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  • Island airport debate

    The debate for federal candidates held on the waterfront last night showed the animosity towards an Island airport is very much a hot local issue. Nealry...

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  • Toronto’s New Year resolutions

    This might be a good time to lay out our wish list for 2006. • Do not approve the EUCAN monster bins: Within the coming months, the City’s...

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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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