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You park like an asshole
I occasionally drive, borrowing my mom’s car once a month to pick up large items out in the ‘burbs. This means I also get to experience the...
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Article links to kill time on Monday afternoon
illustration of 48 Abell, Queen St. W. I’ve compiled a bunch of links from blogs, today’s papers, and the weekend papers. Also, Robert...
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Canadians & the Common Good report
Canada25 has just launched its fourth national policy report: “Canadians & the Common Good: Building a Civic Nation Through Civic...
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In this week’s NOW
Dylan Reid based his latest NOW article, No place to meet, on the 64 comments made to his recent Spacing wire post, in which he asked: “if you had...
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City Hall sniping, TTC developments, and assorted links
CITY HALL articles: • Councillor decries secrecy of hydro pole deal [ Globe and Mail ] • Inside City Hall feature [ Globe and Mail ] &bull...
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Where would you meet in Toronto?
I’m reading a very interesting book called The Wisdom of Crowds, by James Surowiecki. The author describes a fascinating experiment by a social...
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Segways banned in Holland
From today’s Toronto Star: Dutch police banned Segways from all public roads, bike paths and walkways as of New Year’s Day, surprising the...
By Matthew Blackett -
Terminal Two Twilight
Holiday week required two trips two days in a row to Pearson’s Terminal Two via car to drop off and pick up various current and former Torontonians...
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A tardy alt-weekly round up
This week, NOW’s Mike Smith writes about TTC development: Other side of the tracks. He focuses on the idea of selling TTC land to developers, as a...
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Ye Old Merry Christmas
Spacing editor Anna Bowness has said, a few times, that Sesame Street taught us everything we needed to know about urbanism when we were 3. It’s...
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Perverse Psychogeography?
“Psychogeography” seems to be generally considered a relatively benign observational activity — a random drifting through the city to...
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Reports of Nathan Phillips’s death have been greatly exagerated
Again on Saturday, after checking on the Spadina Thimble and meandering back east through the Queen West cardigan sweater district, I saw a commotion in...
By Shawn Micallef