Politics
-
Sidewalk art in Ward 19
City Councillor Joe Pantelone’s office (ward 19) have a neat pilot project going on: they have convinced Bell to let them hire local artists to...
By Matthew Blackett -
Take the Tooker
With the price of gas rising, pollution increasing, obesity growing, parking diminishing, & congestion clogging, you would expect government to take...
By Chris Hardwicke -
Toronto Walks in October, apparently
Apparently, the City of Toronto is going to designate October as “Toronto Walks Month.” A lovely idea, but it’s hard to find out what...
By Dylan Reid -
City Council this week
There are some interesting things going down at September’s meeting of City Council. Here’s a primer: 1. Video screens on the Gardiner: As the...
By Matthew Blackett -
Who’s Driving the City?
While London is installing solar powered lighting in its busstops and New York is putting thousands of new bus shelters, newsstands and, public washrooms...
By Chris Hardwicke -
SPACING EVENT: City Club of Toronto?
The City Club of Toronto? Ideas and Experiences from Portland Spacing invites you out to an event we are helping promote. Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2005 &bull...
By Matthew Blackett -
Viacom’s breaking all the rules
The Toronto Public Space Committee has researched the contract that Viacom has with the City of Toronto for ads on transit shelters and has found that...
By Dave Meslin -
Adding insult to injury
It’s not enough that the City has allowed Astral Media to put up massive billboards in our parks disguised as bogus “information...
By Dylan Reid -
Pedestrian posters
The City of Toronto recently launched a new set of posters aimed at making drivers more aware of pedestrians. The posters feature cars being damaged when...
By Dylan Reid -
12 Lessons from 12 Cities
The Globe and Mail’s Tralee Pearce offers Mayor Miller some tips from other cities ranging from free wireless networks, public events, wind powered...
By Chris Hardwicke -
Toronto City Hall is turning 40
Saturday, September 17, 2005 8:30 – 10 pm The September 1965 opening of the newly designed City Hall marked an era of architectural experimentation...
By Chris Hardwicke -
Gas tax cometh
It seems like there has been a lot of transit-type news lately. So here’s another one, this time from today’s Toronto Star. “Nothing...
By Matthew Blackett