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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Have a look at the table of contents - the front section includes @jbcurio.bsky.social on the 50th anniversary of the CN Tower opening to the public, and @danfalk.bsky.social on the loss of the planetarium.

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Summer Reading issue of Spacing at Queen Books. Grab it while you can if you haven't yet - our new issue is coming out shortly.

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And finally, of course, we're very excited to see Spacing co-founder and flaneur columnist @shawnmicallef.bsky.social nominated for a Heritage Toronto 2026 Public History award for his Toronto Star weekly columns! www.heritagetoronto.org/programs/her...

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Spacing is very pleased to have our issue 70, "Civic Memories," nominated for a 2026 Toronto Heritage Award in the Public History category! www.heritagetoronto.org/programs/her...

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Nick manning the Spacing Store booth at the Mpact Transit + Community conference wrapping up today in Toronto

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Some of the beautiful letterpress production by Glenn Goluska from his printing press in the laneway behind Major St.

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Railfan is an intimate and heartfelt documentary feature that follows a photographer as he makes a portrait series of autistic kids who love subways in New York City. The crowdfunding campaign launches Tuesday 4 pm at the Spacing Store - check it out! www.facebook.com/events/31375...

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Spacing's current soccer issue at Queen Books. Grab it while you can (and while soccer fever is high)! Our summer issue will be coming out in a few weeks.

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The first World Cup game ever held in Toronto is about to kick off! The first of 6 games to be played in the city. Check out Spacing's soccer issue for where to go to sample food from each of the nations that will be playing in Toronto (including Canada) - on newsstands now.

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Nice shout-out to @iandarragh.bsky.social's Spacing series on the Toronto Island airport, in the @westendphoenix.bsky.social newsletter by @davebidini.bsky.social mailchi.mp/c3f752cf96e8...

If you missed writer Ian Darragh’s story in Spacing on the proposed Billy Bishop airport expansion, it’s here, and it’s essential reading. Among many of the plan’s blights – its threat to Hanlan’s Point’s historic oasis; long strips of tarmac cutting into the harbour; an American building firm signing on for construction – it also compromises the proposed Port Land’s waterfront development, limiting the height of planned, and much-needed, city housing. This is just the latest advance of the Ford administration on our waterfront – following the destruction of Ontario Place and the relocation of the Science Centre – one that looks like an act of aggression against the city. Because it’s election time, it’s important to ask your councillor what stance they take on the airport expansion, and what power they plan to exert at the federal level.

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

In his Globe article about how Toronto needs to make better parks, a shout out from @alexbozikovic.bsky.social to Fadi Massoud's Spacing article last year. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Second: Develop clear principles for design and operations. Landscape architect and academic Fadi Masoud pointed the way last year in Spacing, arguing that parks should be classified by size, function, ecological role and social purpose. Think of them as a system of infrastructure, not as islands.

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The Toronto Soccer Issue (issue 75) is on the shelves of fine retailers! (This one, at Book City at Yonge and St. Clair). Here is the table of contents - lots of great material to remind you that Toronto is and has long been a soccer city.

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Spacing is featuring a custom-made graphic showing the probable extent and layout of an expanded runway for jets at Billy Bishop Airport. See @Ian_Darragh's article "Jet Dreams on Toronto Island" for more details (and the upcoming part 2 later today). spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Did you know that the City is conducting a survey about the future of street furniture in Toronto? The current contract expires in the summer of 2027 and a new vendor & furniture will be picked. Take the survey to have your voice heard. #TOpoli ca.mar.medallia.com?e=90006671&d...

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The Eglinton cover section, meanwhile, features Cheryl Thompson and @johnlorinc.bsky.social on the Golden Mile, a map of Eglinton density by @tdubolyou.bsky.social (slice below), and pieces by @theurbangeog.bsky.social, Todd Harrison, and more ranging from east to west.

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Joseph Wilson writes about how the Spacing Subway Quiz (subwayquiz.com) is being used by teachers to engage neurodiverse students. And Sophie Bouquillon has an extended photo essay on the impact of delivery apps on bike couriers.

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Here's the table of contents. The front section includes Kurt Kraler on the Imperial Pub sign, Elianna Lev on the poetry of personalized licence plates, Kevin Kitchen on cemeteries as public space, and Emily Macrae on an online game about lost bike lanes ...

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

In a nice coincidence with the Jays, the new issue of Spacing opens with a mini-section on sports - with a feature on Toronto's other baseball team (the other Maple Leafs), whose games, by contrast with the Jays, are free, and @jbcurio.bsky.social on the major league baseball teams we almost had.

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

And an additional shout-out to our senior editor @johnlorinc.bsky.social, who was nominated for his book "No Jews Live Here."

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Spacing has had a long and fruitful relationship with heritage architect Michael McClelland, who has authored or been interviewed for many articles in our pages over the years, and who has collaborated on some of our books. We congratulate him on being recognized with the Special Achievement Award.

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

At the Spacing table for a different piece (Queer Yonge Street), Simon collected the award for the Chinatown project!

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

While Spacing didn't win any awards at tonight's Toronto Heritage Awards, we're pleased to have connections to many of the winners. Spacing reviewed book winner "He Hijacked My Brain: Gary Topp's Toronto" in issue 70. 🧵

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

You'll also find some great pieces by @bobgeorgiouto.bsky.social on the birth of Toronto's patios, @jbcurio.bsky.social on the rise and decline of Toronto's cathedrals of commerce, the department stores, a double feature on fake historical plaques, and much more.

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

The Ontario government is starting a pilot project of autonomous delivery vehicles on Toronto's streets. They should also take credit for inventing a new game, the urban-equivalent of cow-tipping. #ONpoli #TOpoli

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

It turns out, "The name “Mimico” comes from the Ojibway word Omiimiikaa, which can mean “place of the wild pigeon” or “abundant with wild pigeons.”" They were so abundant there a street was named "Pidgeon Avenue"

Old insurance map showing Pidgeon Ave. in Mimico

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

MacCallum also shares some of the challenges of preserving archival photos, with examples of photos damaged in various ways in storage. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Sending out love to UofT Scarborough library peeps for this amazing display of Spacing magazines & #Toronto books sold at the Spacing Store [@spacingstore.bsky.social].

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The Toronto Public Space Committee public washroom design contest we are co-sponsoring is cited in a motion by Mayor Olivia Chow to develop a public washroom plan for Toronto. Another incentive to submit a design! secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

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Mayor Olivia Chow, seconded by Councillor Jennifer McKelvie, recommends that:

1. City Council request the City Manager, working with the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, the General Manager, Parks and Recreation, the General Manager, Transportation Services, the Chief Technology Officer and the Chief Executive Officer, Toronto Transit Commission, to conduct an analysis of where new public washrooms are most needed and:

a. install high-quality temporary washrooms at these locations, beginning in the spring of 2025;

b. develop a longer-term plan to add more public washrooms, and retrofit existing ones;

c. identify and repair City washrooms most in need of restoration;

d. identify existing City washrooms that can be retrofitted so they may be open more months of the year;

e. work with the Toronto Transit Commission to explore the installation of new washrooms in subway stations and develop a plan to upgrade and improve existing Toronto Transit Commission washrooms;

f. ensure all new and upgraded washrooms are accessible to all members of the public;

g. work with the Toronto Public Space Committee following the conclusion of their competition “TO the Loo!” design challenge on potential design options;

h. develop a digital wayfinding tool citizens may use to find the nearest city washroom; and

i. report to the Infrastructure and Environment Committee prior to the 2026 Budget cycle on the cost of the initiative.

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Happy to learn that City Hall pays for subscriptions to Spacing! Via @graphicmatt.com newsletter toronto.cityhallwatcher.com/p/city-halls...

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Photographer Peter MacCallum has sent us this photo he took in 1996 (left) of the now-neglected Kensington Market "zombie house" featured in this CBC story (current state on the right, via CBC). www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

You can read our feature, by Matthew Hanick, in the current issue 69, on sale at the Spacing Store and other fine bookstores. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Canadian hockey fans: we made a 12x18 poster print celebrating McDavid's winning goal at the 4 Nations Face-Off. Selling it through the @spacingstore.bsky.social. Please feel free to share! spacingstore.ca/collections/... design by: @matthewblackett.bsky.social #hockey #canada #mcdavid

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Thank you to @graphicmatt.com for the shout-out to @lanrickbennett.bsky.social t's op-ed about the TRBOT "Congestion" report in his newsletter (this issue free to read). toronto.cityhallwatcher.com/p/whatever-h...

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Last year we published a map showing the disparity in free outdoor skating rinks between different parts of Toronto (Scarborough was especially lacking). Good to see the City is taking active measures to address this disparity. (Via @graphicmatt.com newsletter).

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Check it out — the cover of our new issue on the state of the arts in Toronto! It has been dropped into the mail & is also available at the Spacing Store at 401 Richmond St. W. #Toronto #TOpoli #ONpoli #arts

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

Reminder: Join Spacing editors John Lorinc, Dylan Reid, and Todd Harrison at 12pm on Oct. 6 at Tranzac Club for music and discussion about Toronto and citybuilding. Ideas, singalongs, and interactive art things -- yes, there will be LEGO. bit.ly/harmonysongb...

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Join Spacing senior editors John Lorinc, Dylan Reid, and Todd Harrison at 12pm on Oct. 6 at Tranzac Club for music and discussion about Toronto and citybuilding. Ideas, singalongs, and interactive art things -- yes, there will be LEGO. bit.ly/harmonysongb...

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

We're very pleased to have been nominated for a National Magazine Award for Best Editorial Package, for our 20th anniversary issue! magazine-awards.com/en/2024nomin...

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