Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. As the last day of the Central Canada Exhibition, or the Super Ex came to an end, Spacing Ottawa contributor Érinn Cunningham captured a collection of photos. Spacing Ottawa reader, Jason Garlough, comments on a move by the City of Ottawa to pave over natural forestland to make way for an exhibition hall and parking lot....

Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. With the election well underway, Vicki Smallman investigates the mayoral candidates and their potential uses of lawn signs in promoting their campaign. Lawn signs can be an expensive and non-environmentally friendly option in promotion, but are the traditional method in spreading the word. With church congregations moving out of the city, churches are being secularized and re-purposed in order to preserve the site and make use of an otherwise empty space. Kate Wetherow comments on this phenomenon with examples of the kinds of functions that are no longer restricted to the church basement. Alex Bozikovic shares a post from his blog, The Mean City, about the community housing building at 60 Richmond that is both exceptionally green, and pretty to look at. Back from a recent trip to Pittsburgh, Matthew Blackett comments on the tiled mosaics that line shop doorways in the Southside, and promises more comment from the The Steel City.