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Who’s behind the deep-pocketed private equity firm that’s bought into Therme? A new player has joined the Ontario Place melodrama — a mega-investor with billions to spend, writes @johnlorinc.bsky.social. #TOpoli #ONpoli
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Who's behind the deep-pocketed private equity firm that's bought into Therme? - Spacing Toronto
Back in the summer, Therme went public with a somewhat perplexing development in its corporate life — a €1 billion merger of its two, somewhat related, operating divisions: Therme Erding, which owns t...
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December 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Who’s behind the deep-pocketed private equity firm that’s bought into Therme? A new player has joined the Ontario Place melodrama — a mega-investor with billions to spend, writes @johnlorinc.bsky.social. #TOpoli #ONpoli
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On our @spacingradio.bsky.social housing series The Overhead, we talk about decommodifying housing. Housing is big money, and it’s leading to unaffordable rents and displacement. Is there an alternative? spacing.ca/national/202...
The Overhead: Decommodifying Housing - Spacing National
THIS EPISODE: Decommodifying Housing On previous episodes of this series, we’ve talked about the impact of an over-financialized housing market. It adds to the affordability crisis, and leads to evict...
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December 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
On our @spacingradio.bsky.social housing series The Overhead, we talk about decommodifying housing. Housing is big money, and it’s leading to unaffordable rents and displacement. Is there an alternative? spacing.ca/national/202...
On our @spacingradio.bsky.social housing series The Overhead, we talk about decommodifying housing. Housing is big money, and it’s leading to unaffordable rents and displacement. Is there an alternative? spacing.ca/national/202...
The Overhead: Decommodifying Housing - Spacing National
THIS EPISODE: Decommodifying Housing On previous episodes of this series, we’ve talked about the impact of an over-financialized housing market. It adds to the affordability crisis, and leads to evict...
spacing.ca
December 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
On our @spacingradio.bsky.social housing series The Overhead, we talk about decommodifying housing. Housing is big money, and it’s leading to unaffordable rents and displacement. Is there an alternative? spacing.ca/national/202...
Alphabet's autonymous-vehicle subsidiary Waymo has expansion plans that includes the #Toronto market, writes @johnlorinc.bsky.social
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#ONpoli #TOpoli #Waymo #drivelesscar #AV
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#ONpoli #TOpoli #Waymo #drivelesscar #AV
LORINC: Waymo aims to get a driverless foot in Toronto's door - Spacing Toronto
In the past few days, Toronto’s chronically testy conservation about mobility glommed onto the disappointing launch of the Finch West LRT (Line 6), which crawled along on its maiden journeys thanks to...
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December 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Alphabet's autonymous-vehicle subsidiary Waymo has expansion plans that includes the #Toronto market, writes @johnlorinc.bsky.social
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#ONpoli #TOpoli #Waymo #drivelesscar #AV
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#ONpoli #TOpoli #Waymo #drivelesscar #AV
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New episode of our housing series The Overhead on the @spacingradio.bsky.social feed! To make housing affordable, we need to decommodify it. But do governments really want that? Listen here: spacing.ca/national/202... @bshnode.bsky.social
The Overhead: Decommodifying Housing - Spacing National
THIS EPISODE: Decommodifying Housing On previous episodes of this series, we’ve talked about the impact of an over-financialized housing market. It adds to the affordability crisis, and leads to evict...
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December 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
New episode of our housing series The Overhead on the @spacingradio.bsky.social feed! To make housing affordable, we need to decommodify it. But do governments really want that? Listen here: spacing.ca/national/202... @bshnode.bsky.social
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#IdeaAtWork
“The genesis of this project is that the Eastern bridge was being removed and we wanted to salvage parts of that bridge and reuse parts of the bridge for public infrastructure elements, whether it’s furniture or public art,” @jbwicz.bsky.social says.
- Alex Kharabian #EastEndLove
“The genesis of this project is that the Eastern bridge was being removed and we wanted to salvage parts of that bridge and reuse parts of the bridge for public infrastructure elements, whether it’s furniture or public art,” @jbwicz.bsky.social says.
- Alex Kharabian #EastEndLove
When the long-disused Eastern Avenue Bridge was demolished, some locals came up with a way to creatively reuse the steel trusses to make benches for neighbourhood use. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
From bridge to bench - Spacing Toronto
Steel girders that used to carry cars across the Don River now carry conversations on a quiet stretch of East Chinatown. Outside Hugh’s Room, two benches sit along the sidewalk, their industrial frame...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
#IdeaAtWork
“The genesis of this project is that the Eastern bridge was being removed and we wanted to salvage parts of that bridge and reuse parts of the bridge for public infrastructure elements, whether it’s furniture or public art,” @jbwicz.bsky.social says.
- Alex Kharabian #EastEndLove
“The genesis of this project is that the Eastern bridge was being removed and we wanted to salvage parts of that bridge and reuse parts of the bridge for public infrastructure elements, whether it’s furniture or public art,” @jbwicz.bsky.social says.
- Alex Kharabian #EastEndLove
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Sweet piece by Spacing Magazine about our community bench made out of a salvaged bridge and reused pallets. Thanks for sharing the story of our neigbourhood’s infrastructure! @spacing.bsky.social
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From bridge to bench - Spacing Toronto
Steel girders that used to carry cars across the Don River now carry conversations on a quiet stretch of East Chinatown. Outside Hugh’s Room, two benches sit along the sidewalk, their industrial frame...
spacing.ca
December 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Sweet piece by Spacing Magazine about our community bench made out of a salvaged bridge and reused pallets. Thanks for sharing the story of our neigbourhood’s infrastructure! @spacing.bsky.social
spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
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When the long-disused Eastern Avenue Bridge was demolished, some locals came up with a way to creatively reuse the steel trusses to make benches for neighbourhood use. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
From bridge to bench - Spacing Toronto
Steel girders that used to carry cars across the Don River now carry conversations on a quiet stretch of East Chinatown. Outside Hugh’s Room, two benches sit along the sidewalk, their industrial frame...
spacing.ca
December 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
When the long-disused Eastern Avenue Bridge was demolished, some locals came up with a way to creatively reuse the steel trusses to make benches for neighbourhood use. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
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Don’t miss the annual Toronto Transit Panel over on the @spacingradio.bsky.social podcast feed. And, if you’d like to give me an early holiday gift: like, share, subscribe, or give us a rating! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...
Episode 91: Talking Transit 2025
Podcast Episode · Spacing Radio · 2025-12-01 · 55m
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December 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Don’t miss the annual Toronto Transit Panel over on the @spacingradio.bsky.social podcast feed. And, if you’d like to give me an early holiday gift: like, share, subscribe, or give us a rating! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...
Olivia Chow's new 'luxury tax' is a silly political distraction with little financial upside for the city, writes senior editor @johnlorinc.bsky.social.
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#ONpoli #TOpoli
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#ONpoli #TOpoli
LORINC: Mayor begins to reveal her election cards - Spacing Toronto
I’m not especially interested in carrying the beer (or wine) for a bunch of people who can buy super expensive homes. But Mayor Olivia Chow’s proposal to hike the municipal land transfer tax, which la...
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December 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Olivia Chow's new 'luxury tax' is a silly political distraction with little financial upside for the city, writes senior editor @johnlorinc.bsky.social.
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#ONpoli #TOpoli
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#ONpoli #TOpoli
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On the new @spacingradio.bsky.social, it’s our annual Transit Talk! Can faith in the TTC be restored, what’s in the Federal budget for transit, competing transit projects, and lots more: spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
PODCAST: Episode 91, Talking Transit 2025 - Spacing Toronto
This year has been one of major change. But what doesn’t change here is talking about transit. It’s the return of Tricia Wood (York University urban geography professor and Spacing contributor) and Ma...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
On the new @spacingradio.bsky.social, it’s our annual Transit Talk! Can faith in the TTC be restored, what’s in the Federal budget for transit, competing transit projects, and lots more: spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
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It’s an annual tradition over in @spacingradio.bsky.social: we’re talking transit! @graphicmatt.com and Tricia Wood join me to talk about the TTC, backlogs and logjams, the federal budget, and, of course, the Eglinton Crosstown. Check it out: spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
PODCAST: Episode 91, Talking Transit 2025 - Spacing Toronto
This year has been one of major change. But what doesn’t change here is talking about transit. It’s the return of Tricia Wood (York University urban geography professor and Spacing contributor) and Ma...
spacing.ca
December 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
It’s an annual tradition over in @spacingradio.bsky.social: we’re talking transit! @graphicmatt.com and Tricia Wood join me to talk about the TTC, backlogs and logjams, the federal budget, and, of course, the Eglinton Crosstown. Check it out: spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
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New episode for you! It’s our annual transit panel. We talk about projects delays, rider frustration, the Federal budget, RapidTO and more! spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
PODCAST: Episode 91, Talking Transit 2025 - Spacing Toronto
This year has been one of major change. But what doesn’t change here is talking about transit. It’s the return of Tricia Wood (York University urban geography professor and Spacing contributor) and Ma...
spacing.ca
December 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
New episode for you! It’s our annual transit panel. We talk about projects delays, rider frustration, the Federal budget, RapidTO and more! spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
On the new @spacingradio.bsky.social, it’s our annual Transit Talk! Can faith in the TTC be restored, what’s in the Federal budget for transit, competing transit projects, and lots more: spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
PODCAST: Episode 91, Talking Transit 2025 - Spacing Toronto
This year has been one of major change. But what doesn’t change here is talking about transit. It’s the return of Tricia Wood (York University urban geography professor and Spacing contributor) and Ma...
spacing.ca
December 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
On the new @spacingradio.bsky.social, it’s our annual Transit Talk! Can faith in the TTC be restored, what’s in the Federal budget for transit, competing transit projects, and lots more: spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
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#topoli #onpoli New from me on @spacing.bsky.social: When did we begin dismissing opioid addiction, especially among homeless encampment residents, as "delinquent" behaviour? Contrary to the claims of pundits like The Globe's Robyn Urback, there's much more to this story. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
When did we start describing opioid addiction as "delinquent" behaviour? - Spacing Toronto
In a widely read, shared and commented upon column in Saturday’s Globe and Mail, columnist Robyn Urback asked a question that, I’d say, is on a lot of people’s minds these days: how did we “normalize ...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
#topoli #onpoli New from me on @spacing.bsky.social: When did we begin dismissing opioid addiction, especially among homeless encampment residents, as "delinquent" behaviour? Contrary to the claims of pundits like The Globe's Robyn Urback, there's much more to this story. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
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The current issue of @spacing.bsky.social on the shelf at Book City Danforth
November 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The current issue of @spacing.bsky.social on the shelf at Book City Danforth
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Hi folks! We want to apologize for the regular episode schedule being inconsistent recently. We had to scrap an episode due to audio quality. It’s every podcaster’s worst nightmare come true. But we’re back soon with an annual tradition regular listeners love. Apologies, and stay tuned. ❤️
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Hi folks! We want to apologize for the regular episode schedule being inconsistent recently. We had to scrap an episode due to audio quality. It’s every podcaster’s worst nightmare come true. But we’re back soon with an annual tradition regular listeners love. Apologies, and stay tuned. ❤️
How many more highway lanes? On the 20th anniversary of the Greenbelt, the Ford government's highway building plans are turning back the clock. #TOpoli #ONpoli #CDNpoli
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How many more highway lanes? - Spacing Toronto
After more than two decades tucked away as an idea simply not worth the cost, Highway 413 is finally kicking into gear as Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government has awarded the first ...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
How many more highway lanes? On the 20th anniversary of the Greenbelt, the Ford government's highway building plans are turning back the clock. #TOpoli #ONpoli #CDNpoli
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Nostalgia about neighbourhood retail is not a strategy — the City's heavily compromised decision on neighbourhood retail may result in no new neighbourhood retail, writes senior editor @johnlorinc.bsky.social.
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Nostalgia about neighbourhood retail is not a strategy - Spacing Toronto
I have lived for many years less than 30 metres from what was once one of Toronto’s storied corner stores — a green grocer known locally as “Dom’s” — for the owner, Domenico Cozzi. He and his wife Ros...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Nostalgia about neighbourhood retail is not a strategy — the City's heavily compromised decision on neighbourhood retail may result in no new neighbourhood retail, writes senior editor @johnlorinc.bsky.social.
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Gerrard St. East - from Chinatown east to the tracks - will be facing changes as the Ontario Line gets developed. Photographer Peter MacCallum captures its current state. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
Gerrard Street East Part 1, 2023-2024 - Spacing Toronto
In the spring of 2023, a friend who was familiar with my earlier documentary photography of the city’s main streets suggested that I consider doing a project on the highly varied streetscape of Gerrar...
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October 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Gerrard St. East - from Chinatown east to the tracks - will be facing changes as the Ontario Line gets developed. Photographer Peter MacCallum captures its current state. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
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Good morning(ish)! On the @spacingradio.bsky.social feed, we’ve started a new season of our special housing series The Overhead with @bshnode.bsky.social! This month is Indigenous-Led Housing: spacing.ca/national/202...
The Overhead: Indigenous-led housing - Spacing National
THIS EPISODE: Indigenous-led Housing What does Indigenous housing look like? Are there special forms of housing needed by Indigenous communities in particular to address specific health and community ...
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October 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Good morning(ish)! On the @spacingradio.bsky.social feed, we’ve started a new season of our special housing series The Overhead with @bshnode.bsky.social! This month is Indigenous-Led Housing: spacing.ca/national/202...
Are we focusing on the wrong EVs? @albertkoehl.bsky.social looks at the history of electric vehicles in Toronto - beginning with some of the first cars - noting that streetcars and subways have been providing EV transportation all along (and remember trolley buses?). spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
OP-ED: Electric Vehicles and the Federal Sales Standard - Spacing Toronto
Electric cars are in the news, though it’s hard to call them new. Torontonians were impressed when they first saw an electric car on city streets … in 1896. And it’s easy to forget that other types of...
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October 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Are we focusing on the wrong EVs? @albertkoehl.bsky.social looks at the history of electric vehicles in Toronto - beginning with some of the first cars - noting that streetcars and subways have been providing EV transportation all along (and remember trolley buses?). spacing.ca/toronto/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.
October 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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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Here's @spacing.bsky.social at the Presse Internationale in the Beaches. (Still hosting an impressive selection of magazines)
October 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Here's @spacing.bsky.social at the Presse Internationale in the Beaches. (Still hosting an impressive selection of magazines)
Our Fall issue (#72) is out, looking at Toronto and the movies! Editor @dylanreid.bsky.social introduces the issue and explores the sometimes complicated relationship between Toronto and film. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
NEW ISSUE: We like movies - Spacing Toronto
Autumn is serious film season, when the studios put out the movies they’re hoping will get an Oscar nomination. The season is especially defined in Toronto because the Toronto International Film Festi...
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October 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Our Fall issue (#72) is out, looking at Toronto and the movies! Editor @dylanreid.bsky.social introduces the issue and explores the sometimes complicated relationship between Toronto and film. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...