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Friday’s headlines
TRANSIT • City braces for TTC strike [ Toronto Star ] • Prepare for a strike, TTC union head says [ Globe and Mail ] • Public will not back...
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TTC strike deadline issued for Monday morning
From the Toronto Star: Toronto Transit Commission drivers and operators will not report for work starting at 4 a.m. on Monday unless a deal is reached by...
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Heritage Toronto walking tours begin Saturday
Spacing Magazine is pleased to announce the commencement of this season’s Heritage Toronto walking tours. The first tour begins this Saturday, April...
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Toronto: A City Becoming… er, Way too Insular
So it’s a bit late for this, but I wanted to share a few thoughts from the Toronto: A City Becoming launch that happened on Monday night at the...
By Leah Sandals -
City Clerk slammed by information czar
Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner has rebuked Toronto City Clerk Ulli Watkiss’s attempt to withhold files from a Toronto...
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Thursday’s headlines
TRANSIT • TTC studies using Tasers [ Toronto Star ] • TTC union set to announce Monday strike [ Toronto Star ] • TTC talks go into the...
By Monika Warzecha -
Public Museums Followup: Overcharging online too?
Following up on developments (and/or degenerations) in access to Canada’s public museums, I was struck by net-law expert Michael Geist’s...
By Leah Sandals -
Wednesday’s headlines
CITY HALL • City to hire watchdog to stand up for citizens [ Toronto Star ] • Top official leaving city after 2 years [ Toronto Star ] &bull...
By Monika Warzecha -
Let Montrealers know about Spacing Montreal
It’s an annual spring ritual in Montreal: the alt-weekly Mirror’s Best of Montreal poll is open once again. Since we launched Spacing Montreal...
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Boorish Vikings bore Toronto
This tool-mobile has been rolling around Toronto for the last few weeks, but I was finally able to get a shot of it by the Toronto Reference Library...
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Psst! Get an advance copy of the new issue tonight
For those of you sitting on the fence trying to figure out whether you want to come to Spacing’s Gardiner Expressway event tonight, maybe this bit...
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Mexico’s Messy Urbanism
Mexico City is a huge megalopolis of 20 million people, all crowded into a plateau surrounded by volcanic mountains. In many ways, Mexico has the same...
By Sean Marshall
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered