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Street furniture winner announced
The winner of the street furniture contract was announced this morning — Astral Media. While I found Astral’s designs to be the least...
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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 ...
By Julie Yamin
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered