Urban Design

The Un-Avenues: Integrating new intensity for housing, open spaces, and streets

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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model... Read More

Bikes

2021 Toronto Bike Plan Update: Does it Build Back Better?

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The City of Toronto is currently working on the 2021 – 2023 Cycling Implementation Plan, which will come to the Infrastructure and... Read More

Politics

LORINC: Editing the moralism out of post-pandemic Toronto

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We met friends for dinner on the weekend, on the patio of a little taco place along St. Clair West. Outside the patio, on the... Read More

Community

Anishnawbe Health finds a new home

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On Indigenous People’s Day, June 21, Anishnawbe Health Toronto held its ground-breaking ceremony for the Indigenous Hub that will... Read More

Politics

LORINC: Fiddling while Toronto burns

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I watched Greta Thunberg ream out world leaders at the Austrian World Summit, a climate conference, last week, and found myself... Read More

Bikes

Scarborough’s First Bicycle Path – and the students behind it

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The university students behind Scarborough’s first bicycle path couldn’t have predicted that it would one day provide a lifeline to... Read More

Politics

LORINC: Trinity Bellwoods encampment and the persistence of Toronto’s old moral order

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The violent clearing of the encampments at Trinity Bellwoods Park on Tuesday revealed Toronto at not only its most Tory, pun intended... Read More

Community

Preserving the queer identity in safe spaces

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LGBTQ+ spaces in urban areas have been establishing themselves for decades, growing larger and larger as each generation brings its... Read More

History

The Moccasin Identifier Project: Marking Indigenous history on the land

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Earlier this month, I spoke to Carolyn King, historian, former Chief of the Mississaugas of the Credit, and founder of the Moccasin... Read More

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