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City Manager resigns
Updated (3:55PM) At a media conference held over the lunch hour, Mayor David Miller announced that Shirley Hoy, the City of Toronto’s City Manager...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
ROM quietly raises admission prices… again
I was at the Royal Ontario Museum earlier today for a media view and was shocked to see that the admission price has quietly risen 10% or more across the...
By Leah Sandals -
Banksy identity revealed?
It seems that Banksy, the world’s most popular stencil graffiti artist, has been identified. Part of the allure of Banksy has been the combination...
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“The street is an extension of your living room” Rethinking city streets at Streets are for Picnics
If streets weren’t lined with cars, what would you use them for? This is the question Streets are for People has brought to the fore with public...
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Fringe Benefits continued: “Informal Urbanism”
A key theme of the new exhibition Fringe Benefits (reviewed yesterday) that I found very interesting was the idea of “informal urbanism”...
By Dylan Reid -
Exhibition Review: Fringe Benefits
The attention of Toronto’s “urbanist” community (myself included) tends to focus on the central part of the city, the old City of...
By Dylan Reid -
Frenemies: Not Just for The Hills Anymore
Ah, passive-aggression. It’s the preferred conflict style of many an introverted arty type, myself admittedly included. Despite being a fan of the...
By Leah Sandals -
Pride Weekend Review
Sunday was the conclusion of Pride Toronto‘s ten-day celebration of the city’s queer communities. Culminating in one of North America’s...
By Matthew Hague -
Bike Train 2008 launches today!
This could be you (above). Take the Train — Bring your Bike! Avoid Soaring Gas prices and explore southern Ontario this summer on the Bike Train...
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When Arts + Statistics = Gong Show
It’s June 16. After more than ten days of intense media coverage from all the major print, web, and broadcast media, Luminato has wrapped at last...
By Leah Sandals -
Recent writing: Goats and Glen Murray
ED: Other than a general sense of making Toronto and area interesting, the following articles have nothing in common other than the byline. In...
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Roof-top fights, part II
Last year, soon after I moved into my high-rise apartment, I discovered that the roof-top patio of a nearby apartment would sometimes be used to stage...
By Matthew Blackett