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“Fun and frolic” at a Toronto double hanging
“The morning broke dark and gloomy, and with the first faint streaks of early dawn the workmen were industriously employed in making ready the...
By Chris Bateman -
Marcel Duchamp and John Cage play musical chess in Toronto
On a cold winter’s night in 1968, a phone rang in an apartment on Spadina Road. The man who answered it was Lowell Cross, an American student at the...
By Adam Bunch -
MESLIN: Connecting the Dots – Exposing the influence of lobbyists at City Hall
Five years ago, Toronto City Council banned all corporate and union contributions for municipal election campaigns. This was supposed to eliminate the...
By Dave Meslin -
Transit Equity Introduction: achieving enhanced outcomes and possibilities
The year I started ninth grade, I was both nervous and excited. Having been the student council president and overall instigator at my junior high, I...
By Jay Pitter -
LORINC: This ice isn’t transparent
Here’s my question about last week’s deal to have two private firms ante up funds to keep some of the City’s rinks open: Is there any kind of firewall...
By John Lorinc -
The transformer next door
The lights are on but there’s no-one home at 640 Millwood Rd. The two-storey suburban home near Bayview and Eglinton doesn’t exactly stand out among its...
By Chris Bateman -
A Toronto statue from the graveyard of the British Empire
Our story ends in Toronto, but it starts nearly 12,000 kilometers away: in India, at a place called Coronation Park. It’s a grand, wide-open space...
By Adam Bunch -
The Scarborough Subway and Smart Track are about to collide
Anyone who thinks they can read between the lines of the two sets of council votes this week — about the Scarborough subway and Smart Track — should...
By John Lorinc -
Toronto is a geologic force: the Lost Rivers guide to the PATH system
Last month, I joined a Lost Rivers walk within the PATH system. Typically engaged with tracing the routes of buried creeks within Toronto’s topography...
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LORINC: John Tory and the need for an activist mayor
At their confab in Toronto last week, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities big city mayors caucus welcomed John Tory like the return of the prodigal...
By John Lorinc -
SPACING STORE: Valentine’s gifts for your city-loving lover
WHAT: Spacing Valentine’s gift packs WHEN: Now until Valentine’s Day WHERE: Spacing Store, 401 Richmond St W (east entrance, near Peter St...
By Mike Bulko -
Welcome to your private nuclear fallout shelter
In 1959, the builders of Regency Acres, a 700-home subdivision in Aurora, Ontario, offered something no other homebuilder in the country could: a private...
By Chris Bateman
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered