ME: team rocket will never steal these rare Pokémon! Not unless they wanna take on me and my fully evolved Miss Cigarettes! MISS CIGARETTES: miss cigarettes

After Toronto has defeated the evil developer of Sneaky Dee's, please join our local community associations fighting against the evil Ronald McDonald House and those damned parents of sick children.

This is, and I can't emphasize this enough, more of a Shelbyville idea.

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Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

This is generously the opinion of 20% of the country, and while it won't be the anarchists and MLs who kill this project (it'll be tories and Block voters, and liberals managing contracts badly) this is a problem with local representation.

This was clearly a sampling error and they only called diamonds in the rough.

The police need $350,000 for 250m of road security for 2 months. Toronto has 5600km of roads. Applying this logic across the city would cost $47 billion in policing. And as far as road safety goes, the number one danger is cars. Which this stretch doesn't have!

Who cares about D&D novels anyway? Some thoughts on why scholars of fantasy probably should, and a bunch more people, too. This is the first essay in my forthcoming Dungeons & Dragons reading series.

It’s surreal seeing it come full circle. The people stuck in the crowded Church Street sidewalk are now free to roam the streets! (At least during the 2 month pedestrianization pilot) Streets are for the people!

I can never get over how powerful the Quebecois brain is. Bsky needs way more Quebec politics.

They wouldn't make the office today because they've made it in the UK and the US already and when they made it in Australia two years ago it wasn't very good. What are we gonna do, make a Canadian office? (I am looking for work, I will write it).

The so-called survey about the expansion of Billy Bishop Airport is full of leading questions, it makes you really wonder if the fix is in to give Doug Ford what he wants. It sometimes seems that Mark Carney’s strategy is to give everyone everything they want. open.substack.com/pub/lloydalt...

I would love if a councillor made this a pet project. Mantas raised a question about it, got an unsatisfactory answer, and went "okay, sounds good".

Do this in Toronto. Repeal the heigh overlay map and unit caps. Let 100 flowers blossom in Rosedale.

I compared my grades to the dumbest kid in the class, and I'm doing about as well as him.

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

I’m running for City Council in Parkdale—High Park. I’m running because our neighbours deserve a councillor who has walked alongside them, fought for them, and knows how to turn community demands into real wins at City Hall. Join me at www.dianachanmcnally.ca.

CHURCH STREET PEDESTRIANIZATION MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY AT TEYCC!! 🥳🎉🤩💅🎈🎊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🚶🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ Thank you to every single speaker, letter, signature, email, pedestrian, 2SLGBTQIA+ person and ally who's supported the project! We couldn't have done it without you all!

It's time for a game of "Guess That Density." Based on Councillor Burnside's anticipation of a "long battle" over "as much density as possible, regardless of the consequences," how many units do you think were proposed on this site in his ward? Clues in 🧵⬇️ before the big reveal later.

Jacob is extremely good on this beat, and I believe instituting Edmonton reforms in the suburbs of the GTA (Toronto probably needs more ambition) would alleviate pressures on the entire country. High prices in Halifax are partly a result of NIMBYism in Markham.

Of course the French are using Linux, they're all about Wine with their apps.

I want whoever replaces Brad Bradford in Ward 19 to run on this, and then do everything - height limits, DCs, lot coverage, work with the province on single stair, elevator reform, whatever - to achieve it.

We need to allow our urban 'single family' neighbourhoods to evolve. Our vision: Accessible, zero emission, bright, social, bike oriented, #singlestair homes - allowed on individual residential lots - everywhere.

NIMBY, annoying: housing for whom? JMM, wise: planning for whom?

(severely condescending tone) Umm let me explain something to you sweetie: [objectively the wrongest information you've ever heard]

nice qube. but is it intelligent

"The system's power comes not from its truth, but from everyone's willingness to perform as if it were true, and its fragility comes from the same source. When even one person stops performing, when the greengrocer removes his sign, the illusion begins to crack" - Mark Carney

ME: (first day practicing Bug Law) May it please the Court— BUG JUDGE: (sternly) Bug Court.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul Blart Mall Cop

Time for the Toronto Heritage Grants to be awarded. 58 Rose Avenue gets $20,000 to repair their dormer. They got $10,000 5 years ago to remove stucco. Essentially the city has decided these millionaires get a property tax refund! Nice work if you can get it. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

”This is a world of compensations; and he who would *be* no slave, must consent to *have* no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”

ME: yeah could i get the impossible burger with cheese. THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity ME: you want anything VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import

I have to travel back in time and stop All Gore from inventing the Internet.

NEW POST While cities across North America struggle with housing shortages, Edmonton is proving that zoning reform works. In 2025, for the first time in history, the number of homes permitted in 5-8 unit rowhomes surpassed detached homes. 🧵 #yeg #yegcc #yimby www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2026/zb...

That being said, Etobicoke, North York, and Scarborough *still* have lower densities than what they thought they should aim to achieve by 1980.

"The chair of this committee frequently says that in Ontario, we zone for buildings, not for people. But when we have a report that says adding new buildings will create complete communities and we couldn't possibly do that in Rosedale, I wonder if that's true."

MOM: So nice of Billy to join us for Thanksgiving! Why don’t you tell Grandma about the new friend you talk to on the computer CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes

Chotiner: So you ate the plums? Interviewee: Yeah, they were delicious. Chotiner: The ones in the icebox? Interviewee: Yeah, they were so sweet and so cold. Chotiner: And to be clear - it was YOU that was saving them for breakfast? Interviewee: Wait, wait, hold on -

Some pundits find it odd that Heather McPherson has a full back tattoo of Gerry Adams, but most Edmonton women go through a Provisional IRA phase before reverting to electoralism, and it's distracting from the real issues in this NDP leadership race.

I firmly believe that there should be a Year Without Shakespeare in which every Shakespeare play in every theater's calendar is replaced by new work from a local playwright. I think that would be good for both theater and society.

FIRST WITCH All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis! SECOND WITCH All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! THIRD WITCH All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter! FOURTH WITCH WHO HAS IBS (guts loudly grumbling, doubled over and holding stomach) Hi, Macbeth.

Isaac Chotiner has invited me to sample some delicious Amontillado wine and I don’t know guys but I think I’m going to come out of this interview seeming like *quite* the wine expert

In many ways, Donald Duck is Mickey Mouse's Vegeta

you guys are being very cynical about this but the real explanation is that bears and Bigfoot are buddies. They like to hang out and do stuff together