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Double Event: Toronto the Good party & a Detroit + Toronto Symposium Friday Oct 25
It’s Toronto the Good time again, the annual party that celebrates Toronto for the sake of Toronto. This time it’s a little more serious as...
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Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Monday
TRANSIT Pan Am Games: Planners work to get athletes to the game on time [The Star] Gardiner Expressway’s replacement could bring us together: Hume...
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LORINC: Gardiner’s future a gift to Ford election bid
I’d like to pose an impolite question to the talented officials at Waterfront Toronto (WT) and their dedicated colleagues in the City’s waterfront...
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Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Friday
CITY HALL Mammoliti, Ford are the last people who should criticize sleeping employee, Rosie DiManno says [Toronto Star] Mammoliti defends taking alleged...
By Julie Fish -
Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Thursday
POLITICS Mammoliti says staffer was sleeping on the job [CTV] Press Council dismisses complaints against The Globe’s Doug Ford investigation; he...
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A Torontonian abroad: German tourism, first impressions and Canada’s Wonderland
I became familiar with a certain reality of tourism a month ago on a full-fledged ‘euro trip’. The reality was, it would impossible to comprehend the fine...
By Sheraz Khan -
Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Wednesday
ROBOCALLS Robo-calls showed ‘leadership,’ Rob Ford says as councillor plans formal complaint [Globe & Mail] Rob Ford refutes councillor’s...
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LORINC: The War on LRT has begun
In the aftermath of a council debate that showcased some of the most venal and short-sighted political decision-making I’ve ever witnessed at City Hall, a...
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Toronto celebrates the false end of the Great Boer War — the anatomy of a photo from 1901
It’s the summer of 1901 and we’re looking east down King Street from the intersection at Yonge. (You can see what the same view looks like...
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Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Tuesday
ROBOCALLS Paul Ainslie says he is a victim of a Rob Ford robocall (with audio) [Toronto Sun] Councillor Paul Ainslie quits Rob Ford’s executive...
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EVENT: Sustainability and its Discontents
WHAT: Sustainability and its Discontents WHEN: Thursday, October 17 | 6:30 – 8:00pm WHERE: Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles Street West Part of the...
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Province not onside with council’s Scarborough subway decision
Mayor Ford may be doing his end zone dance after a recent win at council, but it’s the Province who calls the game, and they’re not done playing...
By Glyn Bowerman
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered