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Ford Fest Scarborough — Revisiting Bendale circa 2004
Tonight is the Ford Brother’s Scarborough “Ford Fest” at Thomson Park in the Bendale neighbourhood. If the party is anything like the...
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Growing up in an Etobicoke Highrise & the sound of Toronto’s heartbeat
Poor amenities. Bad transit. Poor. Bad. Badly poor and poorly bad. You hear these things often about so called tower-in-the-park buildings that sprouted...
By Sheraz Khan -
Thinking Local: An Architecture for Humanity Toronto Lecture
This past Tuesday night, I joined a packed house at CSI Annex for the latest of Architecture for Humanity Toronto’s Lecture & Symposium Series on the...
By Nicole Bruun-Meyer -
What to do in the event of a zombie attack
An unidentified parasite is infecting people across the city. Legions of infected Torontonians lurch through the streets, in search of one thing...
By Mike Bulko -
Toronto educator & skateboard evangelist Craig Morrison
When I arrived at Saving Gigi to meet Craig Morrison, founding teacher of the Oasis Skateboard Factory, I almost didn’t recognize him. Tall, bearded, and...
By Hilary Best -
Event: Keep Toronto Reading 2013
Every April, Toronto Public Library reminds us how much this city loves to read with Keep Toronto Reading, a month-long celebration of literature. At...
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Urban Planet: Youngstown and other American cities are shrinking to survive
If you are a Bruce Springsteen fan, you might already be aware of the hard times that have hit Youngstown, Ohio. Once a steel giant, Youngstown has lost...
By Jonathan Zettel -
Walking the last of the Toronto Green Line — Casa Loma to the Bridgeman Transformer Station
EDITOR: This is the final of Shawn Micallef’s posts following the Green Line hydro corridor through midtown Toronto, location of the Green Line...
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KEN GREENBERG: The debilitating myth of a divided Toronto
This is a crucial passage for Toronto, one that will call upon all of our collective ingenuity and reserves of good will to get beyond the debilitating...
By Ken Greenberg -
EVENTS: Toronto Talks
With the academic year now well underway, there is an abundance of free lectures taking place in Toronto. Here are a few that are happening this week...
By Dale Duncan -
Phase three of Regent Park revitalization gets underway
The Toronto Community Housing Corporation and The Daniels Corporation unveiled Phase Three of the five-part Regent Park revitalization project last week...
By Andrew Russell -
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...
By Shawn Micallef