History
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Let’s all love movies about hating Toronto and about what terrible gentrifiers we are
Last night, a few Spacing editors had an opportunity to screen two, I would say, very important new documentaries about Toronto: Let’s All Hate...
By Leah Sandals -
Tuesday’s Headlines
• Urban dream deferred [ Toronto Star ] • Neighbourhoods in need [ Toronto Star ] • Gimme shelter — and some lights, too [ Toronto...
By Julie Yamin -
Vimy Ridge
An interesting fact about the square kilometer of land surrounding the Canadian National Vimy Memorial found on Hill 145 in the the Pas-de-Calais is that...
By Shawn Micallef -
Books about Toronto at Archives tonight
Join the City of Toronto Archives and the Archives of Ontario on Wednesday, April 4 to celebrate Archives Awareness week. Hear from some of...
By Matthew Blackett -
A museum about Toronto finally coming to life?
The Toronto museum, an idea that has been bantied about for years, seems to have found a home: Toronto’s future museum celebrating the city’s...
By Matthew Blackett -
Tap into TO! gives a great tour
Planning on coming to Toronto? don’t have the cash to spend on a bus tour? No problem. Tap into TO! is a greeter program with the City of Toronto...
By Julie Yamin -
Monday (and weekend) headlines
A compendium of articles from the weekend and Monday. TRANSIT ISSUES • Mind the transit funding gap [ Toronto Star ] • Toronto transit dream...
By Matthew Blackett -
Whatever happened to Old Toronto?
Interested in the ways in which human behaviour, space, design, and culture interact? Or how they have the ability to foster new relationships between...
By Julie Yamin -
Exploring the ‘burbs: Ebenezer
In one of the newest parts of Brampton is one of several juxtapositions that occur when Toronto’s urban sprawl takes over small villages and...
By Sean Marshall -
Where have our streetcars gone?
It has been a bit of a mystery to me why the TTC (and Toronto for that matter) doesn’t take its transit history as seriously as it should. London...
By Sean Marshall -
Toronto, before and after
I love before and after photos. It shows how much things change and how much they stay the same. The above images are looking west on Queen St. West from...
By Matthew Blackett -
Sunday’s headlines
• CN disputes strike’s legality [ Toronto Star ] • Escaped slaves helped build Toronto [ Toronto Star ] • Mayors endorse GST scheme...
By Matthew Blackett