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Civic Bandwidth — Wireless Nights
The civic-minded nerds and hackers of Wireless Toronto are hosting an evening at their newest hotspot, Lot 16, on Tuesday and invite anybody with an...
By Shawn Micallef -
Thursday afternoon links to articles
Ken Greenberg has a post on Reading Toronto that outlines his opinion on the Queen West Triangle decision and the OMB. Its a great read from one of...
By Matthew Blackett -
Portlands Energy Centre to host Canada’s largest solar research facility
A press release (PDF) was issued today announcing that the Portlands Energy Centre, the embattled power plant going up in the Portlands, will host...
By Ian Malczewski -
Bikely Redux
Back in July I wrote about a new Google map hack called Bikely: A website called Bikely lets people use Google maps to plot out their favorite bike routes...
By Shawn Micallef -
Terminal Two Twilight
Holiday week required two trips two days in a row to Pearson’s Terminal Two via car to drop off and pick up various current and former Torontonians...
By Shawn Micallef -
Toronto in the news today
Here are a list of articles that are worth reading today. • EDITORIAL: Miller faces tests on growth, budget [ Toronto Star ] • Miller mum on 25...
By Matthew Blackett -
Articles on bike art, city hall stuff, farmer’s market, and a cool bridge
Here are a few articles from the weekend that are wroth exploring if you haven’t already. Art to hold your eye, and your bike [Globe and Mail]...
By Matthew Blackett -
Friday’s mid-afternoon links to run out the day
Kensington Market declared national historic site [National Post]: Kensington Market, that neighbourhood that has survived for 80 years as a good place to...
By Matthew Blackett -
News of the World
Last week, Spacing‘s Dale Duncan wrote an article in Eye Magazine about five great public space ideas from other cities. She cited an initiative in...
By Dylan Reid -
Tuesday’s links
Rookies arrive in Hall of power [Toronto Star]: Beginning at 1 p.m. [Chin Lee] and the six others — Adam Vaughan, Anthony Perruzza, John Parker...
By Matthew Blackett -
Sexy public transit, part II
Sexy public transit? Beauty (and sexiness) is in the eye of the beholder, but rapid transit lines spread out all over the GTA in the next 10 years gets me...
By Craig Cal -
You, me, and the Grand Design
There’s an interesting talk tomorrow night at Hart House about urban design: The U of T Bookstore Reading Series and Hart House explores how space...
By Shawn Micallef