Politics
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SPACING VOTES: 2006 election blog
Spacing has the launched our 2006 daily election blog, Spacing Votes. Spacing Votes is a hub of news and analysis on a variety of urban landscape topics...
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It’s Car Free Day… do you know where your councillor is?
Cross-posted from Spacing Votes — by Claire Salloum September 22 (today!) is International Car Free Day. This year in Toronto, the city is having...
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Bike racks on buses get green light
The expansion of the Rack It and Rocket Program is expected to move forward following a TTC meeting this afternoon. The one-year pilot project was...
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Toronto’s garbage woes answered?
Cross-posted to Spacing Votes I sometimes watch City Council meetings on Rogers. Today I turned it on and found councillors debating whether to buy a...
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Burning for Sweden
Now that a deadline has been set to stop trucking Toronto’s garbage to Michigan, the problem of what to do with the city’s trash is on the...
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SPACING: John Lorinc joins our election coverage
Spacing is very excited to announce that John Lorinc, noted urban affairs journalist and author of the The New City, has joined the Spacing Votes election...
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Take the Tooker group ride Saturday
To help reduce smog in the city and climate change, there are people busily working away at alternative transport options, which include cycling. This...
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Pitfield won’t quit anti-panhandling bylaw
The Toronto Sun is reporting mayoral candidate Jane Pitfield won’t let go of her anti-panhandling bylaw: “Mayoral candidate Jane Pitfield...
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JAMES: New blood needed
Photo of John Sewell by RENE JOHNSTON/TORONTO STAR This is the period during an election where the finer points of platforms are not usually debated in...
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Toronto Coalition for Active Transport
Cycling, walking, and related organizations in Toronto have come together to form the Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation (TCAT). TCAT’s...
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HUME: show some leadership, Pitfield!
I opened up my copy of the Star today to find a grumpy Christopher Hume. He laid into Jane Pitfield’s platform of tax cuts and hiring freezes. His...
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Making the Streets Safe for Walkers (slowly)
Two interesting pedestrian initiatives are coming to the Works Committee of City Council on Monday, Sept. 11. The first is a proposal to extend the...
By Dylan Reid