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A 72 Year Crossing at Yonge and Bloor

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

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STREET SCENE: Linux Cafe

Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the...

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Farm Friday: Evergreen Brick Works

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

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

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

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SPACING RADIO: Smitherman talks walking, while walking

LISTEN TO THIS SPACING RADIO PODCAST George Smitherman...

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IDEAS FOR TORONTO: Infrastructure referendums

The Toronto City Summit Alliance held a roundtable...

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Bike parking takes over car parking spaces

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

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Cities for People — New Toronto design intervention

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

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LORINC: Greenwashing by any other name

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

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

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

Archives /// Katia Snukal

Monday’s headlines

ARCHITECTURE & DEVELOPMENT • Squeezed in, but abounding in open space [Globe & Mail] • Waterfront revival: Needless spat over the Quay [The Star] NEIGHBOURHOODS • Riverdale, Junction vie to become world’s first urban carbon neutral neighbourhood [The Star] • A yard sale without a yard [The Star] • City wants new name for Freedom Street that cuts through CAMH grounds [Globe & Mail] CITY BEACHES • Why doesn’t anyone swim in The Beaches? [National Post] • Summer fun: City beaches shine [The Star] ARTS & CULTURE • Luminato kicks off [The Star] • India’s cultural centre in Toronto to rival London’s [...

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Friday’s headlines

TCHC • Ford: Sell 928 TCHC homes [The Star] • Ford plans to sell social housing stock to close budget deficit [Globe & Mail] • Ootes wants city to sell 900 homes [The Sun] • Sell 900 homes: Outgoing TCHC head [The Sun] • Sell 900 houses to pay for repairs, Ootes urges TCHC [National Post] • Fire victims refused to stay at 389 Church [National Post] TORONTO ZOO • Councillors bolt from zoo meeting [National Post] • Zoo board meeting ends in uproar after councillors walk out [The Star] CITY FINANCES • City's 10% budget solution [The Sun] • City ponders ...

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Thursday’s headlines

TTC • Time for new thinking at TTC [The Sun] • TTC balks at paying full fare for Presto [The Sun] • TTC looking at service cuts, fare hike in budget crisis [National Post] • TTC’s budget shortfall to swell in 2012 [Globe & Mail] • Time for new thinking at TTC [The Sun] • TTC balks at paying full fare for Presto [The Sun] • TTC looking at service cuts, fare hike in budget crisis [National Post] • Chris Selley: TTC gets smart with Presto [National Post] • Lightning strike caused subway troubles, TTC says [The Star] • Lightning strike ...

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Wednesday’s headlines

CITY FINANCES • Don’t kill land transfer tax, budget chair advises [The Star] • Ford 'crying wolf' over budget: Councillor [The Sun] • City turns to citizens to solve looming deficit [National Post] • Toronto budget chief says land transfer tax should stay for now [Globe & Mail] WATERFRONT • Hume: Waterfront unveils the future while city remains stuck in the past [The Star] • A speed-wired waterfront [The Star] • New waterfront communities to get ultra high-speed Internet [National Post] • Ultra-high-speed broadband for a wired waterfront [Globe & Mail] TRANSIT • Would you like a coffee with your ...

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Tuesday’s headlines

G20 • Officers tell their side of Adam Nobody’s G20 arrest [The Star] • The blue-wall two-step [The Sun] TTC • TTC report backs province’s electronic fare-collection system [Globe & Mail] • What the #!%*?: Presto fare cards for the TTC [National Post] CAMPAIGN EXPENSES • Ford’s ‘inexpensive’ campaign RV rental questioned [The Star] • Audit of mayor rejected because of other audits [The Sun] • Forensic review of Ford’s election expenses urged [Globe & Mail] OTHER NEWS • Doug Ford looks for solution to road-clogging charity events [The Star] • Waving the Blue Flag for Toronto beaches [The Star] • Porter: City’s ...

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Monday’s headlines

TRANSIT • TTC projects 2012 shortfall [The Star] • Exclusive: TTC changes mind, wants to give Presto smart cards green light [The Star] • TTC report backs province’s electronic fare-collection system [Globe & Mail] • GTA needs gas hikes, road tolls, congestion charges to fund transit: Experts [The Star] • Oslo does it, Stockholm does it, London does it [The Star] RACCOONS • Animal madness [National Post] • Small but feisty rally tackles raccoon issues [The Star] • City too broke to help with raccoons: Councillor [The Sun] • City's raccoon policy a 'cop-out', residents say [The Sun] CITY HALL • City Hall ...

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Friday’s headlines

ROB FORD • Fiorito: Reviewing the mayor’s review [The Star] • Ford to skip municipalities conference in Halifax [National Post] • All aboard gravy train to Halifax [The Sun] • Ford won’t attend Halifax get-together [Globe & Mail] TRANSPORTATION • 65% of Torontonians say no to road tolls; 72% want bike lanes [The Star] • Hume: Toronto takes cabbies for a ride [The Star] • Air-rail trains won’t harm health in short term [The Star] RACOONS • West-end man plans anti-raccoon rally [National Post] • Homeowner plans anti-raccoon rally [The Sun] OTHER NEWS • ...

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Thursday’s headlines

CITY HALL • Sole source purchases in Toronto reached $154 million last year [The Star] • City was hasty in erasing mural, councillor says [The Star] • Councillor moves to ban shark fin in Toronto [The Star] • Bike hits and misses [Now] DOUG FORD & ROB FORD • Doug Ford didn’t come back for you either [Now] • James: Unorthodox Rob Ford coated in Teflon [The Star] • Complainants retain high-profile lawyer in fight against Ford [Globe & Mail] • The Rob Ford Agenda: May 24-30 [The Grid] G20 • Toronto police G20 probe a ‘cat and mouse’ game, lawyer warns [...

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Wednesday’s headlines

TAXI LICENSING • City to study woes of taxi-licensing industry [Globe & Mail] • Taxi controversy boils over at City Hall [National Post] • Ambassador cabby loses licence after attack [The Sun] • Minnan-Wong chased down hall as taxi war off to raucous start [The Star] TORONTO HUMAN SOCIETY • Trow loses THS board bid amid cheers [National Post] • Former president fails in bid to regain control over humane society [Globe & Mail] POLICE LAYOFFS • Layoffs possible as city asks Blair to reduce police staff by 10 per cent [Globe & Mail] • Crime spikes in cities with police layoffs [...

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Tuesday’s headlines

ROAD TOLLS & TRANSIT FUNDING • Mayor Ford won’t support tolls to fund Sheppard extension [The Star] • Mayor's transit plans lambasted [The Sun] • Rob Ford calls toll road idea ‘nonsense’ [Globe & Mail] • James: Sheppard subway? Not now, maybe not ever [The Star] TORONTO POLICE • Chief Blair told by civilian board to consider police layoffs [The Star] • Consider reducing number of police officers in budget, Chief told [National Post] • City Hall ponders cop layoffs [The Sun] CAMPAIGN FINANCES • Ford asks court to halt audit of his campaign finances [The Star] • Mayor files appeal of campaign ...

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