Editor's Picks + Features

96981468_a0f0402afb

My Toronto Video Contest Voting Page

Example description of page.

4843752478_f5b5e2cc1b_b

A 72 Year Crossing at Yonge and Bloor

"A 72 Year Crossing at Yonge and Bloor" Comparative...

4837950162_c923bb1d6e

STREET SCENE: Linux Cafe

Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the...

IMG_0702

Farm Friday: Evergreen Brick Works

Name: Evergreen Brick Works Farmers' Market Location:...

4662198802_8615cf0d2d_b

SPACING VOTES WEEKLY: Coach Ford, Smitherman walks & a heated TV debate

EDITOR’S NOTE: Spacing Votes — our dedicated 2010...

spacing-radio-votes-smither

SPACING RADIO: Smitherman talks walking, while walking

LISTEN TO THIS SPACING RADIO PODCAST George Smitherman...

congestion_referendum

IDEAS FOR TORONTO: Infrastructure referendums

The Toronto City Summit Alliance held a roundtable...

4790754465_e783015c3d_z

Bike parking takes over car parking spaces

Toronto bike riders can celebrate a "first" today:...

4706528245_ef676de151_b

Cities for People — New Toronto design intervention

This is part of a series of posts by students in...

3677103134_da0a274434_z

LORINC: Greenwashing by any other name

I normally have a lot of time for the Toronto Environmental...

4814694220_7da9ea9331

World Wide Wednesday: Maps, Trains, Trikes and Three Million on the A40

Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around...

Wednesday’s Headlines

STRIKE
Premier pleased with progress in Toronto strike talks [ Globe & Mail ]
Sick days still a sticking point [ Toronto Star ]
It's time for the unions to admit they've lost [ Globe & Mail ]
Ignoring the recession [ Globe & Mail ]
Toronto on strike: No daycare, camps or pools, but the homeless are happy [ National Post ]
Toronto on strike: The city's unsung civic heroes [ National Post ]
Trash services duck provincial approval [ Toronto Star ]
Strike slows low-income housing projects [ Globe & Mail ]
At Moss Park, the sound and fury signify nothing [ Globe & Mail ]
McGuinty encouraged by signs of progress [ Toronto Sun ]
End the Toronto strike now [ Toronto Sun ]
Not in my backyard, but yours is OK [ National Post ]
Proof that Toronto strikers are a bunch of pussycats [ National Post ]
'Hoodlums' shut down waste firms [ Toronto Sun ]

CITY POLITICS
Is Smitherman aiming for City Hall? [ Toronto Star ]
GTA needs economic 'war cabinet' [ Toronto Star ]
Council session sought [ National Post ]
Clean sweet sparks mayoral rumours [ Toronto Sun ]
I have 18, do I hear 23? [ Globe & Mail ]
Toronto's MPP's cleanup team tackles riding [ National Post ]

OTHER NEWS
Mental health: a housing issue [ Toronto Star ]
Caribana festival unfazed by strike [ Toronto Star ]
Designed for urban buyers [ Globe & Mail ]
Hand-well problem may look pedestrian, but it's razor sharp [ Toronto Star ]
Caribana jumpstart [ Toronto Sun ]
Flames 'as high as house' [ Toronto Sun ]

 

Comments

Neither the author nor Spacing necessarily agree with the comments posted below. Spacing reserves the right to edit or delete comments entirely. See our Comment Policy.

Re. "GTA Needs war cabinet"

Looking for "big business" to be the saviour for Toronto and the GTA is a recipe for disaster....

"Jane Jacobs’s book The Economy of Cities, in which she argued that cities have always been places where new industries were invented before being “farmed out” to the countryside when their growth eventually made them too cumbersome to maintain within a dense urban environment. Cities, Jacobs explained, are the natural incubators of new businesses—places where the rapid pace of life, face-to-face contact, and concentration of ambitious people come together to create new ways of doing things"

http://www.city-journal.org/article01.php?aid=1515

Toronto continues to kill small businesses with its high taxes. I wish that the city would not selectively use Jane's ideas.

 
Post a comment
Wednesday’s Headlines
By