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Thursday’s headlines
FORD IN CHICAGO • Rob Ford’s greatest hits [Toronto Sun] • Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz invites Toronto Mayor Rob Ford to the city after geographical...
By Mairin Piccinin -
Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup kicks-off in Toronto
The 19th annual Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup kicked-off this weekend at Toronto’s Woodbine Beach. Volunteers from across the country are gathering on...
By Jonathan Zettel -
William Faulkner drunk in the cockpit of a bi-plane in Toronto
EDITOR: This is the first post of a new collaboration with the Toronto Dreams project by Adam Bunch. The project is a series of postcards hidden around...
By Adam Bunch -
Tuesday’s headlines
CITY HALL Toronto reports $188-million surplus for the first half of 2012 [Globe & Mail] CRIME Crime plummets since Toronto police blitz, stats show...
By Jonathan Zettel -
New geographic eReader called nomad from Spacing editor Shawn Micallef looking for your support
Have you ever read a book set in real-life places and then looked at, say, Google Earth or Streetview to see where the story and action takes place? If...
By Shawn Micallef -
NO MEAN CITY: York University Learning Commons, by Levitt Goodman Architects
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture Welcome to September. To kick off this academic year I want to take a second...
By Alex Bozikovic -
Headspace: Boris Issaev and Alex Berlyand of Parkbus
Boris Issaev and Alex Berlyand run Parkbus, an express bus service that connects downtown Toronto to several different Ontario Parks. The only service of...
By Luca De Franco -
LORINC: Strange times in #FordCourt
When you peel away all the political spinning, the legal wrangling and the sheer spectacle of what transpired in Courtroom 6-1 at 361 University Avenue...
By John Lorinc -
Friday’s headlines
IN THE CITY • The Fixer: Crumbling ramp into Dufferin Grove Park is a hazard [Toronto Star] • Hume: Can old Toronto survive the new? [Toronto Star] â€...
By Amber Daugherty -
Instaflaneur: the nuclear intravenous lines of Rouge Park
The deep ravine of Rouge Park, soon to be Canada’s first “urban” national park, is crossed by a number of high voltage power lines...
By Shawn Micallef -
MOVE Expo explores the past, present, and future of urban transportation
To reach Evergreen Brick Works, visitors typically walk to a subway station, hop on a train, and transfer to a shuttle bus. This multi-modal transit trip...
By Claire Nelischer -
Community activism not enough to deviate Toronto flight paths
Sheryl Herle awakes at 3 a.m. to a loud, drowning sound of something flying overhead her house. Her two children are sleeping, and she has to be up at 6...
By Amber Daugherty