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Two follies don’t make a right, say North Yorkers
North York residents have had more than their fair share of Ontario Municipal Board decisions go against them. It got so bad that last year Willowdale...
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Friday’s Headlines
• Questions remain in much-touted transit plan [ Globe & Mail ] • National park status sought for Rouge Valley [ Toronto Star ] &bull...
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Spacing Radio 003: Grey spaces of the city
The next issue of Spacing, due out in late-April, will focus on Toronto’s “grey spaces” — those places that feel public but...
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Out of the Blue
“Out of the Blue” by Shayne Dark, is located on Queen Street West in front of the Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art. It is made of wood and...
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Event Guide: Activate!
Each year our first year Experience Design classes at OCAD — there are over a dozen as each design student must take the class — throw an...
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Thursday’s headlines
ED: Thursdays headlines got stuck in the internet vortext. Read them, think it’s Thursday, and have that long-weekend feeling. TRANSIT • GTA...
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Transit City to get major funding boost from province
A press conference will take place at 2:30 in Vaughan where, according to the Globe and Mail, “Premier Dalton McGuinty will today announce...
By Matthew Blackett -
Events Guide: Keep Toronto Reading April 1 – 11
April is Keep Toronto Reading month at the Toronto Public Library and they have tons of events going on all month around the city. Here are a few of the...
By Mike Bulko -
Wednesday’s headlines
• 83 TTC employees join 1,500 in $100K club [ National Post ] • Mayor and Premier to stand side by side for transit speech [ Globe & Mail ...
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How not to place a garbage can
This is getting ridiculous. I walked down Queen Street West last week with a couple of colleagues from the Toronto Pedestrian Committee, to find that the...
By Dylan Reid -
Tuesday’s headlines
GO TRANSIT-METROLINX MERGE • Ontario to merge GO Transit, Metrolinx [ Toronto Star ] • Metrolinx swallows Go Transit — what next? ...
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Merger is a GO, support the DRL, bikes on more buses
In this post, I touch upon three different pieces of news in the local transit scene. The biggest news so far this week in transit has been the announced...
By Sean Marshall
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered