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Saturday’s headlines
TRANSIT • You’re being watched, TTC warns passengers [ Toronto Star ] • Cameras fail to protect TTC drivers [ Toronto Sun ] • GO...
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A slice of nature in the concrete jungle
With winter’s first few flakes of snow rearing their frigid faces this week, I decided to get out and try to absorb as much of the autumn atmosphere...
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AGO Transformation: Alien views and the Toronto look
ED: For the next few weeks Spacing Associate editor Shawn Micallef will be the Blogger-in-Residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Art Matters blog...
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Friday’s headlines
• Metrolinx leader stepping aside [ Toronto Star ] • Metrolinx chair taking new job [ Globe and Mail ] • Miller hails votes on water, trash...
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Events Guide: Regent Park Film Festival
What: Regent Park Film Festival Panel Discussion When: Saturday, November 8, 1 pm Where: Nelson Mandela Public School (440 Shuter Street) The 6th annual...
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1914 – 1918 Vigil at Nathan Phillips Square
When we think of World War I memorials we usually imagine stone or granite statues or traditional war memorials, not new media and technology. That has...
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Thursday’s headlines
• Waste plan pits city against industry [ Toronto Star ] • ‘Massive’ fight expected over waste proposals [ Globe and Mail ] &bull...
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Event Guide: World Town Planning Day
There’s a World Town Planning Day! Who knew? I didn’t, although perhaps some of our readers had heard of it. And it’s happening this...
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TTC subway map update: Back from the drawing board
The May 2008 version of the subway map. A brief update of an article first posted here in June: New subway maps dated September 2008 have just been...
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Events Guide: Dennis Brack lecture, Gentleman Reg, Inspired Lives
WHAT: Ryerson Kodak Lecture Series: Dennis Brack WHEN: November 7, 7:30 pm WHERE: Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Lecture Theatre...
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Bike Share Programs: community or commercial?
As Toronto contemplates introducing a large-scale bike-sharing program, a key decision it will have to make is whether the municipality (or a related...
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Wednesday’s headlines
• Industry calls on city to scrap new waste plan [ Globe and Mail ] • City’s pro-recycling packaging plan creates a tempest in a coffee...
By Monika Warzecha
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered