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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 -
Toronto’s rebel-fighting Freemason, William Jarvis
There’s a spot right in the middle of London, England, with a long-forgotten connection to the history of Toronto. It’s on the Strand, on the edge of the...
By Adam Bunch -
REID: That’s a nice laneway, but it’s no woonerf
One of the more intriguing elements of the West Don Lands development was the promise that it would include some “woonerfs“ — a Dutch...
By Dylan Reid -
LORINC: Local communities to help build Metrolinx projects
Just two weeks after Metrolinx’s boring machines broke through the extraction shaft at Allen Road, the regional agency reached another major milestone...
By John Lorinc -
Kids ride free – what’s next?
Growing up I was friends with a kid named Stacey. Although popular, I envied what I perceived to be her level of sophistication. She was a head taller...
By Jay Pitter -
Exploring “downtown” Centreville in the winter: A ghost town in more ways than one
At the peak of it’s population in the 1950s, homes, cottages, and mansions lined the entirety of Toronto Island from Ward’s Island in the east...
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BURALE: We need to reframe how we talk about our city
Toronto Life this month is running a cover profile about the inner suburbs. The article sought to expose the divisions within our city, but it ended up...
By Idil Burale -
A Toronto historical map of London, England
Toronto has a deeper connection to London, England than it does to almost any other city in the world. After all, our entire country was essentially ruled...
By Adam Bunch -
This is what the Toronto subway tastes like
Union Station tastes like fried onions. James Wannerton knows this because he tastes words. Due to a rare and unusual neurological condition called...
By Chris Bateman -
EVENT: Haphead Toronto premiere January 22
This Thursday, January 22, Haphead — an 8-episode webseries set in Toronto in the year 2025 — will premiere on the big screen at the Royal Theatre (608...
By Dale Duncan
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered