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  • SPACING EVENT: Repair Club comes to Toronto

    The Repair Club comes to Toronto Tuesday, November 8th, 2005 • 7pm, free Innis College Town Hall (off St. George, just north of Harbord on U of T...

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  • Segway Won’t Go Away

    Since this spring, the local Segway company has been trying to get its motorized electric scooters allowed on Toronto’s sidewalks. It has managed to...

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  • Bike accident

    I spent the last few days moving into my new place in Parkdale, so I was traveling by cargo van or car half the time. On Monday, I headed north on...

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  • Tar Babies

    Last weekend I visited the ancestral suburban split-level homestead in dear Windsor, Ontario for Thanksgiving. There is no public transportation there...

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  • Toronto’s Bike Plan gets the gears

    Spacing managing editor Dale Duncan wrote in Eye Weely about Toronto’s Bike Plan, and the bike lane proposal that would stretch across Bloor and the...

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  • Ode to the Bollard

    The simple bollard: a punctuation mark in a mature urban environment; a marker of mediation between conflicting modes of transportation; a tiny totem of...

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  • The Toronto Effect

    According to the Star today: Toronto is becoming more architecturally diverse and denser which is helping some people give up their cars with the added...

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  • Saving St. Clair? Judge rules today

    Somthing to watch for today: a court decision on whether to let construction of the St. Clair Right of Way to continue. In the Star today they sum it up...

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  • Spacing reports from Winnipeg

    I’m out in Winnipeg leading a workshop on magazine design for Spacing‘s national distributor Magazines Canada. I’ve only been here a...

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  • Take the Tooker

    With the price of gas rising, pollution increasing, obesity growing, parking diminishing, & congestion clogging, you would expect government to take...

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  • City Council this week

    There are some interesting things going down at September’s meeting of City Council. Here’s a primer: 1. Video screens on the Gardiner: As the...

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  • Keeping Segways off sidewalks

    Following a resolution by the Toronto Pedestrian Committee in April against allowing Segway scooters on sidewalks, the local distributor started a...

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