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  • Go Leafs

    On this last of the hot and sticky evenings I was riding down Yonge to the YMCA, thinking it was unusually quiet. I had the streets to myself — or...

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  • Billboards and art in Halifax

    Whenever I see a billboard or ad that has little or no information on it, I suspect a sneaky but clever ad campaign. Contact, the photo festival that...

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  • Public Toilet summit

    Yes, there is a conference for every possible topic or vocation out there. The World Toilet Summit is wrapping up today in Belfast, Ireland. One of the...

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  • City Council this week

    There are some interesting things going down at September’s meeting of City Council. Here’s a primer: 1. Video screens on the Gardiner: As the...

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  • City Secretly Supports Car Free Day

    It seemed fitting that I got a parking ticket on the eve of Car Free Day last week – the holiday the City chose not to support this year, inspiring...

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  • Keeping Segways off sidewalks

    Following a resolution by the Toronto Pedestrian Committee in April against allowing Segway scooters on sidewalks, the local distributor started a...

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  • Who’s Driving the City?

    While London is installing solar powered lighting in its busstops and New York is putting thousands of new bus shelters, newsstands and, public washrooms...

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  • Bumvertising

    I was up the other night watching the Daily Show when they did a report on Bumvertising. Benjamin Rogovy, a 22-year-old “entrepreneur”, as...

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  • Viacom’s breaking all the rules

    The Toronto Public Space Committee has researched the contract that Viacom has with the City of Toronto for ads on transit shelters and has found that...

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  • Adding insult to injury

    It’s not enough that the City has allowed Astral Media to put up massive billboards in our parks disguised as bogus “information...

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  • The High Cost of Free Parking

    Terrence Belford writes a rather one-sided article about Toronto’s impending parking crisis in the Globe. What is bad news to the Globe: That is the...

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  • No to TVs in subway cars

    On Wednesday, TTC commissioners voted 4 to 3 against a pilot project that would place TV screens with endless commercial loops in our subway cars. Hats...

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