondent...

  • Watering

    Spacing editor Dale posted recently on the Eye Weekly blog about the goodness of Toronto’s water, and a recent proposal to bottle it to make the...

  • TTC Ridership on the Up-and-Up

    We’ve been hearing for so long about the decline in public transportation, from ridership to funding, so it’s especially nice when it seems...

  • Call for Submissions: Public Space Invaders Film Night

    Spacing is looking for submissions for our second Public Space Invaders film night. Last January, on a bitterly cold night, 200 people packed the Drake...

  • Rivers vs. Highways

    A friend pointed me towards David Byrne’s October 17th Journal Entry where he wonders why we think natural things are beautiful before we think...

  • [murmur] Launches on Spadina!

    Please join us tomorrow (Thursday Oct 20th) at Grossman’s Tavern (379 Spadina Avenue at Cecil) from 6-9pm for a (free) reception celebrating the...

  • Tar Babies

    Last weekend I visited the ancestral suburban split-level homestead in dear Windsor, Ontario for Thanksgiving. There is no public transportation there...

  • The Cold War Against St. Clair

    How is your St. Clair boycott going? Mine is going just fine — I even (mostly) shut my eyes yesterday as I crossed the pariah avenue while out for...

  • More on St. Clair

    Some folks are writing letters and calling up the SOS group to voice their displeasure in the way they’ve stopped City building. They list their...

  • More on Montreal Civic Politics

    If you’re not busy planning your St. Clair boycott, let your mind wander up the 401 again. In response to my post about Projet Montreal below, and...

  • ProJet MontrĂ©al

    It’s kind of nice that, at least officially, party politics is not a lynchpin of Canadian municipal elections. Watching the post-Katrina terror...