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LORINC: Campaign Notes — Five-and-a-half Questions for Olivia Chow
Four in, and now we wait… In the hangover-like aftermath of last week — which started with a pair of jockeyed candidacy registrations and ended with...
By John Lorinc -
EVENT: Toronto’s First Post Office fundraiser pays tribute to “The Dumbells” March 6th
Our friends at The Town of York Historical Society are throwing a 180th birthday party for Toronto (and along the way raising some needed cash for...
By Shawn Micallef -
Started from the bottom now we’re here
The exhibition “Hands-On Urbanism: How to Make a Difference,” at Urbanspace Gallery until March 7th, showcases stories of groups of people — who aren’t...
By Dale Duncan -
Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Friday
POLITICS ‘Rogue’: Rob Ford and Doug Ford escalate attacks on Chief Bill Blair [Toronto Star] Toronto’s mayoral election could hinge on get-out-the-vote...
By Elaine Kelly-Canning -
SPACINGSTORE: Neighbourhood toques
WHAT: City of Neighbourhood toques sale WHEN: Until Friday, Feb 28 WHERE: Spacingstore.ca HOW MUCH: $30 after discount code (see below) They were one of...
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IN THIS ISSUE: The next 10 years
When we decided to do a “10” theme for our 10th anniversary issue, we knew that we needed to look forwards as well as backwards, and we knew...
By Dylan Reid -
LORINC: Campaign Notes — Tory & Stintz are in & Doug Ford goes after Nick Kouvalis
Is “relief” the gravy metaphor for the 2014 race? Near the top of John Tory’s slickly designed website, it says the candidate “vows to build relief line....
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LORINC: Why aren’t we bundling transit into the Gardiner removal decision?
With the sort of discretion normally reserved for wait staff and funeral directors, Waterfront Toronto’s (WT) board very quietly released its...
By John Lorinc -
EVENT: Justice in Housing in Toronto
The Justice in Toronto Lecture Series will hold its second event of 2014 on Thursday, February 27. This evening lecture will explore Justice in Housing in...
By Dale Duncan -
Winterdream — a 1993 walk through Allan Gardens and Cawthra Park
Occasionally Toronto filmmaker James Leahy puts together some of the Super 8 footage he shot in Toronto from the late 1980s onwards. Back in June we...
By Shawn Micallef -
Recycling and shared space — A walk through an apartment dweller’s experience
“Recycling? Yeah we tried it for a while, but it just was too… complicated.” It’s a commonly-heard phrase in apartment complexes where recycling is often...
By Sheraz Khan -
Artists on the Underground: movie and panel discussion
I’ll be part of a panel discussion on Saturday night after a showing of the movie “Artists on the Underground” – a documentary...
By Dylan Reid
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered