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Media

Fans of Toronto Public Library Unite!

Toronto Public Library branches are frequented by a million patrons each year, over 70% of Torontonians have a library card and TPL’s 80 per...

By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler

Community

Sidewalk enforcement

Here’s a rare but welcome sight — a vehicle parked on the sidewalk being ticketed. Too often, parking half on the sidewalk is treated as...

By Dylan Reid

Neighbourhoods

ASK A PLANNER: Big Box and Leslieville

Spacing introduces a new and sporadic column called Ask A Planner. We’ll ask some of our sources to translate policy and bureaucrat-speak and give...

By Spacing

Headlines

Friday’s Headlines

• Majora Carter made her waterfront sparkle [ Toronto Star ] • TTC bidder gets $12.8M in provincial funding [ Toronto Star ] • New...

By Chloe Ellingson

Culture

Civic Scenery, Civic Statuary

EDITOR’S NOTE: Shaun Merritt begins a new column on public art in Toronto, looking at what we have, where it is, and some of the stories behind it...

By Shaun Merritt

Media

Thursday’s headlines

RAINWATER TOILET CONTROVERSY • Dubious honour in the can [ National Post ] • City’s $1-million eco-toilet wins tax-waste award [ National...

By Chloe Ellingson

Architecture

Sam the Record Man exposed

Walking by the old Sam the Record Man location on Yonge Street on the weekend I noticed the the double record sign facade has been finally taken down...

By Shawn Micallef

Communication

Anyone can be a monument — for 60 minutes

Trafalgar Square, in the heart of the city of London, England, is famous for its statue of Admiral Nelson (victor of the Battle of Trafalgar) high at the...

By Dylan Reid

Headlines

Wednesday’s headlines

• Toronto’s library staff book out of union [ Globe & Mail ] • Q&A: Regent Park program making the grades [ National Post ] &bull...

By Chloe Ellingson

Headlines

Tuesday’s headlines

• Vaughan officials meet with lawyer over dispute with Mayor Jackson [ National Post ] • Ex-mayors laud today’s city, mostly [ Toronto...

By Chloe Ellingson

Spacing

Spacing presents the Toronto Town Buttons

You only have to look as far up as its street signs to realize that Toronto is a city cobbled together from other former boroughs, towns and villages...

By Spacing