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LORINC: Booze in the corner store
Until the mid 1970s, you couldn’t buy lottery tickets in Ontario. Ontarians could go to the horse races and place bets; the ponies, after all, have...
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LORINC: Eyes in the Sky
On the evening of July 1, after the sky darkened and the fireworks over Ashbridge’s Bay began, some participants noticed eight police drones...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 077, Spring cleaning in Toronto
With the change of the seasons, we talk about different kinds of renewal. First, Senior Editor John Lorinc talks about the special Spacing investigation...
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What is the cost of ransomware attack on Toronto Library?
This is a follow up to Spacing’s five=part series on the ransomware attack on the Toronto Public Library in the fall of 2023. Part I: Toronto Public...
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Spacing investigation: Toronto Public Library ransomware attack, pt. V
This is part five in a five-part series independently produced and investigated by Spacing The Toronto Public Library’s chief librarian, Vickery...
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Spacing investigation: Toronto Public Library ransomware attack, pt. IV
By John Lorinc and Sakeina Syed Although TPL officials maintained an official no-comment stance for much of the shutdown — TPL chief librarian Vickery...
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Spacing investigation: Toronto Public Library ransomware attack, pt. III
This is a five-part series independently produced and investigated by Spacing At some point in mid-2020, with the pandemic raging, the Toronto Public...
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Spacing investigation: Toronto Public Library ransomware attack, pt. II
This is a five-part series independently produced and investigated by Spacing On October 29, a Sunday, a TPL branch manager got a call on his cell from...
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Spacing investigation: Toronto Public Library ransomware attack, pt. I
This is a five-part series independently produced and investigated by Spacing As a parent to a two-year-old, Markus Harwood-Jones made visiting a Toronto...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 075, What does change cost?
With the Toronto budget about to be voted on shortly, we talk to crisis worker and homelessness advocate Diana Chan McNally about what the City needs to...
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Op-Ed: Do our city’s emergency plans really protect women?
Fires, floods, and melting permafrost in other parts of the country can make it tough to envision how homegrown climate emergencies will pan out in the...
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Filling in the Missing Middle for food retailing
The term “missing middle” has quickly become recognized as shorthand for housing that fills the gap between single family dwellings and...
By Glenn Miller