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web person, photographer, urbanist
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Damien Moule
2 days ago
I think many people following along the housing discourse know about Ontario Building Code rules preventing single stair and small elevators, but I think more Toronto YIMBYs and urbanists need to be aware of the absurd City of Toronto rules for garbage pickup that swallow the entire ground floor.
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Adam Taves
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Zoom ahead less than a decade and bathouses became a major location for HIV/AIDS prevention education. Anti-sex and anti-safe-space puritanism has a terrible cost whatever the decade. Lives ruined needlessly.
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Cycle Toronto
5 days ago
"Or, better yet, make the political choice to tackle snow removal more aggressively on sidewalks and bicycle lanes than roads. Cars can be mounted with snow tires but people canât, leaving them more vulnerable to winter conditions.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...
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Globe editorial: The slippery politics of snow removal
Torontoâs plodding approach to clearing sidewalks fails the cityâs most vulnerable residents
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-the-slippery-politics-of-snow-removal/
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Damien Moule
6 days ago
"Maybe the city's full" says the man living in a 2.7 million dollar house on Palmerston, while sipping $170 scotch after defeating a multiplex proposal across the street.
www.pressreader.com/canada/toron...
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Oliver Moore
7 days ago
Itâs cool that Toronto puts up ads bragging about its snow clearing instead of, you know, clearing the snow
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Cycle Toronto
7 days ago
Yes, we had a major snow event. Yes, the city is triaging, and many sidewalks in particular still need work. But it's been a week and arterial bikeways are remain unrideable and worse appear to be dumping grounds for snow-clearing. What's the plan, Toronto?
www.torontotoday.ca/local/transp...
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Toronto cyclists frustrated by snow-blocked bike lanes week after record storm
Biking advocate Michael Longfield of Cycle Toronto is calling on the city to communicate a clear plan for removing snow from bike lanes
https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/transportation-infrastructure/toronto-cyclists-frustrated-snow-blocked-bike-lanes-week-record-storm-11820211
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fede
8 days ago
Finally a proper use for AI
antirender.com
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AntiRender - Reality Hits Different
Transform idealized architectural renders into what they'll actually look like. No sunshine. No happy families. Just cold, honest reality.
https://antirender.com/
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Oliver Moore
10 days ago
It seems increasingly obvious that Toronto has made a deliberate policy decision not to clear the bike lanes. It hasnât snowed since Sunday
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Jessica Kant
12 days ago
Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.
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Aaron Wherry
11 days ago
Possibly related:
northpoll.substack.com/p/who-is-usi...
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Shawn Micallef
13 days ago
Doug Ford said it had to close because the roof was unstable. Massive snow dump, roof just fine. Doug Ford lies.
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Alex Bozikovic
15 days ago
The $113-million mess of a community centre I wrote about this week is 100% funded from âdevelopment charges.â It is going in a neighbourhood with zero population growth. In part, these charges are a tax on newcomers to subsidize existing wealthy homeowners.
globalnews.ca/news/1163476...
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Toronto may cancel new community centres, libraries if development funding dries up - Toronto | Globalnews.ca
The city's chief financial officer reiterated that roughly $300 million had been deferred as revenue from development charges dries up, adding that some projects may be cancelled.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11634767/toronto-development-charges-funding-cancellations/
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Cycle Toronto
16 days ago
TL;DR: no (Although bike lane snow-clearing has improved in recent years it's still wildly inconsistent and nowhere near the treatment of major roads.)
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Shannon Proudfoot
18 days ago
I love my profession deeply, but some of them are not covering themselves in glory these days. If a mob boss draws a sharp blade languidly across your palm and says it would be a real shame for you to lose your pinky, your headline isn't "Godfather rules out hacking off finger to settle debt."
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John Michael McGrath
18 days ago
Very good -->
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Yonah Freemark
18 days ago
Where are new transit lines opening this year? Mostly in China & India... though there are major new metro & light rail lines planned for Egypt, TĂŒrkiye, Italy, Canada, Malaysia, Brazilâ& a few in the US. Check out the Transport Politic's annual roundup:
www.thetransportpolitic.com/2026/01/20/t...
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JRUrbaneNetwork
19 days ago
This new Toronto Subway order works out to be over 300,000 INT$/ linear meter of train. Shenzhen Metro Line 5's additional 39 sets of 6 car trains cost less than 90,000 INT$/linear meter of train.
