Culture
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The Ward Cabaret is Toronto’s original musical
When immigrants arrived in Toronto in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, they disembarked either at Union Station or one of the commercial wharves...
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The Toronto Reference Library’s rich collection of Communist newspapers
I am probably the last person you would expect to be perusing Communist literature. I come from a family of Mounties. I have worked on Bay Street. I have...
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LORINC: Jagmeet Singh’s historic campaign
In 1990, Norman Inkster, then the commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, recommended to the federal government that Sikh Mounties be allowed...
By John Lorinc -
Connecting the dots of Nuit Blanche and Toronto Biennial
It’s an exciting time for Toronto. There is a sense of possibility that has always been here but is now manifesting in tangible ways. New models of...
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WexPOPS pops-up in a vibrant suburban stripmall
WexPOPS is a pilot of the plazaPOPS project, an initiative spearheaded by Daniel Rotsztain, aka The Urban Geographer, and Brendan Stewart (OALA, CAHP)...
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When is efficient too efficient? Tech lessons from the port city of Hamburg
Cities can have ports, and many do. Moreover, successful ports make for thriving cities. But ports are not cities. They are not models for cities and they...
By Tricia Wood -
A City on the cusp: A Torontonian’s visit to Detroit
Claire Stevenson-Blythe is entering her second year in the Master of Science in Planning program at the University of Toronto. Her interests are in...
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Vanishing venues: new funding models favour festivals over small music clubs
Since January 2017, Toronto has lost more than one live music venue per month, with 76A, The Central, The Comfort Zone, Hard Rock Café, Harlem (East)...
By Michael Rancic -
REID: On Public Etiquette
It’s not a coincidence that words for people who understand good etiquette – polite, urbane – are related to classical words for cities (Greek polis...
By Dylan Reid -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 034, Provincial Creatures
This month we look at how major swings in provincial politics are affecting cities across Canada. We talk to journalist and Walkcast host Tim Querengesser...
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Stories, Struggles and Song: Cantonese Opera in Toronto
Cantonese opera is in my genes. Whenever my mother put me and my two younger sisters down for our afternoon nap, she’d crank up the turntable and play an...
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Jackie Shane and archive anger
Jackie Shane (b. May 15, 1940; d. February 22, 2019) is gone, and this time it’s true. I say ‘this time’ because after Jackie left Toronto in 1971...
By Steven Maynard