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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...
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Spacing’s 15th anniversary party!
WHAT: Spacing’s 15th anniversary issue release party! WHEN: Friday, March 15th, 2019 — 7:30pm-midnight COST: $5 (copy of new issue) WHERE: Gladstone...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 032, Housing Toronto
In this episode, we look at housing from a number of angles. Spacing Senior Editor John Lorinc and urban planner Cheryll Case give us the lay of the land...
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Jackie Shane and archive anger
Jackie Shane (b. May 15, 1940; d. February 22, 2019) is gone, and this time it’s true. I say ‘this time’ because after Jackie left Toronto in 1971...
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Ford, Sidewalk Labs, and all the moving parts on Toronto’s waterfront
Through his brief career as a city councillor and now as premier, Doug Ford has returned repeatedly to the fantasy that the private sector will happily...
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Did the Sidewalk Labs plot just thicken, or is the story coming to an end?
A series of exposés in recent days, in both The Toronto Star and the National Observer, revealed that Sidewalk Labs has retained a small army of lobbyists...
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CodeRedTO Op Ed: Does Toronto transit need an upload? Or a download?
By Cameron MacLeod There’s been significant discussion on changing the regional transit org chart recently. Unfortunately, this hasn’t been accompanied by...
By Spacing
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered