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	Toronto Public Space Committee - Activism
		The Toronto Public Space Committee (TPSC) is a local, volunteer-run, non-profit organization located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that prides itself in defending the city’s public space from corporate and private forces, including automobiles and outdoor advertising.
		The TPSC argues that public property, such as sidewalks, bike paths, parks and squares should be the independent and cultural “counterbalance” to the profit-driven private sector that plagues the city streets.
		Spacing, a 3-times-yearly magazine focusing on issues affecting Toronto's public realm, was originally published by the TPSC in house until it was spun-off as a wholly independent magazine after the first issue.
	activism.ca /wiki/Toronto_Public_Space_Committee (369 words)

	Public space - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A public space or a public place is a place where anyone has a right to come without being excluded because of economic or social conditions.
		Typical differences between a public space and a private space are illustrated by comparing sitting on a public bench and sitting on a seat in a pavement café:
		Public spaces are attractive for budget tourists and homeless people, especially those that are relatively comfortable, e.g.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Public_space (543 words)

	Toronto Public Space Committee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Toronto Public Space Committee (TPSC) is a local, volunteer-run, non-profit organization located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that prides itself in defending the city’s public space from corporate and private forces, including automobiles and outdoor advertising.
		The TPSC argues that public property, such as sidewalks, bike paths, parks and squares should be the independent and cultural “counterbalance” to the profit-driven private sector that plagues the city streets.
		Spacing, a seasonal magazine focusing on issues affecting Toronto's public realm, was the TPSC in house magazine until it was spun-off as an independent magazine in 2005 after it received funding from the Ontario Arts Council.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toronto_Public_Space_Committee (480 words)

	s p a c i n g : : : whose space is public space?
		Spacing is pleased to annouceannounces the release of its third issue -- Work and Play in Toronto's public spaces.
		Public Enemy targets Toronto's light pollution and how other cities are trying to return the dark night sky to urban life.
		Spacing also used the illustrative skills of Julia Breckenreid (Globe and Mail, National Post), Marc Ngui (Zak Meadow, and CBC's Zed TV producer), Marlena Zuber (Boston Globe, Washington Post), Matt Daley (Exclaim!) and Jen Hsieh (recent Applied Arts illustration award winner).
	www.spacing.ca /issue03.htm (408 words)

	Public Spaces Exercise: General
		The Toronto Public Space Committee, a group opposed to these new restrictions, claims that these limitations will suffocate freedom of expression and an essential advertising medium for the cultural and arts community (and people who have lost cats).
		Opponents of the bylaw, many of whom are associated with the Toronto Public Space Committee, stress that as currently written the regulation would endanger freedom of expression, stifle local culture and restrict public expression to those able to afford commercial billboards, the issue is not that simple.
		While we are only focusing on one form of expression in public spaces (signage rather than spoken or performed expression), signage is so pronounced, routine, and embedded in the mosaic of our daily environments that we often fail to realize its influence on us.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~bberry/Teaching/soc394/ExercisePublicSpaces.htm (749 words)

	hear you are --- [murmur]
		After years of wandering the wilderness of Toronto's kitchen tables, tiny bedroom desks and Wi-Fi enabled cafes, [murmur] is moving into its very own office at the Centre for Social Innovation at 215 Spadina Avenue.
		The Toronto Public Space Committee is holding the second annual Human River on Sunday October the 15th and we are looking for people to tell us the stories of Garrison Creek.
		Spacing Magazine, a new publication produced by the Toronto Pubic Space Committee included a two page spread on [murmur] in its inaugural issue.
	murmurtoronto.ca (3514 words)

	Eye - Bare Square dares - 06.12.03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Councillor Kyle Rae (Ward 27, Toronto Centre-Rosedale), who represents the ward surrounding Dundas Square and was crucial in its creation, characterizes the joint venture with area businesses as a "private tinge to public involvement," one that he says brings governance closer to the community.
		Though the square is governed by the same rules and regulations as other public spaces in Toronto, its legal distinction as city-owned allows for the use of private security personnel to enforce the by-laws on public squares (often ignored elsewhere) 24 hours a day.
		Attributing their reaction to a grand conspiracy against public rights seems contradictory, considering Dundas Square is a public space expropriated from a commercial area.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_06.12.03/news/dundassquare.html (980 words)

	Flava Online -- ReclaimingOurSpace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The TPSC was founded in 2001 by a group of activists who were passionate about forming a united front against the commercial displays that sprawl across Toronto.
		The TPSC believes that by banning posters, the voices of minorities would be smothered by large companies that can afford to buy the space to erect posters and promote their products and ideas.
		The TPSC acknowledges that the majority of their activists come from privileged backgrounds but it is the marginalized citizens who need public space the most.
	www.catchdaflava.com /ReclaimingOurSpace (597 words)

