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Monday’s headlines
• Guerrilla gardening [ Toronto Star ] • Commercial activity or captivity? [ Globe and Mail ] • Can Smitherman soften partisan edge? ...
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Ruins along the Scarborough Bluffs
Sunday turned nice and computers were turned off and left at home for a trip to (what feels like) the most remote part of Toronto: the beach along the...
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Cutting short the Annette Street bike lane
“Perhaps for the first time in North America since the invention of the automobile, road space for motor vehicles is being reallocated to bicycles,â€Â...
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Sunday’s headlines
• Gardiner bike-in ‘not planned’ [ Toronto Sun ] • Why the wieners run City Hall [ Toronto Sun ] • Mayor McCallion honoured ...
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Road Trip: Upstate New York
On Victoria Day weekend, myself, accompanied with a few friends headed off on a road trip to Boston, passing through several Upstate New York cities on...
By Sean Marshall -
Heritage Toronto walking tours this weekend: West Junction & Yorkville Hippies
We apologize for the tardiness of this post — we hope walk-devotees also check Heritage Toronto’s wonderful new site for walk listings as...
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Lorne Shields Historical Bicycle Photography
Cinecycle Toronto presents a rare opportunity to see one of the world’s finest collections of early cycling history. Esteemed collector Lorne...
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Final day of CONTACT
It’s your last chance to check out this year’s CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival as most of the exhibits wrap up today. The theme this year...
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Saturday’s headlines
GARDINER • A lesser dream, but a possible one [ Toronto Star ] • Feckless ambition: When half a dream will do [ Toronto Star ] • It’s...
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The future of the Gardiner Expressway
This post has been compiled by Matthew Blackett and Robin Chubb At a news conference today at Waterfront Toronto headquarters, it was officially announced...
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Bike Safety, circa 1958
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOfo2d4N16U[/youtube] Nothing like some good ol’ fashioned bike fear mongering, 1950-styles. I’m...
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More thoughts on the Bathurst Street Bridge
Today Christopher Hume weighed in on the impending transformation of the Bathurst Street Bridge (aka The Sir Isaac Brock Bridge) that we discussed here...
By Shawn Micallef
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered