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Don’t miss our latest @SpacingRadio podcast episode. Terrible trash cans and Russian library hackers featuring @CaraChellew and @JohnLorinc: spacing.ca/toronto/2024/0…
On the latest @SpacingRadio, we talk about our special investigation into the cyberattack on Toronto Public Library. And, to preview our latest “What a Mess” issue, we talk busted trash cans and missing bus shelters: spacing.ca/toronto/2024/0…
New @SpacingRadio! I talk to @JohnLorinc about his investigation into the cyberattack on the Toronto Public Library. And I talk to @CaraChellew about the need for new, better, publicly-owned street furniture like garbage bins, bus shelters, and benches: spacing.ca/toronto/2024/0…
A recent renovation of his local Starbucks that discourages spending time there has Craig Meerkamper pondering the loss of spaces to hang out between home and workplace. spacing.ca/toronto/2024/0…
At a time when Ontario Place has been put off limits, the City's new approach to making beaches using boulders is not an improvement, says Steve Mann spacing.ca/toronto/2024/0…
#topoli Stay tuned for the forthcoming issue of @Spacing to understand how & why the city realized it had to fix the garbage garbage cans. Also, a look at the failures of the Astral deal.
At a time when Ontario Place has been put off limits, the City's new approach to making beaches is not an improvement, writes Steve Mann. spacing.ca/toronto/2024/0… #TOpoli @WaterfrontTO
Calls for the sacking of the chief from elected officials have begun.
Calls for the sacking of the chief from elected officials have begun.
The next apologies should be from Doug Ford, John Tory and the Toronto Police Association, all of whom convicted him with their statements when he was released on bail.
The next apologies should be from Doug Ford, John Tory and the Toronto Police Association, all of whom convicted him with their statements when he was released on bail.
Toronto Police officers appear to have lied on the stand to try and get a man wrongly convicted of murder. Feels like we have to talk about it now.
Toronto Police officers appear to have lied on the stand to try and get a man wrongly convicted of murder. Feels like we have to talk about it now.
#topoli Today on @Spacing: In the aftermath of the rejection of minor variances on an excellent gentle density project at 91 Barton, we need to ask whether it’s time to cancel the Committee of Adjustment. spacing.ca/toronto/2024/0…
Senior editor @JohnLorinc writes: It’s time to talk about the Committee of Adjustment — these tribunals attract the worst kind of NIMBYism and don't belong in a city that needs to fight a housing crisis on every front. spacing.ca/toronto/2024/0… #TOpoli #ONpoli
Read about the Design Jam where high school students came up with urban design ideas for a prize aimed at getting them excited about planning. By @AbrahaNathan spacing.ca/toronto/2024/0…
Deadly by design? 61% of road deaths in Ontario are caused by pickups/SUVs but comprise only 41% of vehicles. Join our calls for govt action. To register: Apr 18 symposium at U of T ... eventbrite.ca/e/876726952917… Apr 25 online presentation: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
#topoli Today on @Spacing -- a follow-up to our five-part series on the @torontolibrary ransomware attack: The City has budgeted $1m for the clean-up job, according to FOI docs. More details here: spacing.ca/toronto/2024/0…
@shawnmicallef wrote about some of these #BikeTO issues (2 tweets linked here Conlins, then the article). What do we think will happen when the DVP and Gardiner are uploaded? Serious question. x.com/shawnmicallef/…
@shawnmicallef wrote about some of these #BikeTO issues (2 tweets linked here Conlins, then the article). What do we think will happen when the DVP and Gardiner are uploaded? Serious question. x.com/shawnmicallef/…
With the City footing the bill for the ransomware attack on the Toronto Public Library, a heightened awareness of the importance of cyber-security kicks in at City Hall. spacing.ca/toronto/2024/0… #TOpoli #ONpoli @torontolibrary
"The province will also move to allow four-storey buildings to have a single staircase exit" - we had an article about this concept, by Heather Breeze and Conrad Speckert, in our Fire! issue last year. thetrillium.ca/news/housing/f…
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50K Followers 4K Following Columnist @TorontoStar / Cofounder @spacing / Teach @UofT / Books: Stroll, Full FrontalTO & The Trouble w Brunch / NEW: Frontier City - TO on Verge of GreatnessAlex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic
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17K Followers 847 Following Father, planner, lifelong Torontonian - I love this city, and hope our children will also have a chance to do so. Here to share my ideas, and learn from yours.Steve Munro @SwanBoatSteve
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50K Followers 4K Following Columnist @TorontoStar / Cofounder @spacing / Teach @UofT / Books: Stroll, Full FrontalTO & The Trouble w Brunch / NEW: Frontier City - TO on Verge of GreatnessAlex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic
28K Followers 7K Following Architecture critic @globeandmail | Instructor @uoftdaniels | Author | Husband to @livmendelsohn and father of two.David Miller T.O. @iamdavidmiller
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40K Followers 611 Following City columnist, contributing to @TorontoStar & writing @cityhallwatcher. A lot about Toronto Politics and then some nerd stuff. @humbercollege prof. (he/him)John Lorinc @JohnLorinc
23K Followers 3K Following Journalist, covering cities & climate. Spacing, Globe & Mail, Corporate Knights. Editor: Coach House Books. Author Dream States (2022), No Jews Live Here (2024)Four-Storey Tower @g_meslin
17K Followers 847 Following Father, planner, lifelong Torontonian - I love this city, and hope our children will also have a chance to do so. Here to share my ideas, and learn from yours.Steve Munro @SwanBoatSteve
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54K Followers 3K Following MPP Toronto Centre and Official Opposition Critic for the Attorney General / Small Business / 2SLGBTQI+ Issues🏭🏘🏢Sean Galb.. @PlannerSean
10K Followers 2K Following Urban planner, photographer, disc golfer, skier, and occaisional bow tie maker. Typos and swear words are my own. Aggressively pro-winter.John Michael McGrath @jm_mcgrath
29K Followers 4K Following Writer, podcaster at Ontario's provincial public broadcaster. | [email protected] | 'John Michael will do all the nerdy public policy stuff' -@spaikinOntario Place for All.. @ONPlace4All
9K Followers 3K Following Ontario Place for All is a grassroots group whose goal is to keep Ontario Place vibrant and publicly accessible. Say YES to Public Space and NO to the MegaSpa!Oliver Moore @moore_oliver
11K Followers 502 Following Deviant pedestrian. I write about cities for @globeandmail, Canada's National Newspaper. Tips welcome via [email protected]. No photo use w/o permissionDavid Rider @dmrider
25K Followers 14K Following Aging journo with the calves of a 15-year-old and a love of the absurd. Also, Toronto Star city hall bureau chief. Please email tips to drider(at)thestar.caKen Greenberg @KGreenbergTO
10K Followers 2K Following Ken Greenberg is an urban designer, teacher and author of Walking Home: the Life and Lessons of a City Builder and a new book, Toronto Reborn.Diana Chan McNally @Diana_C_McNally
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216 Followers 321 Following Writer, photographer, former editor-in-chief of @CanGeo magazine, published in @NatGeo magazine and @Spacing. Specializing in parks and environmental issues.Thomas van Laake @vanLaakeT
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1K Followers 2K Following Making good trouble for the city I know and love | The right to housing | Accessible transit || Exec Producer & Co-Host @TheNextStopPodKurt @krkraler
49 Followers 148 Following Architect, pop culture, Toronto heritage, signage enthusiast. Co-editor “The Signs That Define Toronto”, now available at Spacing Store.University of Toronto.. @utpress
13K Followers 5K Following Founded in 1901, UTP is Canada's leading scholarly publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America. Follow UTP Journals @utpjournals.navneet alang @navalang
11K Followers 2K Following Writer: Food, Books, Tech, Culture. Columnist @TorontoStar. Bylines @bonappetit @theatlantic @eater @nymag @globeandmail etc. Instructor @torontomet/@utm. PhD.The Local Magazine @TheLocal_TO
10K Followers 407 Following An independent magazine exploring urban health and social issues in Toronto. Subscribe: https://t.co/eaG9s7PnhC Tips: https://t.co/2BsdLHsOsoElizabeth Renzetti @lizrenzetti
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839 Followers 200 Following We are the Career Development office and Experiential Learning Program, supporting the early-career advancement of all OCAD U students and recent alumni.Eric Sehr @ericvery
1K Followers 1K Following Parent, Partner, enthusiastic bureaucrat, Toronto urban history geek. Running and biking when not behind a screen. Räägin Eesti Keelt 🇪🇪 (He/Him)New @SpacingRadio! I talk to @JohnLorinc about his investigation into the cyberattack on the Toronto Public Library. And I talk to @CaraChellew about the need for new, better, publicly-owned street furniture like garbage bins, bus shelters, and benches: spacing.ca/toronto/2024/0…
