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Facebook Friday: Pollution prevention
As the name suggests, every Friday Spacing will profile Facebook groups that are using the social network to articulate their experiences and share...
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Dale Duncan at City Hall: July 5, 2007
The heat is on “Heat is a much under-reported killer,” Toronto’s well-known street nurse, Cathy Crowe, told me last fall during the...
By Dale Duncan -
The Sam’s sign vs. the CityTV truck
CityTV will soon be vacating the 299 Queen Street West address that was for years the iconic home of CityTV, Much Music and other cable television...
By Sean Marshall -
Photoblogging, feline style
Gotta love this project — a German fellow rigged up a keychain digital camera to take a photo every 2.5 minutes and attached it to his cat’s...
By Matthew Blackett -
SPACING POLL: how many bikes have been stolen from you?
About this time every year a friend tells me they’ve had their bike stolen. Three years ago I had my bike of 10 years stolen from me while I manned...
By Matthew Blackett -
Facebook Friday: Getting on track with the TTC
Toronto’s Facebook network has grown exponentially in the past couple years. With over half a million users to date, Torontonians form the single...
By Sarah Magwood -
Dale Duncan at City Hall: June 29, 2007
Don’t trash the new waste plan For those of you disappointed with the new garbage collection system city council approved by a vote of 26-18 on June...
By Dale Duncan -
Montreal notes
Back in May, Spacing publisher Matt Blackett and myself drove up to Montreal for a few days to work on a Spacing project (details to come). While we were...
By Dylan Reid -
Adding art to our street furniture
Ecomedia, the new company that bought out EUCAN and took control of Toronto’s silver box waste bins, introduced an interesting program today that is...
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Sexual Innuendo + Anti-Speed Racing Ads = Safer Pedestrians?
Just came across an interesting approach to reducing speed racing — and making streets safer for pedestrians — from the land downunda. It...
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The bins of Borth and Aberystwyth
Documentation continues on the world of World Class rubbish bins with no advertising. In the seaside town of Borth on the west coast of Wales the tide was...
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Los Angeles’ cyclist vs. motorist relationship
A year and a half ago, Adam Krawesky captured a conflict on camera (above photo series) between a motorist and a cyclist, and most Spacing Wire readers...
By Matthew Blackett