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The Agenda: this week at City Hall
Toronto City Council has a heavy agenda [PDF] to get through at its meeting scheduled to run on Tuesday and Wednesday. Here are highlights of some of the...
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Series on commuting continues in Toronto Star
This week The Star is featuring a series on commuting. Yesterday’s was particularly interesting, looking at what was alternately termed...
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Folding bike rally Tuesday
You’ve seen them whizzing around town. Adults on bikes with little wheels. What are they riding? How can they go so fast? It looks so easy. Maybe I...
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Growth of density in Toronto since 1971
[flv]http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/analysis/popdwell/maps/animations/CMAs/Toronto.swf[/flv] While I was catching up on Spacing Montreal posts...
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Biking in Toronto poster contest
The City has issued a call for submissions for the Biking in Toronto Poster Contest. This coming spring, 3,000 full colour posters will be printed and...
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Voice(s) of the TTC
Last week we linked to an article describing the firing of the woman who does the voice of the London Underground. On Thursday, the National Post had an...
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It was twenty-seven years ago today…
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wcm68UteL0M[/youtube] …that John Lennon was killed in New York. There are many memorials to Lennon on YouTube...
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POLL: Which new name would you like to see the GTTA adopt?
The other day, Spacing challenged our readers to propose a better name for the former Greater Toronto Transportation Authority (GTTA) now known as...
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We will not save the environment until…
Spacing is a big fan of Toronto’s Poet Laureate, Pier Giorgio DiCicco. He is a Roman Catholic priest who writes wonderful poetry and has written an...
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Montreal vs. Toronto: battle of the bus transfers!
MONTREAL — French Panic, a local blogger who may or may not be my neighbour, recently spent some time in Toronto. She came back with some pertinent...
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American cities becoming more walkable
The Brookings Institution in the US has recently published a study, “Footloose and Fancy Free: A Field Survey of Walkable Urban Places in the Top 30...
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Stroll: Don Mills & photos from the Moccasin-Rainbow trail
This week’s stroll column in Eye Weekly had me wandering around Canada’s most famous suburb, Don Mills. I remember while growing up Don Mills...
By Shawn Micallef
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered