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Welcome In My Back Yard
Catherine Porter considers the power of Nimbyism in today’s Toronto Star. It’s about time Toronto learned to love itself and the complexities...
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Access All Areas book launch tonight
Even though Ninjalicous, the creative force behind Infiltration, passed away in late August he is still helping us go to places where we are told not to...
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Capture The Flag! U of T
Friday October 21st 2005 • 100 St. George Street • 8:30 PM Gargoyles, peacocks and beavers, oh my! Newmindspace invites you to join them for a...
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The city’s tax straightjacket
Royson James wrote an interesting explanation of Toronto’s confusing property tax system today, as property owners across the city received their...
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[murmur] Launches on Spadina!
Please join us tomorrow (Thursday Oct 20th) at Grossman’s Tavern (379 Spadina Avenue at Cecil) from 6-9pm for a (free) reception celebrating the...
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Tar Babies
Last weekend I visited the ancestral suburban split-level homestead in dear Windsor, Ontario for Thanksgiving. There is no public transportation there...
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Thank you, John Sewell
John Sewell, the former mayor of Toronto from 1979-81, has been writing about city issues for Globe and Mail, Eye Weekly and NOW for 18 years. This week...
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Toronto’s Bike Plan gets the gears
Spacing managing editor Dale Duncan wrote in Eye Weely about Toronto’s Bike Plan, and the bike lane proposal that would stretch across Bloor and the...
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The Cold War Against St. Clair
How is your St. Clair boycott going? Mine is going just fine — I even (mostly) shut my eyes yesterday as I crossed the pariah avenue while out for...
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Ode to the Bollard
The simple bollard: a punctuation mark in a mature urban environment; a marker of mediation between conflicting modes of transportation; a tiny totem of...
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The Toronto Effect
According to the Star today: Toronto is becoming more architecturally diverse and denser which is helping some people give up their cars with the added...
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Urban Leadership Awards
The Canadian Urban Institute, the nation’s leader in progressive civic policy development, annually recognizes people and organizations with their...
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered