Canada
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2008 Election: Bored in Toronto Centre
Oh Canada! – a new anthem for a new day from missjdub on Vimeo. Things here in the Toronto Centre riding are rather boring this election season...
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Campus Perspectives: Ryerson University
If George Brown is Toronto’s “City College,” then Ryerson, by the same logic, seems like the city’s university — Ryerson...
By Matthew Hague -
Campus Perspectives: Ontario College of Art and Design
EDITOR’S NOTE: Spacing asked our summer intern Matthew Hague to visit all of Toronto’s post-secondary institutions and examine the built form...
By Matthew Hague -
Slate Magazine wonders how Canada got mean
There is an election underway in Canada and, on the face of it, Canadians don’t seem particularly enthusiastic about it. Some of our own anecdotal...
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Saturday’s headlines
TRANSIT • TTC union slams drug test idea [ Toronto Star ] • TTC managers advise drug tests for staff in ‘safety sensitive’ jobs ...
By Monika Warzecha -
Portraits from the People Issue release party
Last night, Spacing celebrated the release of our People Issue, the 12th installment of the magazine. We had a blast in the rec-room-styled Canadian...
By Matthew Blackett -
TIFF goes to Montreal
I was content to let the Toronto International Film Festival pass by without any personal involvement — even riding out my way around Yorkville to...
By Shawn Micallef -
Tuesday’s headlines
• 905 lagging in bike safety, advocates say [ Toronto Star ] • Fewer kids died after Ont. adopted bike helmet law [ CBC.ca ] • Number of...
By Monika Warzecha -
TTC reopens streetcar bid
As mentioned here on Spacing Toronto in July, the TTC rejected the two remaining TTC streetcar replacement bids by Bombardier Transportation (as its...
By Sean Marshall -
Advertising in bike lanes
For those of you still on vacation (or you have the ability to listen to radio while at work), I just finished a half-hour appearance on Ontario Today...
By Matthew Blackett -
Road Trip: Digby, Nova Scotia
Spacing Associate Editor Shawn Micallef visited his (other) ancestral homeland — Nova Scotia — in early July. The first post in this (delayed...
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San Francisco’s Urbanist on Toronto
As has already been noted here on Spacing Toronto, a delegation from the San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association (SPUR) visited Toronto for...
By Shawn Micallef