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  • ProJet MontrĂ©al

    It’s kind of nice that, at least officially, party politics is not a lynchpin of Canadian municipal elections. Watching the post-Katrina terror...

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  • Squabble on the waterfront

    As usual, whenever there is talk about Toronto’s waterfront, sniping and mixed messages are sure to follow. In the Toronto Star today, Christopher...

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  • 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...

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  • Take the Tooker

    With the price of gas rising, pollution increasing, obesity growing, parking diminishing, & congestion clogging, you would expect government to take...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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