City Hall’s new committee members
Members to Toronto’s standing committees and agencies were confirmed today by City Council. Usually at the mid-point of a term, the committees are re-arranged. For a run-down on how council appoints councillors to committees, check our the post by Spacing’s Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler two weeks ago here on this blog. If you want to know the read more.. Heavier U.S. population uses billions of dollars more worth of fuel
For the most recent issue of Spacing (coming out next week) I reviewed a book by Mary Soderstrom called The Walkable City. It’s full of interesting nuggets of information, and here is one of them: American scientists have worked out that it takes almost a billion gallons of fuel a year to drive around the read more.. Tuesday’s headlinesCITY COUNCIL
• Council set to vote on rules to curb packaging waste [ Globe & Mail ]
• Bottler and activists in water fight [ Toronto Sun ]
• Mayor not sorry for memo [ Toronto Sun ]
• City digests street meat plan [ Toronto Sun ]
• Council in Operation Slowdown [ Toronto Sun ]
• Critics accuse read more.. Gift Guide: Phoenix Print Shop Holiday Cards
If you’re planning on sending holiday cards this year, consider getting them from Foundations of Print, a program run by Phoenix Print Shop that gives homeless and at-risk youth training in the graphic arts. Here’s some information about the program:
Homeless and at-risk youth from four cities across Canada participated in the 2008 Design Competition read more.. A look inside the new Spacing
Next week, you’ll be able to pick up the new issue of Spacing, either on newsstands or at our fifth anniversary party on Wed. Dec. 10th at the Great Hall.
As we mentioned last week, Spacing has gone through a bit of a redesign. We’ve kept most of our regular features like Infrastructure Fetish, Hidden Gems, read more.. Monday’s headlines• Councillors face hefty agenda today [ Toronto Star ]
• Times are tough, but let’s not neglect the arts [ Toronto Star ]
• Nestlé advertisement misleading, groups allege [ Globe & Mail ]
• Old boys’ club gets the heave-ho [ Globe & Mail ]
• Sure you want to work here? [ National Post ]
Montréal Monday: Roerich Garden, Transit shut-down, and Monumental poetry
Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montréal. We’ll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in Toronto.
• Want a little sneak peak at some of the content in Spacing’s upcoming fall/winter issue? Check out the story of read more.. Don’t use for confirmation of your information of your transportation from Spadina StationYou’ll be waiting a long time for the 77B on the TTC
There’s an out-of-date map in the Walmer Road entrance to Spadina Station that you’d better not use for local wayfinding. I mentioned this before over a year ago documenting a local tour of the TTC’s inconsistent and often poor wayfinding and information signage. However, read more.. Metrolinx Regional Transportation Plan Approved
In a meeting this afternoon, Metrolinx board members have unanimously voted in favour of the Regional Transportation Plan (RTP).
Metrolinx was created to solve the transportation problems facing the Greater Toronto/Hamilton Area and consolidate the patchwork of transportation infrastructure between the cities and municipalities. Some of the strategies outlined in the plan are to build a read more.. The New Art of Suburbia: Panel Discussions and Podcast
An upcoming Spacing Magazine theme will be “The Suburbs” — we’ve tried hard to include writing about Toronto’s inner boroughs in our print magazine and on this blog, but think we need to dedicate an entire issue to these interesting places that will be where much of Toronto’s future unfolds. We’ll be putting that issue read more.. Events Guide: Urban Canoe Trip, Buy Local Week, LEAFy Drinks, and more…
What: Urban Canoe Trip Exhibition
When: December 3 - 14, see times below
Where: Arcadia Gallery (680 Queens Quay West)
Spacing readers should remember Michael Brown’s canoe trip through Toronto waterways, with friends and family, from our summer issue. He took a 10 day trip paddling and portaging his way across the rivers of our city, all the read more.. Coach House Books show at the AGO
Spacing’s Shawn Micallef is the Blogger-in-Residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Art Matters blog for the grand re-opening of the new AGO. He will be cross-posting some of the entries here on Spacing Toronto. To comment on this post, click here and head over to Art Matters.
Coach House Books is about as venerable an read more.. Spacing’s fifth anniversary party and new issue
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WHEN: Wed. December 10th, 7pm-1am
WHERE: The Great Hall, 1087 Queen Street West at Dovercourt
HOW MUCH: $5 for subscribers or $10 (includes mag)
RSVP: please note that, in accordance with our liquor license, you need to RSVP to this event. You may do so via the Facebook event listing, or (if you read more.. Event Guide: Book launch - “There Never Was a Better Time”
Local historian Doug Taylor (who is one of my neighbours) recently published his book There Never Was a Better Time, a fictionalized retelling of his father’s and uncles’ experiences of Toronto as young men in the 1920s. The narrative is based on their reminiscences about their lives at the time, filled in and enriched with read more.. Help bake a Spacing cake
As we mentioned last week, Spacing is celebrating it’s fifth anniversary and new issue with a big bash on Wednesday, December 10th at the Great Hall. We are in the midst of planning the event and have a question for our readers: do you like to bake cakes?
Spacing is looking for 10 to 15 to read more.. TTC vs MTA: Give me liberty AND fuzzy seats
I arrived in New York City yesterday evening and am saying in Bedford-Stuyvesant in central Brooklyn. At around 10pm I took the A Train into Manhattan because as much as Brooklyn — or any outer borough in any city — is nice, it’s not the middle and I always feel an urgent need to go read more.. Wednesday’s headlines• Union Station key in transit plan [ Toronto Star ]
• Union Station reno scores with riders [ Toronto Sun ]
• Mayor calls on feds for transit help [ Toronto Star ]
• Reduction of premium fares on some TTC express buses [ National Post ]
• Streetcar police long way off: TTC [ Toronto Sun ]
• read more.. Events Guide: talk20 + Fuel book launch
What: talk20 and Fuel book launch
When: Friday, November 28, 4:30-7:00 pm
Where: Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto (230 College Street, room 066)
About the book:
FUEL examines future of energy by asking about the politics, science, and history
that have shaped the impending crisis of supply while describing possible futures.
How will world work after read more.. Tuesday’s headlinesTRANSIT
• More express bus routes considered [ Toronto Star ]
• Transit staff mum on job attacks [ Toronto Star ]
• Report sinks idea of transit ferry plan [ Toronto Star ]
• TTC set to axe high-speed ferry plan [ National Post ]
• Riders pile on the beefs [ Toronto Sun ]
• Added buses means more read more.. Inside the belly of the General Motors headquarters
With the possible evaporation of the automobile industry — and especially GM’s near bankruptcy — a shot of the GM headquarters in Detroit is often used in current news reports to set the scene. The building(s) above, on the Detroit river across from Windsor, have only been GM’s for the last few years. Previously GM read more..
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