The Star
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Snow jobs
This image, captured by Spacing’s web developer Michael Pereira after one of our recent snowstorms, pretty much says all there is to say about the...
By Dylan Reid -
Street food should be simple to prepare
It’s not often I find myself in complete agreement with Denzil Minnan-Wong, but the way city council has managed to unnecessarily complicate what...
By Dylan Reid -
Urban fabric/form comparison
The Star today published a cover story (Beyond Density) in their Condos section on the efforts in Mississauga to create a more vibrant and...
By Robin Chubb -
Jarvis slip design submissions released
Waterfront Toronto has released the 3 competing designs for the public space at Jarvis Slip at the foot of Jarvis Street (Christopher Hume of The Star...
By Robin Chubb -
Mapping our urbanism – watersheds
Along with its article today about the TRCA‘s work preserving watersheds in the GTA (Clock is ticking for conservation dream), The Star included a...
By Robin Chubb -
Mapping our urbanism – language
The Star included a map of “Greater Toronto’s language quilt” in their Ideas section today compiled based on recently released 2006...
By Robin Chubb -
Series on commuting continues in Toronto Star
This week The Star is featuring a series on commuting. Yesterday’s was particularly interesting, looking at what was alternately termed...
By Shawn Micallef -
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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Pedestrians crossing mid-block in Toronto: the definitive guide
Last summer, I wrote an article in NOW magazine about pedestrians crossing in the middle of a block, noting that it is in fact legal to do so, so that...
By Dylan Reid -
Budget committee backs down from funding bikes
We asked and asked. They listened (Councillor Perks did, anyway). But, alas, the Star reported this morning “Bike plan hits funding wall“: The...
By Tammy Thorne -
Head-chopping city-fed headlines
While the graphic Spacing editor Dale Duncan posted yesterday of Hazel McCallion wrestling Jim Flaherty definitely made me smile, the front-page headline...
By Leah Sandals -
Harper to Toronto: You’re Fired
On one of those thick and hot August evenings where you sweat standing still the Conservative candidate for Toronto Centre came to our door. I was a...
By Shawn Micallef