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  • Full moon riding

    Today marks the 3rd anniversary of activist Tooker Gomberg’s death. To commemorate his life there will be a full moon Take the Tooker group ride...

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  • Replacing one bad habit with another

    Streets Are For People did a great job of highlighting the hypocrisy of the recent campaign of the Canadian Cancer Society: if you quit smoking you can...

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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...

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  • Friday Headlines

    • Stonewalled at landfill gate, councillors still want details [ Toronto Star ] • Ontario 2007 budget date set [ cbc ] • Asian long-horned...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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