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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Orange Order Sash & Nathan Phillips Campaign Ad
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new...
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LORINC: Why a TTC commuter will get killed at Yonge-Bloor station
There is, in this city, a person going about their business today who will die after being accidentally shoved in front of a moving subway at Yonge and...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 020, Loose Ends
This episode, we follow up on some stories from last year. We follow up on what became of the Ten Year Tent City in Vacouver with Ethel Whitty, director...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: S.S. Noronic Life Preserver
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new...
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Want a piece of the Honest Ed’s sign? Enter our draw
When you get a message that says, “Do you want me to drop off chunks of the Honest Ed’s sign?” you never say no. For the last month...
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Revisited ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ at Buddies shines a spotlight on racialized labour
Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” is most remembered for the 1962 film adaptation starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, a white lawyer in the...
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LORINC: City needs to be thoughtful on how to run Museum of Toronto
UPDATE: The executive committee adopted the report, with an amendment from Scarborough councillor Paul Ainslie, asking city staff to “consult with...
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REID: Pollution and the fall and rise of urbanism
The resurgence of urbanism – the desire to live and work in dense, compact central cities – in 21st century North America and Europe is often attributed...
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Find Spacing stories on new app Driftscape
In 1796, Chief Wabakinine of the Mississaugas was murdered by British soldiers roughly at the base of Parliament Street. You can learn this fact — as well...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Hand-drawn Signs from Honest Ed’s
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new...
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Mapping Toronto’s approved new ward boundaries
On Monday, October 22, 2018, Torontonians will be electing a new city council. And for the first time since 2000, Toronto’s ward boundaries will be...
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LORINC: Wynne’s Liberals gut their own affordable housing policy
Remember when inclusionary zoning was going to solve Toronto’s affordable housing crisis, or at least take a big step towards ameliorating it? Let’s...
By John Lorinc
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered