Green Space
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That time Rob Ford voted to create Transit City
Tuesday morning, at a Queen’s Park media scrum, Mayor Rob Ford declared, “As you know, there was never a vote on council for Transit City, and...
By Jonathan Goldsbie -
The future of Tower Renewal
The Tower Neighbourhood Renewal plan (aka Mayor’s Tower Renewal) is an ambitious initiative with great potential to increase the quality of life of...
By Adrian Lightstone -
Hope springs eternal at Charles Sauriol Environmental Dinner
A young man took the podium near the beginning of the recent Charles Sauriol Environmental Dinner for the Living City. He read a poem he wrote about the...
By Jessica Lemieux -
PODCAST: Post-election, post-Katrina, and winter island living
CHECK OUT SPACING RADIO’S NEWEST PODCAST The votes have been counted and Toronto has a new mayor. But what now? We sit down with Alan Broadbent...
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STREET SCENE: Otis
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
By Jerry Waese -
IDEAS FOR TORONTO: Mandatory hybrid taxis
My first, and only, experience in one of Toronto’s hybrid taxis was a couple of months ago. I have since been bewildered by the lack of hybrid taxis on...
By Adrian Lightstone -
The Toronto Zoo — out there, on the edge of the city
The following is a reprint of my recent Eye Weekly Psychogeography column where I went to the Zoo. Photo by Jacob Earl. In August one of the Toronto Zoo’s...
By Shawn Micallef -
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...
By Jake Schabas -
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