Sep 27 2019
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Alek Minassian, the 26-year-old man accused of killing 10 people with a rented Ryder van in Toronto on April 23,…
May 10 2018
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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says that the company plans to put self-driving cars back on the road “within the next…
Apr 24 2018
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Yesterday evening in Toronto, 10 people were killed and another 15 injured by a van driving erratically in the…
Jun 6 2017
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For all I know, Uber’s food delivery service UberEats is a perfectly fine method of ordering food. But the…
Apr 4 2016
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Pedestrian shaming has long been a way for cities to prioritize cars over people, from the invention of jaywalking…
Nov 20 2015
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Manhattan’s rails-to-trails High Line sparked a global trend of turning old transit infrastructure into parks. But a…
May 8 2015
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In preparation for construction work, a routine archaeological dig at the site of Toronto’s former waterfront has…
Mar 17 2015
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Maps seem like the most utilitarian of objects, but hidden in between all that functional information there are some…
Feb 23 2015
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A "large, sophisticated" tunnel was recently discovered near York University in Toronto. Unlike regular, non-spooky…
Dec 13 2014
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Jun 7 2014
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A Toronto local is jazzing up the "Neighborhood Watch" placards of the city. Andrew Lamb's affixing superheroes,…
Apr 1 2014
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London's plan to grow up might go down, Elon Musk's quest to make electric cars cool, and funny anti-Rob Ford ads appear in Toronto. Plus: Learning from streets in Vietnam, Paris, and Manhattan. All this and more in this week's Urban Reads.
Apr 1 2014
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Cities change: skyscrapers go up, row houses are torn down, neighborhoods gentrify, earthquakes destroy. Vintage…
Mar 6 2014
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We'll give you a hint: The first of these 2,300 data points appeared at the intersection of Yonge and Bloor back in…
Feb 13 2014
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December 21, 1936: People dressed as robots at a Toronto children's festival. Photo by Arthur Goss via the City of Toronto Archives.
Dec 14 2013
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Toronto was one of the first cities to be reclaimed, and while the CN Tower no longer dominated the skyline, it…
Oct 8 2013
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Last night in Toronto, Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei presented a new version of his incredible Forever…
Jun 13 2013
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, part of a family of drug dealers, smoked crack cocaine while one of his young pals recorded…
Jan 13 2013
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You'd imagine that it would take quite a few plows to clear a snow-covered highway, but not quite this many. Keep…
Sep 13 2011
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Remember the last time you were at a noisy party — the kind of party where you have trouble understanding what the…