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Toronto’s Great Dead Monkey Project — or, Mabel the Swimming Wonder Monkey
The details of the story vary wildly from one source to another. In fact, there are two completely different versions of the tale: “The Great Dead Monkey...
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ROAD TRIP: Grab one of the last tickets to Pittsburgh
WHAT: Urbanism Road Trip: PITTSBURGH WHEN: Friday-Sunday, July 11-13 WHERE: Pittsburgh (departing from Toronto) COST: $200 (does not include hotel room or...
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Toronto World Pride: A video look back at the 1989 Pride celebration
As Toronto begins its rather massive World Pride celebrations this year, we’re pleased to present another film of a previous Toronto Pride...
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LORINC: An adult conversation about transit, redux
Last week, I proposed in this space three key moves that Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals could make to signal their seriousness about funding GTA transit...
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That time when Toronto’s subway was the best in North America
With this post, Spacing Toronto welcomes a new contributor, Shoshanna Saxe. Shoshanna is a proud Torontonian and a civil engineer. From 2009 to 2012 she...
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MESLIN: If a billboard falls in a forest… Part 1
Bathurst and Davenport cross each other just below the steep shoreline of ancient Lake Iroquois. The intersection is lush with greenery and steeped in...
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LORINC: How Wynne can repair Liberals public transit credibility
With premier Kathleen Wynne promising to move quickly to deliver a throne speech, re-introduce the budget that won her last week’s election and appoint a...
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The view from a condo — a resident of the new Fort York neighbourhood sees much potential as the area matures
EDITOR: We’re pleased to publish a guest essay by Kanishk Bhatia, a Toronto resident who recently returned to the city after living in London...
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Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Friday
POLITICS After Ontario election, Doug Ford says he wants to give Progressive Conservative party an ‘enema’ [National Post] TRANSIT Liberal win a boost for...
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LORINC: What Ontario election means for Toronto’s mayoral race
Last night’s stunning win for Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne will almost certainly trigger not one but two leadership races — Tim Hudak will get the boot...
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The Canadian military occupation of Iceland — a strange tale from World War II
Iceland didn’t want any part of the Second World War. It was all tiny and defenseless and alone out there in the north Atlantic. Most of the hundred...
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SPACING INVESTIGATION, PART 5: The bottom line on the Scarborough subway
During tonight’s provincial election debate, Tim Hudak and Andrea Horwath will spend plenty of time accusing Kathleen Wynne and the Ontario Liberal Party...
By John Lorinc
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered