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Thursday’s headlines
WAGE FREEZE • Wage freeze or burn [ NOW ] • For the war, but against the troops [ EYE Weekly ] GREEN ROOFS • Green roof proposal faces...
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Hot Docs: Waterlife
The Great Lakes have about 17 000 km of shorelines, and Toronto is lucky enough to sit on part of it, surrounded by the largest fresh water deposits in...
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Hot Docs: Those Who Remain
Watching Those Who Remain, a doc about the Mexican families who lose loved ones to American immigration, I kept thinking about a Mike Davis book called...
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Hot Docs: Diary of a Times Square Thief
Like a strange peering glance through a keyhole into a world of rooms rented by the week in New York City of the eighties, Diary of a Times Square Thief...
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Wednesday’s headlines
• Driving downtown could get uglier [ National Post ] • A house key makes history [ Toronto Star ] • The posturing in Toronto’s phony...
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Event Guide: John M. Lyle book launches Thursday
A new book a long time in the making on Architect John M. Lyle is launching this Thursday at the Eric Arthur Gallery. Published by our friends over at...
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Reykjavik’s continental divide on cars & bikes
REYKJAVIK, ICELAND — Like most countries who suffered through the oil crises of the 1970s, Iceland has taken big steps to alleviate it’s...
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Tuesday’s headlines
BUILD TORONTO • Can city develop and regulate, too? [ Toronto Star ] • Does Build Toronto know what it’s in for? [ Globe & Mail ...
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Hot Docs: Invisible City
The street-length rush line awaiting my arrival outside the Royal testified to the amount of buzz Hubert Davis’ “Invisible City†has been...
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Politics in Reykjavik’s streets
Spacing publisher Matthew Blackett is travelling through Iceland, Denmark, Sweden and Germany and will occasionally post his observations about all things...
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Monday’s headlines
• Architect John Lyle left legacy of style [ Toronto Star ] • Are City Hall’s corridors of power too open? [ Toronto Star ] &bull...
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Hot Docs: A Back-breakingly Good Time
I caught one of the NFB 70th Anniversary retrospectives Saturday afternoon that featured three short films from the NFB vault — “Streetrailway...
By Max Ritts
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered