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Saturday’s headlines
WASTE • ‘The fairest system we can come up with’ [ Globe and Mail ] • Recycling rebellion brewing downtown [ Globe and Mail ] &bull...
By Monika Warzecha -
Remnants of Niagara’s “Arc de Triomphe”
Toronto has its share of odd historic artifacts scattered about town. Some of the most quirky bits, perhaps, are a couple of big stone medallions, back to...
By Gary Miedema -
Toronto Prairie: Our (almost) missing style
Toronto is pretty flat, but it’s no prairie. Perhaps that’s why the Prairie style didn’t catch on. While it’s not surprising that...
By Thomas Wicks -
One Book: Hallam of Toronto
Hallam had never really seriously contemplated failure. He’d always thought he had been chosen over his older brother to bring the family name to...
By Todd Harrison -
Thursday’s headlines
• Flaherty turns down McCallion faceoff [ Toronto Star ] • An improved design, but still not great [ Toronto Star ] • City councillor...
By Monika Warzecha -
Climate-change adaptation
Cross-posted from Eye Weekly. OK, so maybe not everyone has gotten the message, but over the past 15 years or so (or perhaps more, depending on your...
By Dale Duncan -
Air quality control
Cross posted from Eye Weekly. Big cities are notorious for their smog, but aside from car exhaust, do we really know what’s in our air? Figuring out...
By Dale Duncan -
Living The Good Life
I’m interested in the thoughts of Spacing readers on The Good Life campaign that WWF-Canada (aka my employer) launched yesterday. Its goal is try...
By Keith Stewart -
Asshole of the Week: Tony Bernardo
I realize it’s early in the week but thanks to Tony Bernardo of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association I’m ready to call the competition for...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Top issue for 2008
Cross-posted from Eye Weekly. Without a doubt, the defining issues at city hall for 2007 were the new taxes and the city’s faltering finances. These...
By Dale Duncan -
We’re Top 10!
Toronto is among the top 10 economic centres in the world, according to Standard & Poor’s. A provider of financial market intelligence...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Picturing DC
WASHINGTON DC — At the risk of turning this blog into Spacing DC, I’m going to share a few more public space-related photographs from my...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler