Spacing Toronto

HUME: show some leadership, Pitfield!

I opened up my copy of the Star today to find a grumpy Christopher Hume. He laid into Jane Pitfield’s platform of tax cuts and hiring freezes. His...

By Matthew Blackett

Features

New York looks to control ad blight

Torontonians often use New York as an example of a North American city that has vibrant public spaces and decent urban planning. Specifically, we hear...

By Matthew Blackett

Politics

Making the Streets Safe for Walkers (slowly)

Two interesting pedestrian initiatives are coming to the Works Committee of City Council on Monday, Sept. 11. The first is a proposal to extend the...

By Dylan Reid

Green Space

Monarchs everywhere!

Monarchs, monarchs, everywhere! From today’s Star: They’re suddenly everywhere — majestic black and orange butterflies fluttering in...

By Matthew Blackett

Transit

Subway Navigator

I was recently forwarded the Subway Navigator site which has a number of international cities’ subway maps and can help you figure out how to get...

By Matthew Blackett

Media

City Surfing

City Surf is a new Toronto based company selling cool downloadable audio tours of some of our more famous neighbourhoods. For $9.99, the savvy traveller...

By Spacing

Bikes

Artful Street Furniture

Imagine a city where street furniture is designed by psychiatric survivors and artists. It’s a far cry from a city with fully harmonized street...

By Tammy Thorne

Communication

Mothership

Being in Edinburgh feels a bit like hanging out in Toronto’s mothership — the place where all the names we see everyday came from (but with...

By Shawn Micallef

Green Space

Tuesday’s headlines

• Follow the leader game just unfair to challengers: Royson James has a good piece in the Star today about the upcoming city election...

By Matthew Blackett

Events

SPACING: new issue in two weeks!

September is a busy month for Spacing. We have a few announcements to make (which you may want to mark down in your calendar). 1. New issue of Spacing! In...

By Matthew Blackett

Bikes

Queen and Portland

The large parking lot at Portland between Queen West and Richmond is one of the last major undeveloped sections of Queen Street West, and as such holds...

By Dylan Reid