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Yer Alt-weekly round up
Mike Smith writes about the first meeting of Toronto’s new city council in this week’s NOW. The meeting itself was uneventful, says Smith. Of...
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Giambrone takes the helm of TTC
The new council appointed commissioners to the TTC yesterday, with Miller ally and second-term councillor Adam Giambrone assuming the position of chair...
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Outer Space: public realm articles from around the world
St. Pancras in London, England, from The Guardian • The world’s most beautiful train stations [ The Guardian ] • San Diego’s...
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Articles on bike art, city hall stuff, farmer’s market, and a cool bridge
Here are a few articles from the weekend that are wroth exploring if you haven’t already. Art to hold your eye, and your bike [Globe and Mail]...
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Friday’s mid-afternoon links to run out the day
Kensington Market declared national historic site [National Post]: Kensington Market, that neighbourhood that has survived for 80 years as a good place to...
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Eye’s on the street
While NOW’s Mike Smith was spending the week thinking about Scarborough (see post below), Eye Weekly’s Chris Bilton took Mayor David...
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City Council about to take flight
The new city council will be unveiled for us next week, and we’ll get to see who’ll be pushing the agenda forward for the newly re-elected...
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A compendium of links
Lightning loves the tower [Toronto Star]: Keraunophobes, don’t look up. The CN Tower is struck by lightning more frequently than any other structure...
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Automatic Train Control: What’s the Catch?
Crossposted to Transit Toronto. Image by David Cooper, courtesy the Toronto Star. TTC Chairman Howard Moscoe waxes on about the benefits of automatic...
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Wednesday’s links
Suburbs focus hard on Miller [Toronto Star]: Toronto Mayor David Miller earned a strong mandate from the former city suburbs in last week’s...
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Tuesday’s links
Rookies arrive in Hall of power [Toronto Star]: Beginning at 1 p.m. [Chin Lee] and the six others — Adam Vaughan, Anthony Perruzza, John Parker...
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TTC to introduce two-colour token to combat counterfeits
Crossposted to Transit Toronto. This coming Monday, the TTC will unveil a new token designed to combat the counterfeits that have flooded the system...
By James Bow