Housing
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 064, Toronto Shelter Collapse
Those working with unhoused people in Toronto, like Sanctuary Toronto outreach worker Lorraine Lam, are warning about the total collapse of the...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 063, The War on Robots
We end the year with a classic case of man vs. machine, as journalist and culture writer Graham Isador talks about tiny delivery robots taking over city...
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Regent Park Revitalization: A Progress Report by Spacing
Beginning this week, Toronto Community Housing Corp. (TCHC) and Tridel formally commence a public consultation process that marks the beginning of the...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 062, The PATH ahead for Toronto’s underground
With many people still working from home, the future of Toronto’s PATH system — the underground mall serving the financial towers above — is in...
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LORINC: The Revenge of the Market Urbanists
Here’s a tale of two cities… In the City of Toronto (pop. 2.8 million), there are about 1.1 million private dwellings, and most of the growth...
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Modest Hopes: The story of Anne O’Rourke of Corktown
This is an excerpt from Modest Hopes: Homes and Stories of Toronto’s Workers from the 1820s to the 1920s — by Don Loucks and Leslie Valpy — which...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 061, Community sports and urban farming
In this episode, we follow up on the municipal elections in Edmonton and Calgary, with a bit of a rant about rooming houses. Then, we talk to journalist...
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LORINC: Council prepares to bring in inclusionary zoning, finally (updated).
Update: Council’s planning and housing committee approved an amended version of the inclusionary zoning staff report today (October 28), which...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 060, Alberta’s municipal power vacuum
With the mayors of both Edmonton and Calgary stepping down, and Alberta municipal elections taking place October 18, we decided to bring you all out west...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 059, Federal Election Panel 2021
A snap federal election in the face of a potential “fourth wave” of the COVID-19 pandemic means an emergency panel episode to discuss the...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 058, 5th Anniversary
It’s the five-year anniversary of the current Spacing Radio show! In this episode, we speak to Diana Chan McNally, community worker with the Toronto...
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LORINC: The failing of governance of Toronto
The debacle that was last week’s so-called debate over multi-tenant housing, which ended in a stalemate, was quite plainly evidence of a grievous failure...
By John Lorinc