Green Space
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Battle brewing over school playground
Just how public is a public school playground? That’s the question currently being asked at Hillcrest Junior Public School, my old elementary school just...
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VIDEO: Skateboarding in Kabul
I was never very good at skateboarding as a kid, though I spent way too many nights trying to slide the bottom of my board along the curb outside my...
By Matthew Blackett -
LORINC: Greenwashing by any other name
I normally have a lot of time for the Toronto Environmental Alliance, but the heat this week must have wiped out the organization’s institutional memory...
By John Lorinc -
Earthquake! Tsunami warning for G20 fake lake
Yes, an earthquake shook Toronto. And Ottawa. And Montreal, New York, Philadelphia, Windsor, places in Ohio…. There has also been a tsunami warning...
By Matthew Blackett -
SUMMER SHORTS 008: Birds of Tommy Thompson Park
ON TODAY’S SUMMER SHORT: What’s the name of the bird that wakes you up every morning with its high pitched call? What species make up Toronto’s...
By Spacing -
The Randstad: Ring City of the Netherlands
The main urban hubs of the Randstad, clockwise from top left: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht During my time in the Netherlands I was...
By Marcus Bowman -
Youth and the spaces around schools
EDITOR’S NOTE: Josh Fullan, who teaches English and Civics at the University of Toronto Schools (a private high school affiliated with the...
By Spacing -
Could Toronto lease out the Gardiner and DVP?
There was an interesting article in the Star recently (with a misleading headline) about how Chicago’s chief financial officer arranged leases on...
By Dylan Reid -
Toronto Environmental Alliance issues election priorities
The Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA) has published a list of key policy priorities it hopes Toronto’s mayoral candidates will endorse. Noting...
By Marcus Bowman -
A week of pedestrian death: any explanation?
As pedestrians deaths have mounted on a daily basis over the past week in the GTA (10 in the past 8 days), I’ve been asked more and more often what...
By Dylan Reid -
The TTC and Toronto’s anti-idling bylaw
Spacing recently received complaints of TTC vehicles idling for long periods of time in the bus loop of Wellesley station. Most irksome about the incident...
By Marcus Bowman -
SPACING: Release party tonight!
WHAT: release party for winter 2009-2010 issue of Spacing WHEN: Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 7pm-midnight WHERE: Toronto Reference Library, The Appel...
By Spacing