Canada
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The 11,000 year-old footprints at the bottom of Lake Ontario
During the last ice age, a really, really, really, really big glacier covered pretty much all of Canada and the northern United States, including the...
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Jarvis bike lane erasing continues with slow rolling protest
The Jarvis Street erasing began again today, with reports of a physician arrested earlier near Queen for blocking the truck. At 1:30PM there was a...
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Toppy Topham crosses the Rhine — the story of Toronto’s life-saving WWII medic
The Second World War was nearly over. It had already been nine months since the Allies landed in Normandy. The 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion had been...
By Adam Bunch -
Two worthy Toronto fundraising events for PEN Canada & Romero House next week
A brief public service announcement to bring to your attention two very worthy fundraising events for local, internationally connected organizations. PEN...
By Shawn Micallef -
Friday’s headlines
MAYOR ROB FORD Ford says watchdogs should be sent packing [The Globe and Mail] Mayor says city watchdogs trying to make themselves look busy [The Globe...
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Headspace: Catherine Nasmith discusses heritage preservation and the Mirvish-Gehry proposal
Catherine Nasmith is former president of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario and a founder of Doors Open Toronto. She has been active in heritage...
By Luca De Franco -
EVENTS: Toronto Talks
With the academic year now well underway, there is an abundance of free lectures taking place in Toronto. Here are a few that are happening this week...
By Dale Duncan -
TODERIAN: It’s not about the bike or car —it’s about better cities
Brent Toderian is the former chief planner for Vancouver and writes regularly for Spacing Vancouver This week, I watched with concern Canada’s...
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Monday’s headlines
CITY HALL Plastic bag ban: Ford pushes radio listeners to help get it rescinded [Toronto Star] Delegations off to Italy, China [Toronto Star] Top Toronto...
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Paying for transit in the GTHA 2: Highway tolls
Road tolls are one of the oldest and most common forms of paying for transportation infrastructure — they go back millenia, and although they are...
By Dylan Reid -
LORINC: Why should TTC operate the new LRT lines?
A Monday morning confession: Try as I might, I simply have not been able to grasp the TTC’s intransigence towards Metrolinx’s allegedly treacherous...
By John Lorinc