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The continuing saga of the Queen Car
The 501 Queen Streetcar was recently named by National Geographic as one of the ten great tram rides of a lifetime (up there with the San Francisco...
By Sean Marshall -
Thunder Bay whirlwind chill
This past weekend I spent 24 quick hours in Thunder Bay, a city that does not live up to its name: it could have been called Sunny Bay. And rather than...
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Air quality control
Cross posted from Eye Weekly. Big cities are notorious for their smog, but aside from car exhaust, do we really know what’s in our air? Figuring out...
By Dale Duncan -
Montréal Monday — recycling, cycling, and more on the STM service changes
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
• TTC drivers in crisis [ Toronto Star ] • Building a virtual bridge with a camera [ Toronto Star ] • Peer into a looking glass to see a...
By Monika Warzecha -
Sunday’s headlines
• How to make housing affordable [ Toronto Star ] • Layton talks tough on handguns [Toronto Star ] • Think of TTC as free [ Toronto Sun ]
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Jarvis slip design submissions released
Waterfront Toronto has released the 3 competing designs for the public space at Jarvis Slip at the foot of Jarvis Street (Christopher Hume of The Star...
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Saturday’s headlines
• Sure footing on Jarvis slip [ Toronto Star ] • Design challenge brings new life to urban space [ Globe and Mail ] • Road paved with good...
By Monika Warzecha -
TEST: Which year was this photo taken?
I have wasted many late nights on the web bumping around the Toronto Archives photo database. I’m particularly interested in TTC photos as they...
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Continuing to swap one bad habit for another
Last year, The Canadian Cancer Society and Toronto Public Health teamed up to bring you the Driven To Quit challenge which encouraged people to quit...
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Living The Good Life
I’m interested in the thoughts of Spacing readers on The Good Life campaign that WWF-Canada (aka my employer) launched yesterday. Its goal is try...
By Keith Stewart -
Friday’s headlines
• $40M deals give Ryerson a new face [ Toronto Star ] • Union station a symbol of our political paralysis [ Toronto Star ] • Raid finds...
By Monika Warzecha
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered