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Ian Daffern@iandaffern1Oct 17

I made this! Thank you Spacing for sharing. Toronto, see it October 24th!

Spacing@SpacingOct 17

Watch the story behind "Railfans", the documentary, which premieres next weekend! A new video feature from Spacing, created by Aiden Fung, profiles the process behind this movie about autistic children who love subways spacing.ca/toronto/2026/10/1…

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Dan Seljak@anotherglassboxOct 16

Thrilled to announce Another Glass Box and Toronto the Politics the Show will be livestreaming on election night from @Spacing’s election watch party. We’ll be chatting with party attendees, candidates, and other special guests thru the night. spacing.ca/toronto/2026/10/1…

Election Night Watch Party! - Spacing Toronto

WHAT: 2026 Election Night Watch Party WHEN: Monday, October 26th • 6-11pm WHERE: Pauper’s Pub (2nd floor), 539 Bloor St. W. (1 block east of Bathurst) COST: Free! But come drink booze & eat food!...

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Observing The City@observinthecityOct 16

Not only has Bike Share ridership continued to grow 11% year-over-year, it has quietly become *profitable* for the first time. That's right, when the province removes safe bike routes, they are also harming a *revenue-source* for the city.

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John Lorinc@JohnLorincOct 14

#topoli #onpoli New from me on @spacing: A tale of three cities (and how they manage, or mismanage, bike mobility): spacing.ca/toronto/2026/10/1… cc: @CycleToronto

London, Paris, Toronto: A tale of three biking cities - Spacing Toronto

I spent some time in the past couple of weeks in London and Paris, and there’s an emerging point of contrast between these two alpha-cities that has become impossible to ignore. Similar in size,...

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Norm Di Pasquale 🇨🇦@normsworldOct 7

Get @Spacing’s Election Issue, now available at their store at @401Richmond! Great coverage of all the election issues, including our waterfront! Haven’t really heard much about the waterfront in the election so far! #topoli

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John Lorinc@JohnLorincSep 28

#topoli New from me in @spacing: We obtained the RFP documents for the bike lane removal, and it's uglier than we expected: spacing.ca/toronto/2026/09/2…

EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto's bike lanes - Spacing Toronto

After the Ontario Court of Appeal (ONCA) shot down CycleTO’s legally innovative charter challenge that sought to stop Doug Ford’s attack on the city’s bike lanes, Queen’s Park wasted little time...

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John Lorinc@JohnLorincSep 21

#topoli #onpoli New from me on @spacing: The inter-governmental elephant in the room in the 2026 municipal election. spacing.ca/toronto/2026/09/2…

Election 2026: The inter-governmental elephant in the room - Spacing Toronto

In the hall-of-mirrors that is the current mayoral election, as my colleagues John McGrath and Matt Elliott noted, we had the following weirdness last week: Premier Doug Ford, in an aside at a...

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John Lorinc@JohnLorincSep 11

#topoli #onpoli Today on @spacing: Former Ontario cabinet minister Honourable Eleanor McMahon on the crucial task of extricating the bike lane debate from Doug Ford's culture war. spacing.ca/toronto/2026/09/1…

Election 2026: Culture wars are warping cycling policy - Spacing Toronto

In 2014, I did something I never imagined I would do — especially after years spent as a political staffer watching campaigns from the inside. I put my name on a ballot. The invitation came from...

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John Lorinc@JohnLorincJul 28

#topoli The island airport win and the power of positive thinking, Toronto election version. New from me on @spacing. spacing.ca/toronto/2026/07/2…

The power of positive thinking, Toronto's version - Spacing Toronto

I can’t remember a moment when split-screen politics was quite as pronounced as it is right now. Consider: On Friday, the federal Liberals put Doug Ford’s ridiculous island airport expansion nightm...

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John Lorinc@JohnLorincJul 16

#topoli New from me in @spacing: As @BradMBradford doubles down on his city-mired-in-chaos theme after the Salsa shooting, where could that rhetoric lead? spacing.ca/toronto/2026/07/1…

LORINC: Brad Bradford continues his 'city-is-on-fire' routine - Spacing Toronto

I’m old enough to remember when Brad Bradford’s pungent symbol of Toronto’s urban decay was the apparently misnamed Sankofa Square — according to him, a forlorn concrete trapezoid populated by...

