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Toronto’s French Connection
Casa Loma may be Toronto’s favourite and best-known castle, but chateaus still abound. The chateau style was used all over the world, most often for...
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Thursday’s headlines
CITY HALL • Rob Ford accused of assault and death threat [ Toronto Star ] • Toronto police charge councillor with assault [ Globe and Mail ...
By Monika Warzecha -
Rob Ford charged with assault and threatening death
City councillor Rob Ford has been charged with assault and threatening death. • The Toronto Star article • The National Post article • The...
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BOOKS: What are you reading?
For those of you with a city-focused book fetish, you should be looking forward to Spacing’s upcoming issue where we review a handful of excellent...
By Matthew Blackett -
Budget 2008: Maybe Next Year
Toronto is mentioned 35 times in the 2008 provincial budget that was tabled this afternoon. Tellingly, however, seven of those 35 Torontos are in the...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Wednesday’s headlines
TRANSIT • TTC union chief cool to mediator [ Toronto Star ] • TTC pact talks end in impasse [ Globe and Mail ] • Union quits talks with TTC...
By Monika Warzecha -
Ride the rainbow of Bloor-Danforth
Since there has been a lot of discussion in the post just below about preserving the TTC’s subway tiles, I thought it would be a good time to post a...
By Matthew Blackett -
Tuesday’s headlines
• Yonge subway to close early? [ Toronto Star ] • TTC workers edge closer to strike [ Toronto Star ] • Bus driver in headgear battle ...
By Monika Warzecha -
TTC station heritage threatened
Accessibility activist and TTC signage guru Joe Clark has informed Spacing about a new TTC plan for the “diversification” of 63 of the 69...
By Sean Marshall -
Montréal Monday — fire fighters’ job action, metro door chimes, and transport stats
Each Monday, Spacing will bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montréal. We’ll keep an eye open for topics and...
By Todd Harrison -
Monday’s headlines
• In North York, everyone’s out to do a better snow job [ Globe and Mail ] • Motels check out, condos check in [ Toronto Star ] &bull...
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‘City’s loss is TTC’s gain’
Brad Ross has been the City of Toronto’s clear, concise and witty mouthpiece for several years and he’ll soon be moving onward and upward...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered