Each Monday, Spacing will 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. • A post about Why smart cards will be good for Montréal echoes many of the arguments for implementing a similar program for the TTC and/or across the GTA's myriad transit systems. • A Montréal apartment building burned down recently, leaving scores of people homeless. Spacing Montréal connects to Photos from the big Pine Avenue fire -- one that echoes the ...

Each Monday, Spacing will 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. • Contributor Cédric Sam recently came across a “Mobile” advertisement projected from a parked van onto a blank wall. The driver of the van admitted that advertising in this manner is a legal "grey area." • In a post about Crossing the street in Bangkok, contributor-at-large Christopher DeWolf found parallels between the busy Thai capital and Montréal, where "the only cars ...

WHAT: Earth Hour 2008 WHEN: Saturday, March 29, 8pm WHERE: all over Looking for something to do while the lights are out this Saturday? Here and here are links to listings from the Toronto Star of what's happening around town for Earth Hour 2008. Featured events include: - an Ojibwa storyteller, DJ, art workshop, and viewing by telescope of Saturn and its rings -- all at the Science Centre; - glow-in-the-dark soccer in The Hangar, by Downsview Park; - a Bloor West Village candlelight walk, beginning at 7:45pm in the No Frills parking lot on Bloor east ...

WHAT: Toronto Conservation Action Network community fairs WHEN: March 27 and 28 (tonight and tomorrow night), 7pm-9pm WHERE: Beach United Church (140 Wineva Avenue) and St. Clement's Church (59 Briar Hill Avenue) Going green just got a whole lot easier, thanks to the newly formed Toronto Conservation Action Network -- an informal network of groups and businesses that are helping people live greener. The network is organizing a series of community fairs across Toronto to help connect people with the organizations and companies that can help them live better through conservation. The fairs use a speed-presentation format, which means people can hear ...

Each Monday, Spacing will 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. • There are signs affixed to fire trucks that hint at Toronto putting out Montréal's fires. Actually, it's a job-action tactic by the city's fire fighters, who make less than their Toronto counterparts. • The post Beep beep beep! highlights a new feature set to appear on Montréal's metro: a door-closing chime. It's part of an initiative to increase accessibility on ...

I came across this sticker the other day while walking along Queen Street in the Beach(es). Mostly, it made me sad. I mean, sure, I gripe about City services. But I certainly don't agree that "My Toronto Does Nothing for Me." Are there people who live here who really feel this way? I guess so; someone took the time to make this sticker, and that person or someone else made a point of displaying it prominently on a garbage can. That's a lot of ...

WHAT: The Street multimedia group exhibition WHEN: until April 4 WHERE: Side Space Gallery, 1080 St. Clair Av. W. Who is making decisions about the look and life of the street? Will we be smeared entirely in stucco as far as the eye can see? Can we understand our city and its residents through our encounters on the streets? Sixteen local artists working in multiple media explore these themes and others as they consider the street in this group exhibition at Side Space Gallery. Visit www.sidespacegallery.com for more information. - - - - - - - - - - - - ...

Each Monday, Spacing will 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. • The Photo du Jour category features a handful of excellent shots from Montréal's Nuit Blanche celebrations earlier this month. • Apparently, the Snow is driving Montréalers crazy, too. Here, there, and everywhere that got covered in snow this winter, people are starting to lose their (sorry about this) cool. • The post CBC Digital Archives: Moshe ...

WHAT: The Spaces Between Buildings lecture WHEN: Thursday, March 20, 7pm-9pm WHERE: City of Toronto Archives, 255 Spadina Road Toronto Star urban issues columnist and architecture critic Christopher Hume hosts the latest discussion in the 2008 Architectural Lecture Series, presented by The City of Toronto Archives and The Friends of the Archives of Ontario. Landscape historian Pleasance Crawford will provide an historical survey of one of Toronto's oldest parks, exploring some of the forces that have shaped this shared space. Dave Meslin, municipal activist and founder of  the Toronto Public Space Committee, will provide a contemporary look at how we use ...

Each Monday, Spacing will 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. • The Montréal All-Nighter, the city's version of Nuit Blanche, was held on March 1 in several downtown neighbourhoods. The post Karine Giboulo: Of Pig and Men is a reflection on an exhibit in Place des Arts  -- one that Rob Ford might want to explore in detail. • A post on Skyline Planning features an interesting diagram from Montréal's Plan D'Urbanisme ...