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Life on the Line: Light in the Tunnel
(Alex Garant, “Midnight”) For the past month, you may have noticed a...
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Is good regional transit planning impossible?
Image: Christof Spieler, Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of U.S. Transit, Island Press. The recent news from Vancouver is driving some to...
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LORINC: Subway upload: negotiating when you have no cards in your hand
As has been widely noted, the Ford government’s approach to nearly everything has a kind of malevolent Bozo-the-clown vibe, with an emerging record of...
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A modest proposal for reforming Toronto’s Land Transfer Tax
By Zack Taylor Few topics have pre-occupied Toronto’s budget watchers more over the past decade than the city’s land transfer tax (LTT). People love it or...
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The Bloor Street Viaduct
As the City celebrates the centennial of Toronto’s most recognizable pieces of infrastructure with the unveiling of a historical plaque, Spacing...
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If you think Toronto’s transit is overly politicized, you’re right.
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 politicized. Former...
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EVENT: Spacing launches short fiction book “Toronto 2033”
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 Junction) COST: Free...
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EVENT: Spacing Store 4th anniversary (Hidden Gems book launch postponed)
WHAT: Spacing Store 4th anniversary WHEN: Monday, November 19, 2018 / 7pm-9pm WHERE: Spacing Store, 401 Richmond St W COST: event is free RSVP: Let us...
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PODCAST: Election Panel with Matthew Blackett and Shawn Micallef
As Toronto gets ready to vote, we’ll be bringing you regular panel discussions with journalists and experts who will help you wade through what is maybe...
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ELECTION: Spacing Radio has you covered
From the early days of campaign planning, to Doug Ford’s assault on Toronto city hall, and the mayoral and council races that followed, our Spacing...
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Come to our election viewing / release party on Monday!
WHAT: 2018 Election viewing party / Spacing Fall 2018 release party WHEN: Monday, October 22 7pm-11pm WHERE: Pauper’s Pub, 539 Bloor St W, just east...
By Matthew Blackett -
LORINC: The Subway in the Room
Almost a year ago, the Toronto Star’s Jennifer Pagliaro published a story detailing, with her trademark meticulousness, how then chief planner and now...
By John Lorinc