I can’t remember a moment when split-screen politics was quite as pronounced as it is right now. Consider: On Friday, the ...
Summer is the season to pause, to take a break, to refresh body and mind. It’s generally understood that not as much will get done (with the exception of construction), that people may be absent in ...
A street handed to people, even for a few hours, can change how a city feels. This is a story about the frequency behind that ...
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Sabat Ismail (SI) met with Rachel Wang, Sylver Sterling, and Jess Nachman, creators and editors of the Journey Lines zine, to ...
The way spaces are designed influences how people socialize, build community, and go about their day-to-day lives, directly ...
I recently found myself wandering Commercial Drive, reading between its pulsing cafés and restaurants. An empty storefront.
I’m old enough to remember when Brad Bradford’s pungent symbol of Toronto’s urban decay was the apparently misnamed Sankofa ...
This story is published in conjunction with Spacing’s upcoming “summer reading” issue, which will be available on bookstore shelves shortly. I approach an unfamiliar neighbourhood a little east of the ...
Over the past year, I have written multiple times about how misinformation and selective framing continue shaping Toronto’s transportation debates. In previous Spacing op-eds including Pedaling ...
The waterfront as an east-west canvas for events and animation in Toronto will show its potential like never before during the upcoming FIFA World Cup. Not just the main stadium at Exhibition Place ...
This spring, at Bloomberg CityLab in Madrid, social prescribing reached the agenda of the world’s largest cities summit for the first time. It was a breakout session rather than a main-stage event, ...