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John Lorinc@JohnLorincJul 8

#topoli New from me on @spacing: How Toronto became RogersTown, and why the Bureau of Competition Policy desperately needs to probe this company's highly consolidated vertical and horizontal monopoly on the city's sports and entertainment sectors. spacing.ca/toronto/2026/07/0…

LORINC: Toronto becomes RogersTown - Spacing Toronto

Amazingly and shockingly, after years of public hand-wringing in Canada about the inflationary consequences of over-concentrated sectors (banking, airlines, groceries, telecom), Rogers has scored a...

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John Lorinc@JohnLorincJul 3

#topoli New from me on @spacing: Why is @BradMBradford making common cause with the IntegrityTO troll in attacking Sankofa Square? The line they're drawing between race-baiting, crime, addiction and homelessness couldn't be clearer. spacing.ca/toronto/2026/07/0…

Brad Bradford's name blame game - Spacing Toronto

By now, most City Hall watchers know that Brad Bradford has selected, as a pointed wedge issue, a proposal to rename Sankofa Square while simultaneously using its apparently neglected condition as a...

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Scott Weir@southofbloorJun 29

Wonderful to see that Prime Minister Mark Carney has launched the process to overhaul 24 Sussex - it is the right thing to do. I wrote an article for @Spacing mag about a possible way forward back in 2015, copied here. spacing.ca/national/2015/11/…

Overhaul or demolish 24 Sussex? - Spacing National

Much has recently been discussed about the restoration or demolition and replacement of 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa. Like many old buildings, this house has asbestos, leaky windows, and a terrifying...

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John Lorinc@JohnLorincMay 28

#topoli The rapid approval by TO council of a summer pedestrianization plan for Church St. in The Village puts the lie to the city's myriad excuses for delaying other such projects (Yonge, John, Yorkville, etc.). Today on @spacing. spacing.ca/toronto/2026/05/2…

Church Street is being pedestrianized — that wasn't so hard, was it? - Spacing Toronto

In well under a year, which is like the blink of an eye in City of Toronto time, a plan to pedestrianize that portion of Church Street bisecting The Village went from being the subject of a master’s...

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Ian Darragh@Ian_DarraghMay 11

Jill Dempsey interviewed me on my reporting in @Spacing magazine on #jets at @BBishopAirport #Toronto on @CBCToronto Metro Morning: "Trying to join the dots around airport expansion. Why, how much and who benefits?" cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-3…

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Ian Darragh@Ian_DarraghMay 7

A deep dive into the devastating environmental effects of allowing #jets @BBishopAirport. This is the report that @TOPortAuthority kept secret for nine years. Read @Spacing online spacing.ca/toronto/2026/05/0… #toronto #onpoli

Jet Dreams on Toronto Island (Part 2) - Spacing Toronto

This is the continuation of Jet Dreams on Toronto Island (Part 1). The chief obstacle to expanding Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport is geography – the tiny size of the airport and its location on an...

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Ian Darragh@Ian_DarraghMay 6

This is what @fordnation extended runway will look like on the #Toronto #waterfront. Read more in @Spacing magazine online. Who is going to pay for this? You the taxpayers. spacing.ca/toronto/2026/05/0…

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John Lorinc@JohnLorincMay 5

#topoli New from me in @spacing: The finicky business of planning Ookwemin Minising & figuring out how to prevent it from becoming Liberty Village 2.0. CoT & @WaterfrontTO have a new plan. Whether it will solve the isolation problem is an open question. spacing.ca/toronto/2026/05/0…

LORINC: The finicky business of planning Ookwemin Minising - Spacing Toronto

The City of Toronto and Waterfront Toronto have been futzing around with the zoning for Ookwemin Minising, formerly Villiers Island, for going on a decade now — a period that included a lengthy...

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Dylan Reid@dylan_reidApr 24

On @Spacing , @_ChanFace argues that Church Street in the Village should be pedestrianized, and tells the story of his campaign to get it started this summer (for the moment, two blocks) spacing.ca/toronto/2026/04/2…

Church Street Needs to Be Pedestrianized - Spacing Toronto

It’s evening in Toronto’s Gay Village and the sidewalks are bustling with people. The air is warm and electric. People sweaty from the dance floor pop out of bars onto the sidewalk, glowing with joy...

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John Lorinc@JohnLorincMar 31

#topoli New from me on @spacing -- Some skepticism about Toronto council's sudden fascination with Zohran Mamdani's city-run grocery pitch. Clean up in aisle five, coming soon to a ward near you... spacing.ca/toronto/2026/03/3…

LORINC: Toronto's repackaged progressivism on menu at City Hall - Spacing Toronto

A thing I didn’t have on my bingo card for 2026: that City-run grocery stores would suddenly become an all-encompassing symbol of municipal progressivism. Last week, Toronto council became the latest...

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