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Tuesday’s headlines
• Critics blast visits to city hall to sell immigration changes [ Globe and Mail ] • Miller wants shooting ranges shut down [ Toronto Star ...
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Does Toronto need an Urban Centre?
On Saturday in the Toronto Star’s Ideas section I wrote an article proposing an “Urban Centre” be established here in Toronto...
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Monday’s headlines
• Social housing gets financial boost [ Toronto Star ] • ‘There’s Mommy, riding a bike’ [ Toronto Star ]
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Events Guide: Parkdale/High Park activism
There are two events taking place in the Parkdale/High Park area next week about improving walking and cycling access in the west end. Ride the South...
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Sunday’s headlines
• Changes sought after car door death [ Toronto Star ] • Cyclists wheely want lane on Bloor [ Toronto Sun ] • TTC eyes doors at subway...
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Saturday’s headlines
CITY HALL • City campaign hopes to end defacement of public property [ Toronto Star ] • City immigration policy proposed [ Toronto Star ...
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Event Guide: Concrete Toronto Music
The good Toronto boosters at the Music Gallery have two special shows inspired by the Concrete Toronto book. On Sunday May 25 & Sunday June 1 Toronto...
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Events Guide: Doors Open Toronto, stuff swap, tree planting, and more
WHAT: Doors Open Toronto WHEN: May 24 and 25 WHERE: Locations across Toronto including BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, the Canada Life building, the City...
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Ben Kerr honour with laneway
The legend of Ben Kerr lives on. Kerr, the perennial mayoral candidate and late great performer from the corner of Yonge and Bloor, is having a laneway...
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Architecture Fetish: Bungalow Cool
Toronto is a city of bungalows. Though we’d fancy ourselves as a city of tall and thin Victorians, tightly packed together on narrow streets...
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Friday’s headines
• Toronto’s immaturity bound up in the power of unelected OMB [ Toronto Star ] • Land dispute boils down to jobs [ Toronto Star ] &bull...
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New York City is the place where . . . (Part II)
Columbus Circle I walked up and down Manhattan (between 70thish and Soho) six or seven times, using different streets, sometimes repeating the same area...
By Shawn Micallef
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered