$503,333.33 a day on steak in september alone lol what in the french revolution why are the american people not in the streets daily

David Foster Wallace (2003)

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.

This is good news - @spacing.bsky.social has long advocated that the City should have direct control over street furniture. It's not clear why the City would only take over garbage bins and not other street furniture too, however. www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...

thank christ (secular)

Mercer Union in 2022 - I saw this beautiful, haunting short film by Lawrence Abu Hamdan. It utilizes a unique Canadian-American border loophole - Haskell Free Library and Opera House - to tell a story about violence crossing borders without responsibility - often think of it youtu.be/qipvYWo5B5g?...

bridge in the port lands has some fairly serious damage to its draining infrastructure and also to the benches that were installed on it, I’m guessing from snow removal equipment…

Ford government unveils renders that won’t happen (volume 1) - in a further attempt to justify the closure of the Ontario Science Centre building that’s perfectly fine and operational - built and designed for the purpose - closed due to politics

Did you know that the City is conducting a survey about the future of street furniture in Toronto? The current contract expires in the summer of 2027 and a new vendor & furniture will be picked. Take the survey to have your voice heard. #TOpoli ca.mar.medallia.com?e=90006671&d...

Big day tomorrow. MPs will be discussing (behind closed doors) a draft report on how to best change election rules to throttle a group that points out MPs shouldn't be in charge of their own election rules🤔

how can it be that we have no tools of accountability with public dollars spent at a public agency - $97,000,000 gets withered away to the ether and no one can say why - this is criminal

we've been getting under dealt on winters for years

snow desire lines @ grange park

half a decade since the Doug Ford government put up these “affordable housing” signs in early 2021 at the former dominion foundry to justify their hurried demolition of the site - despite a full rezoning in the form of MZO in fall 2020 the demo’d parts have been a parking lot for years, no housing

“things are winding down in Minnesota”

Israel announces measures to deepen control over West Bank

lily cheng is trying to reinstate parking minimums by asking the province to do it broadly, superseding the city

Toronto City Hall has a viewing deck that is kept closed except for rare occasions - "Doors Open" Toronto - in which you must arrive early and stand in line for hours to even glimpse the views. People have long called to reactivate these spaces, takes a love for the city you're in charge of to do it

anyone seeing any starling murmurations in toronto this year? wondering where good places in the city are

Bad summary IMO. The federal murder charge was dismissed: "U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett dismissed a federal murder charge against Mangione, finding it was technically flawed."

the purpose of a system is what it does

became engrossed with this tree in the summer at greylawn and victoria park few steps, cameras and season apart 2025-08-13 // 2026-01-21

Count Dooku has announced he has accepted the Emperor's invitation to join his "Board of Peace"

sky tower has really changed the skyline lol fully blocks the cn tower from most of biidaasige

Former Toronto resident Jason Slaughter, aka Not Just Bikes, does a video eviscerating the Finch West LRT (by comparing it to global counterparts) youtu.be/Qjp7hqXgInI?...

"internal bleeding"

Quite frankly, it’s outrageous that Mark Carney is cutting Statistics Canada. If he was Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre, I feel like this would be getting a lot more backlash. Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.

dudes been on the job for exactly 14 days and is already delivering on one his major campaign pillars - funded and applications open

interesting how they reordered the language of the statement because of how easily the first line applies to the US -

toronto parks vs the wind

niche question I hope to have answered with earnest and curiosity: why hasn’t the province unfrozen MPAC rates and what’ll the effects be if/when they do

1950-something

somehow still there @jamespmcleod.ca

zohran is already using the bully pulpit really well imo - making fairly major announcements every day thus far

last night 2:10 EST - “not immediately clear what caused the blasts” lol

And in what may become an oft-cited passage, Justice Koehnen determines that • “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” • “Glory to the martyrs” • “intifada” • inverted red triangles • an accusation of "blood on your hands" are not automatically antisemitic.

Toronto runner Mac Bauer (instagram.com/514runner) raced the Finch West LRT on foot yesterday - beat it by 18mins - 39mins of running time, 46mins w/ stops for lights. The LRT & passenger took 1 hour 4mins total. LRT was also 27mins slower than driving which took 37mins

just picked up these great Arnaud Maggs posters on auction created for a long shuttered Toronto store called "Antiques & Things" from the 60s/70s

one of the conversations that needs to be had about local groups popping up that claim to represent, deliver news to people or showcase the city is how they are in part benefiting from a vacuum of other kinds of local commentary and reporting - something extremely wrong with this imo

More and more people want encampments evicted. Neighbourhood groups are suing shelter providers. Now, they're attempting to stop supportive housing in Parkdale. You can't have all three! Please sign and share in support of PARC and supportive housing! tinyurl.com/parcpetition

I’ll miss your glow

If CBSA refuses to explain why it thought a *95 YEAR OLD* retired Princeton law professor and UN special rapporteur might be a threat to national security, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree should

Good news from Germany. A court has ruled in favor of the music industry in its legal battle against OpenAI, saying that the company has violated copyright laws.

Not Just Bikes just did an excellent documentary-length video on a guy named John Forester - a california cyclist who appears to be largely responsible for the narrative that created North America's horrendous lack of cycling infrastructure, and culture youtu.be/pRPduRHBhHI?...

I’m honestly shocked that this story from @globalnews.ca has flown under the radar. Confirmation that Amit Shah, the second-most powerful man in the Indian government, was directly involved in the assassinations on Canadian soil. globalnews.ca/news/1151469...

americans just catching on to the fact that like 8 companies own all of canada

to be fair there is a large number of "major streets" (photo) that currently have huge swaths of areas that preclude retail permissions, so while I'm super disappointed to see these councillors strike the interior neighbourhood aspect, it could still be a substantial change in our very large city

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