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Toronto’s fictional insecurity
My psychogeography column in Eye Weekly this week explores the strange civic fiction that maintains Toronto has an insecurity complex. I admit my position...
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Monument to Multiculturalism
Often referred to as “Symbol of Multiculturalism”, “Monument to Multiculturalism” by Francesco Perilli, is located in front of...
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Friday’s Headlines
• Six Things You Should Know About: Councillors’ expenses [ National Post ] • City overlooking cost of recycling, restaurateurs say ...
By Chloe Ellingson -
Toronto’s Twin Italianate Villas
Toronto of the 1870’s was a booming Victorian city nearing a population of 80,000, alive with the smells of mud, livestock, and industry. The recent...
By Mathew Borrett -
Thursday’s headlines
• Street cart vendors grilled on food safety [ Toronto Star ] • ‘Difficult’ labour talks intensify [ National Post ] &bull...
By Chloe Ellingson -
Toronto’s Grand Trunk Railway — our 1856 link to Pearson airport
EDITORS NOTE: This essay on the Grand Trunk Railway first appeared in the Toronto Star’s Insight section on March 1. It is reprinted here with...
By Shawn Micallef -
Here I come Calgary and Vancouver
photo by James Bremner I’m off to the Alberta Magazines Conference to speak about Spacing’s approach to building a community around a magazine...
By Matthew Blackett -
Wednesday’s headlines
STREET FOOD • Hot dog vendors get ‘no respect’ [ National Post ] • ‘It’s a very good opportunity,’ says vendor...
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TTC streetcar GPS tracker info has its limits
Some of our readers will have already read my post from early this morning (around 2am) when Spacing got word that the TTC’s GPS tracking system had...
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TTC streetcars goes GPS
Early this morning, Jerrold Litwinenko over at BlogTO broke the lid off of the TTC’s streetcar GPS tracker (in beta still) for mobile devices. He...
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Swiss Carnival in Toronto
Carnival or Mardi Gras celebrations — the big party before the 40 days of fasting leading up to Easter in the Catholic Christian tradition —...
By Dylan Reid -
Tuesday’s headlines
• Council scraps coffee-cup waste study [ Toronto Star ] • Traffic cop one of city’s best paid [ Toronto Star ] • Hiring 1,300 will...
By Chloe Ellingson
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered