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A sculpture of Chinese dissident and artist Ai Weiwei, made by Sean Martindale, which was installed in Kensington Market and at City Hall at various points last year. Photo by {a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/edk7/6001508437/"}edk7{/a} from the {a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/torontoist"}Torontoist Flickr Pool{/a}.

  • Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei may still be unable to leave his home of Beijing, but his works at least are freer to roam. The Art Gallery of Ontario announced this week that they’ll be hosting an exhibition of his work, the only Canadian stop for the retrospective. Ai’s work will be on display starting in August 2013.

  • Data from the 2011 census is out, and map-makers are having lots of fun plotting the latest demographic stats. Here is a great interactive map from Global, showing information by census tract, so you can learn more about just who your neighbours are. One trend, predictably: fewer of us in Toronto are married than in previous years.
  • Many more of us, sadly, are using food banks: 18 per cent more than were doing so before the recession, according to the latest report from the Daily Bread Food Bank.
  • One more study to tell you about today: the Ontario Chief Coroner has released recommendations following an examination of all pedestrian deaths in the province in 2010 [PDF]. Among them: adopting a “complete streets” policy for planning (which essentially means including accommodations for people using all modes of transit, and of all kinds of physical capacity, when designing roads); lowering speed limits on residential streets; and making truck side guards mandatory.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Walter-Lis/571716919 Walter Lis

    How to reduce pedestrian deaths?
    1. more sidewalks (especially in the suburban residential areas).
    2. 40 km/h standard urban speed limits, except as signed otherwise as 50 km/h, 30 km/h, or whatever
    3. ban cul-de-sacs in new developments, and create walkways to interconnect existing cul-de-sacs in old subdivisions
    4. no more sprawling bungalows
    5. bike lanes on all arterial roads (with barriers on roads 60 km/h or more)

    • Anonymous

      Enforcing existing traffic laws would be a good, cost-effective beginning — gun crime may be glamorous and spectacular, but statistically you are ten times more likely to be a victim in a pedestrian accident.

      Get dangerous drivers (starting with our mayor) off our roads with a zero-tolerance policy: you speed, you’re off the road, license suspended, vehicle impounded. You cut off a pedestrian in a cross-walk, you’re off the road. You run a red light, you’re off the road. You get caught talking on a cell/reading while driving, you’re off the road.

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