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Jiafei
20 days ago
thank godddd we need regulation on this across the country. Are there other countries which have effectively regulated excessively bright headlights?
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Adam Bonica
27 days ago
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. đ§”
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Stephen Jacob Smith
22 days ago
If it takes mayoral intervention to get a single-stair building with three stories and six units approved in Toronto despite all these safety features (few of which are required even in the US) even after years of warming them up in various forums, current Toronto building and fire staff needs to go
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Reece Martin
22 days ago
Want to know what's broken with transit in Canada? Often the same things broken in other areas, government willing to charge taxpayers huge amounts to keep votes in select communities
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Marco Chitti
23 days ago
You can design elevated stations that are so much better and less imposing when they are above a public space
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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City
23 days ago
One of my least popular opinions in the transit-sphere: I generally think advocates are a little too sanguine about getting people to accept elevated rail, regardless of the merits. But then I see stuff like this and I'm like, damn, you know, maybe I'm wrong.
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Max
25 days ago
Zoning in theory: You canât build housing next to the pollution source đ Zoning in reality: You can only build housing next to the pollution source, also daycares are illegal
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Tom MacWright
24 days ago
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John Michael McGrath
25 days ago
Honestly if you describe how zoning works to normies it sounds legitimately psychotic. Like, daycares are presumptively illegal in most parts of most cities. Hell, until recently in Ontario daycare was not a permitted use *in schools* as a rule.
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Diana Chan McNally
25 days ago
I cannot stress enough that homelessness is caused by policy levers primarily at the provincial level. And AMO's new report shows it: homelessness in Ontario rose 8% last year, with 85,000 people becoming homeless. 20,000 were youth and children. Horrifying.
globalnews.ca/news/1161124...
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Nearly 85K people homeless in Ontario, up 8% in 1 year: report | Globalnews.ca
Homelessness is getting worse across Ontario with an estimated 85,000 people who were without a home in 2025, a new report from Ontario's municipalities shows.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11611244/ontario-homelessness-report/
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Colleen
25 days ago
The Canadian Taxpayer Federation getting upset about a $2000 plaque that wasn't taxpayer-funded rather than the austerity that led to a dead raccoon lying on the sidewalk for days without pickup is so indicative of their whole deal.
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The city thought Conrad the raccoon deserved a memorial plaque. Now Torontoâs best-known trash panda has become a different kind of symbol
A plaque commemorating one of Torontoâs most famous trash pandas has been singled out as an example of government waste, more than 10 years after its death.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/the-city-thought-conrad-the-raccoon-deserved-a-memorial-plaque-now-toronto-s-best-known/article_a7c5087c-e295-4fb9-bbc5-de7045b48bed.html
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Cycle Toronto
25 days ago
Toronto is proposing $132.5M over 10 years for cycling infrastructure. That's down from $175M in last year's budget and $289M (!!) in 2024. Meanwhile Montreal is planning to spend $473.5M. Cities make choices.
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Deirdre ConnollyÂč ÂČ
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Adam Payne
about 1 month ago
interesting reflections from Lou Haigh on Twitter's damage to the very art of politics
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Alex Bozikovic
about 1 month ago
As usual, Toronto civil service, defending obviously unjust systems. Why should costs for transit be paid for heavily by a small number of new residents?
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BeijingPalmer
about 1 month ago
American netizens are devising ingenious puns to avoid the country's pervasive online censorship.
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John Michael McGrath
about 1 month ago
This policy is illegal in Ontario.
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Rudbeckia
about 1 month ago
uh holy SHIT?
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Winnipeg has greater public transit ridership per capita than every American city other than New York!
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Shawn Micallef
about 1 month ago
The high waist for men is back.
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Jess Zimmerman
about 1 month ago
Please enjoy this extremely vintage, extremely niche Onion article Justin just found saved in his college files
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U.S. Techno-Industrial Base Eroding Due To Foreign Competition
WASHINGTON, DCâWith first-quarter Club Rotation Index figures the lowest in seven years, and imports outselling domestic 12-inches more than two-to-one, economic observers throughout the U.S. are soun...
https://theonion.com/u-s-techno-industrial-base-eroding-due-to-foreign-comp-1819564235/
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Cooper Lund
about 1 month ago
I've always thought this was at the root of the American conservative fiction that cities are warzones. There's a jealousy there, and acknowledging that our blue cities are very nice places to live undermines their own choices and worldview, so they just fuckin' lie about it.
