Politics
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Thanking McGuinty as only Toronto can
“We’re breaking new ground for Transit City thanks to the recent investment from Premier Dalton McGuinty and the Ontario Government’s...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Politics in Reykjavik’s streets
Spacing publisher Matthew Blackett is travelling through Iceland, Denmark, Sweden and Germany and will occasionally post his observations about all things...
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City Clerk official live blog of City Council meeting
The city clerk is publishing a live blog of the decisions and votes of City Council’s current meeting. It’s remarkably useful — you can...
By Dylan Reid -
SPACING RELEASE PARTY: Tonight!
WHAT: Spacing’s spring-summer 2009 issue release party WHEN: Tonight! From 7:30pm-1am WHERE: Canadian Corps hall, 201 Niagara St. (King &...
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Miller foe to hire McGuinty pollster? Stintz, Guy deny
With less than eight months to go before the 2010 municipal election marathon begins, a rumour has started to circulate that Councillor Karen Stintz, a...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Spacing Radio 004: Toronto’s Green Dreams
As Earth Day approaches, Spacing Radio sent host David Michael Lamb to sit down down and discuss Toronto’s sustainability ambitions with Mayor David...
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Transit City to get major funding boost from province
A press conference will take place at 2:30 in Vaughan where, according to the Globe and Mail, “Premier Dalton McGuinty will today announce...
By Matthew Blackett -
Walking maps for Toronto
At the Toronto Pedestrian Committee meeting yesterday, we learned about the new version of the Toronto Parks and Trails map, which has just been released...
By Dylan Reid -
Spacing Radio 002: What does a new provincial NDP leader mean for cities?
Spacing Radio headed to Hamilton last week for the Ontario NDP leadership convention to find out if a new leader will have any affect on how politicians...
By Spacing -
ASK A PLANNER: Big Box and Leslieville
Spacing introduces a new and sporadic column called Ask A Planner. We’ll ask some of our sources to translate policy and bureaucrat-speak and give...
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Are city issues on the NDP radar?
After the first ballot at the NDP leadership convention, Michael Prue was dropped from the ballot after getting only 11.5% of the vote. While his...
By Dylan Reid -
NDP Convention: the candidates on city issues
We’re (myself and Matt Blackett) at the Ontario NDP leadership convention in Hamilton, looking to see what the NDP candidates have to say about the...
By Dylan Reid