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Tuesday’s headlines
• Streets to get sleek facelift [ Toronto Star ] • Big new ‘street furniture’ on the way [ Globe and Mail ] • City unveils...
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Conservatives flout sign laws
Update (June 12): The City of Toronto has told Spacing that it does not intend to enforce the signs by-law as it pertains to video screens at gas stations...
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Spacing wins silver at National Magazine Awards
Friday saw Spacing cap a very successful week by winning the runner-up prize in the Best Editorial Package category of the 2008 National Magazine Awards...
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[murmur] is hiring
In what may be mild abuse of Spacing Toronto, we hope you will help us spread our call for an Executive Director. This year at [murmur] we celebrate our...
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Montréal Monday: Antlerheads transformed, Fruit & Flowers, and cheap transit on smog days
Each Monday, Spacing will bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montréal. We’ll keep an eye open for topics and...
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Monday’s headlines
• A star who should be mayor [ Globe and Mail ] • Plan for Rouge Park pits green against greens [ Toronto Star ] • A playground without...
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Neighbourhood With Holes In It
Historian Michelle Guitard put us in touch with Michele Quenneville because we wanted to learn about parking lots in Hull from a resident’s...
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311 threatens lazy pols
This week the Toronto Star spent a few column inches discussing the lethargic pace of the City of Toronto’s attempt to bring a 311 telephone service...
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PUG AWARDS: And the winner is?
Photo of the Argyle Authentic Lofts, one of the winners at Wednesday night’s Pug Awards Wednesday night I went to the fourth annual Pug Awards...
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Bathurst Street Bridge: A Virtual Charrette
We’re going to try something new here on Spacing Toronto — a “virtual charrette” — though it often happens quite naturally...
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Saturday’s headlines
TRANSIT • Miller calls on TTC to get tough on drinking [ Toronto Star ] • Long live the big blue Viva buses [ National Post ] &bull...
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Events Guide: tree tour, Shakespeare, stuff swap, and more
WHAT: Toronto Tree Tours: Mt. Pleasant Cemetery WHEN: June 7, 1 pm – 3 pm WHERE: Meet at the Yonge St. gates, just north of St. Clair Ave. On this...
By Patricia Simoes
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered