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  • Toronto’s Public Spaces in 2005

    Both Eye Weekly and NOW ran excellent 2005 year in review features. Here’s the stuff they pointed out that the Spacing Wire thinks is worth...

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  • Edible Estates

    Growing food in your front yard is unconventional in just about any North American city, but in many places, especially the suburbs, farming your yard...

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  • Winter election fun!

    Who said a winter election can’t be fun? Spacing contributor and photoblogger-about-town Adam Krawesky [ www.inconduit.com ] captured people in...

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  • PARK(ing)

    The San Francisco based group Rebar created their own roadwitching by renting a parking space for a temporary park. 70% of public land is devoted to the...

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  • BMX park along the waterfont?

    Tomorrow evening (Wednesday, December 14) Councillor Sylvia Watson is holding a community meeting to discuss the idea of building a BMX course at Marilyn...

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  • Hybrid taxis in NYC

    On November 10, 2005 the first hybrid taxi fleet was launched in New York City. The vehicle runs on a combination of gas and electricity and generally...

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  • The posters of climate change

    Yvonne Bambrick, one of the organizers behind Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington Market, sent along a photo of some of the street art that lined the streets...

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  • TONIGHT: Ecobunk Awards

    Do you ever get upset when you see blatantly misleading advertisements? So does the Toronto Environmental Alliance. Each year they host Ecobunk, a...

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  • Greening Toronto’s roofs

    Spacing Wire reader Brendan Stewart sent this along: The City of Toronto is currently in the middle of a process to develop a policy that will encourage...

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  • The mayor has a challenger

    It’s election season, but the focus for Spacing this week is not on the shenanigans of Ottawa politicians, but on the upcoming city elections just...

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  • DIPS and other fun at City Hall

    New local street standards for Toronto A joint committee of Works and Planning today considered the “DIPS” report from staff which sets...

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  • Community Gardening 101

    Yes, the ground is verging on frozen right now, but the people at the Toronto Community Garden Network and Foodshare want to put their winter to good use...

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