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BURALE: Taking the ambiguity out of police carding
On October 28th, Community Safety Minister Yasir Naqvi released a draft regulation to standardize police street checks in order “to ensure that those...
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12 DAYS OF SPACING: For the Historian
The Spacing Store is just over a year old now and we’re heading in to our second Holiday season. We’ve picked out some of our favourite items...
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12 DAYS OF SPACING: Neighbourhood Love
The Spacing Store is just over a year old now and we’re heading in to our second Holiday season. We’ve picked out some of our favourite items...
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Stroller etiquette
Spacing is crowd-sourcing opinions from our readers on stroller etiquette for buses, streetcars, and the subway. Please tell us where you think parents...
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12 DAYS OF SPACING: For the Cyclist
The Spacing Store is just over a year old now and we’re heading in to our second Holiday season. We’ve picked out some of our favourite items...
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Spacing’s Guide to Toronto Events: Nov. 29 – Dec. 5
MONDAY Dine and Discourse: Who’s Policing the Police? Where: Ryerson Student Campus Centre (Map) When: Noon-2:00pm What: Lunch discussion with...
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How the TTC lost and found its subway style
Not many people could have known that behind the advertising billboards on the platform of College station was something no-one had seen for more than...
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Special Edition of Fife & Drum: all the new urban things at Fort York
A special edition of Fife and Drum, the newsletter produced by the Friends of Fort York, was just released to capture the incredible amount of urban...
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LORINC: Have Toronto police learned anything at all about de-escalation?
The shouting about Paris and the ugly political aftermath has made it difficult to hear almost everything else that’s taking place in our world, including...
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Spacing’s Guide to Toronto Events: Nov. 22-28
MONDAY Overcoming Barriers and Facilitating Brownfield Redevelopment in the GTHA Where: Peter Bronfman Learning Centre, 7th Floor (Map) When...
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When terror strikes urban geographies of hope
Guest post by Paul Cohen, a professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto and an occasional contributor to Spacing. I first learned...
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How to consult in gentrifying neighbourhoods
Every municipal planner knows that when the City convenes a public meeting to consult a community about a proposed project, the people who tend to show up...
By Mariana Valverde
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered