History
How racism in Ontario schools today is connected to a history of segregation
By Funké Aladejebi
Toronto’s Africentric Alternative School first opened in 2009 after years of advocacy and then months of heated public debates and... Read More
NEW SPACING BOOK: ‘Packaged Toronto’ and the emergence of the city’s design aesthetic
By Matthew Blackett
LINK: VISIT THE SPACING STORE TO BUY THIS BOOK Back in 2011, I was brainstorming ideas for future projects with local historian... Read More
EXCERPT FROM ‘UNCLE’: Aunt Jemima in Chicago
By Cheryl Thompson
Excerpted with permission from Uncle: Race, Nostalgia and the Politics of Loyalty, published this month by Coach House Books... Read More
The ‘bashment’ parties of my childhood are Black history
By Cheryl Thompson
In 2002, reggae artist Sean Paul shot the video for his song ‘Get Busy/Like Glue,’ in Vaughan. Directed by Toronto’s own Director X... Read More
OP-ED: Why we have to save the first parliament site
By Rollo Myers and Ron Williamson
Recent reports that the Queen’s Park may expropriate the First Parliament site, at Parliament and Front Streets, for construction of... Read More
LORINC: Raising the stakes in the MZO wars
By John Lorinc
The judge who handed down a temporary injunction last week, halting the demolition of the historic Dominion Foundry in the West... Read More
Sam Carr and Toronto’s Soviet spies
By Tyler Wentzell
Sam Carr walked out of the Don Jail on a crisp autumn day in 1942. He had been living underground for two years, and detained for the... Read More
Weston Road as my main street
By Peter MacCallum
This selection of photographs by Peter MacCallum documenting Weston Road is published in conjunction with Spacing’s new issue... Read More
LORINC: Tall or small is a false choice between main streets and intensification
By John Lorinc
At its meeting Monday, the Toronto Preservation Board (TPB) voted to adopt a set of staff recommendations that seemed, to some... Read More
REID: Piketty and the decline of “dirty mansions”
By Dylan Reid
Toronto’s affordable housing crisis has many facets. One of these many facets is the conversion – or rather, re-conversion – of big... Read More