Community
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Take cover and run
Walking along Front Street around 10:30 a.m. on Friday, I was briskly instructed by a Intercontinental Hotel on security guard wearing a bright red hard...
By Julie Yamin -
Friday Headlines
• Stonewalled at landfill gate, councillors still want details [ Toronto Star ] • Ontario 2007 budget date set [ cbc ] • Asian long-horned...
By Julie Yamin -
Help Build a Transit City Workshop
The Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA) is currently in the midst of a series of community workshops centred on the City/TTC’s Transit City plan...
By Craig Cal -
Ice Days
There was some talk recently about skating on Grenadier Pond in High Park, and what the ice might be like. Today we discovered the ice was very cold and...
By Shawn Micallef -
A northern flight up Bathurst Street
Spacing’s associate editor Shawn Micallef wrote the lead City article in this week’s Eye Weekly about the life and times of Bathurst Street...
By Matthew Blackett -
This week in NOW
In this week’s NOW, Mike Smith writes about last weekend’s TTC camp in Camp-out with TTC geeks. If you missed Matt Blackett’s report on...
By Spacing -
Dale Duncan at City Hall: Feb 8, 2007
Getting out the muzzle Allan Crawford isn’t allowed to talk to me anymore. The outspoken Parks, Forestry and Recreation employee faced a...
By Dale Duncan -
Meet our Kindergarten Council
Our new City Council has only had a few meetings since their November election, so I momentarily forgot how immature and dysfunctional some of our finest...
By Matthew Blackett -
Wednesday’s mid-afternoon link to articles
Word out of City Hall today is that Astral, Clear Channel, and CBS have submitted their applications for the street furniture program. More to come...
By Matthew Blackett -
Magical skating moment
In medieval European chronicles, the authors would make a special note of years in which the local river froze over, which might happen once a decade...
By Dylan Reid -
Southern Man vs. Fugees
At first glance you could file this next story with those comic tales Canadians like to share about how weird and out-of-whack America can get —...
By Shawn Micallef -
“Public space protection” — but for which “public”?
I had a bit of a disturbing experience yesterday as I was running errands downtown. First, I was glad to see the south Queen sidewalk east of University...
By Leah Sandals