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LORINC: Tell me how Toronto will pay for transit plans — then I’ll get excited
A few years ago, University of Toronto Schools teacher Josh Fullan and I concocted a transit game for the students in his Maximum City program. Each group...
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The night Neil Young was conceived
It was the last winter of the Second World War. 1945. The first week of February. Far away in Europe, the Nazis were crumbling: the Soviets were closing...
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Name your best public make-out space and win film tickets!
Spacing has a little cameo in the incredibly funny lesbian romantic comedy Portrait of a Serial Monogamist opening in Toronto on Feb 12th at the Carlton...
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LORINC: How the City plans to pay for services in the future
The 2016 budget debate, which lands today at executive committee after doing the usual rounds, has offered up a curious mix of urgency and its opposite...
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Cars are part of the mix in Kensington Market
One of the first areas I take people when they visit Toronto is usually Kensington Market – that dense grid of narrow streets stuffed with fruit and...
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The challenge of getting to the bus stop
Adapted from a post in Marshall’s Musings, the author’s personal blog. In the Greater Toronto Area, we have a fixation on building transit...
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SPACING: Come to our release party Feb. 17th!
WHAT: Release party for Winter 2016 issue of Spacing WHEN: Wed. Feb. 17, 7pm-11pm WHERE: 610 Markham St., one block from Bathurst & Bloor COST: free...
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The Artful City
The Artful City is a bi-weekly blog series exploring the evolution of public art and its role in the transformation of Toronto, both the city fabric and...
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Do you have to shovel your sidewalk?
In the City of Toronto, the city will clear some local sidewalks when it snows a certain amount, but other people are required to shovel their sidewalk...
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The independent Toronto Republic of Rathnelly
To celebrate the Centennial, on Saturday, June 10, 1967, the roughly 400 residents of Rathnelly Ave. and several nearby streets decided to quit Toronto...
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Toronto’s most deadly disaster: the nightmare on the SS Noronic
It was late. The Noronic was quiet. The ship was docked at the foot of Yonge Street, gently rocking in the dark waves. Almost everyone on board was...
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LORINC: All the evidence points to more stalling
And lo, after the people of the town had spent these six long years wandering blindly in a stormy and seemingly ceaseless night, a young messenger named...
By John Lorinc
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered