Politics
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SPACING RADIO G20 SPECIAL: Protesting free speech zones
LISTEN TO TODAY’S SPACING RADIO PODCAST Today is the final installment in our week-long G20 Special. A lot remains up for debate but we...
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SPACING RADIO G20 SPECIAL: Protecting civil liberties
LISTEN TO TODAY’S SPACING RADIO PODCAST Discussion in the leadup to the G20 Summit took a far more serious and ominous turn on Friday, June 25, when the...
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SPACING VOTES WEEKLY: Social media, Ford, and bikes
EDITOR’S NOTE: Spacing Votes — our dedicated 2010 election blog — will feature regular posts form our contributors that examine campaign promises...
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SPACING RADIO G20 SPECIAL: Spectacle & social media
LISTEN TO TODAY’S SPACING RADIO PODCAST Spacing Radio is taking a closer look at the impact of the G20 Summit this week. One incident that stands...
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SPACING RADIO G20 SPECIAL: Toronto the colony
LISTEN TO TODAY’S SPACING RADIO PODCAST All this week, Spacing Radio is taking a closer look at the impact of the G20 Summit on our public spaces...
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SPACING RADIO SPECIAL: Examining the G20, pt. I
LISTEN TO TODAY’S SPACING RADIO PODCAST Ever since the G20, Toronto’s public spaces have felt different. Something has changed. All this week...
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LORINC: 10 more questions about TPSB’s G20 review
In the early 1990s, the Ontario Commission on Police Services conducted an extended probe of the internal affairs unit of the Metro Toronto Police...
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LORINC: Greenwashing by any other name
I normally have a lot of time for the Toronto Environmental Alliance, but the heat this week must have wiped out the organization’s institutional memory...
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LORINC: 10 questions a G20 inquiry should address
In recent Canadian history, three previous political demonstrations led to confrontations with police and subsequent legal actions or official inquires...
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G20: Mayor breeds new generation of cynics
“The Toronto Police Service, with very little lead time, I think did a job that can only be described as extremely professional and to the highest...
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G20: Hitting us where it hurts
It was an eerie experience traversing Toronto’s should-be-bustling downtown streets in the days leading up to the G20. But it wasn’t freedom I...
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G20: The revolution will be televised (on YouTube)
Last week, social media demonstrated that Toronto is a quite a plugged-in city: Twitter, Flickr and Facebook quickly confirmed that an earthquake had...
By Matthew Blackett