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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...
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Thursday’s headlines
• Street cart vendors grilled on food safety [ Toronto Star ] • ‘Difficult’ labour talks intensify [ National Post ] &bull...
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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...
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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...
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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 —...
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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...
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Spacing Radio 002: What does a new provincial NDP leader mean for cities?
Spacing Radio headed to Hamilton last week for the Ontario NDP leadership convention to find out if a new leader will have any affect on how politicians...
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Montreal Monday: Sunken train, Chinatown developing, first budding bush
Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montréal. We’ll keep an eye open for topics and discussions...
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Monday’s headlines
• Build it, they won’t come [ Globe & Mail ] • City Hall plans hiring binge [ Toronto Star ] • Spring fever sparks rise in...
By Chloe Ellingson
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered