A documentary about Ontario Place featuring Francesca Bouaoun of Ontario Place For All, as well as Steve Mann and many other members of SwimOP, will have its world premiere at the Toronto Interna...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/09/06/ontario-place-premieres-at-tiff/
Until the mid 1970s, you couldn’t buy lottery tickets in Ontario. Ontarians could go to the horse races and place bets; the ponies, after all, have always had a kind of aristocratic patina, so ...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/09/05/lorinc-booze-in-the-corner-store/
Inside the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Station’s airy concourse, architecturally integrated public artwork, Atmospheric Lens, transforms the mundane commute into an experience of unexpected won...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/09/04/re-visiting-the-subway-art-of-atmospheric-lens/
We discovered new avenues of the city we would have never found unless we had a reason to be there. Many places were sitting right under my nose, not far at all from my apartment, that I never wo...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/09/03/exploring-toronto-through-its-indigenous-heritage/
Every week this summer Francesca Bouaoun has launched her kayak at Ontario Place to check on the trees. They’re a stand of 850 trees planted 54 years ago by landscape architect Michael Hough on...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/08/29/ontario-places-west-island-trees-on-death-watch/
Like a lot of Kensington residents, when I walk by the metal hoarding around the collapsed buildings at 606-614 Dundas West, I feel a mixture of grief and rage. The sight of the roof torn off, th...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/08/27/op-ed-the-lessons-of-the-dundas-st-building-collapse/
For the most part, the buildings on the north side of Dundas Street West between Spadina and Bathurst are an architectural hodgepodge. The one exception to the general heterogeneity was, until re...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/08/23/documenting-the-collapsed-dundas-street-buildings/
When Douglas Counter heads out the front door of his Etobicoke home to appreciate the day’s new blooms, he doesn’t have to go far. The flowers are waiting for him right in his yard, including...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/08/21/from-drainage-ditch-to-vibrant-pollution-absorbing-habitat/
I first moved into my current home around this time of year, in early August. I’d moved from downtown to a greener, more residential area, and when we sat outside on our first evening in the ne...
https://spacing.ca/national/2024/08/19/new-issue-sounds-of-the-city/
This article is published in conjunction with Spacing‘s new issue (#67), which is themed around noise in the city. Click on the links of bird names to hear the relevant birdsong. It’s ubiquit...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/08/12/listen-up-what-birdsong-tells-us-about-everyday-life/
An Etobicoke native plant gardener is ordered to cut his “turfgrass and weeds” (he actually has neither) to 20 cm (8 inches). An Annex ecologist is ordered to cut down his oak saplings. A Sca...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/08/09/op-ed-free-our-front-yards/
We heard a lot about drones at the Paris Olympics, but what about in our own backyard? In this episode, Spacing‘s John Lorinc tells us about a piece he wrote called Eyes in the Sky, which docum...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/08/08/podcast-spacing-radio-080-torontos-drone-scandal/
For the past two decades, Spacing contributor Sean Ruthen has written several architectural travelogues on places near and far – here in Canada from Calgary to Charlottetown, and in Europe visi...
Unlike his Parks Series, which highlights the inclusiveness of the City’s recreational facilities, Goss’s Toronto Water Works Series documents what was at that time exclusively a man’s worl...
From November 1, 1972 to September 30, 1975, a Black cultural hub known as the Harriet Tubman Youth Centre operated in a building located at 15 Robina Avenue, just north of the St. Clair West/Oak...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/08/01/remembering-the-harriet-tubman-youth-centre-on-st-clair-west/