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How to prioritize the safety of women on the TTC
This week, city council approved a motion by Kristyn Wong-Tam to review city services “to eliminate any existing bias against women” and ensure that...
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Misleading Leaside: Lobbyists score a hat trick with digital billboard
Outfront Media wants to construct a massive digital billboard in the residential community of Leaside. The problem is, no one wants digital billboards in...
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40 in the shade: Toronto’s worst heatwave
For an excruciating week in July, 1936, Toronto, the province, and much of Canada burned. An unprecedented and deadly continent-wide heatwave...
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EVENT: Come meet the 2016 winners of the Jane Jacobs Prize
WHEN: Monday, July 18, 2016 WHERE: 401 Richmond St W., Urbanspace Gallery TIME: 6:30-8:30pm COST: Free! SHARE: Spread the word on Facebook We invite you...
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THE ARTFUL CITY: The Role of Community Arts in Toronto’s Public Art Landscape
By: Jeff Biggar I recently joined residents in Mabelle Park to celebrate ‘Iftar Nights’, a sundown celebration to break the fast during Ramadan. People...
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READ: Twenty Years of Fife and Drum, the Friends of Fort York magazine
It’s billed as the newsletter of the Friends of Fort York, but Fife and Drum is really a magazine on both Toronto and Fort York’s contemporary...
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LORINC: The Scarborough subway and the climate change agenda
What will future residents of Scarborough think, 30 or 40 years hence, when they cast their minds back to the craven transit decisions being made today by...
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Why did John Tory play the race card in transit politics?
In a moment of complete candor, Mayor John Tory implied in a Toronto Star op-ed on Monday that critics of the Scarborough subway are anti-immigrant —in...
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BOOK LAUNCH: Spacing’s “50 Objects That Define Toronto”
BOOK LAUNCH for SPACING’S “50 OBJECTS THAT DEFINE TORONTO” WHEN: Tuesday, June 28th, 6:30-9:30pm WHERE: Fort York Visitor Centre (250...
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How Toronto built the CN Tower
The CN Tower is one of the most important buildings ever constructed in Canada. Like it or loathe it, the absurd, 553-metre concrete tower, which opened...
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THE ARTFUL CITY: Measuring ‘Success’ Through Policy?
By Yvonne Monestier Much has been written about public art policies as a useful tool for developing and promoting artistic excellence. The question...
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Is new police report real transformation or just new packaging?
Last week, the Toronto Police Service (TPS) and the Toronto Police Services Board (TPSB) jointly released an interim report from the Transformational Task...
By Nana Yanful
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered