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LORINC: Doug Ford draws a subway map
Okay: credit where credit’s due. First, “Ontario Line,” as a brand, works just fine for me — even, as is likely, if we won’t have termini at either the...
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LORINC: Delaying delivery of waterfront transit
Amidst the symphony of transit yodeling that will emanate today from Queen’s Park — and then, in call-and-response, from City Hall and perhaps even Ottawa...
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LORINC: Fiddling while Toronto burns
With Doug Ford’s Tories systematically confiscating Toronto council’s capacity to govern – from political representation to transit planning and even our...
By John Lorinc -
Is it time for Canadian cities to think about road pricing? Put it to the people and find out.
Editor: With congestion grinding cities down and road pricing hitting political buffers, is there a better route to a solution? Spacing is pleased to...
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Suburban land use & climate change: Making the connections and taking action
In the wake of the sudden and unexpected announcement of the termination of her position, the Environmental Commissioner for the Province of Ontario has...
By Tricia Wood -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 033, Big Idea
In this episode, we dive into a few Big Ideas. First up is National Geographic explorer and geographer Daniel Raven-Ellison, who started a movement to...
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LORINC: Why is Sidewalk Labs so Interested in Your Health?
With the new Waterfront Toronto (WT) directors now officially on the job, the re-constituted board should ask itself why Sidewalk Labs — ostensibly a...
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Predictions for Toronto in 2033
At our recent 15th anniversary party we asked people to tell us a prediction about Toronto in 2033. Here’s a selection of them.
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LORINC: How to reframe Toronto’s 2020 budget debate
I imagine Mayor John Tory, like all good conservatives of his generation and breeding, worshipped at the alter of Michael Wilson, the storied Bay Street...
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Stories, Struggles and Song: Cantonese Opera in Toronto
Cantonese opera is in my genes. Whenever my mother put me and my two younger sisters down for our afternoon nap, she’d crank up the turntable and play an...
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How city hall is keeping needed change out of ‘stable neighbourhoods’
Item: In a development application [download PDF] heard by the Etobicoke-York district committee of adjustment in late February, a builder proposed...
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EVENT: Right to Walk TO
Spacing is pleased to co-sponsor “Right to Walk TO: Justice, equity, and the Toronto walking experience,” a panel discussion organized by Walk...
By Spacing
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered