Miles Storey
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Have your say on billboards in Toronto
The City of Toronto is developing a new bylaw to regulate billboards and is seeking input from the public. Should Toronto have fewer billboards? What...
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Upcoming issue of Spacing
For faithful readers of this blog, you have probably noticed a bit of a slow-down in the amount of content that appears on a daily basis. The editors and...
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Blogging the Blaze, part II
Back in 2002, Kevin Steele became the first Toronto photoblogger I followed with regularity. I’ve always enjoyed his series of photos that are...
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Panel tells City to sell lands, install road tolls, raise taxes…
Today, an independent panel is adivsing the City of Toronto to take on a number of drastic measures in order to right the city’s economic ship. from...
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Queen West fire
The fire on Queen Street West near Bathurst is all over the news today. Five buildings are seriously damaged, Duke’s Cycle is gone and the building...
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POLL: should City Council adopt a political party system?
Early in January, Spacing’s Dale Duncan wrote about the “Rising Right” of Toronto city council. The post garnered a good number of...
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Casual carpooling
I recently received my newest copy of The Next American City — a magazine similar to Spacing, but focused on all of the US of A. One article that...
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Lost without laneways
NEW YORK – In my unending quest to find unpopulated laneways to stroll through, I’ve made an interesting discovery. There are none. Thanks to...
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Help create Spacing’s blogroll
Spacing will begin to publish daily headline links in the very near future (thanks to those who have lobbied for the feature’s return). We normally...
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My stop is …
It’s great to see and hear the automated stop announcements proliferating rapidly through Toronto’s streetcars. Last week, for the first...
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Mayor reveals independent panel to study the city’s books
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. This morning Mayor David Miller announced the panel of experts that will review the city’s financial books to see...
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Sighting: automatic stop calls on a streetcar
Last night, as I came home on the Spadina streetcar, I enjoyed my first experience of automatic stop calls on a streetcar. Finally, after all these years...
By Dylan Reid