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How Toronto learned to love the patio
For all the time Torontonians will spend sipping lager and pinot on patios this summer, it would be easy to conclude that the people of this city have...
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PARKS IN CRISIS part 5: The system worked (slowly) for a west end park
On a warm spring afternoon, the park on the corner of Sorauren and Wabash avenues in the west Toronto neighbourhood of Parkdale looks like a perfect dream...
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BURALE: What we don’t talk about when we talk about carding
This week, Toronto Police Board (TPSB) chair Alok Mukherjee broke his silence and admitted to The Toronto Star that he was cornered into a position where...
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PARKS IN CRISIS part 2: How the money flows
By John Lorinc and Kimberley Noble The information shouldn’t come as a surprise, but the numbers are nonetheless startling. According to data obtained by...
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LIVE STREAM: “The City as Laboratory” — TEDxYMCAAcademy
This is a live stream of the TEDxYMCAAcademy event, “The City as Laboratory.” It runs from 12pm until 2pm on Saturday, April 11, 2015. For...
By Spacing -
Artists to take over Chester station newsstand
A shuttered Gateway Newstand kiosk in Chester station will be opening up for business — and it’ll be showcasing more than just candy bars. A group of...
By Prajakta Dhopade -
EVENT: The City as Laboratory
WHAT: The City as Laboratory (TEDxYMCAAcademy 2015) WHEN: Saturday, April 11, 12pm-2pm WHERE: Toronto-Central Grosvenor Street YMCA Centre Auditorium...
By Spacing -
Transit Equity: mind the violence between the gender gap
“I only knew something was wrong when he ripped my headphones from my ears, grabbed me by the back of my neck, bent my right leg and shoved me off the...
By Jay Pitter -
LORINC: Local communities to help build Metrolinx projects
Just two weeks after Metrolinx’s boring machines broke through the extraction shaft at Allen Road, the regional agency reached another major milestone...
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BURALE: The reality of fighting poverty
If cities had New Year’s resolutions, Toronto’s should be a poverty reduction strategy. According to the new report on child poverty released in...
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The grim history of the Ku Klux Klan in Toronto
Two men in hooded Ku Klux Klan uniforms flash Nazi salutes on a porch. Beside them, a woman with “white power” tattooed crudely across her chest stands...
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BURALE: Tory needs to repair trust between police and community
Mayor John Tory said he wanted to improve the relationship between the Toronto Police Service (TPS) and the community, and signaled his intention to sit...
By Idil Burale