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The promises and perils of AI at the Provocation Ideas Festival
This weekend sees the launch of more events from the fine folk at Provocation Ideas Festival. “Our mission is to be a new public square of civic...
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EXCLUSIVE: What is the source of Therme’s financing?
Senior editor John Lorinc examines how the company behind the Ontario Place mega-spa makes money
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OP-ED: Making encampments obsolete should be a priority for Toronto’s next mayor
No one wants encampments. Not the people who live in them, who would almost certainly rather live in a stable, adequate home. Not the neighbours, who want...
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LORINC: Fourplex on the Council floor
Senior editor John Lorinc examines City Council's new policy that allows multi-unit houses to be built as-of-right in Toronto neighbourhoods
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MAYOR’S RACE: The twisted politics of Toronto’s byelection
Are you, dear reader, keeping it all straight? Like a river that has overtopped its banks with a sudden spring melt, the mayoral by-election has rapidly...
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Space for Grief: A public space model for community connection and healing
Tucked behind shelves holding books on suicide, financial literacy, and farming, on the third floor of the Toronto Reference Library, I see an arch. A...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 070, Toronto Mayoral Election Redux
Now that John Tory has officially stepped down as mayor, the field of candidates hoping to replace him is a big one. With roughly 50 candidates on the...
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MAYOR’S RACE: We need to talk about Doug
I have no idea what Ontario Place will look like in 2118, but I feel confident in predicting that Therme Canada’s 65,000 sq.-m human aquarium...
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MAYOR’S RACE: Will it be a fear-mongering or city-building election?
The late Jack Layton used to have an adage about public life that profoundly informed his approach to politics: Proposition, he’d say, not...
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MAYOR’S RACE: Parsing the politics of Mark Saunders’ performative allyship
Toronto’s mayoral election is historic. So many candidates and so many political affiliations, identities, and experiences. Voting is going to be a...
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MAYOR’S RACE: Candidates oppose Ford’s Ontario Place spa plans
In back-to-back water’s edge press conferences last week, Ana Bailao and Josh Matlow planted their respective flags on the West Island at Ontario...
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Making places out of Toronto Centre’s neglected laneways
There’s a tactic in marketing: surprise and delight. It’s used to attract and engage with customers new and old by interacting with them in unexpected...
By Maryam Siddiqi
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered