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LORINC: The death knell for Toronto’s Integrity Commissioner?
When council this week turns its frayed attention to integrity commissioner Janet Leiper’s follow-up report about Rob Ford’s practice of asking lobbyists...
By John Lorinc -
Monday’s headlines
CITY HALL • Video: on mayor Rob Ford’s agenda: getting that backyard pile of sand moved [The Star] • Fiorito: Mayor Rob Ford is Toronto’s...
By Laura McConnell -
Spacing Saturday: Transit Planning, the Tall Building Century and Founding Spacington
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. A new city was...
By Marcus Bowman -
STREET SCENE: West of Roncy
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
By Jerry Waese -
Urban Planet: Super tall
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Toronto in Berlin in Toronto: the Andrew poster project continues
I was in Berlin in December for a few weeks wandering around. It’s a good walking city. East. West. Amazing differences and amazing activity going...
By Shawn Micallef -
Friday’s headlines
CITY HALL • Majority of Toronto residents don’t approve of ‘jobs for life’ clause: poll [The Sun] • Toronto labour fight: as lockout...
By Laura McConnell -
Fowl neighbours: Growing up next to backyard chickens
Editor’s Note: Last week, Toronto’s liscencing committee voted against the idea of lifting the (rarely-enforced) ban on owning backyard...
By Mairin Piccinin -
Sim City: Welcome to Spacington
Well, here it is: Spacington. The new look of 21st century urbanism- well, kind of. The truth is there is nothing here yet, and that is because this...
By Dylan Collie -
Urban Planet: Witold Rybcyznski vs Richard Florida
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
NO MEAN CITY: Atelier Kastelic Buffey, Clearview Chalet
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture The architects Atelier Kastelic Buffey are definitely worth watching. I wrote...
By Alex Bozikovic -
Thursday’s headlines
CITY HALL • Integrity commissioner scolds Mayor Rob Ford and Councillor Doug Ford in separate reports [The Star] • Doug Ford violated code of conduct with...
By Laura McConnell