Toronto Public Space

💥 We are extending our competition submission deadline to Friday May 30 at 11:59pm EST 💥 Register today for your chance to win cash prizes and have your design featured @Spacing publicspace.ca/competition

The TO the Loo! Toronto Toilet Design Challenge exhibition from the Toronto Public Space Committe reveals innovative solutions for Toronto. @carachellew.bsky.social and Car Martin discuss the new exhibition flush with public washroom ideas. spacing.ca/toronto/2025/0…

When you gotta go, you gotta go. We're in investing $420 million on fixing, repairing, and expanding parks and recreation facilities — including washrooms! Many are now open for the season, with plans for more year-round facilities. Check toronto.ca/parkwashrooms for latest.

Spacing is excited to partner with the Toronto Public Space Committee on the "TO the Loo! Toronto Toilet Design Challenge", a contest to design a public washroom to address Toronto's lack of facilities. Find our more - and consider submitting a design! spacing.ca/toronto/2025/0…

Have you ever had trouble finding a public washroom on the go? Join the TO the Loo! and share your ideas for the Toronto toilet of the future ✨ Win cash prizes and have your design featured in @Spacing 💥 Sign up is open now! Visit publicspace.ca/competition for more details

With just 182 public washrooms throughout the city, Toronto has a “severe” shortage...To remedy the problem, the TPSC recently launched a global design competition called TO the Loo! geared at “(imagining) the future of public washrooms” @TorontoStar thestar.com/news/gta/think…

🙌 Hundreds of #placemaking leaders from around the world will gather, share & organize this June 8th-11th in Toronto, Canada. Registration is now open for the 2nd #GlobalPlacemakingSummit: placemakingx.org/summit25 Thanks to #PlacemakingCanada host @place_canada & local partners

“It’s such a basic human function, and when you take that away from public space, you make public space less accessible for everybody,” Martin told @torontotodayca Check out some coverage of our design competition here: #TOtheLoo #PublicSpace torontotoday.ca/local/policy/a…

Calling all innovative designers and thinkers. Help us design the public washroom of the future! ✨ Win cash prizes and have your design featured in @Spacing 💥 Sign up is open now! Visit publicspace.ca/competition for more details #TOtheLoo #DesignCompetition #PublicSpace

An Incomplete Guide to Ford's Biggest Flops. Illustration by Daniel Rotsztain, text by The Grind editors. Download the map and read each flop here: thegrindmag.ca/fords-biggest-…

What will the four parties do about homelessness? Check it out! There is still one party — the @OntarioPCParty — who have committed to making homelessness a crime in public space. You can still let them know they can and should change their mind: homelessrights.ca/get-involved

Homes not hostility! We call on @oliviachow and @cityoftoronto to work with Tiny Tiny Homes to house our most vulnerable community members. Sign the petition here: change.org/p/homelessness… #HousingIsAHumanRight

CCLA is profoundly concerned that the Ontario government is introducing measures that will criminalize unhoused people living in encampments. Read more here. ccla.org/equality/ccla-…

What’s going on? @JohnLorinc @moore_oliver @thenarwhalca @TheGrindTO @shawnmicallef

Read Section 8 of Private Bill 55, "An Act Respecting Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries." It repeals 13 sections of various bills, some going back to 1874. ola.org/sites/default/… Why is the gov't using private legislation to amend public laws governing a public entity?

🚨 Media is not watching this one but they should. This afternoon at 1 PM, the government's "Private Bill" tabled for the publicly owned, Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries, will be heard at the Standing Committee on Procedure & House Affairs. #onpoli

TTCRIDERS STATEMENT on Plain Clothes Fare Inspectors: "Does the #TTC really expect transit riders to hand over their credit and debit cards to strangers claiming to be fare inspectors?" ttcriders.ca/plainclothes

Great article in @CityNewsTO on the importance of public washrooms featuring TPSC member Car Martin and the folks with Chrohn's and Colitis Canada @getgutsycanada toronto.citynews.ca/2024/11/26/whe…

Our Big Takeaway event is 1 week away! Join us on Mon Dec 9 for a story-sharing event on placemaking & public space "lessons" of 2024. Got something you'd like to share? This "open mic" style event is open to anyone. Sign up for a 5-minute slot today! eventbrite.ca/e/the-big-take…

We're very excited to be supporting this meeting of global placemakers in Toronto in June 2025. Mark your calendars!