	Project for Public Spaces (PPS) \| Our place in the world
		Public spaces are favorite places to meet, talk, sit, look, relax, play, stroll, flirt, eat, drink, smoke, peoplewatch, read, soak in sunshine and feel part of a broader whole.
		Blackett soon fell in with the Toronto Public Space Committee, which was formed in response to the city council’s plans to ban people from hanging posters on all but a few lampposts and telephone poles around town.
		He made public spaces the centerpiece of his administration, creating or refurbishing 1,200 parks and playgrounds, establishing 300 kilometres (186 miles) of bike trails, building 13 libraries and inaugurating the world’s longest pedestrian street running 17 kilometres (10 miles) through the city.
	www.pps.org /info/ppsnews/our_place (3665 words)

	City of Toronto: Newsr releases
		The City of Toronto Policy and Finance Committee unanimously endorsed today a staff report recommending acceptance by City Council, in principle, of the development proposal of the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Task Force.
		Members of the Committee focused discussion on the revenue options of the report; on the report's application to all of Toronto's waterfront; and on the transportation aspects of development.
		Toronto's waterfront has been the focus of many studies, beginning with the 1911 plan prepared by the Toronto Harbour Commission.
	www.toronto.ca /waterfront/newsrel072000.htm (896 words)

	Creative Places + Spaces in Toronto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A Chinatown Banquet is a community-based public art and education project based on the metaphor of a Chinese Banquet raising awareness about the history, culture, and conditions of Boston’s most densely populated residential neighbourhood.
		ITM coordinates a public discourse program publishing and convening events and discussions on topics in the public interest, particularly on issues related to cities, urban economies, and the public good.
		Spacing is a magazine about Toronto's public spaces and urban landscape.
	www.renbox.com /content.asp?id=422 (1340 words)

	SkyscraperCity Forums - Yonge-Dundas Square (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This is the first new public square to be built in the city for years; one might have expected it would be a place that celebrated the city and its inhabitants.
		From the beginning, the new space was billed as the Times Square of Toronto, a clue, if one was needed, that the area would be given over to scads of ads.
		In Toronto, which has spent the last decade hovering on the verge of bankruptcy, public space has come to be viewed as a way to make money.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=179495 (2038 words)

	Toronto Women's Public Space Committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Public space should be for all individuals and be safe and accessible.
		We are opposed to prostitutes using our public space to sell sex and drugs and all the other problems that are involved with this "business".
		We are a group of women who support women in the opportunity to speak and organize around public space issues where we will feel free from male domination and control.
	www.geocities.com /torontopublicspace (653 words)

	Spacing Wire • understanding the urban landscape
		Augimeri is also on the board of the Toronto Public Library (TPL), which, just this morning, approved $1.23 million in cuts to staff, services and programs for the rest of 2007 (from September to December, to be exact).
		Toronto has always been a hard place to sum up — slick marketing campaigns are often criticized for not getting to the heart of what makes this city great and why people should visit.
		Toronto doesn’t have a rich architectural history like Chicago and it seems we’re still searching for a Toronto-aesthetic (though I’m sure some would argue Toronto did have an aesthetic until its best examples were torn down in the ’50s and ’60s to make room for a variety of Brutalist and Modernist buildings).
	spacing.ca /wire (4156 words)

	Eye - Signage of the times - 04.04.02
		That's why a group called the Toronto Public Space Committee is trying to point out how misguided city councillors are in their efforts to regulate small-time posterers, or those individuals and grassroots organizations that put up photocopied posters.
		The TPSC is fighting a proposed postering bylaw and encouraging anyone putting up small posters in coming weeks to incorporate the group's protest message in their signs.
		Others object to the bylaw on the grounds that access to public space for individuals and small organizations is a question of race and diversity.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_04.04.02/news/postering.html (1078 words)

	toronto arts coalition
		This is the Toronto Arts Coalition Newsletter – a newsletter for those who care about the health of the arts in Toronto.
		The Toronto Public Space Committee is certainly a going concern these days, what with the competition for seemingly shrinking urban visual options.
		Space for all the various theatres around town is often in varying supply—mainly because of the cost.
	www.torontoartscoalition.org /newsletter/newsletter.html (478 words)

	psy.geo.CONFLUX: Shawn Micallef, James Roussel, Gabe Sawhney
		The final four months are dedicated to the practical application of the knowledge accumulated during the previous two months with the creativity and innate skills with which they came to the programme.
		Gabe, James and Shawn gravitated towards each other based on their shared desire to blend their love of cities, urban theory, psychogeography and public art with new media and to use technology in a way that is relevant and accessible to people who are not typical art connoisseurs.
		Shawn is a board member of the Toronto Public Space Committee (publicspace.ca) and writes a column about the Toronto Flaneur experience in Spacing, the committee’s magazine.
	glowlab.blogs.com /psygeocon/2004/02/participant_22.html (571 words)

	UK Indymedia - Toronto women's community resist guerrilla gardening to reclaim for peace
		Women's community begins a movement of resistance to "guerrilla gardening" in Toronto as they learn of a male sexual predator in the guerrilla gardening group in the city.
		Women are reclaiming abandoned space for peace gardening and for local neighbourhoods to grow much needed food as communities, women and children experience more hunger and poverty.
		Upset with the guerrilla gardening movement's lack of community consultation and waste of space for symbolic and frivolous plantings, which many women see as militaristic, the women's movement has begun an alternative to the guerrilla called peacegardening.
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2003/05/69117.html (305 words)

	Eye Weekly - Toronto Public Space Committee - 11.17.05
		Since its inception in 2000, the Toronto Public Space Committee has transformed public debate in this city, galvanizing those who are uncomfortable with the rising presence of commercial advertising in the streets and those who feel that the city should pay more attention to making our urban common areas beautiful.
		The TPSC had become an actual, functioning committee, with 11 board members who steered policy and a roster of about 30 active volunteers.
		Nearly all the active members of the TPSC worked on and contributed to Spacing magazine when it launched in December 2003, an instant success that gained attention inside City Hall and outside of it.
	www.eyeweekly.com /eye/issue/issue_11.17.05/features/tpsc.php (1737 words)

	The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century :: Joey deVilla's Weblog :: "Spacing" magazine launch party ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Public space is essential for democracy, yet it seems to be shrinking.
		Downtown, Toronto's newest public square is surrounded by the highest concentration of ads in Canada, and comes complete with explicit rules, private guards, and security cameras to make sure the public expression that occurs there stays in line.
		Spacing is a project of the Toronto Public Space Committee, the activist group responsible for Guerrilla Gardening, Variance Vexation, Art Attack, as well as being the most vocal opponent of Toronto's proposed anti-postering by-law.
	accordionguy.blogware.com /blog/_archives/2003/12/3/7418.html (833 words)

	Eye - Small-time posterers win reprieve - 06.20.02
		While opponents of the bylaw, many of whom are associated with the Toronto Public Space Committee, stress that as currently written the regulation would endanger freedom of expression, stifle local culture and restrict public expression to those able to afford commercial billboards, the issue is not that simple.
		She suggests signing up for weekly email "Postering Posts" at the Toronto Public Space Committee website, to keep up to date on the issue.
		Dave Meslin of the Toronto Public Space Committee, which opposes the city's proposed bylaw that could restrict the use of homemade photocopied posters, says the use of sidewalks for ads should not come as a surprise.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_06.20.02/news/postering.html (822 words)

	TheStar.com - Give us a sign, TTC riders implore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This week, The Fixer was emailed a page of the committee's website, which asks supporters to put their names on a petition.
		There are about 4,100 transit shelters in Toronto, most of which are older, with brown metal frames and rounded or flat tops.
		Steve Johnston, who deals with media for Toronto's works department, said for months the city has been working on lettering that can be attached to the sides of the shelters.
	www.thestar.com /NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1119477014691&call_pageid=968350130169&col=969483202845&DPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAX&tacodalogin=yes (490 words)

	FREE MAX solidarity action in toronto : IMC-SA
		At least two letters were delivered to the South African Trade Office in Toronto today, demanding the release of Max Ntanyana, all other detainees, and an end to repression in South Africa.
		Today's action marked the beginning of a comprehensive campaign in Toronto to build solid opposition to repression of political dissent in South Africa in the interests of global capital.
		Police violence during the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, where a Canadian activist was also injured, is evidence of the ever-narrowing political space in the ‘new’ South Africa and is reminiscent of Apartheid era excesses.
	southafrica.indymedia.org /print.php?id=2143 (730 words)

	Buy Nothing Day warns against consumerism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Besides the zombie mall invasion, Greenpower Canada held a rally and the Toronto Public Space Committee invited the public to participate in an art attack.
		The Toronto Public Space Committee provided art supplies and sheets of paper conveniently shaped to cover advertisements on garbage cans or bus shelters.
		Art Attack is one of many ways the committee aims to reclaim the visual environment that has been sold to the private sector for advertising space.
	observer.thecentre.centennialcollege.ca /news/buynothingday112803.htm (839 words)

	Making The Links :: WTO - FTAA - Water - GMO Foods - NAFTA - Immigration - Civil Liberties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Toronto begins 2006 by healing the wounds of city-wide gunfire from 2005 - Candlelight Vigil and Moment of Silence for Jane Creba and ALL victims of gunfire in Toronto in 2005
		TORONTO — The Our Canada Project -- which was launched today at a Toronto press conference -— says the vast majority of voters support its call for a return to the Canadian traditions of peace-keeping and environmental protection.
		The Toronto Coalition to Stop the War (TCSW), which has mobilized tens of thousands of people to oppose the war — including 80,000 on February 15 2003 — is organizing a rally, march and music festival to protest the ongoing occupation of Iraq and to demand that Canada end its complicity in US-led aggressions.
	makingthelinks.tyo.ca /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index&catid=1&topic=&allstories=1&POSTNUKESID=a9b4ef737e353208f5b4bc9f17b7e697 (10483 words)

	Democracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In the context of modern Western society this means resisting a "nothing we can do about it" mentality. Democracy was intended to give citizens the ability to tackle the issues of the day and take part in meaningful public dialogue.
		Democracy allows women and men to do the grown up thing and take responsibility for their communities; to wield power effectively and transparently; and contribute to the public discourse.
		And I believe history shows us societies prosper and become more humane places when there is a greater degree of public participation.
	www.geocities.com /mydemocracy/democracy.html (292 words)

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