Features
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BOOKS: What are you reading?
For those of you with a city-focused book fetish, you should be looking forward to Spacing’s upcoming issue where we review a handful of excellent...
By Matthew Blackett -
Why do stores keep one door locked?
One of my greatest pet peeves is when retail stores have one door open and keep the other door closed and locked. Since my employment experience has...
By Matthew Blackett -
Passive aggression in Cabbagetown
We have all been cussing, silently or otherwise, at people who do not shovel their alloted segment of sidewalk. I like shoveling snow — it’s...
By Shawn Micallef -
Please, no photos, we’re British
Londoners seem to keep their wits about them in stressful and even terrible times, as we saw during the Tube and bus bombings a few years ago...
By Shawn Micallef -
One Book: Blogrolling to the CBC
CBC Toronto reporter Mike Wise kept his own One Book blog during the month of February. It’s worth a visit to get his take on how the book mixes...
By Shawn Micallef -
Helmet policy causes conflict at city rinks
The City of Toronto is having difficulty enforcing a six-year-old helmet policy, which has come under criticism in the city’s south end. “We have...
By Kevin Kennedy -
Tree Tuesday: Comparing maples
Every Tuesday, Todd Irvine of LEAF posts a stop from the Toronto Tree Tours, a collaborative project of LEAF and the Toronto Public Space Committee. The...
By Todd Irvine -
One Book: The Moving Shoreline
The docks are two hundred and forty feet out from the lake’s original shoreline. Landfill pushed everything forward. Buildings erupted out of it...
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Globe and Mailmobile
On Saturday this Globe and Mail Kia was parked in Dundas Square. At first I didn’t take much notice, thinking it was just another promotional stunt...
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One book: The great divide
John and Bridget were living together in a part of town called Riverdale. David had educated them (whether they wanted to be or not) in the history of...
By Dale Duncan -
Toronto meets Marrakesh
Given the winter we’ve been having it would seem impossible to think of Toronto as being in any way exotic, much less to draw comparisons between...
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Tree Tuesday: A tree-of-heaven busts-a-move
Every Tuesday, Todd Irvine of LEAF posts a stop from the Toronto Tree Tours, a collaborative project of LEAF and the Toronto Public Space Committee. The...
By Todd Irvine