Spacing Toronto

Dale Duncan at City Hall: June 29, 2007

Don’t trash the new waste plan For those of you disappointed with the new garbage collection system city council approved by a vote of 26-18 on June...

By Dale Duncan

Bikes

Get busy with BikeFriday

Happy BikeFriday! It’s a busy and exciting one this Friday, June 29th. The exciting news is that BikeFriday is being launched in Mississauga. The...

By Tammy Thorne

Streetscape

Montreal notes

Back in May, Spacing publisher Matt Blackett and myself drove up to Montreal for a few days to work on a Spacing project (details to come). While we were...

By Dylan Reid

Politics

Thursday’s Headlines

• Streetcars’ ‘wheel squeak’ driving reader to despair [ Toronto Star ] • New bins ‘waste of money’ [ Toronto Star...

By Julie Yamin

Culture

Adding art to our street furniture

Ecomedia, the new company that bought out EUCAN and took control of Toronto’s silver box waste bins, introduced an interesting program today that is...

By Matthew Blackett

Spacing

New issue on newsstands today!

If you haven’t already picked up your issue at Pages Books, you can now grab the Summer 2007 issue of Spacing at any of the stores in Toronto or...

By Spacing

Bikes

Cyclist Profile – Jamie the communications director

Cyclist Profiles are a regular feature on I Bike TO. Name / Occupation / Age Jamie Rilett, Director of Communications for the Honourable Donna Cansfield...

By Tammy Thorne

History

Wednesday’s Headlines

• More dog runs proposed [ Toronto Star ] • Be prepared to pay for new trees [ Toronto Star ] • Sam the Record Man to auction off a piece...

By Julie Yamin

Community

Sexual Innuendo + Anti-Speed Racing Ads = Safer Pedestrians?

Just came across an interesting approach to reducing speed racing — and making streets safer for pedestrians — from the land downunda. It...

By Leah Sandals

Events

Spacing invites you to Municipal Mind book launch Wednesday

MUNICIPAL MIND BOOK LAUNCH Municipal Mind: Manifestos for the Creative City by Toronto’s Poet Laureate Pier Giorgio Di Cicco When: Wednesday June...

By Spacing

Transit

Presto Farecard: Revolution or Hyperbole?

Images from prestocard.ca Today’s newspapers are fawning over a new farecard (see yesterday’s and today’s headlines posts), to be called...

By Sean Marshall

Politics

Tuesday’s Headlines

• Ont. minister says multi-system transit card a first for Canada [ cbc ] • Fare enough: Single card aims to ease ticket trouble [ Toronto Star...

By Julie Yamin