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Have a book, leave a book. Need a book, take a book.
Though it would surely strike fear in the heart of illegal-newspaper-box-hating Mayor David Miller, a recent trip to Chicago witnessed an act of public...
By Liz Clayton -
A little history on the TTC’s Timeline service
Many of our readers have suggested that the TTC go back to providing a phone number attached to a transit stop. When you called the number, an automated...
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Sunday Scene — City Talk at Power Plant
There is an interesting talk at the Power Plant on Sunday, part of the We Can Do This Now Toronto-centric exhibition (go just to check out Luis...
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Sneak a peak at (what might be) Lake Ontario Park
Last night I went to the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation’s Lake Ontario Park Public Forum expecting the half-full room of journalists...
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Can Bike Share live again?
Dale Duncan, Spacing’s managing editor, wrote about Bike Share in this week’s Eye Weekly. In December, the Community Bicycle Network (CBN)...
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“Public space protection” — but for which “public”?
I had a bit of a disturbing experience yesterday as I was running errands downtown. First, I was glad to see the south Queen sidewalk east of University...
By Leah Sandals -
Thursday afternoon links to articles
Ken Greenberg has a post on Reading Toronto that outlines his opinion on the Queen West Triangle decision and the OMB. Its a great read from one of...
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Bye-bye monster bins, hello more headaches
EUCAN, the owners of the monster bins and silver boxes, have new owners who are re-branding the company Ecomedia. And the new owners have made every...
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If you don’t like salad, don’t do graffiti-ing
Reno 911 is one of my favourite TV shows. I was watching some of their earlier episodes which featured this excellent public service announcement to...
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Dale Duncan at City Hall: Jan. 18 2007
Spacing‘s managing editor Dale Duncan writes a weekly column for Eye Weekly focused on City Hall. Each week we’ll post her columns on the...
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Help redesign the Lower Donlands
If everyone has had their fill of helping the TTC redesign their website, the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation would like some of that...
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Public art gettin’ busy on your t-rash
Most of the manhole cover lovers (er, methinks we need a new word for “manhole”) out there are well aware of this already, but last night at...
By Leah Sandals
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered