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Harper to Toronto: You’re Fired
On one of those thick and hot August evenings where you sweat standing still the Conservative candidate for Toronto Centre came to our door. I was a...
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Woulda, shoulda, coulda, didn’t
Chalk this up to a “shoulda been” election promise. Yesterday, Ontario NDP leader Howard Hampton called on Premier Dalton McGuinty to raise...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Move it along, nothing to see here
Alok Mukherjee, chairman of the Toronto Police Services Board, sent out a notice today to inform the world that he had started a blog. Immediately...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
FairDevelopmentCharges.to
For those of us who find fault with the real estate and development industries for being more concerned with building profits than cities, October was our...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Friday Infrastructure Mystery
Spacing reader David Creelman sent us this photo a few weeks ago of a metal lid embedded in the sidewalk on Cambridge Avenue (Broadview/Danforth) and...
By Shawn Micallef -
New stadium, new space
The University of Toronto’s new, very simple Varsity Stadium at Bloor W. and Bedford has been criticized for not contributing to this rapidly...
By Dylan Reid -
2008 capital budget — prepare your deputations now
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. November 13 — mark it in your calendars. That’s the day the city has set aside for Torontonians tell the budget...
By Dale Duncan -
Toronto Reference Library 30th Anniversary
Toronto’s greatest indoor public space is celebrating its 30th Anniversary tomorrow (Friday Nov. 2) with a day long program of events. Two years ago...
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LEAFy Drinks tonight
Are you passionate about Toronto’s trees? Do you enjoy a nice beverage? Join LEAF staff and volunteers this evening at the Victory Cafe for LEAFy...
By Todd Irvine -
Concrete Toronto
When I was young the Toronto of my imagination was not Victorian, precious or gingerbread in anyway. It was concrete. Slabs of it. Along the ground, up...
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Get down with downspout disconnection
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. Illegaldownspouts.ca — okay, so this website doesn’t really exist, but in a matter of three years it might. This...
By Dale Duncan -
Richard Florida blogging for the Globe
Noted urban thinker and expatriate American Richard Florida moved to Toronto earlier this year to take a position at the Rotman School at U of T and...
By Shawn Micallef
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered