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Montréal Monday — bike racks, public freeze, and slinky buses
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
• Downtown density will prevail over slums of suburbia [ Toronto Star ] • TTC’s parking-lot logic baffles car theft victim [ Toronto Star...
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Globe and Mailmobile
On Saturday this Globe and Mail Kia was parked in Dundas Square. At first I didn’t take much notice, thinking it was just another promotional stunt...
By Shawn Micallef -
Sunday’s headlines
• Cheap salt outweighs green concerns [ Toronto Star ] • On the right track for energy savings [ Toronto Star ] • Still lots of action on...
By Monika Warzecha -
Saturday’s headlines
TRANSIT • Slow federal funding slows York subway plan [ Toronto Star ] • The rapid route to boom town [ Toronto Star ] • Rail report...
By Monika Warzecha -
POLL: Should the mayor have more power?
Old City Hall council chambers, 1951 The independent fiscal review panel that Mayor David Miller put together to provide the city with advice on how to...
By Dale Duncan -
Friday’s headlines
• Strong premier would steer toward road tolls [ Toronto Star ] • Service revival news to Ontario officials [ Globe and Mail ] &bull...
By Monika Warzecha -
One book: The great divide
John and Bridget were living together in a part of town called Riverdale. David had educated them (whether they wanted to be or not) in the history of...
By Dale Duncan -
Events Guide: urban artworks and Keep Toronto Reading
WHAT: my City: urban artworks exhibition WHEN: Friday, February 29 at 7pm WHERE: Urbanscape Gallery, 2959 Dundas Street West The opening reception for my...
By Todd Harrison -
Thursday’s headlines
TRANSIT • Peterborough awarded high speed rail [ Toronto Star ] • A transit coup ‘out of the blue’ [ Toronto Star ] • TTC to...
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Toronto meets Marrakesh
Given the winter we’ve been having it would seem impossible to think of Toronto as being in any way exotic, much less to draw comparisons between...
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Wednesday’s headlines
FEDERAL BUDGET • New fodder for a fine old feud [ Toronto Star ] • Cities praise extension of gas tax program [ Toronto Star ] • Toronto...
By Monika Warzecha
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered