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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...
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Pour one out for the Toronto Coach Terminal
The Toronto Coach Terminal is a sorry sight. Marooned a significant distance from the city’s main railway station, disconnected from other forms of...
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LORINC: Which track is Smart Track on?
One of the enduring features of Toronto’s so-called transit debate is the uneven and treacherous information terrain that ordinary citizens are forced to...
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MESLIN: While other cities embrace street murals, Toronto staff reject it
It’s been seven months since I wrote about the Regal Heights street mural, a community-driven art project painted by neighbours of all ages on...
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Toronto’s history in two buildings
Back in May and June of 2015, the Guardian newspaper ran an intriguing series on its Cities page entitled “A history of cities in 50 buildings.” The list...
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LORINC: What if City Council actually talked about buses?
Bad choices beget more bad choices. If I lie on a government form, I will almost inevitably have to dissemble more in order to ensure the continued...
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Emma Goldman in Toronto — one last victory for The Most Dangerous Woman in the World
The Most Dangerous Woman in the World was playing a quiet game of cards. It was a snowy Toronto evening in the winter of 1940, that first terrible winter...
By Adam Bunch
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered