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Spacing Toronto named best local blog
photo by David Topping The editors of Spacing were very happy to open up NOW this week and find out that Spacing Toronto was named Best Local Blog. They...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered