Sean Marshall

Dec 18, 2023 | spacing.ca | Dylan Reid |Sean Marshall |Mary Breen

There’s no doubt Yonge-Dundas Square needs a new name. Whatever you think about the Henry Dundas controversy, the square’s current name sounds like placeholder, a purely descriptive moniker holding down the fort until something more memorable, with more character, more “there” there, comes along. Twenty years after the square was opened, it is high time it got a better name. And a process was in place to choose a new name.

Aug 11, 2023 | spacing.ca | John Lorinc |Sean Marshall

By Sameer Beyan and Jawad UkaniThe Tenants at 71, 75, and 79 Thorncliffe Park Drive have taken a stand against our landlords, PSP Investments and Starlight Investments. On May 1, 2023, over 100 households went on rent strike to protest the proposed above guideline rent increases (AGIs) at our buildings — a rent strike that is now in its fourth month. Thorncliffe Park is a vibrant neighbourhood with a diverse population.

Mar 7, 2023 | spacing.ca | Sean Marshall

Ever since John Tory was elected mayor of Toronto in 2014, voter turnout in municipal elections has been in decline. In 2010, the year Rob Ford was elected mayor, turnout was 50.4 percent. Four years later, 54.7 percent of all eligible voters went to the polls to elect a new chief magistrate. However, in 2018, just 40.9 percent bothered to vote, and in 2022, turnout fell further, to just 29.7 percent.