2025

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Confessions of a First-Time Parade Organizer
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Confessions of a First-Time Parade Organizer

From: Messy Cities

Zahra Ebrahim writes about organizing a parade in her Toronto west end neighbourhood of the Junction Triangle, its route around infrastructure, and the vibrant community celebration that ensued. 8 $0.80 Add
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Conjay’s First Walk Home
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Conjay’s First Walk Home

From: Messy Cities

Tura Cousins Wilson and Shane Laptiste explore Little Jamaica in Toronto’s historic Caribbean community, and trace its history from the 1960’s to its imagined future in 2035. 7 $0.70 Add
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Designing Out Disorder
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Designing Out Disorder

From: Messy Cities

Cara Chellew writes about defensive urbanism, and the ways that attempts to control public space reduces its flexibility, threatening its social and political dimensions. 6 $0.60 Add
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Desire Lines in the Sand
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Desire Lines in the Sand

From: Messy Cities

Wesley Lincoln Reibeling explains how desire lines symbolize the spaces that queer people have carved for themselves outside conventional planning norms in society, and uses Hanlan’s Point on … 9 $0.90 Add
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Disappearance
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Disappearance

From: Encampment

Helwig discusses the disproportionate instances of missing person cases among the homeless population, highlighting a few cases in particular. 14 $1.40 Add
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Dixie Road
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Dixie Road

From: Messy Cities

Fadi Masoud details how suburbs, like the ones on the edges of Toronto, are crucial entry points for immigrants, in spite of these spaces facing social and infrastructural challenges. 6 $0.60 Add
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Easter Homily, 2018
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Easter Homily, 2018

From: Encampment

In this chapter Helwig urges the reader to overcome things such as power, greed, fear, in order to maintain hope within, and bear witness to, our difficult world. 5 $0.50 Add
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Everything is Everything … But the Details Matter
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Everything is Everything … But the Details Matter

From: Messy Cities

Authors Alexandra Lambropoulous and Sami Ferwati argue that urban developments which ignore the local context of culture and socio-political dynamics will lead to failed urban spaces that lack … 7 $0.70 Add
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Fire
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Fire

From: Encampment

Helwig describes how extreme cold alerts affect Toronto’s homeless population, including increased incidences of encampment fires. 18 $1.80 Add
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Flexible Streets
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Flexible Streets

From: Messy Cities

Dylan Reid writes about the accessibility of flexible streets for blind people, and the challenges that blurred boundaries between park, sidewalk, and street pose towards some pedestrians. 11 $1.10 Add
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Foreword
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Foreword

From: Targeting Libya

This chapter argues that Canada’s little analyzed role in the 20011 NATO-led war on Libya reveals a foreign policy that is driven by corporate interests and geopolitical advantage,despite … 3 $0.30 Add
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Globalization and the end of an alternative
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Globalization and the end of an alternative

From: Targeting Libya

This chapter explores the neoliberal agenda of the 1990s and how Canadian military interests aligned with those of the US around the globe while SNC-Lavalin grew in influence. In Libya there were … 14 $1.40 Add
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"He will not last long"
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"He will not last long"

From: Targeting Libya

In this chapter Arab Spring protests in Libya, fuelled by inequality, corruption, and the Abu Salim massacre, rapidly turned into an armed civil war that Western governments both culitivated and … 13 $1.30 Add
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Here
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Here

From: Encampment

Helwig discusses the dehumanization of homeless people in the city of Toronto and the difficult circumstances under which they must survive, including the limitations of shelter and affordable … 18 $1.80 Add
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Homily for Christmas Midnight Mass, 2022
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Homily for Christmas Midnight Mass, 2022

From: Encampment

Helwig highlights the importance of focusing on things such as love, light, and patience, and caring for the world just as the world cares for us. 3 $0.30 Add
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Industrial Land’s Secret Sauce
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Industrial Land’s Secret Sauce

From: Messy Cities

Karen Chapple writes about the potential avenues for preserving existing messy but productive industrial spaces, while introducing innovation districts in cities around the world. 9 $0.90 Add