By Shawn Micallef
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Eglinton Station Gets Arty
Toronto’s Live With Culture campaign is taking artwork and performance out of the galleries and theatres and bringing it to where people live, work...
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Go Leafs
On this last of the hot and sticky evenings I was riding down Yonge to the YMCA, thinking it was unusually quiet. I had the streets to myself — or...
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Hot St. Lawrence Design Porn
The good folks at the City of Toronto Planning Department have released a wonderful document on Urban Design Guidelines in the St. Lawrence neighbourhood...
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City Secretly Supports Car Free Day
It seemed fitting that I got a parking ticket on the eve of Car Free Day last week – the holiday the City chose not to support this year, inspiring...
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The Barren Poles of Calgary
There’s a lot of cultural stuff going on Calgary — it isn’t all cows and oil — but you would hardly know it walking down the...
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Wild Capitalism Hunting Games in Calgary
I’m in Calgary for the Art City festival. We’ve set up three [murmur] sites out here. Calgary isn’t the place I thought it was. Very car...
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Documentary on Urban Exploration
A new documentary called “Echoes of Forgotten Places” about Urban Exploration: On the fringes of every city lie the relics of our industrial...
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A Toronto Poster Project
Artist Jackie Kriekle has put up a bunch of posters around Toronto neighbourhoods that invite people to explore and possibly comment on those areas. This...
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Toronto Psychogeography Society
The Toronto Psychogeography Society likes to walk around Toronto (and other places too). Sometimes we post our city-wandering thoughts to our...
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Meeting on the fate of the Gardiner & Street Design
Thursday August 11, 2005 starting at 6:30 Location: 115 the Esplanade (near Church St.) East meeting room, ring bell 6:30pm: street design 7:30pm: the...
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Oh Wente
I avoid Margaret Wente’s column generally, because by doing so I remember that the Globe is a good paper with columnists who actually do some...
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Reading Toronto Spits
Guest writer Chris Thomaidis has put up a series of posts on the Reading Toronto blog about the Leslie Street Spit/Tommy Thompson Park. He talks about the...