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Mary Pickford’s nightmare honeymoon
It was 1920. Mary Pickford was the most famous woman in the world. She’d been born in Toronto in the late 1800s: on University Avenue — where Sick...
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LORINC: Ignore Ford at your own peril
On the first day of September, 2010, news reports about Toronto’s mayoralty race were dominated by matters both trivial and disconcertingly prescient...
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LORINC: John Tory’s not-so-hypothetical Scarborough Subway problem
After Olivia Chow’s horrible week last week, John Tory has seen his transit platform placed under a high-power microscope in recent days, with skeptical...
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PREORDER: New streetcar profile t-shirts
WHAT: Pre-order for Spacing’s new streetcar series of shirts WHEN: Wednesday, August 27th – Friday, September 12th WHERE: Our e-store SHIPS...
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LORINC: The mixed legacy of Karen Stintz
In many ways, Karen Stintz’s entirely predictable departure from the mayoral race last week provides a useful dose of clarity in a still confusing...
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BOOK REVIEW: Unruly Places
I have to be favourably inclined towards a book whose Canadian edition preface opens with a shout-out to Toronto urban explorer Ninjalicious and his zine...
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Philadelphia’s airport rail link: what could have been
EDITOR’S NOTE: This post is intended as a follow up to Glyn Bowerman’s commentary from yesterday on the high fares planned for the...
By Sean Marshall -
NXT City Prize: Resilient spaces with Joe Berridge
The NXT CITY PRIZE is all about vision to reimagine Toronto’s public spaces and inject a sense of energy, dynamism and reflexivity. With a focus on ideas...
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The Don Mills Curling Rink is a lost modernist gem
In aerial photos from the 1960s and 70s, the Don Mills Curling Rink looks like an bright white spaceship at the corner of Don Mills and The Donway, a...
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The UP Express: has Metrolinx overpriced new link to airport?
By next spring, business class jet-setters who rely on Pearson Airport will be able to enjoy a direct, 25-minute link between Toronto’s largest...
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The very first ride at the CNE
It all started back in the mid-1800s, as a relatively small provincial fair. The earliest version of the CNE was held in a field behind Upper Canada...
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Logan Ave.: An unofficial slow street
“Slow zones” — neighbourhoods where the maximum speed limit is 30 km/hr (or 20 mph in the US/UK) — are becoming popular in various...
By Dylan Reid
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered