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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 055, Post-Pandemic Transit Ridership
Before the pandemic, the Toronto Transit Commission was actively looking for ways to grow its ridership. Now, after taking a hit in numbers during the...
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EXCERPT: Indigenous Toronto, Stories That Carry This Place
This essay is excerpted with permission from Indigenous Toronto: Stories That Carry This Place (Coach House Books, 2021). NOW THAT WE KNOW When I first...
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Toronto after the 1st Wave: How COVID-19 affected three key markets
This is co-authored by Youjing Li and Shauna Brail In the fall of 2020, a University of Toronto research team set out to track key metrics from the city...
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COVID-19 and TTC ridership: putting the pandemic in historical perspective
When the TTC Board met on 10 February 2021, understandably, most media and public attention was focussed on the fate of the Commission’s aging SRT line...
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LORINC: Is the new federal budget green or red?
After the federal Liberals’ $10/day childcare pledge, there’s no doubt that climate spending was the other big political bell-ringer in Monday’s $100...
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Poetry in community: Q&A with poet Ronna Bloom
Ronna Bloom is former Poet in Residence at Mount Sinai Hospital, now Sinai Health System. Long before face coverings became mandatory on the TTC or...
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Vacant Queen Street West: a pandemic photo essay
Queen Street West has always been a revolving door of independent businesses. Starting at the bottom of Parkdale, Queen Street is an entryway to the...
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LORINC: Which green standard will reduce Toronto’s carbon?
Few would argue that the City of Toronto’s goal of reducing building-related carbon emissions to zero by around 2030 is a worthy, though challenging...
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Urban space as a catalyst for improving mental health care
This article is published in conjunction with the upcoming issue of Spacing, which is focused on the theme of public health. In these early months of...
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Soundscapes on College: This ain’t a library
This article originally appeared in Spacing #14, summer 2009. It was recently announced that the iconic music shop Soundscapes on College Street in Little...
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LORINC: A drag-net on drag racing?
It’s almost spring and the evenings are getting warmer, which means that on most nights now, but especially weekends, the city’s network of mostly empty...
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LORINC: Joe Biden’s unexpected role in the future of Canadian cities
Is anyone north of the 49th parallel paying attention to the minutiae of the monster stimulus bills coming out of the White House? Of course not. Despite...
By John Lorinc
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered