Critics are calling Welcome to Derry the new It show of 2025

With Toronto hoping to win the World Series at home, here's a throwback article I wrote for @spacing.bsky.social about how the City and Metrolinx plan transit needs for big sports events spacing.ca/toronto/2018...

Not the result I wanted, but thank you for the whimsical posts along the way, very spirit of 2011

They could have eaten so many loonie hot dogs during this game

We already have Vladimir in this game, all we need is Estragon

We go live to the LA Dodgers organist

A modest proposal

I hope that one guy got his Gatorade a couple innings ago

This game is now being watched at 10:25 p.m. in LA, this is anti-east coast bias

This game is to baseball what 22 short films about Springfield was to the Simpsons

Yes, I'm still watching! Don't shame me just because it's the 13th inning

I feel like baseball players should be allowed to re-enter the game if they wear a sufficiently elaborate disguise

The NYT Spelling Bee not accepting 'chimichurri' today deserves a note from the editors. 🐝

1) Wonderful donation from the Westons to make Queen's Park North a public space worth celebrating 2) We should be coordinating all of these big public projects below together--rare planetary alignment to do something special for public spaces here www.thestar.com/news/gta/may...

Ontario's Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Kieran Moore states in a press release that the measles outbreak in the province has grown to 173 cases over past several weeks. "Vaccination is the most effective way to limit the spread of measles and protect yourself and your loved ones," he says.

Did Conan O'Brien just say Denis Villeneuve was nominated for best director? Because he wasn't. 🙃

My personal rankings for Best Picture nominees: 1) Conclave 2) I'm Still Here 3) A Complete Unknown 4) Anora 5) Dune: Part Two 6)The Brutalist 7) Nickel Boys 8) Wicked 9) The Substance 10) Emilia Perez

What a decison to publish a NY Mag-style approval matrix, except for which rights are valued

Another car blocking a series of streetcars in Toronto, this time heading west on Gerrard, east of Greenwood.

It also implies that every function of government is a joke, whether it's scientists studying cancer, technicians that keep the nuclear arsenal safe and secure, or people who maintain safe drinking water.

Toronto needs to grow past trotting out the NIMBY greatest hits in every housing debate if it intends to be serious about tackling housing affordability, I write in my latest @torontotoday.ca column www.torontotoday.ca/local/opinio...

For those of you on the #Onpoli campaign trail, I just spotted Green Party Leader @mikeschreiner.bsky.social at the Raptors game (upper bowl, a man of the people)

Giorgio Mammoliti really missed his moment to champion his long-running "world's tallest flagpole" idea

Wile E. Coyote's brand loyalty to the Acme company is remarkable, you don't see that these days

@fleischmarket.bsky.social You had a really good run www.instagram.com/reel/DFwsTK1...

#topoli #onpoli Today on @spacing.bsky.social: Despite all the transit promises in the elxn & $975m in new funding for Waterfront Toronto, the Queen’s Quay East LRT is still an orphan. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

The photo that accompanies this story suggests Feathers McGraw-level evil and cunning

Grimace ending his policy of Irish Republican abstentionism is a big deal, wow

Lots of Babsocks still available at the local Purolator location

Before Olivia Chow was elected, Toronto had a Conservative mayor for 19 of the previous 26 years

Now is the time for Olivia Chow to campaign to get other politicians to make city priorities their priorities. She may not get a better chance. www.torontotoday.ca/local/opinio...

There's a rare opportunity for Mayor Olivia Chow to make Toronto and municipalities a priority. In my first column for @torontotoday.ca, I make the case that she ought to launch a campaign to rally other political leaders behind those needs www.torontotoday.ca/local/opinio...

I'm giving a talk on Tuesday night (January 28) for the Riverdale Historical Society on a trio of long-gone Toronto newspapers (with a sidetrip into at least one other). 7 pm, Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E, $5. See you there! #torontohistory #history #newspapers

Many worthy nominees for this Oscar category, but the real winners are the popcorn lovers 🍿

How do property taxes in Toronto (and Ontario) actually work? For City Hall Watcher I update my explainer on the most poorly understood tax for 2025 toronto.cityhallwatcher.com/p/how-proper...

Big missed opportunity to coordinate several huge projects in the same area--Old City Hall, NPS, new courthouses, Ontario Line station, University Ave pedestrianization and mega-Queen's Park project. The right effort could revolutionize public and civic space downtown.

Instead of a monkey, it would have been more appropriate to portray Robbie Williams with this guy in BETTER MAN

Heat cancel culture

but I didn't think the leopard would eat *my* face

I don't mean to make people too jealous, but I'm now the proud owner of a Colonel Kernel Christmas tree ornament cc @jessehawken.bsky.social @willsloanesq.bsky.social @hertzbarry.bsky.social

Part of what makes SmartTrack frustration so acute is the problems were widely identified. Beginning in 2014, journalism from @oliver-moore.bsky.social , @jpags.bsky.social, Daniel Dale, @benspurr.bsky.social, Matt, @swanboatsteve.bsky.social, myself and more covered all of this! No excuses here.

Just like in Canada, the subsidy extended to the postal service ensures coverage of unprofitable routes and disproportionately benefits small businesses.

Very sorry to hear about journalism layoffs at TVO, where they've been producing smart work throughout the province. Lots of good people.

I saw all three this weekend, go contain multitudes, friends

"Actually, it's pronounced Ga-ladiator II"

Rainbolt Geoguessr, but for menswear

what an eco chamber