Shhhhh DON’T TELL THE INFLUENCERS! There is a lovely grove of cherry trees at the foot of Old Cherry St. Pretty on-the-nose. Who planted these?! The romantic moment is wonderfully offset and contrasted by the heritage silos. Another perfect Port Lands moment. 🙏🙏🙏
@JohnLorinc @Spacing that name alone... from indie rock band to dystopian novel
Read about the Design Jam where high school students came up with urban design ideas for a prize aimed at getting them excited about planning. By @AbrahaNathan spacing.ca/toronto/2024/0…
“I always wanted to transform community spaces and hopefully one day I will get to work for Northcrest Developments and see where this project goes and how it evolves over the 30 years" writeup via @AbrahaNathan @Spacing spacing.ca/toronto/2024/0…
With the City footing the bill for the ransomware attack on the Toronto Public Library, a heightened awareness of the importance of cyber-security kicks in at City Hall. spacing.ca/toronto/2024/0… #TOpoli #ONpoli @torontolibrary
A post-script to our 5-part series on the ransomware attack on the Toronto Public Library: With the City footing the bill to repair the library's website, a heightened awareness of the importance of #CyberSecurity kicks in at City Hall. spacing.ca/toronto/2024/0… #TOpoli #ONpoli
#topoli Today on @Spacing -- a follow-up to our five-part series on the @torontolibrary ransomware attack: The City has budgeted $1m for the clean-up job, according to FOI docs. More details here: spacing.ca/toronto/2024/0…
#topoli #onpoli #cdnpoli National politics vs local land use planning. Why the feds should keep their distance from zoning. Today on @Spacing. spacing.ca/national/2024/…
2/ Boji, the #straphanger dog, also from #Istanbul. Transit officials fitted him with a microchip collar, that shows he uses 29 subway stations, buses and ferries in a typical day.
Links to our 5-part series on the Toronto Library ransomware attack: Pt. 1: spacing.ca/toronto/2024/0… Pt. 2: spacing.ca/toronto/2024/0… Pt. 3: spacing.ca/toronto/2024/0… Pt. 4: spacing.ca/toronto/2024/0… Pt. 5: spacing.ca/toronto/2024/0… #TOpoli #ONpoli @torontolibrary #CybersecurityNews
Join us for our 2nd #STBI presentation 04/25/24 at Grace Tipling Hall @ShelburneTown at 730pm to hear renowned urban affairs columnist/author @JohnLorinc @Spacing @coachhousebooks @TheAgenda for "In the Orbit of Big Cities" #onpoli Tickets still avl'ble: canhist.ca/small-town-big…
New episode of our special Future Fix series. This one, we talk about water data: gathering it, sharing it, and making it simple and accessible for anyone to use. We need water to live, so we need to understand our water: spacing.ca/national/2024/…
Don’t miss my conversation with @DavidLepofsky about how Ontario and its municipalities can catch up on its accessibility mandate, over on @SpacingRadio. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7xBdTL… Apple: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/spa… Web: spacing.ca/toronto/2024/0…
@CaitlinKellyNYC @Spacing It's a great magazine. My other (labour of love) piece with them was print only, but is among the best stuff I've ever done.
New @SpacingRadio! Ontario and its towns are about to fail their accessibility targets. I ask @DavidLepofsky what we need to do to catch up. And I talk to @jeremy_hopkin about his colourized photo series of Victorian Toronto. Check it out: spacing.ca/toronto/2024/0…
"What we need is a more expansive push towards a kind of equity that considers the diversity of Black historical lives and the stories associated with Black people in spaces and places." a thought-provoking piece from @DrCherylT + @JournalismTMU's Daysha Loppie
In this op-ed column, @DrCherylT and Daysha Loppie argue that with the annual Black History Month now complete, pointed questions about what & who we commemorate still need to be discussed. #TOpoli #BlackHistoryMonth #ONpoli #CDNpoli spacing.ca/toronto/2024/0…
My latest for @Spacing with Daysha Loppie, an undergrad in @JournalismTMU. Daysha is one of the smartest persons I've had the pleasure of teaching, and when I read their work I knew we would work well together! #collaboration #culturalcriticism #BlackHistoryMonth #Reflections
In this op-ed column, @DrCherylT and Daysha Loppie argue that with the annual Black History Month now complete, pointed questions about what & who we commemorate still need to be discussed. #TOpoli #BlackHistoryMonth #ONpoli #CDNpoli spacing.ca/toronto/2024/0…
From ticket stubs and newspaper clippings, to savoured foul balls and team merchandise, your things might be worth more than you think. Join us this Saturday, February 24th a free workshop on sports memorabilia and collecting! 🎟️ eventbrite.ca/e/myseum-works…
I'm part of a panel discussion at the @MyseumOfToronto on Saturday at 1pm discussing Toronto sports memorabilia. The event is free but reserve your place. Shop @SpacingStore before or afterwards! eventbrite.com/e/myseum-works…