The Star
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Is Toronto coming around on road pricing?
It was exciting to read today that Mayor Miller is sending councillor Brian Ashton to London to study congestion charges. If you remember back in the...
By Matthew Blackett -
A Sunday of immodest proposals
The Sunday Star had a few articles of note (since Tuesday is the best time to reflect on the Sunday paper): Why not shop the better way? Andrew Chung...
By Shawn Micallef -
Mapping our urbanism – water mains
In the Toronto Star last weekend was a special 2-page spread on the sorry state of Toronto’s water mains with emphasis on who’s to pay for...
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Sneak a peak at (what might be) Lake Ontario Park
Last night I went to the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation’s Lake Ontario Park Public Forum expecting the half-full room of journalists...
By Ian Malczewski -
Bye-bye monster bins, hello more headaches
EUCAN, the owners of the monster bins and silver boxes, have new owners who are re-branding the company Ecomedia. And the new owners have made every...
By Matthew Blackett -
Best of 2006: bike lanes
It’s nearly impossible to pick a “best” bike lane for 2006 — I mean, 10 kilometres were added to the bikeway network last year...
By Tammy Thorne -
Best of 2006: cyclist-driver fight in Kensington
The impact blogs can have on a news story became rather apparent in late January of 2006. Adam Krawesky, a Spacing contributor and one of Toronto’s...
By Matthew Blackett -
Bright and Fuzzy Lights in the Big City
When my sister and I were kids we would ride around Windsor in the back seats of our parents’ cars and rate Christmas displays as we passed them. If...
By Shawn Micallef -
More high-occupancy lanes coming to highways
The Toronto Star is reporting today that the Ontario government will announce major plans to expand the high-occupancy vehicle lanes. In early 2007, the...
By Matthew Blackett -
TO’s new city council: on your marks, get set, go!
Toronto Star columnist Royson James, who belittled David Miller for almost the entire election campaign (two or three days before election day James...
By Matthew Blackett -
Diamonds are for selling, forever
The Star runs a piece today in the GTA section about a group that’s trying to save an old ad on Weston Road north of Lawrence from being eroded...
By Leah Sandals -
Public spaces melting?
Ok, so it’s not exactly waterfront news, but there’s an article in today’s Star about the effects of global warming on Toronto’s...
By Ian Malczewski