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Where NYC manhole covers come from
Yesterday’s New York Times had a piece (and a neat audio slide show) on the the origin of that city’s manhole covers. Foreign worker safety is...
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Sponsor a Councillor
Today’s Executive Committee agenda is stacked. There’s the capital budget, union station revitalization, increased funding to the lobbyist...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Cities & Ottawa
The Star’s business columnist David Olive wrote a piece about the extreme antipathy in Canada directed towards cities on Saturday: Outside Canada...
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Kensington Pedestrian Sundays help clear the air
We’re launching Spacing’s “green” issue in a week, on Monday Dec. 3. To give our readers a taste of the kind of questions...
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Walking on Thin Ice — 1981 New York
Just after John was shot in 1980, Yoko Ono made this video for her song Walking on Thin Ice. It was the last the song Lennon worked on and he was holding...
By Shawn Micallef -
Ottawa is 1978
I took the train to Ottawa a few weeks ago, a city I’ve only visited on two other occasions (once to write a story about the G20 Summit in November...
By Shawn Micallef -
Amen!
Toronto City Councillor and Budget Chief Shelley Carroll released a statement this afternoon in response to federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty telling...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Civic Double Jeopardy
I must have blinked during the restructuring of City Council’s governance model because I was shocked when I was told there wouldn’t be...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Fix the 501 Queen Streetcar Forum
The Queen’s crown is slipping. She’s becoming tardy and unreliable. Her subjects have lost faith and are leaving. The Queen streetcar used to...
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2008 Budget In Transit
Transit activist Steve Munro has some very good updates for the 2008 TTC budget over at his website. It will be a very busy time for the TTC, as it not...
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Fred Flintstone & pedal powered cars beware
Today the driver of the artwork titled “Shared Propulsion Car” — arrested on Queen Street on October 25th — appeared in court and...
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Prefix Photo takes a stroll through your consciousness
An event and issue dedicated, in part, to ideas surrounding “walking and consciousness” from the good people at Prefix Photo. What: Release of...
By Shawn Micallef
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered