Media
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You Are Here sticker activism in the PATH
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzaLWoVtkZ8[/youtube] A few well-intentioned Torontonians have created their own kind of civic-minded activism for...
By Matthew Blackett -
Vote for Spacing as Best Local Blog in Canada
Spacing was happy to see that we made the shortlist of Best Local Blog in the Canadian Blog Awards (as were a number of other Toronto blogs —...
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Playground Sponsorship: Car Dealerships & Divas
While home for the holidays last week, just as Capital One announced it was going to donate $85,000 to cover tonight’s free TTC rides, I discovered...
By Shawn Micallef -
Time lapse Toronto
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=0KohSucx_9o[/youtube] video by Reboot Your Computer I have a weak spot for time lapse videos. It may have to do with...
By Matthew Blackett -
Armchair flâneur: Google Street View
Since that day in 1993 when the University of Windsor gave me my first internet account (that required a bureaucratic sign-up process and a two-week wait...
By Shawn Micallef -
Rating the walkability of your neighbourhood
In the fall, I stumbled across an interesting web site called Walk Score dedicated to rating the walkability of neighbourhoods. Originally, it was only...
By Matthew Blackett -
TTC subway map in Chinese
Recently, Statistics Canada released a report that analysed a number of trends across the country, and one of the findings showed Toronto to be a growing...
By Matthew Blackett -
It was twenty-seven years ago today…
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wcm68UteL0M[/youtube] …that John Lennon was killed in New York. There are many memorials to Lennon on YouTube...
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Spacing Green Issue launch party photos & video
Many thanks to all who braved a chilly night and headed to the east side of downtown for Spacing’s Green Issue launch party Monday night. We had a...
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More Toronto library branches go wireless
The world’s busiest public library system is (yet again) even better, part of a pattern at the city department it’s most difficult to find...
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SCTV brings the Maritimes to Yonge Street
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=vCcbUDBqVzo[/youtube] In the comment section of the recent Toronto as Baltimore post reader “Michael”...
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Toronto as Baltimore
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Fjss4dErY9c[/youtube] Often I’ll watch movies that I’m not into if they’re filmed in Toronto, just...
By Shawn Micallef