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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 -
Activate the Park II
For the second year in a row, our first-year interaction design students at the Ontario College of Art and Design have been charged with the task of...
By Shawn Micallef -
Homeless Signs
Those who read city blogs like BlogTO and various urban-minded Flickr feeds may have seen photos of a series of official looking signs around town that...
By Shawn Micallef -
Pedestrian signals next target of outdoor advertising?
Bike Toronto has just broken the news of an April 1 initiative at city hall to raise revenue by selling advertising space in the unused part of pedestrian...
By Dylan Reid -
Dale Duncan at City Hall: March 29th, 2007
Getting out the foreign vote They say diversity is our strength, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at Toronto city council — a mere 6.8...
By Dale Duncan -
Pay the speeding ticket or take it to court?
Because a family member has been in a North York hospital for the last two weeks, I’ve been in possession of my mother’s car so I can hit the...
By Matthew Blackett