Waterfront
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EVENT: On the Edge – Photographs of Toronto’s Downtown Waterfront 2023-2025
The fifty photographs in the exhibition On the Edge – Photographs of Toronto’s Downtown Waterfront 2023-2025 collectively present a record of the...
By Spacing -
The long battle for Yellow Creek Ravine
Because the summer of 2025 has been all about infernal heat and drifting smoke, as opposed to the Biblical downpours of recent years, the public/media...
By John Lorinc -
NEW ISSUE: On the waterfront
We think of the Toronto islands as a nice-to-have, a lovely space for recreation and escape from the city. But in fact Toronto owes its very existence to...
By Dylan Reid -
Marking Lake Ontario’s lost shoreline
This article is published in conjunction with Spacing issue 71, which focuses on Toronto’s waterfront. The issue will be available shortly at the...
By Chris Bateman -
A gondola or a bridge to the Island?
There was a burst of side-taking last week after the ever-green topic of improving access to Toronto’s pre-eminent public space bobbed, again, to...
By John Lorinc -
OP-ED: Building a waterfront together
Ausma Malik is Toronto’s Deputy Mayor and City Councillor for Ward 10, Spadina-Fort York, home to the central waterfront. She’s the Mayor’s designate on...
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On the edge: Photographs of Toronto’s downtown waterfront
Like Toronto’s winding ravine system, the Toronto waterfront is a significant and defining geographical feature. Before the arrival of Europeans...
By Steven Evans -
Follow the money to Ontario Place
The Ontario auditor general’s review of the Ontario Place scandal contains enough muck to start an industrial-scale pig farm, with plenty left over...
By John Lorinc -
EVENT: Strollin’ — an evening talking about walking November 28
WHAT: An evening talking about walking on November 28 at 6PM. WHO: Shawn Micallef, Spacing Sr. Editor, Toronto Star columnist and University College...
By Spacing -
The scouring of Ontario Place
Between 2021 and 2023 architectural and documentary photographer Steven Evans trained his eye and camera on Ontario Place as plans for its future were...
By Steven Evans -
Watch this space
While the bulk of last week’s media coverage of Infrastructure Ontario’s curiously-timed disclosure of Therme’s lease focused on the...
By John Lorinc -
Ontario Place premieres at TIFF
A documentary about Ontario Place featuring Francesca Bouaoun of Ontario Place For All, as well as Steve Mann and many other members of SwimOP, will have...
By Ian Darragh