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dandyhorse Launch Party April 29!
dandyhorse Launch Party! Come celebrate Toronto on Two Wheels! The Spring 2009 issue of dandyhorse has hit the presses, and we’re celebrating...
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Sidewalk enforcement
Here’s a rare but welcome sight — a vehicle parked on the sidewalk being ticketed. Too often, parking half on the sidewalk is treated as...
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In defense of the urban coyote
In defense of the urban coyote by Matt Howatt They have adapted to urban life and survived near the top of the urban food chain mostly out of sight and...
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How do Torontonians behave on transit?
Last week, Spacing contributing editor Christopher DeWolf, who is now stationed in Hong Kong, asked readers of Spacing Montreal their thoughts on how...
By Matthew Blackett -
TTC Tales: What’s she wearing?
Enough of my friends have enjoyed this story that I thought Spacing‘s readers might like it too, as a weekend diversion. I was recently on the 504...
By Dylan Reid -
Harper ignores needs of Toronto’s most vulnerable
When word started leaking out last night through Mayor David Miller via Twitter that Transit City wasn’t funded in the budget brought down by the...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Kingwell vs. Florida?
In an article in The Walrus earlier this year, Mark Kingwell referred to fellow urban thinker/public intellectual/University of Toronto professor/sometime...
By Dylan Reid -
AGO Citizenship Ceremony
Spacing editor Shawn Micallef is the Blogger-in-Residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Art Matters blog in anticipation of the grand re-opening...
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Halloween stories and photos
Halloween is one of the biggest pedestrian-oriented events of the year. Spacing encourages our readers to share their unique experiences and photos with...
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City budget moves on TTC, roads and cycling
At a noon hour budget committee meeting, the City of Toronto publicly launched its capital budget approval process. While the biggest dollar figures...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Let’s rename the Toronto Reference Library the “The Jane Jacobs Reference Library”
The work and life of Jane Jacobs (wiki) has become closely associated with Toronto. Though she started out in New York — and wrote about cities in...
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Religious protest of a different kind
Most Torontonians, at one time or another, have passed a protest against China’s treatment of members of the Fulan Gong. But there is another...
By Matthew Blackett