Great piece from @spacing.bsky.social. I also love that the workers are identified by name in the photo captions. It's a rare touch, but an important one—it helps ensure the people who built these industries aren't lost to history. spacing.ca/toronto/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.

The former National Rubber plant in the Junction was demolished earlier this year. Photographer Peter MacCallum traces its rise and fall over the decades, and celebrates the workers who made the plant run. spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

About the University Avenue bike lanes, @lanrickbennett.bsky.social shows the evidence does not support the negative narrative some are peddling spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

In @spacing.bsky.social's Waterfront issue last year, I wrote about what an embarrassment it was that the Amsterdam Bridge had been decrepit for years. Getting it fixed is at least one long-term benefit from hosting the World Cup. www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...

Tim Kocur of the Waterfront Business Improvement Area (BIA) has interesting ideas for the Rees Park project on a current waterfront parking lot, as a potential focus for events and gatherings. spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

Essentially the same as what @spacing.bsky.social shared a few weeks ago via @iandarragh.bsky.social

Social prescribing connects people to non-medical sources of health and wellbeing: nature, arts, movement, community, each other. Kate Mulligan shares what the Bentway, the High Line, and Madrid Río taught her about health and belonging in public spaces spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

Read more about how the project came to be and my other inspirations here: bsky.app/profile/spac...

Another fun one for @spacing.bsky.social I used @torontoopendata.cityof.toronto.ca, scraped school facilities data and looked online at larger facilities to create a map of pitches across the city. This is for a special issue of Spacing Magazine on Toronto Soccer. #maps #mapping #gis #toronto

New provincial proposals for modernizing e-bike rules are timely, writes @albertkoehl.bsky.social spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

You can listen on Apple, Spotify, or your favourite podcatcher, or right here: spacing.ca/national/202...

In Vancouver, the Hogan’s Alley Society is trying to restore a displaced Black community, while the Downtown East Side Community Land Trust is trying to secure affordable rooms in an historically impoverished neighbourhood. City policy is getting in the way. On our latest episode of The Overhead:

At @spacingradio.bsky.social, we have a new episode of The Overhead. Community land trusts in Vancouver are gaining momentum, but some City policies are barring the way forward: spacing.ca/national/202... @bshnode.bsky.social

New episode of our housing series The Overhead on the @spacingradio.bsky.social feed. Two community land trusts in Vancouver who are making progress securing affordable housing and public amenities, but certain City policies stand in the way: spacing.ca/national/202...

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...

CBC Metro Morning talked to @iandarragh.bsky.social about what he found in his Spacing series investigating the push to add jets to the Toronto Island airport. Listen here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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...

My newest article for @spacing.bsky.social about my qualms with Yonge Street and the Sankofa Square area, and how the YongeTOmorrow project is woefully inadequate to address them. Like Church St, most EU cities would have pedestrianised Yonge decades ago, especially as the backbone of the city.

Yonge Street deserves pedestrianization - other cites have done it, we can do it too, says @shanegates.ca spacing.ca/toronto/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.

It's time to close the gaps in Toronto's remarkable potential 72 km Loop Trail (along with other potential loops), says @rzaichkowski.bsky.social #bikeTO spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

A deep dive into the devastating environmental effects of allowing #jets at Billy Bishop #Toronto City #Airport. This is the report that the Toronto Port Authority kept secret for nine years. Read @spacing.bsky.social online spacing.ca/toronto/2026... #toronto #onpoli @waterfront4all.bsky.social

We had a great article in @spacing.bsky.social's fall issue about the unique model of the Toronto Maple Leafs baseball team in this league, written by our intern Alex Kharabian - who was a pitcher for the team!

In Part 2 of his report "Jet Dreams on Toronto Island", @iandarragh.bsky.social looks at the findings of studies and environmental assessments that show both the difficulty of adapting the island airport for jets, and their likely negative impact on the waterfront spacing.ca/toronto/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...

Jet Dreams on Toronto Island. Read ​Part 1 of ​my investigation in @spacing.bsky.social into what would it cost, who will pay, and who benefits? With a new custom-made​ graphic​ showing what the runway would look like. lnkd.in/e_wxVixc

Jet Dreams on Toronto Island. Read part 1 of @iandarragh.bsky.social's investigation into what would it cost, who will pay, and who benefits? With a new graphic custom-made for Spacing detailing the likely extension. spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

What is a "Care Block"? Obaid Khan introduces an urban planning strategy crafted in Colombia that could help address Toronto’s care crisis spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

Photographer Peter MacCallum captured the last days of one of the former factories that became artist and craft studios before being redeveloped, the former industrial complex at 390-440 Dufferin Street spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

This right here is something we are immeasurably proud of and will be hosting 2 more sessions in May. We did this alongside @cycletoronto.bsky.social, @tomflood.bsky.social and Toronto Bike Brigade! Thanks Spacing for helping get the word out.

Cycling advocates host three Safe Cycling Sessions for bike delivery riders - to improve safety for the riders themselves, and for those who share the streets with them. By @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

New episode of our housing series The Overhead, on the @spacingradio.bsky.social feed. This one all about evictions in Canada: spacing.ca/national/202...

New episode of The Overhead, our special housing show on the @spacingradio.bsky.social feed, where we talk about recent research into evictions in Canada, the need to harmonize tenants’ rights, and why it’s taboo to talk about eviction: spacing.ca/national/202...

We have a new episode of The Overhead! We talk about all the research @bshnode.bsky.social has done on evictions in Canada. Keeping people in their homes is key to addressing the housing crisis. So here’s what we know about harmful evictions: spacing.ca/national/202...

"The World Cup is good because it’s a big event that helps the community get to know each other better. — Age 13, Guadalajara" In conjunction with our new soccer-themed issue, Josh Fullan of Maximum City writes about what youth want for the 2026 World Cup. spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

NEW! The latest issue of Spacing @spacing.bsky.social focuses on the city’s connections with soccer. I wrote about Toronto’s pro soccer past, as well as a general timeline stretching back 150 years! Pick up a copy at the Spacing Store @spacingstore.bsky.social or at finer newsstands. #TOHistory

Church Street in the Village should be pedestrianized, argues @chanface.bsky.social . He shares the story of the campaign to get it started with a temporary pedestrianization of two blocks this summer. spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

Jane's Walk weekend is coming up (May 1-3), and Jane's Walk has published an op-ed about how the event helps spark connection and fight the loneliness epidemic that is hitting our cities. spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

With Anthony Furey out of the mayoral race, a Chow vs. Bradford face-off could go to the candidate who finds a way to express hope in dark times, writes @johnlorinc.bsky.social #TOpoli #ONpoli spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

A plan to expand the conservatory in Allan Gardens will enhance this place of greenery, calm, and respite, writes Alex Kharabian spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

My "Toronto Flaneur" column is about experiencing soccer events via Toronto neighbourhoods. My first: 2002 when living in Koreatown & S Korea got into the finals. Parade at dawn to Yonge St. (Did you know I've been writing a flaneur column towards omg 20 years now at the back of every Spacing?)

New issue! Editor @dylanreid.bsky.social introduces our soccer issue (#74), ahead Toronto hosting World Cup games, and argues that Toronto has been and is much more of a soccer city than many might think. spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

The stairs on Athletic Ave. that used to go down to Ulster Stadium, the home of Ulster United FC. Read all about it in Nancy Dutra's piece in the new soccer issue of @spacing.bsky.social , now at the Spacing Store and soon in mailboxes and fine bookstores.

Don’t miss our latest episode, all about landlords and rent strikes. Two perspectives, one great episode: spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

How did FIFA’s free Fan Fest suddenly become a ticketed event? Senior editor @johnlorinc.bsky.social digs into the latest cash-grab. #TOpoli #ONpoli #WorldCup26 spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

OP-ED: “On Your Left” Isn’t the Problem. @lanrickbennett.bsky.social says that how you pass is more important than how you signal you're passing spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

On the new @spacingradio.bsky.social, we have two very different perspectives on landlords. We speak to the Federation of Renral Housing Providers of Ontario representing landlords, and the York South-Weston Tenants Union who have successfully led rent strikes in Toronto: spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

On the new @spacingradio.bsky.social we bring you two perspectives on landlords. First, we speak to Tony Irwin, CEO of the Federation of Rental Housing Providers of Ontario, and we follow up with Bruno Dobrusin of the York South-Weston Tenants Union: spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

New episode! We bring you two very different perspectives on rentals: one from the group representing landlords in Ontario, and the other organizing rent strikes across the city. Listen here: spacing.ca/toronto/2026...