Green Space
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Feds to discuss emissions with carmakers
From CBC.ca: Environment Minister Rona Ambrose will meet representatives of Canada’s car manufacturing companies on Tuesday in Ottawa, likely to...
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Green Toronto Festival on Friday
If you have spare time on Friday, you should saunter down to the Toronto Green Festival and Energy Challenge at Nathan Phillips Square (things start up at...
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Green space for the living
Last week, the Toronto and East York Community Council shot down a plan to build a 24,000-square-foot visitation center in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. This...
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It’s Car Free Day… do you know where your councillor is?
Cross-posted from Spacing Votes — by Claire Salloum September 22 (today!) is International Car Free Day. This year in Toronto, the city is having...
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Re-imagining Lamport Stadium
Cross-posted to Spacing Votes — post by Julia Lo Unless you play field hockey, it’s likely that most of you have never been to Allan A...
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Toronto’s garbage woes answered?
Cross-posted to Spacing Votes I sometimes watch City Council meetings on Rogers. Today I turned it on and found councillors debating whether to buy a...
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Dufferin Grove Park is building a place to pee
Everyone seems to like Dufferin Grove Park, and it’s not hard to understand why. They’ve got outdoor bread ovens, a community garden, snack...
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The lost city of Chernobyl
I stumbled across a site with a batch of images from Chernobyl. Besides being abandoned, the city has also become a haven for graffiti artists. Also worth...
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Burning for Sweden
Now that a deadline has been set to stop trucking Toronto’s garbage to Michigan, the problem of what to do with the city’s trash is on the...
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Hume’s Stockholm Syndrome II
Christopher Hume is on a Stockholm kick. Today in the Toronto Star he writes about Hammarby Sjostad, a waterfront community built over the last decade on...
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Vancouver and Victoria public spaces
Andy Reeves will be covering ad creep and streetscape issues during the 2006 election for the Spacing Votes blog. Here’s a report by Reeves from his...
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Monarchs everywhere!
Monarchs, monarchs, everywhere! From today’s Star: They’re suddenly everywhere — majestic black and orange butterflies fluttering in...
By Matthew Blackett