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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 028, Toronto Election: The People vs. Doug Ford
Toronto’s election was thrown into chaos this summer by a surprise announcement from Premier Doug Ford. What’s at stake, who are the stakeholders, and where do we stand as a city? We break from format,...
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LORINC: Debating on the fringe
All of a sudden, Toronto’s spectral mayoral race has turned into a fringe festival. Seemingly out of the blue (though not actually), candidates Sarah Climenhaga, a community activist, and Saron...
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PODCAST: Election Panel with John Lorinc and Jennifer Pagliaro
As Toronto gets ready to vote, we’ll be bringing you regular panel discussions with journalists and experts who will help you wade through what is maybe the most confusing race in the city’s history....
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3 impactful reasons to walk to school
This guest post from Armi de Francia, School Travel Planning Facilitator at Green Communities Canada, marks the beginning of October, International Walk To School Month (“Walktober”). Walking to school...
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LORINC: Keesmaat latest candidate to dream of a Gardiner-free future
If the City of Toronto has an evergreen municipal election issue — besides our ritualistic self-flagellation about transit — it has got to be the fate of the Gardiner Expressway. By my count, the...
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“Fair” evasion: public transit must make space for everyone
Editor’s note: Spacing is pleased to introduce you to our new urban affairs columnist, Patricia Burke Wood. Tricia is a geography professor at York University and a co-founder of its City Institute....
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Janice Reid’s “Real Love” intersects race and space
Earlier this week, Mayor John Tory and mayoral candidates Saron Gebresellassi, Knia Singh and Jennifer Keesmaat debated transit, affordable housing, safety and other topics at a Black community issues...
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PODCAST: Election Panel with Tricia Wood and Matt Elliott
As Toronto gets ready to vote, we’ll be bringing you regular panel discussions with journalists and experts who will help you wade through what is maybe the most confusing race in the city’s history....
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ELECTION: John Tory’s shameful fiscal record
During his years out of office – between the end of his stint as the leader of Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives and his victory in the 2014 mayoral election – John Tory spoke often, and with what...
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Walking around the Scarborough RT
[Editor’s Note: with the Ontario Premier and both frontrunners in the Toronto mayoral race backing some version of a subway to replace the ageing Scarborough RT, here we present a celebration of a...
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PODCAST: Election Panel with Denise Balkissoon and John Michael McGrath
As Toronto gets ready to vote, we’ll be bringing you regular panel discussions with journalists and experts who will help you wade through what is maybe the most confusing race in the city’s history....
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ELECTION: Keesmaat carefully considered
Like any good double entendre, a vote cast is a form of expression that can — and arguably should — carry multiple meanings. You can both vote for one candidate and against another, or you can place a...
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Come to our election viewing / release party on Monday!
WHAT: 2018 Election viewing party / Spacing Fall 2018 release party WHEN: Monday, October 22 7pm-11pm WHERE: Pauper’s Pub, 539 Bloor St W, just east of Bathurst RSVP: Let us know on Facebook if you’re...
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ELECTION: Could we please have a mayor who will stand up for Toronto?
Next week’s municipal election is not going to be as it should be. We should have 47 wards in this city. Doug Ford’s anti-democratic interference in our election has put Toronto in a weakened state....
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ELECTION: Spacing Radio has you covered
From the early days of campaign planning, to Doug Ford’s assault on Toronto city hall, and the mayoral and council races that followed, our Spacing Radio podcast has examined every angle of your...
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Public Art Manifesto: Rethinking public art’s possibilities
Works of public art are markers of what a society deems to be important, and the choices we make about what works to erect attest to the shared values and histories. Not only does public art reflect...
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PODCAST: Election Panel with Matthew Blackett and Shawn Micallef
As Toronto gets ready to vote, we’ll be bringing you regular panel discussions with journalists and experts who will help you wade through what is maybe the most confusing race in the city’s history....
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ELECTION: What we didn’t talk about
An old aphorism about elections attributed to former Canadian prime minister Kim Campbell is that the campaign trail is no place for thoughtful debate over serious issues. Did Toronto election 2018...
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The complicated history of Canadian blackface
In 1841, travelling American circuses came to Toronto for the first time and blackface came with them. According to University of Toronto theatre professor Stephen Johnson and historian Karolyn Smardz...
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How do we improve cities without causing displacement? Discussion from the...
As demand for urban living continues to increase, how do we make our cities better without triggering displacement of low and middle-income people who already live there? That was one of the constant...
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