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More Neighbours Toronto
about 2 months ago
MNTO member Hana Suckstorff has penned a reflective piece over a small apartment proposal that lost at CoA and is now being appealed at TLAB. On the nature of "neighbourhood character", and what is lost when we apply it only to built-form.
hsuckstorff.substack.com/p/saving-the...
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Mark D. Levine
about 2 months ago
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan⊠* Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.ïżŒ
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Chad Leddy
about 2 months ago
Credit to Ed Zeidler for the idea and
@shawnmicallef.bsky.social
for reporting on it
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Shawn Micallef: Forget Rail Deck Park. If Mayor John Tory wants a big legacy project, he should build a park and housing on top of the Allen Expressway
Detailed plans already exist to build green space and affordable housing over top of the highway from Eglinton to Yorkdale mall.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/forget-rail-deck-park-if-mayor-john-tory-wants-a-big-legacy-project-he-should/article_faa426c9-99ea-54bf-90da-c6388ada20af.html
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Travis R. Eby
about 1 year ago
I refuse to shut up about this: NYC started charging $9 to bring a car into our most transit-rich zone, the haters & trolls predicted doom, but traffic evaporated instantly and hereâs Times Square tonite (even after the holiday tourists have left). For a better future, build transit & price driving!
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Luke Andrews
about 2 months ago
@thestar.com
has a story today about our public hospitals using donations to subsidize rent payments for patients at risk of homelessness. While commendable, how backwards is it that we use charitable giving to fund what should be government policyâguaranteed housing?
www.thestar.com/news/gta/thi...
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âThis is preventative medicine.â Toronto hospital starts $1-million fund to help patients with rent
âThis is preventative medicine,â says Dr. Andrew Boozary with the University Health Network, as research shows a link between evictions and worse health outcomes. The fund will help patients on a case...
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/this-is-preventative-medicine-toronto-hospital-starts-1-million-fund-to-help-patients-with-rent/article_af7209dc-dcb1-4cab-91da-e22954869844.html
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Shawn Micallef
about 2 months ago
Prince Edward Island has far more autonomy than the City of Toronto
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Colleen
about 2 months ago
"The potential to have things seized will send a message that you can't ride on the sidewalk," Burnside said.
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Fatima Syed
about 2 months ago
DYK Ontario municipalities have to give Enbridge Gas, a for-profit fossil fuel company company, free access to build pipelines under public land? In 2026, there will be a local fight to change this. Guelph & Waterloo Region are resisting. Toronto & Ottawa have concerns
thenarwhal.ca/ontario-enbr...
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Ontario municipalities want Enbridge Gas to pay up | The Narwhal
Guelph, Waterloo Region and other Ontario municipalities argue the gas giant shouldnât be able to build pipelines on public land for free
https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-enbridge-gas-pipelines-land/
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Damien Moule
about 2 months ago
Reece criticized this article for ignorance and fair enough but I want to point out the Scarborough Subway is also a disaster. The Ontario Line is a disaster. No one, especially conservatives can get their heads out of their asses long enough to tackle spiralling costs
torontosun.com/opinion/colu...
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BLIZZARD: Toronto's two useless TTC transit lines should have been subways
The Finch LRT was barely open for a day or two when it was snarled due to "weather related incidents." Read more.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/blizzard-torontos-two-useless-ttc-transit-lines-should-have-been-subways
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Alex Bozikovic
about 2 months ago
Ford closed the science centre for no reason, is shrinking it dramatically, and govât doesnât want you to know the truth about this. My column:
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toron...
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Doug Ford shrinks Ontario Science Centre to fit in temporary home at Toronto Harbourfront
The space is a fraction of the size of the original building in Don Mills, which has been closed since June, 2024
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-ontario-science-centre-temporary-home-harbourfront/
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Marco Chitti
about 2 months ago
In any case, if HSR is going to cost a bazillion, does not get downtown or even ends up not being built at all, blame Mulroney. This one guy killed any prospect for modern passenger rail in Canada for the next century for the equivalent of 4 bn in today's dollars. The art of the deal, I guess
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