{"id":7547,"date":"2012-03-17T01:34:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T08:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingvancouver.ca\/?p=7547"},"modified":"2013-01-21T07:21:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:21:36","slug":"spacing-saturday-food-hub-market-street-and-local-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/03\/17\/spacing-saturday-food-hub-market-street-and-local-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacing Saturday: Food Hub, Market Street and Local Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.staticflickr.com\/6005\/5961419735_aaa0d82498_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"440\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"ss\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/images\/feature-graphics\/feature-spacingsaturday-600.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"st\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-toronto.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With Toronto&#8217;s municipal political theater taking a twist towards mayoral\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/03\/13\/lorinc-is-ford-conflict-of-interest-a-crime-or-misdemeanor\/\">impeachment<\/a>\u00a0this week, John Lorinc questions the merits of the strategy and its implications for the Mayor&#8217;s opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Bozikovic uses the\u00a0<em>No Mean City\u00a0<\/em>architectural feature to look at a recently approved plan to drastically improve\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/03\/14\/no-mean-city-a-new-market-street\/\">Market Street<\/a>, next to Toronto&#8217;s Saint Lawrence Market. The improvements will open the street to patios and frame the last project advanced by noted developer Paul Oberman.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"so\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-ottawa.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alexandre Laquerre continues his photographic series looking at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/03\/15\/intersection-kent-and-somerset-around-1935-2012\/\">changing streets<\/a>\u00a0of Ottawa&#8217;s Centretown neighbourhood over the course of the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sm\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-montreal.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Allanah Heffez shares stories and observations from her time volunteering giving out free hotdogs to Montreal&#8217;s homeless. The hot dog truck, which served as a connection to further services,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/03\/14\/a-taste-for-montreal-hot-dogs-for-humanity\/\">played witness<\/a>\u00a0to a range of experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Emile Thomas reports back from his experience observing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/03\/11\/my-first-time\/\">local democracy<\/a>\u00a0in action, noting the decidedly bitter tone of citizen question period at local council Thomas questions what to make of the array of complaints and\u00a0grievances.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/?attachment_id=21274\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21274\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-vancouver.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vancouver first lost its public market in 1897 when its building was converted into City Hall, Jeff Nield explains why the concept of a food system is still essential to a city&#8217;s well being, profiling the hubbub around a soon to open new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/03\/13\/hubbub-about-a-food-hub\/\">food hub<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Peacock sits down with Jak King, the unofficial historian of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/03\/12\/an-interview-with-jak-king\/\">Commercial Drive<\/a>, the &#8216;back door to Vancouver.&#8217; King uses his detailed knowledge of businesses, technological change and personal stories to look back on a unique part of a city which tends to spend more time looking forward.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photograph by: dliban<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. 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Alex Bozikovic uses the\u00a0No Mean City\u00a0architectural feature to look at a<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/03\/17\/spacing-saturday-food-hub-market-street-and-local-democracy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Spacing Saturday: Food Hub, Market Street and Local Democracy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5271,6863,832,5712,12,6410,7255,7262,7265,782,1218,785,475,776,7615,42,7616,137,214],"class_list":["post-7547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spacing","tag-alex-bozikovic","tag-alexandre-laquerre","tag-blog-network","tag-centretown","tag-city-hall","tag-emile-thomas","tag-food-hub","tag-food-system","tag-jeff-nield","tag-john-lorinc","tag-king","tag-mayor","tag-montreal","tag-ottawa","tag-paul-oberman","tag-spacing-saturday","tag-the-unofficial-historian-of-commercial-drive","tag-toronto","tag-vancouver-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spacing Saturday: Food Hub, Market Street and Local Democracy  - Spacing Vancouver<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/03\/17\/spacing-saturday-food-hub-market-street-and-local-democracy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spacing Saturday: Food Hub, Market Street and Local Democracy  - Spacing Vancouver\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. 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