Neighbourhoods
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Best of 2006: intervention
The Best Intervention of 2006 goes to the bench installed, without permission of the City, outside of the Parkdale Library on Queen Street West. In...
By Matthew Blackett -
Post Christmas Self-Gift Tip: College Street
Christmas is done so you probably have money from Grand Ma or Weird Uncle to go “buy a present for yourself” because “you are too hard...
By Shawn Micallef -
A tardy alt-weekly round up
This week, NOW’s Mike Smith writes about TTC development: Other side of the tracks. He focuses on the idea of selling TTC land to developers, as a...
By Spacing -
Regent Park Take II — The Bike Man Episodes
It’s a beautiful cold December day, so watch these three summerish short films from Regent Park TV following the adventures of Bike Man and his...
By Shawn Micallef -
Bright and Fuzzy Lights in the Big City
When my sister and I were kids we would ride around Windsor in the back seats of our parents’ cars and rate Christmas displays as we passed them. If...
By Shawn Micallef -
Better Know a Building
To add to the long and growing list of individuals working on Toronto projects close to their hearts that benefit the rest of us, here is TOBuilt. Local...
By Shawn Micallef -
Regent Park Take I
The folks at Regent Park Focus Youth Media Arts Centre have been around since 1989 as a not-for-profit organization that gets area kids involved in media...
By Shawn Micallef -
Regent Park Revitalization Screening Thursday Night
Revitalization is a word that sure sounds good; but is the phenomenon the city’s calling “revitalization” over at Regent Park really a...
By Leah Sandals -
To Suburbia
Today’s National Post Toronto Magazine has a series of 5 articles on evolving neighbourhoods in the city, including the Oakwood neighbourhood north...
By Shawn Micallef -
Friday’s mid-afternoon links to run out the day
Kensington Market declared national historic site [National Post]: Kensington Market, that neighbourhood that has survived for 80 years as a good place to...
By Matthew Blackett -
Eye’s on the street
While NOW’s Mike Smith was spending the week thinking about Scarborough (see post below), Eye Weekly’s Chris Bilton took Mayor David...
By Dale Duncan -
Scarborough in the NOW
NOW city hall reporter (and Spacing contributor) Mike Smith looks at the issues facing the former municipality of Scarborough over the next four years...
By Dale Duncan