By Shawn Micallef
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Instaflaneur: Inflation is garbage in Scarborough
A weekend wander in Scarborough turned up this ancient sign, representing a municipality that no longer exists. It appears that back in the good old...
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Instaflaneur: long lines of the Regent Park aquatic centre
Late night wandering around Regent Park last night passed by the soon to be opened aquatic centre, part of the regeneration of the neighbourhood...
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Instaflaneur: St. Mark’s Coptic Christian concrete cathedral continues constructing
Let’s round out our week in Markham with a look at the construction of the St. Mark’s Coptic Christian cathedral along Steeles near Warden...
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Instaflaneur: Markham Heritage Estates and the oldest cul-de-sacs in the GTA
Continuing our weekend tour of the 905 we went to the “Markham Heritage Estates,” a “sanctuary of last resort” for historic homes...
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Instaflaneur: Cornell, the Truman Show movie set village in Markham
Weekend 905 exploration led to Cornell, the New Urbanism development in Markham, planned by Andrés Duany — the man behind Celebration and Seaside Florida...
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Instaflaneur: LCBO Summerhill lights it up at night
The LCBO / Summerhill train station palace is lit up nicely at night, like so many buildings in Europe and the U.S. I wrote my Star column a few weeks ago...
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Instaflaneur: E-bike E-bikes E-bikes good lord the E-bikes
E-bikes, those infantilizing-human-dignity-removal-machines, are breeding like electric bunnies. So much so that last Saturday you could not walk down...
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Instaflaneur: underpants out front
Ever since Ontario banned bans on clotheslines, walks through the city can be like a walk through Honest Ed’s, like here in the downtown west side.
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Instaflaneur: late evenings on the Toronto Islands municipal pier
A Sunday afternoon spent on the Hanlan’s Point beach ends waiting for the Wards Island ferry back to the mainland. With ferry cutbacks to an already...
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Toronto from above — big, green and beautiful — a photo essay from a helicopter by Shawn Micallef
This week in my Toronto Star column I write about a helicopter ride I tagged along on last Friday with photographer Cindy Blazevic as she snapped pics...
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Instaflaneur: mid-century mid-rise magnificence with no melodrama in Etobicoke
Here is a fine mid-century mid-rise specimen from Etobicoke. The MayorBrothers & Doug Holyday seem to like Etobicoke, so I’ve been following...
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Instaflaneur: a new regular photo feature on Spacing from Shawn Micallef’s city wanders
Since I got a new iPhone last fall — with its rather good eight megapixel camera — the best and most useful app I installed on it has been Instagram. It...