For your long-weekend, advanced voting, listening pleasure, we have a special panel episode breaking down important, interesting, or straight-up weird ward races in Toronto.

@graphicmatt.com and @royinori.bsky.social join us to break it down: spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

We have a special election panel episode for you on the @spacingradio.bsky.social feed, focusing on interesting and important council races.

Can incumbents be unseated? Which wards are up for grabs? And why is Stephen Holyday?

All of that and more right here: spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

We’ve got a special Toronto Election panel episode for you on @spacingradio.bsky.social, all about council races in various wards!

@graphicmatt.com and @royinori.bsky.social help break it down for you: spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

"Council should make beautiful, resilient parks central to Toronto’s identity and to residents’ daily lives." Natalie Brown introduces the Park People 2026 parks platform, based on input from 100s of Torontonians. spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

How can we get more in-depth discussion of issues in mayoral debates? In his continuing series on engaging with the municipal election, Christopher Balkaran argues that what is missing from mayoral debates is the follow-up questions spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

Per @albertkoehl.bsky.social's latest article in @spacing.bsky.social, "If bike lanes were actually removed today, the premier would lose his scapegoat. How would he then explain worsening motor traffic congestion?" Well said! #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

READ: “If bike lanes were actually removed today, the premier would lose his scapegoat. How would he then explain worsening motor traffic congestion – an outcome that’s virtually assured given a growing population and his measures to induce driving by making it cheaper…” Via @spacing.bsky.social

In an op-ed today, @albertkoehl.bsky.social argues that cycling advocates need to take over the script from Premier Ford spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

The new issue of @spacing.bsky.social is now out with two - count 'em, two! - pieces by yours truly. #TOHistory

I’m delighted to have contributed to the new issue of @spacing.bsky.social! (And when I get back to TO, I look forward to seeing it!)

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.

Spacing's new election (and post-election) issue profiles the people and organizations that shape the discussion on key urban issues. Available now at the @spacingstore.bsky.social store and soon at other fine stores and subscriber mailboxes spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

Before it was the Bentway and condos, the space around the Gardiner Expressway west of Bathurst was a concrete plant (and before that, a harbour quay). Photographer Peter MacCallum shares his photos of that earlier industrial era. spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto’s bike lanes

Spacing has obtained the RFP for the Ford government's bike lane removal, and it looks even worse than thought.

spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

#toronto #bikes #torontobike @cycletoronto.bsky.social

In the Books category of the Heritage Toronto 2006 awards, Spacing published an excerpt from Cheryl Thompson's nominated book "The Blackface Atlantic": spacing.ca/toronto/2024...

As well as the Public History category, Spacing also profiled the Allan Gardens Palm House Restoration, nominated in the Heritage Toronto awards Built Heritage category. Read Alex Kharabian's feature, "Spreading the Warmth" spacing.ca/toronto/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...

Meanwhile, Nathan Abraha featured another fellow nominee in Heritage Toronto's 2026 Public History category, John Notten's Runway Rivers at Downsview Park. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

Spacing has also featured some of the other nominees in Heritage Toronto's 2026 Public History category. Our cycling columnist Sabat Ismail profiled Krish Dineshkumar's installation "Derailing Dignity", also nominated. www.heritagetoronto.org/programs/her...