Spacing Toronto

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...

By Chris Bateman

Transit

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...

By John Lorinc

Streetscape

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...

By Dave Meslin

Architecture

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...

By Sean Marshall

Transit

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...

By John Lorinc

History

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

Politics

LORINC: Fixing the federal vote

If the federal Liberals have endured anything even faintly resembling a controversy so far in these early halcyon days of their majority, it occurred over...

By John Lorinc

Spacing

READ: Fort York’s Fife and Drum newsletter reveals new information around Toronto’s oldest cold case murder

The latest edition of Fife and Drum, the quarterly newsletter produced by the Friends of Fort York, was recently released. As alwaysc it’s filled...

By Shawn Micallef

History

The great Stanley Cup thefts of 1970

The last person to lift the Stanley Cup in Toronto was an unknown thief who swiped the trophy from the Sports Hall of Fame in December, 1970. Though...

By Chris Bateman