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12 DAYS OF SPACING: For Him
The Spacing Store is just over a year old now and we’re heading in to our second Holiday season. We’ve picked out some of our favourite items to highlight over the next twelve days to help you plan...
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Book Review – The Disaster Profiteers
Author: John C. Mutter (St. Martin’s Press, 2015) The Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Even Poorer is an analysis of what makes a natural disaster a...
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Remembering the ill-fated CN Turbo train
On December 10, 1968, a sleek new locomotive glided out from the sooty train shed at Toronto’s Union Station. Streamlined and silver with a bright red nosecone, the $2-million CN Turbo train looked...
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12 DAYS OF SPACING: For the House
The Spacing Store is just over a year old now and we’re heading in to our second Holiday season. We’ve picked out some of our favourite items to highlight over the next twelve days to help you plan...
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12 DAYS OF SPACING: For Her
The Spacing Store is just over a year old now and we’re heading in to our second Holiday season. We’ve picked out some of our favourite items to highlight over the next twelve days to help you plan...
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What does Toronto’s new bike plan offer Scarborough?
This post by Marvin Macaraig, Ph.D., is part of Spacing’s partnership with the Toronto Cycling Think & Do Tank at the University of Toronto. Marvin is the Scarborough Cycles Project Coordinator at...
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12 DAYS OF SPACING: For Christmas
The Spacing Store is just over a year old now and we’re heading in to our second Holiday season. We’ve picked out some of our favourite items to highlight over the next twelve days to help you plan...
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12 DAYS OF SPACING: For the Transit Enthusiast
The Spacing Store is just over a year old now and we’re heading in to our second Holiday season. We’ve picked out some of our favourite items to highlight over the next twelve days to help you plan...
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The Beaver Wars & Toronto in the 1600s
1687. A year of war and famine on the shores of Lake Ontario. That summer, on a night in early July, an army camped near the mouth of the Rouge River, at the very eastern edge of what’s now the city...
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12 DAYS OF SPACING: Gifts Under $20
The Spacing Store is just over a year old now and we’re heading in to our second Holiday season. We’ve picked out some of our favourite items to highlight over the next twelve days to help you plan...
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12 DAYS OF SPACING: For the Kids
The Spacing Store is just over a year old now and we’re heading in to our second Holiday season. We’ve picked out some of our favourite items to highlight over the next twelve days to help you plan...
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LORINC: Why UberHop will help the TTC
When I look at the wonderfully clean map that Uber has provided for its new jitney service, it’s not hard to see how frustrated commuters from transit deserts like Liberty Village might be lulled into...
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Proceed with caution on federal infrastructure plans
During the federal election campaign, Justin Trudeau promised major funding for infrastructure projects. There is no question that such projects are sorely needed. But how exactly will our billions be...
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12 DAYS OF SPACING: For the Urbanist
The Spacing Store is just over a year old now and we’re heading in to our second Holiday season. We’ve picked out some of our favourite items to highlight over the next twelve days to help you plan...
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King Street: How the TTC can strike back against UberHop
On Friday, John Lornic made an interesting case that UberHop, the controversial new service launched by the San Francisco-based “ridesharing” business, is the kick in the behind that the TTC needs to...
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Book Review: Ladders (2nd edition)
Author: Albert Pope (Princeton Architectural Press, 2015) “The contemporary city, the city that is at this moment under construction, is invisible.” So begins the journey into Albert Pope’s recently...
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12 DAYS OF SPACING: Our Picks
The Spacing Store is just over a year old now and we’re heading in to our second Holiday season. We’ve picked out some of our favourite items to highlight over the next twelve days to help you plan...
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Event: Re-Imagining the city – The (im)possibility of Design forum, March 10/11
Exactly forty years ago, Vancouver hosted the first UN Habitat Conference. In 1976, cities were struggling to survive, global warming was only feared by a tiny few, and the global rural to urban...
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The great Stanley Cup thefts of 1970
The last person to lift the Stanley Cup in Toronto was an unknown thief who swiped the trophy from the Sports Hall of Fame in December, 1970. Though shocking, the incident was actually the third...
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READ: Fort York’s Fife and Drum newsletter reveals new information around...
The latest edition of Fife and Drum, the quarterly newsletter produced by the Friends of Fort York, was recently released. As alwaysc it’s filled with stories about both Fort York and Toronto history....
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