Waterfront
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They Brought Back the Don
In the coming weeks, Waterfront Toronto crews will remove the final plug in the new Lower Don, thereby allowing the river to finally flow naturally...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: The Gordian Knot that is Toronto Island
In a city that loves to make, but not execute, plans and then overthink, but not solve, problems, there’s surely no better illustration of this...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: The case for adaptive re-use of Ontario Science Centre
Given all the powerful arguments articulated by commentators like Elsa Lam, in Canadian Architect, or Alex Bozikovic, in The Globe and Mail, there’s...
By John Lorinc -
Book launch of expanded and updated edition of Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto
Spacing’s senior editor and co-founder Shawn Micallef has expanded and updated his 2010 book Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto. The...
By Spacing -
Dangerous Development: ‘Boulder beaches’ are unsafe and bad for us and our environment
I’m one of many who swim and paddle in downtown Toronto year-round. I have no summer cottage. The beach is my cottage. Until our last swim on...
By Steve Mann -
REVIEW: As it is – A precarious moment in the life of Ontario Place
Over a three-day weekend last winter, the last few residents of the retirement home at the west end of our street were quietly moved out. No one really...
By Don Snyder -
World’s longest blackboard hides Doug Ford’s mega-spa project at Ontario Place
The Doug Ford government has given Torontonians an unexpected gift — the longest blackboard in Canada, and possibly the world. It stretches for some 800...
By Ian Darragh -
Ford’s legislation fast-tracking Ontario Place mega-spa overrides land-use protections
The Ford government has used its majority at Queen’s Park to pass two bills to fast-track the redevelopment of Ontario Place. The New Deal for Toronto...
By Ian Darragh -
Ten Years of Winter Stations
Amidst a record-breaking spell of winter heat, Winter Stations, the longtime East End project created to enliven the deepest cold snaps, is opening its...
By Miriam Palmer -
LORINC: Clear-cutting the rules at Ontario Place
What with all the giant numbers that got tossed around with the unveiling on Monday of the Ontario-Toronto new deal — $7 billion! $9 billion! $1.2 billion...
By John Lorinc -
BREAKING: Grassroots group seeks injunction to stop the Ontario Place mega-spa
Ontario Place for All, the 30,000-member grass roots group fighting the West Island mega-spa, this morning launched a lawsuit against the Doug Ford...
By John Lorinc -
I visited public toilet paradise and it was heaven – why can’t Canada do this?
I found public pee paradises and their names are Hong Kong and Japan. Public washrooms, or lack of by policy choice, in Canada has been my pet thing for a...
By Shawn Micallef