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LORINC: Rob Ford drove his reputation into the ground
On October 2, 2013 – exactly, as it happens, four years ago today – a certain Detective Constable Khoshbooi, of the Toronto Police Service, swore an...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 016, the Racist Roots of Canadian Cities
In this episode, we speak to Toronto Dreams Project founder Adam Bunch, who took a tour this summer of Toronto’s problematic landmarks. We also ask...
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The North Market and what Toronto can learn from Barcelona’s El Born
Part of a mayor’s job is to build the city, even as he takes care with taxpayers’ money. John Tory has an opportunity to add a big brick for...
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LORINC: When “Friends of” park groups aren’t so friendly to outsiders
My inbox has been filling up all summer and into this balmy fall with the righteous indignation of two well-heeled neighbourhood groups whose members...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: 1856 Panorama by Armstrong, Beere, and Hime
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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EVENT: 2017 Toronto the Good party + public lecture by Doug Saunders
WHAT: Annual Toronto the Good party + public lecture by Doug Saunders WHERE: Evergreen Brickworks WHEN: Thursday October 5, 2017 — 5:30PM-11PM COST...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Bottle of Gooderham and Worts Rye Whisky
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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The tragic final days of Lucy Maud Montgomery
This is where Lucy Maud Montgomery died: the house she called Journey’s End. It’s on Riverside Drive in Swansea: the west end of Toronto...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: William Davies Company’s St. Lawrence Market Stall
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: The unnecessary return of Doug Ford
Give Doug Ford this much: one has to admire, in a grudging way, someone with the sheer lack of self-awareness required to believe that Torontonians are...
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The parking garage of the future!
In the 1950s and 60s, Toronto, like cities all over the world, struggled with challenges delivered by the rise of the private automobile. For the first...
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John Graves Simcoe’s weird relationship with slavery
Meet John Graves Simcoe. Founder of Toronto. British veteran of the American Revolution. And an avowed abolitionist with a very weird and complicated...
By Adam Bunch
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered