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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...
By Sean Marshall -
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...
By Shawn Micallef -
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...
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Tree Tuesday: The travelling redbud
Every Tuesday, Todd Irvine of LEAF posts a stop from the Toronto Tree Tours, a collaborative project of LEAF and the Toronto Public Space Committee. The...
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Pedestrians crossing mid-block in Toronto: the definitive guide
Last summer, I wrote an article in NOW magazine about pedestrians crossing in the middle of a block, noting that it is in fact legal to do so, so that...
By Dylan Reid
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered