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Brantford’s downtown destruction
Brantford city council recently voted to demolish three blocks of heritage buildings in the city’s downtown. Guest columnist Nigel Terpstra, of...
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Monday’s headlines
GREENBELT • Hume: Five years later, Greenbelt’s something to celebrate [ Toronto Star ] • Humber, Don rivers added to Greenbelt [ National Post ...
By Katia Snukal -
Spacing Saturday
Every Saturday, we highlight recent posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. • [Re]Presenting...
By Katia Snukal -
Wednesday’s headlines
ICE TIME • Girls win ice-time power play on city rinks [ Toronto Sun ] • ‘Compromise’ over ice time [ National Post ] • City resolves tussle...
By Katia Snukal -
Disco Road: The land that metric forgot
An old street sign in the foreground, with a newer metric speed limit sign and the Disco Road waste transfer station in the background. Disco Road, a...
By Sean Marshall -
Brougham: A “lost village” in the making
Brougham, a small village at the corner of Highway 7 and Brock Road in Pickering, doesn’t quite make the usual criteria for a “lost...
By Sean Marshall -
Toronto Environmental Alliance issues election priorities
The Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA) has published a list of key policy priorities it hopes Toronto’s mayoral candidates will endorse. Noting...
By Marcus Bowman -
Building Storeys — Architect Unveiled: T.C. Pomphrey and the R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant
EDITOR’S NOTE: Spacing is pleased to again partner with Heritage Toronto on their ongoing Building Storeys exhibit at the Gladstone Hotel that has been...
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Event Guide: Building Storeys 2010
Spacing is pleased to again partner with Heritage Toronto on the Building Storeys exhibit, opening tomorrow (Thursday). After the success of our 2009...
By Shawn Micallef -
Watch NFB: Invisible City playing at the Royal Feb 5-9
Editor: Spacing is pleased to showcase films from the NFB’s online screening room. The NFB will be occasionally posting films here that explore our...
By Matthew Forsythe -
Building Storeys – the Canadian Northern Railway Eastern Lines Locomotive Shop
EDITOR’S NOTE: Spacing is pleased to again partner with Heritage Toronto on their upcoming Building Storeys exhibit at the Gladstone Hotel that runs...
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TORONTO STAR FRONT PAGE ALL-CAPS FAIL
The Toronto Star today published an article on the front page, with the all-caps headline above the fold, “JAYWALKING CITY“. In the article...
By Dylan Reid