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50 Objects that Define Toronto: Footprints under Toronto Bay
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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Pride and Policing: a comparative history of Toronto and New York
The decision to ban uniformed police from marching at this year’s Toronto Pride Parade has prompted an invitation from the Gay Officers Action League...
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WATCH: Amazing archival videos of Toronto Pride 1988-1995
Between 1988 and 1995 (save for 1991 when he did not have a camera) Toronto editor and filmmaker James Leahy documented Toronto Pride, both the street...
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REID: “You cannot talk fatalities down” – international insights on walking and cycling
When I asked Anders Lie, the Swedish expert on the Vision Zero traffic safety program, about cities (like Toronto) where politicians lay claim to the...
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Making places for Toronto’s Queer history
By Ed Jackson In June, 2016, U.S. President Barack Obama proclaimed the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar on Christopher Street in New York City, as an American...
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The short, mysterious life of the Beard Building
The Beard Building is a historical enigma. Toronto’s first skyscraper, the 7-storey building was constructed in 1895 to designs by E. J. Lennox, one...
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REID: Transforming Buenos Aires
A radical transformation of the centre of Buenos Aires, Argentina, combining a new Bus Rapid Transit project and a pedestrian-and-cyclist priority...
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Islamophobia in Canadian public spaces: how to go from trauma to solidarity
There is a pressing need to turn public spaces where Muslims have been traumatized into spaces where solidarity is strengthened. Racialized communities...
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Toronto’s strange climate change plan in the age of Trump
When U.S. president Donald Trump announced last week that he’d decided to abandon the historic Paris Accord, national and sub-national governments around...
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REID: The value of federal support for cycling
Canadian bike and walking advocates have been working to try to get the federal government to engage with, and provide financial support to, cycling and...
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REID: Pity the poor operator: success and failure in subway systems
I attended the International Transport Forum May 31-June 2 on behalf of Spacing, and over the next few days will report some of the most interesting...
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LORINC: The politics of the minimum wage
One of the more curious differences between the powers of American and Canadian cities has to do with the former’s ability — and willingness — to impose...
By John Lorinc
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered