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Motor mania: even in the 50s road rage existed
The revelation earlier today that the driver who assaulted a cyclist yesterday was a police officer has added a new twist to the discussion about road...
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Driver and cyclist fight caught on video
UPDATE: a news release came across our desks just a moment ago: the driver is a police officer! (albeit, an officer on leave). “On Wednesday, May 9...
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Happy Jane Jacobs Day!
Here in Toronto, it’s Jane Jacobs Day. Go for a walk tonight. Here’s a CBC Archive feature to watch when you get back.
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Cyclist Profile: Peggy Nash — ‘Cycling a positive behaviour’
In the lead up to, and during, Bike Week this year I will be featuring some cyclist profiles. These will be profiles of regular people who ride bikes in...
By Tammy Thorne -
Bike Friday and the green agenda
Today is BikeFriday and cyclists all over the city rode to work this morning in groups. Tonight at 6:30 we ride together again for Critical Mass. Meet at...
By Tammy Thorne -
Lukewarm doc on global hotness & cool city politics flick
Hot Docs is almost — but not quite! — over and there’s still lots of films worth seeing. Here’s one for Mr. Baird & Mr. Harper to kick...
By Leah Sandals -
It makes me happy
Riding my bike makes me happy. That is why I would like to share this article by an Edmontonian cyclist-soul-sister called, Biking as spiritual...
By Tammy Thorne -
Let’s all love movies about hating Toronto and about what terrible gentrifiers we are
Last night, a few Spacing editors had an opportunity to screen two, I would say, very important new documentaries about Toronto: Let’s All Hate...
By Leah Sandals -
This will be the best weekend of the year
A few weeks ago, in the little “God [or] Devil is in the Details” section in Eye Weekly, I wrote about the melting snow leaving behind a...
By Shawn Micallef -
Jane’s Walk
To honour Jane Jacobs, who died a year ago, Mayor David Miller announced in November 2006 that May 4 would officially be “Jane Jacobs Day” in...
By Dylan Reid -
Street food is in the air
I’ve often heard people wonder why it is that the only food you can buy from a street vendor in Toronto is a sausage, when the city is full of...
By Dylan Reid -
ROM makes a deal
Back in January I posted about the Royal Ontario Museum‘s attempt to get out of paying the usual fee to the city for the encroachment on public...
By Dylan Reid