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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...
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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...
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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...
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Subway trains become office space
If you find yourself in London, England anytime soon, you may want to check out the work of the Village Underground in the Shoreditch neighbourhood. They...
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Enlivening downtown London at LOLA
LONDON, ONT. — After a summer spent in Toronto where art festivals abound, I headed down to a city whose arts festival is a recent and exciting...
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Portraits from the People Issue release party
Last night, Spacing celebrated the release of our People Issue, the 12th installment of the magazine. We had a blast in the rec-room-styled Canadian...
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SPACING RELEASE PARTY: Tuesday!
WHAT: Summer-Fall 2008 release party WHEN: Tuesday, September 9th, 8pm-12:30am WHERE: Canadian Corps, 201 Niagara St., south of King, west of Bathurst HOW...
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That’s Our Howard
I got this quote from Councillor Howard Moscoe in June while tracking down the story about the Conservative attack ads on gas pumps. The quote just...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler