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Our resilience will be measured by the strength of our civic spaces
COVID-19 has called the value of cities into question. But cities are not the problem. Even as the COVID-19 curve flattens, we stare into the gaping holes...
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LORINC: Council fails accountability test on defunding the police
For all the heat and light generated by Monday’s debate over defunding or detasking the police, the compromise — or compromised, depending on your...
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Queerness and queer space in the time of COVID-19
Marquis is a queer young man living in the City of Brampton who enjoys commuting into the City of Toronto, where he attends classes at Ryerson University...
By Benjamin Bongolan and Jc Elijah M. Bawuah -
LORINC: The pandemic is sacrificing community spaces in places of faith
The long-awaited partial re-opening, which finally began in Toronto and Peel earlier this week, is a story with two aspects: on the one hand, a reunion...
By John Lorinc -
REID: The beginning of the end for rush hour curb lanes?
One of the distinctive and ubiquitous characteristics of main streets in the older parts of Toronto is the rush hour curb lane. For two or four hours a...
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LORINC: The pandemic is about cities
Viruses, in the abstract, don’t care much about their host organisms, beyond the latter’s on-board, physiological defenses. Yet it’s clear the coronavirus...
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THOMPSON: Saunders’ departure won’t fix the problem of policing in Toronto
What can be said about chief Mark Saunders’ sudden departure from the Toronto Police Service (TPS)? In truth, I am neither happy nor disappointed about...
By Cheryl Thompson -
LORINC: Police can’t find road to reform even when given a map
Would Regis Korchinski-Paquet be alive today if the Toronto Police Service (TPS) had adopted the recommendations of a sweeping 2014 review of its flawed...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: What’s in a street name? Dundas and other uncomfortable truths about our city
The street where I live, near St. Clair West and Christie, was originally called Victoria after it was carved out of a farmer’s field or replaced a cow...
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If Black lives truly matter in Canada, an apology for slavery is only a first step
Natasha Henry is a 2018 Vanier Scholar completing a PhD in History at York University on the enslavement of Africans in early Ontario. She is the...
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Five organizations come together to produce a community map of Toronto “safeways”
In a great display of community collaboration, five Toronto-based organizations dedicated to improving and enhancing the city’s public realm have come...
By Ken Greenberg -
Make civic skills for kids the new coding
Sometime in the last decade, coding became the must-learn, must-teach skill in the education and training world. Everyone from ambitious middle schoolers...
By Josh Fullan
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered