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Wednesday’s mid-afternoon link to articles
Word out of City Hall today is that Astral, Clear Channel, and CBS have submitted their applications for the street furniture program. More to come...
By Matthew Blackett -
Magical skating moment
In medieval European chronicles, the authors would make a special note of years in which the local river froze over, which might happen once a decade...
By Dylan Reid -
A bike-tastic vision for the waterfront
Paris bike lane pic by Gadl Last week I attended the first public meeting for the Central Waterfront redesign. I am happy to report that the presentations...
By Tammy Thorne -
Thursday afternoon links to articles
Ken Greenberg has a post on Reading Toronto that outlines his opinion on the Queen West Triangle decision and the OMB. Its a great read from one of...
By Matthew Blackett -
Public art gettin’ busy on your t-rash
Most of the manhole cover lovers (er, methinks we need a new word for “manhole”) out there are well aware of this already, but last night at...
By Leah Sandals -
Article links to kill time on Monday afternoon
illustration of 48 Abell, Queen St. W. I’ve compiled a bunch of links from blogs, today’s papers, and the weekend papers. Also, Robert...
By Matthew Blackett -
Dale Duncan heads to City Hall
Spacing‘s managing editor Dale Duncan is now writing a weekly column for Eye Weekly on the soap opera that is known as City Hall. Each week...
By Spacing -
Portlands Energy Centre to host Canada’s largest solar research facility
A press release (PDF) was issued today announcing that the Portlands Energy Centre, the embattled power plant going up in the Portlands, will host...
By Ian Malczewski -
Best of 2006: bike lanes
It’s nearly impossible to pick a “best” bike lane for 2006 — I mean, 10 kilometres were added to the bikeway network last year...
By Tammy Thorne -
Best of 2006: lists from around the continent
Did you know that for the first time in North America there are more poor residents of suburbs than central cities? Or that America’s older...
By Matthew Blackett -
Best of 2006: Tree Pit Liberation
All over Toronto in 2006 people and businesses have been removing the cement covers that strangle our street trees, turning that little patch of uncovered...
By Shawn Micallef -
This week’s alternative reading
In this week’s NOW, Mike Smith describes our mayor as “a kitten with a mandate — and now, the lieutenants to carry it out.†He writes...
By Spacing