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Doug Ford’s TTC subway upload and Margaret Thatcher’s cautionary tale

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As the province contemplates major structural change to Toronto’s transit system, I want to offer London’s rocky history... Read More

Life on the Line: Light in the Tunnel

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(Alex Garant, “Midnight”) For the past month, you... Read More

Is good regional transit planning impossible?

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Image: Christof Spieler, Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of U.S. Transit, Island Press. The recent news from Vancouver is... Read More

LORINC: Subway upload: negotiating when you have no cards in your hand

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As has been widely noted, the Ford government’s approach to nearly everything has a kind of malevolent Bozo-the-clown vibe, with an... Read More

A modest proposal for reforming Toronto’s Land Transfer Tax

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By Zack Taylor Few topics have pre-occupied Toronto’s budget watchers more over the past decade than the city’s land transfer tax... Read More

The Bloor Street Viaduct

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As the City celebrates the centennial of Toronto’s most recognizable pieces of infrastructure with the unveiling of a historical... Read More

If you think Toronto’s transit is overly politicized, you’re right.

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It’s designed to be that way. We need to change that. A common criticism of transit decision-making in Toronto is that it is overly... Read More

EVENT: Spacing launches short fiction book “Toronto 2033”

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WHAT: Launch of Toronto 2033 book WHEN: Thursday, Dec. 6, 7:30pm-onward WHERE: See-Scape, 347 Keele St. (at Dundas St. West in the... Read More

EVENT: Spacing Store 4th anniversary (Hidden Gems book launch postponed)

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WHAT: Spacing Store 4th anniversary WHEN: Monday, November 19, 2018 / 7pm-9pm WHERE: Spacing Store, 401 Richmond St W COST: event is... Read More