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LORINC: Wynne’s Liberals gut their own affordable housing policy
Remember when inclusionary zoning was going to solve Toronto’s affordable housing crisis, or at least take a big step towards ameliorating it? Let’s travel back in time to that shining moment in the...
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Mapping Toronto’s approved new ward boundaries
On Monday, October 22, 2018, Torontonians will be electing a new city council. And for the first time since 2000, Toronto’s ward boundaries will be changing. When the new council is formed on December...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Hand-drawn Signs from Honest Ed’s
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new segment from the series. This week’s object:...
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Find Spacing stories on new app Driftscape
In 1796, Chief Wabakinine of the Mississaugas was murdered by British soldiers roughly at the base of Parliament Street. You can learn this fact — as well as the important backstory for this event —...
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Pollution and the fall and rise of urbanism
The resurgence of urbanism – the desire to live and work in dense, compact central cities – in 21st century North America and Europe is often attributed to the inherent value of bringing diverse and...
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LORINC: City needs to be thoughtful on how to run Museum of Toronto
The line-up at executive committee today is extraordinary by almost any measure, a grab-bag of hefty policy items that touch on just about every top-of-mind concern swirling around City Hall:...
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Revisited ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ at Buddies shines a spotlight on racialized...
Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” is most remembered for the 1962 film adaptation starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, a white lawyer in the Depression-era south with two children – Scout and Jem...
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Want a piece of the Honest Ed’s sign? Enter our draw
When you get a message that says, “Do you want me to drop off chunks of the Honest Ed’s sign?” you never say no. For the last month, part of the Spacing magazine and store office has been occupied by...
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Hidden Intelligence: Preserving Historic Settlement Patterns
Humanity’s collective drive towards urbanization within the past century has gone hand-in-hand with the mindless erasure and destruction of past urban environments. Historic preservation of...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: S.S. Noronic Life Preserver
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new segment from the series. This week’s object:...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 020, Loose Ends
This episode, we follow up on some stories from last year. We follow up on what became of the Ten Year Tent City in Vacouver with Ethel Whitty, director of homelessness services for the City. We talk...
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LORINC: Why a TTC commuter will get killed at Yonge-Bloor station
There is, in this city, a person going about their business today who will die after being accidentally shoved in front of a moving subway at Yonge and Bloor due to critical over-crowding on the...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Orange Order Sash & Nathan Phillips Campaign Ad
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new segment from the series. This week’s objects:...
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Black History Month: Aunt Jemima Kitchens and a history of southern nostalgia...
In October, 1962, Toronto Daily Star writer Gordon McCaffrey reported that Metro Toronto was becoming a key target area in a massive invasion of Ontario (and Quebec) by U.S. drive-in restaurants. For...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Metro Toronto Chairman’s Chair
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new segment from the series. This week’s object:...
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What’s next for Old City Hall
Originally published on the Ryerson City Builders Institute Big changes are coming to one of Toronto’s most treasured buildings. The provincial and municipal courts will vacate Old City Hall by 2021,...
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A peek inside the last days of the Waverly Hotel and Comfort Zone
A portion of this photo essay appears in the Winter 2018 edition of Spacing, available now on newsstands and at the Spacing Store (401 Richmond St W) In 1984, when I was commissioned to do documentary...
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LORINC: Sidewalk Labs launches its dog and pony show
Beginning this week, Torontonians will start to hear a lot more from Sidewalk Labs Toronto as the company, a subsidiary of Google/Alphabet, embarks on an extensive consultation exercise and...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: How To Use Canada’s First Subway Guide
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new segment from the series. This week’s object:...
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Book Review: The Sagrada Familia
Author: Gijs van Hensbergen (Bloomsbury Press, 2017) Giljs van Hensbergen has pulled off a remarkable feat, taming the monstre sacré of twentieth-century architecture without diminishing him. He takes...
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