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How to cross railway tracks
Pedestrian activist Roger Brook wrote an interesting article in NOW magazine a couple of weeks ago about pedestrian crossings over railway tracks...
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Monday’s Headlines
• 905 takes its tax medicine [ Toronto Star ] • Miller fiddles, money burns [ Toronto Star ] • Being blunt about Scarborough [ Toronto Star...
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TSA’s Design Matters contest
The city’s Festival of Architecture and Design is happening again this year, which means we are planning another Toronto The Good party (details...
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It makes me happy
Riding my bike makes me happy. That is why I would like to share this article by an Edmontonian cyclist-soul-sister called, Biking as spiritual...
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Let’s all love movies about hating Toronto and about what terrible gentrifiers we are
Last night, a few Spacing editors had an opportunity to screen two, I would say, very important new documentaries about Toronto: Let’s All Hate...
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Earth Day street festival on John St.
Streets Are for People is organizing an eco-fair to celebrate Earth Day on Sunday April 22. John Street will be closed to traffic (or, if you will, opened...
By Dylan Reid -
Friday’s Headlines
• Augimeri faulted for ‘reckless’ slur [ Toronto Star ] • Back off old tickets, city told [ Toronto Sun ] • City urged to back...
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Dale Duncan at City Hall: April 19 2007
Spinning garbage numbers OK, so Toronto may be slow to build bike lanes. And our transit system could use a lot of work. And, sure, our mayor may not be...
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City Hall: Tapping into the transportation budget
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. This week, I wrote about a group called Green Here that is working to reforest its Davenport neighbourhood. One of the...
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This will be the best weekend of the year
A few weeks ago, in the little “God [or] Devil is in the Details” section in Eye Weekly, I wrote about the melting snow leaving behind a...
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Thursday’s Headlines
• TTC’s streetcar proposal for King ‘madness’ [ National Post ] • New taxes Nothing To Fear, Miller says [ National Post ...
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City Hall: What trees have in common with potholes
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. Glenn De Baeremaeker has declared that any pothole reported to the city will be filled in four days. (You can read about the...
By Dale Duncan
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered