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LORINC: Toronto becomes RogersTown
Amazingly and shockingly, after years of public hand-wringing in Canada about the inflationary consequences of over-concentrated sectors (banking...
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Porch Perspectives
This story is published in conjunction with Spacing’s upcoming “summer reading” issue, which will be available on bookstore shelves shortly. I approach an...
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OP-ED: Invitation as Urban Policy
This spring, at Bloomberg CityLab in Madrid, social prescribing reached the agenda of the world’s largest cities summit for the first time. It was a...
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OP-ED: Introducing “Care Blocks”
Imagine spending ten hours a day caring for your children and elderly parents, cooking, cleaning, and ferrying them between appointments on a bus that...
By Obaid Khan -
What youth want for the 2026 World Cup
This article is published in conjunction with the new issue of Spacing focused on soccer in Toronto. Soccer may be the beautiful game, but this summer’s...
By Josh Fullan -
NEW ISSUE: Soccer City
The tens of thousands of soccer fans who will descend on Toronto in June for the six World Cup games our city is hosting may not think of Toronto as a...
By Dylan Reid -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 93, Everything Eglinton
To compliment the latest Eglinton-themed issue of Spacing Magazine, we begin with a celebration. Our regular transit commentators Toronto Star columnist...
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Winter soccer
In the leadup to Toronto hosting World Cup games in June 2026, we will be publishing stories about soccer in Toronto, culminating with our upcoming Spring...
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Jimmy Cliff and the roots of Toronto’s reggae scene, Part 2
“A variety of things went wrong.” The Globe’s unflattering verdict noted that Cliff was not as enthralling to watch as Marley, whose two-hour show...
By Cheryl Thompson -
Jimmy Cliff and the roots of Toronto’s reggae scene, Part 1
On November 24, 2025, Jamaican reggae legend Jimmy Cliff (né James Chambers) died at age 81. Twenty years prior, Cliff became only the fourth reggae...
By Cheryl Thompson -
Nostalgia about neighbourhood retail is not a strategy
I have lived for many years less than 30 metres from what was once one of Toronto’s storied corner stores — a green grocer known locally as...
By John Lorinc -
Running the City
Dawn doesn’t so much break over Toronto on marathon morning as creep in behind the sound of trucks, radios, and zip-ties. Streets that usually hum with...
By Alex Kharabian