20 // What was the first video game? No one can quite agree on an answer, but one of the most interesting contenders is Bertie the Brain, a tic-tac-toe machine from 1950. @spacing.bsky.social dove into the game's Canadian origins in this piece from 2014. videogameresearchlibrary.com/meet-bertie-...

NEW(ish)! The latest issue of Spacing @spacing.bsky.social is out, which focuses on Eglinton Avenue - including reviving a piece I wrote about Richview Cemetery for the book 50 Toronto Hidden Gems & Curiousities (which it is!) #TOHistory

A briefly plowed bike lane does not reflect the City's actual priorities, argues @lanrickbennett.bsky.social spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

New issue! Issue 73 explores Eglinton Avenue, Toronto's "prime rib" from east to west, as it awaits its new transit line spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

A look back at the state of cycling in Toronto in 2025, and forward to 2026, by @rzaichkowski.bsky.social #bikeTO spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

#topoli #visionzero New from me on @spacing.bsky.social: Uncomfortable conversations about Toronto’s improving road safety record ciz the mandate of the city’s new “traffic czar.” spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

A point made by @lanrickbennett.bsky.social on Spacing not long ago spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

Uncomfortable conversations about road safety: Council needs to reconcile its Vision Zero and cycling infrastructure goals with those of its new traffic czar, writes senior editor John Lorinc. @johnlorinc.bsky.social #TOpoli #ONpoli #bikes #BikeTO spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

"In March 1955, The Globe and Mail ... identified the catalyst of the new craze as “an Italian device known as the ‘expresso machine’” that had already caused a resurgence in coffee consumption in Britain." By @bobgeorgiouto.bsky.social from Spacing issue 71: scenesto.com/2026/01/10/w...

Photographer Peter MacCallum takes a trip on the Finch West LRT, Toronto's new transit line, and snaps some photos of the experience. spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

This is #TorontoDanforth Photographer Peter MacCallum continues his exploration of an east end street facing significant changes h/t @spacing.bsky.social 2/ spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

Looking for a Sunday read with your coffee? I've got you covered! 📚 This originally appeared in a @spacing.bsky.social issue last year and I've reproduced it for my site! 🖥 And hey, it's about coffee! ☕️

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...