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Tuesday’s headlines
• Follow the leader game just unfair to challengers: Royson James has a good piece in the Star today about the upcoming city election...
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Ootes doesn’t like bikes
Okay, this isn’t exactly a breaking news headline, I admit, (in fact, it could be called an understatement) but check out the latest anti-cycling...
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Friday’s headlines
• Who said cops are lazy? Well, a Toronto Star reader did and asked the Fixer why, after nine years of amalgamation, the Toronto Police HQ on College...
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BikeFriday starts THIS FRIDAY!
Do you know someone who would like to ride their bike to work, but is too nervous to ride in traffic? Have you ever experienced the wonderfully safe...
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Weekend headlines
• Bike sculpture built for 300 [ Toronto Star ] • HUME: Glorious kick in the asphalt [ Toronto Star ] • Toronto’s east-west divide ...
By Matthew Blackett -
Pedestrian Collisions
The City of Toronto recently released the statistics for collisions involving pedestrians in 2005 (PDF file). Although the year-to-year changes are...
By Dylan Reid -
Royson James Calls For Subway 401
Royson James, columnist for the Toronto Star, and potentially a decent candidate to be mayor one day, has taken the city, the GTA and the province to task...
By James Bow -
New fuel tank gauge
from the Christian Science Monitor
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Headlines worth following: Aug 2
• Toronto police to use closed circuit TV at Caribana parade [ National Post ] • Police to film street party [ Globe and Mail ] • Ad on...
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Toronto vs. Reprazent
Continuing with presenting videos shot in Toronto that show the city in a neat way, this 1998ish video from Roni Size & his Reprazent collective was...
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Heat, heat, everywhere…
The Toronto Star has three articles that are inter-related. The first one is about Baby Boomers and how they will bear the brunt of smog-related illnesses...
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Street Signing Man
I’ve been interested in street signage since my early teen years — I think my first act of admiration for our wayfinders came when I was 14...
By Matthew Blackett