On the new episode of our housing series The Overhead, we show you two community organizations making housing affordable. One in Toronto which has shaped local government policy, and one in Vancouver’s downtown east side which is just getting started: spacing.ca/national/202... @bshnode.bsky.social

In an op-ed today, @seanyyz.bsky.social argues that the best way to improve transit in Toronto is to focus on affordable, quick, and effective solutions spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

New episode of our housing series The Overhead on the @spacingradio.bsky.social feed: from Parkdale in Toronto to the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, community land trusts are growing, and keeping housing affordable in their communities: spacing.ca/national/202... @bshnode.bsky.social

From the Gerrard Square mall to Little India, photographer Peter MacCallum continues his exploration of Gerrard Street East, a street facing significant changes spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

On @spacingradio.bsky.social we have another episode of our housing special series The Overhead. How community land trusts are preserving affordability across Canada: spacing.ca/national/202...

ICYMI Spacing's use of retail - and especially our famous subway buttons - was featured in the TMU Review of Journalism, with quotes from @matthewblackett.bsky.social reviewofjournalism.ca/how-to-survi...

I have been in this building and it is fantastic. Alf is a former editor at the Toronto Star and the first person I wrote for there, when he edited the much missed Ideas Sunday section. He said "write me 1000 words about goats". And I did.

We've often featured photographer Peter MacCallum in @spacing.bsky.social . One of his gorgeous industrial photos is featured in the AGO's current photography exhibit, where each photo is chosen by someone different to relate to the previous one. 1st is Peter's, after is the previous one.

Alf Holden tells the story of the best Annex apartment building that's not by Uno Prii, and the shy architect behind it who died this year. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

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 spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

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...

Alphabet's autonymous-vehicle subsidiary Waymo has expansion plans that includes the #Toronto market, writes @johnlorinc.bsky.social spacing.ca/toronto/2025... #ONpoli #TOpoli #Waymo #drivelesscar #AV

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

#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

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...

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...

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. spacing.ca/toronto/2025... #ONpoli #TOpoli

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...

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...

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...

#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...

The current issue of @spacing.bsky.social on the shelf at Book City Danforth

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 spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

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. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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. 🧵

“Marathons offer a rare intimacy with place, letting runners feel a city’s character through its streets and the people who line them.” @spacing.bsky.social #running

Don’t miss the latest @spacingradio.bsky.social, where @dylanreid.bsky.social, @zahraeb.bsky.social, and @shebuildscities.bsky.social talk about their new books “Messy Cities,” and why not everything in a city needs to be planned: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...

"Messy Cities" is featured on the @spacing.bsky.social podcast, as co-editors @shebuildscities.bsky.social , @zahraeb.bsky.social and @dylanreid.bsky.social discuss genesis of the book and the ideas behind it with host @glynbowerman.bsky.social spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

The Toronto Waterfront Marathon is coming up this weekend. Alex Kharabian talks to the organizers and runners about the marathon experience and what the event can teach us about how we use public spaces. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

A joy of co-editing the "Messy Cities" book with @zahraeb.bsky.social, @shebuildscities.bsky.social and @johnlorinc.bsky.social was the free-flowing conversations. @glynbowerman.bsky.social sparked us to revisit those conversations on the @spacing.bsky.social podcast. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

We have a new episode up, and it starts with three of the co-editors of the new book “Messy Cities: Why We Can’t Plan Everything. Dive into the wonderful world of Messy Urbanism: spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

Toronto, Metrolinx, and TTC need to promote Crosstown LRT aggressively so Torontonians stop complaining about it, writes senior editor @johnlorinc.bsky.social. spacing.ca/toronto/2025... #TOpli #ONpoli

Check out our latest podcast where we get into the nitty gritty of “messy urbanism.” Plus, how some Toronto laneways are getting a glowup: spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

New @spacingradio.bsky.social episode for you! We have the team behind the book “Messy Cities: Why You Can’t Plan Everything,” we speak to The Laneway Project, and we preview the newest Spacing Magazine: spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

On our latest @spacingradio.bsky.social podcast, we speak to the co-editors of the new book “Messy Cities: Why We Can’t Plan Everything.” And we preview the latest issue of the magazine: spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

Long walk on Eglinton for the next print issue of Spacing. Some highlights 1/~ (Do you subscribe? It’s not expensive. spacingstore.ca/products/new... )

Sanctuary was featured in Spacing last year. spacing.ca/toronto/2024...

One of my earliest memories was driving out St Clair to my grandmother's place in Etobicoke past the old Stock Yards. I remember the train tracks, the stock yard pens, the old buildings and the smell. That drive took us past Wychwood were old PCCs were kept, but that's another story for another day!

Once upon a time, the Stockyards District was actually stockyards. Photographer Peter MacCallum shares his photos from that era spacing.ca/toronto/2025...