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Rick Mercer drives a TTC streetcar
In today’s Rick Mercer Report, Mercer does a feature on the TTC where he learns to drive a TTC streetcar, subway and bus. It’s fun, especially...
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Nathan Phillips Square Revitalization Designs (Part 1?)
I just got back from viewing the four proposed designs for revitalizing Nathan Phillips Square. I only saw the designs and models — I didn’t...
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Public Space Invaders III: Call for films
Spacing is now accepting submissions for the third installment of our Public Space Invaders film night to be held at the Drake Hotel in late March. We are...
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Is Toronto coming around on road pricing?
It was exciting to read today that Mayor Miller is sending councillor Brian Ashton to London to study congestion charges. If you remember back in the...
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Monday afternoon links
On Sunday, I wanted to catch the 4:43am ride on the newly opened section of the St Clair right-of-way (ROW) but I came down with a serious flu bug...
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Ice Days
There was some talk recently about skating on Grenadier Pond in High Park, and what the ice might be like. Today we discovered the ice was very cold and...
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SPACING: announcing the Winter-Spring 2007 issue
SPACING: announcing the Winter-Spring 2007 issue ON NEWSSTANDS: Wednesday, February 21 RELEASE PARTY: Thursday, February 22nd Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen...
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Snow Days
Yesterday, the sidewalk along Dundas at the south end of Regent Park was covered in snow, four days after the snowfall. The street was dry as a bone, as...
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Passing by Lower Bay
For the next six weekends, starting next Saturday, riders on the Bloor-Danforth line will have to transfer trains at Museum station because Bay station is...
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A northern flight up Bathurst Street
Spacing’s associate editor Shawn Micallef wrote the lead City article in this week’s Eye Weekly about the life and times of Bathurst Street...
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A non-crosseyed vision for 2011?
Today, Artscape launched a new campaign called Vision 2011: Thinking Big About Culture-led Regeneration aka A Roadmap for Toronto’s Future. Now, we...
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Dale Duncan at City Hall: Feb. 15, 2007
Everyone’s bored of the board If there’s one thing city council can agree on these days, it’s that the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB...
By Dale Duncan
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered