Politics
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What’s the difference between a BRT and BLT?
Cross-posted from Spacing Votes With all of the recent discussion surrounding transit policies, subway extensions and streetcar rights-of-way, a brief...
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Hume on our streets, why Canada is failing
Christopher Hume’s last two columns have been drop-dead accurate in my assumption. His piece on Toronto’s floundering streetscape in...
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Eye Weekly’s primer for The Political Party
Cross-posted from Spacing Votes As we’ve mentioned, Spacing is teaming up with Eye Weekly to bring you The Political Party (Monday, Nov. 6th), where...
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What’s going on at Spacing Votes
Hopefully, every reader of the Spacing Wire knows we also have a sister blog called Spacing Votes that has numerous daily posts about Toronto’s...
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The Blueprint to End Homelessness launches today
Compare these average monthly costs of housing and homelessness: social housing ($199.92); shelter bed ($1,932); provincial jail ($4,333); hospital bed...
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Spacing & Eye Weekly present mayors’ event
MONDAY NOVEMBER 6 Revival, 783 College Street (a few blocks east of Ossington) Door open @ 7pm, Event starts @ 8pm, Musical guest after 10pm FREE During...
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Finally, a plan for affordable housing
How do we meet the growing need for affordable housing in this city? The problem has become so big, it’s almost overwhelming — each year more...
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Hume: fear of tall buildings silly
Christopher Hume thinks Toronto’s aversion to tall buildings is silly. What can be said of a city that fears growing up? In Toronto’s case...
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Rejuvenating the waterfront, one big box store at a time
The land where the Toronto Film Studios sits is one step closer to being taken over by big box retail. Big box store developer Mitch Goldhar now owns a...
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Toronto’s High Anxiety
High Anxiety: Can We Get the City and Skyline We Deserve? Thursday, October 19. Doors open at 6:30pm. Event begins at 7:00pm. Free. No registration...
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What’s on Spacing Votes
Each week we round-up the Spacing Votes posts from the previous seven days into a nice, digestable size. Over the next three weeks we’ll also be...
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Miller needs waterfront more than it needs him
Christopher Hume writes in Saturday’s paper about how Mayor Miller needs the waterfront more than it needs him. [ read entire article ] At this...
By Matthew Blackett