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The bloody Burlington Races and the war for Lake Ontario
They appeared out of the darkness, looming above the waves. Ten warships sailing across Lake Ontario, far out in the water south of Toronto. They were...
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EVENT: The City as Laboratory
WHAT: The City as Laboratory (TEDxYMCAAcademy 2015) WHEN: Saturday, April 11, 12pm-2pm WHERE: Toronto-Central Grosvenor Street YMCA Centre Auditorium...
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Spacing presents transit wayfinding events in Mississauga & Toronto on Tuesday & Wednesday
MISSISSAUGA EVENT WHAT: Connecting The Dots: Mississauga event WHEN: Tuesday, March 24, 7-9pm WHERE: Sheridan College, Hazel McCallion campus, 4180 Duke...
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LORINC: I’m feeling crabby about the Ferry Terminal competition
Maybe it’s the unending winter, but the five short-listed submissions for re-designing the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal/Harbour Square Park site — made...
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MESLIN: If a billboard falls in a forest… Part 3
Last week a brilliant piece appeared in the New York Times about commercial advertising in public spaces and what the author describes as “the...
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REID: Some thoughts on the 1 Bloor West proposal
Last week, the owner of the land at 1 Bloor West (the former location of Stollery’s, plus some adjacent property) unveiled a proposal for a dramatic...
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Stairs to nowhere, trap streets, and other Toronto oddities
There’s a set of stairs on Greenwood Avenue that lead nowhere. At the top, a wooden fence at the end of someone’s back yard blocks any further...
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A tour of Toronto’s skyline in the summer of 1930
The summer of 1930. It was the beginning of a difficult decade for Toronto, along with much of the rest of the world. The Great Depression had just begun...
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Transit Equity: mind the violence between the gender gap
“I only knew something was wrong when he ripped my headphones from my ears, grabbed me by the back of my neck, bent my right leg and shoved me off the...
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EVENT: Connecting The Dots of transit wayfinding in the GTHA
MISSISSAUGA EVENT WHAT: Connecting The Dots: Mississauga event WHEN: Tuesday, March 24, 7-9pm WHERE: Sheridan College, Hazel McCallion campus, 4180 Duke...
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What the Spadina subway overrun means for Scarborough, pt. 2
EDITOR’S NOTE: Read part one of this series published yesterday When private firms invest in new equipment, the managers must pay close attention to...
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What the Spadina subway overrun means for Scarborough, pt. 1
Parents: hide your children! Apparently, Mayor John Tory is in a state of high dudgeon over the reported (but as yet unconfirmed) $400 million overrun on...
By John Lorinc
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered