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Friday’s Headlines
• Merit pay on mayor’s chopping block [ Toronto Star ] • Letter from Riverdale: Trouble with the water [ National Post ] • Expect...
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Museum Access Program Expands… But More for Some than for Others
This morning, Mayor Miller and City Librarian Jane Pyper announced an expansion of the Museum & Arts Pass program. Initially kicked off 18 months ago...
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Influential councillor outlines new electoral reform agenda
Last night I did an interview with Councillor Shelley Carroll for the next issue of Spacing. But Carroll is one of the great gabbers at City Hall so once...
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360EXtEndEd wants your stories for Toronto’s 175th birthday
A new web-based community storytelling project has arrived just in time for Toronto’s 175th anniversary of its inauspicious founding in the forest...
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Thursday’s headlines
TRANSIT • Proposed transit fare hike misguided [ Toronto Star ] • TTC expects to break ground on light rail lines this summer [ National Post ...
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Study finds that removing parking to install bike lanes or widen sidewalk would benefit businesses on Bloor
Proposals to install bike lanes and/or widen sidewalks on main streets in Toronto almost always require the removal of parking spaces along the street...
By Dylan Reid -
SAIGON: Coffee on demand
EDITOR’S NOTE: Spacing contributing editor Christopher DeWolf is now based in Hong Kong and will make occasional posts about his unique public space...
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Event Guide: “Urban Goddess: Jane Jacobs Reconsidered” — World premiere on TVO
TVO is premiering what sounds like an interesting documentary about Jane Jacobs’ legacy tonight (Wed. Feb. 18) at 10 pm. The documentary features...
By Dylan Reid -
Wednesday’s headlines
• Councillor objects to ‘Wall Street bank’ budget [ Toronto Star ] • Councillors square off over budget [ National Post ] • GO...
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An apostrophe catastrophe
A few weeks ago I posted about the new Toronto street signs which prompted a good debate amongst our readers about the pros-and-cons of the new design...
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Building Storeys photo exhibit opens today!
Our friends at Heritage Toronto are staging a photo exhibition (Feb. 17-22) that opens today, and everyday, from 12-5pm at the Gladstone Hotel featuring...
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Quebec re-enactment battle cancelled due to threats
Over the last few weeks I’ve been talking with folks organizing the bicentennial celebrations of the War of 1812. One of the possible events...
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered