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Monday’s headlines
• Extreme cold alert, extreme warnings [ Toronto Star ] • Lobbyist list finally online [ Toronto Star ] • Lobbyist registry sheds a new...
By Monika Warzecha -
Streetcars and LRT: Toronto’s next steps
The Spadina Streetcar: not quite LRT Yesterday, I posted an article on Spacing Toronto briefly explaining the history and context for North...
By Sean Marshall -
One Book: Two Panel Discussions
As part of One Book, the Toronto Public Library is hosting two panel discussions about Toronto: • Lost City: Can we preserve Toronto’s past...
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Sunday’s headlines
• Developer’s cost claims raise fears of legal chill [ Toronto Star ] • Observatory protest goes sky-high [ Toronto Star ] • Beware...
By Monika Warzecha -
Streetcars and LRT: the North American context
Los Angeles Metro Gold Line, Pasadena, California. The light rail renaissance that has taken place across North America has taken a few interesting...
By Sean Marshall -
TEST: Which year was this photo taken?
A few weeks ago, I posted a Toronto Archives photo challenging Spacing Toronto readers to guess the year it was captured. With the city currently...
By Matthew Blackett -
Snow jobs
This image, captured by Spacing’s web developer Michael Pereira after one of our recent snowstorms, pretty much says all there is to say about the...
By Dylan Reid -
Saturday’s headlines
WASTE • ‘The fairest system we can come up with’ [ Globe and Mail ] • Recycling rebellion brewing downtown [ Globe and Mail ] &bull...
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One Book: The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
He’d been spending his days hunched over papers in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at U of T, hunting down information even he admitted was...
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Remnants of Niagara’s “Arc de Triomphe”
Toronto has its share of odd historic artifacts scattered about town. Some of the most quirky bits, perhaps, are a couple of big stone medallions, back to...
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Toronto Prairie: Our (almost) missing style
Toronto is pretty flat, but it’s no prairie. Perhaps that’s why the Prairie style didn’t catch on. While it’s not surprising that...
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Friday’s headlines
WASTE • Toronto to pay the price for more garbage [ Toronto Star ] • Bag limits rein in 905’s waste [ Toronto Star ] • Toronto...
By Monika Warzecha
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered