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ROAD TRIP: Denver’s 16th Street Mall
DENVER, COLORADO — After viewing one of the craziest buildings I have ever seen — the Cadet Chapel of the Air Forces in Colorado Springs...
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ROAD TRIP: No puking or perversion in Albuquerque, please
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO — The title of this post is from a sign I found along the main drag of Albuquerque yesterday. I wanted to use “I guess...
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ROAD TRIP: Phoenix, Arizona to Gallup, New Mexico
Last week I made my vacation plans public by asking Spacing Toronto readers to help decide my road trip route from Phoenix to Toronto (and to point out...
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Toronto: A City Becoming… er, Way too Insular
So it’s a bit late for this, but I wanted to share a few thoughts from the Toronto: A City Becoming launch that happened on Monday night at the...
By Leah Sandals -
City Clerk slammed by information czar
Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner has rebuked Toronto City Clerk Ulli Watkiss’s attempt to withhold files from a Toronto...
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Public Museums Followup: Overcharging online too?
Following up on developments (and/or degenerations) in access to Canada’s public museums, I was struck by net-law expert Michael Geist’s...
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Boorish Vikings bore Toronto
This tool-mobile has been rolling around Toronto for the last few weeks, but I was finally able to get a shot of it by the Toronto Reference Library...
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Mississauga not fiscal paradise anymore
The City of Mississauga, hailed by critics of the City of Toronto as a financially sustainable paradise for many years, is now anything but. It’s...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Help pick my road trip route
Next week, I take off for a week-long vacation. But I’m not the type of person who likes to stop working while I’m away — I need a...
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Weekend diversions
“Sidewalk Psychiatry” is a public-art sidewalk project that plays with the fact that people often think about personal issues while they walk...
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Presenting: Spacing Magazine Hut
Spacing magazine is pleased to announce we have obtained the naming rights to the Leslie Street Spit Quonset Hut. Months of negotiations with the Toronto...
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Toronto’s French Connection
Casa Loma may be Toronto’s favourite and best-known castle, but chateaus still abound. The chateau style was used all over the world, most often for...
By Thomas Wicks