Parking! In the wknd Toronto Star I write about what to do with our underused parking lots & garages. New data shows lots profound emptiness. There’s more efficient & useful possibilities. City is already building some housing, but NIMBYs are protesting just as the sun rises. Ignore em & go harder.

Is it time for a Barry rewatch? Maybe, but it sure would be nice to have it on Blu-ray, you cowards!

Yesterday there were approximately 14,776 Toronto Bikeshare bikeshare trips Most used station: 144 Harrison St (326 trips) Least used station: Gordonridge Pl / Danforth Rd and 223 others (0 trips) Active stations: 989 #bikeTO

Ford has been on a conservation authority hunt for six years. It’s wonky enough that Ontario won’t care (because they seem to care about … not much when it comes to this govt) but profound negative impact. On and on.

Great fall cycling continues across Ontario. Be sure to read our fall safe cycling guide for tips: 1. Always pack your lights. 2. Watch out for obstacles and hazards hidden by leaves (especially close to the curb). 3. Pack layers. And more: www.thebikinglawyer.ca/post/get-rea...

Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Standing By The Perimeter Fence And Screaming For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing Day today all who celebrate

When I retire I think I'm gonna get really deep into conspiracy theories. Sounds like fun.

But it snowed and rained and it's cold and it's winter (though techincal still fall) and NO ONE RIDES A BIKE IN TORONTO. NO ONE!!!

Ottawa 🤝 Toronto protesting in solidarity tomorrow morning. 🚲 ride in Toronto 📣 city hall rally in Ottawa 👇

BUT SNOW!!! #BikeTO

I think Shrek is the true dividing line between Gen X and Millenials. If you were too old to care about Shrek when it came out, and never really watched it on tv, or home video, then you're actually Gen X. If you can quote it, like at all, then you're a millenial.

Zoning Practice magazine devotes an entire issue to *checks notes* pickleball noise

Some random group of NIMBYs, claiming to speak for all of Toronto, is deeply concerned about neighbourhood stores. The spokesperson (frequent activist vs planning reform) lives in a wealthy, deeply suburban part of Etobicoke. These people speak for no one, and ought to be ignored. cot-ra.org

This leaflet was just dropped off at my apartment. My apartment is in a 27 storey building, in a complex of high rises, with over high rises on adjacent blocks, including the block where these towers are proposed. The exact same concerns were likely raised when our buildings were proposed.

Thurs we ride against Ford's attack on bike lanes, bus lanes, pedestrian safety, tenants rights & more! Omnibus bills that aim to distract & divide communities w many intersecting interests we need to all fight against! [https://www.cycleto.ca/bill_60_protest_ride](www.cycleto.ca/bill_60_prot...)

Shellnutt said Bill 212, legislation passed last year that required municipalities to get approval for bike lanes which would remove traffic lanes, had a "chilling" effect that caused municipalities to install fewer of them. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I feel like #Cineplex is five years away from opening single or double screen "boutique" cinemas in underserved urban areas.

I think the only reason people didn't like the movie "Mountainhead" was because they were expecting an episode of "Succession" instead of what they got, which was an episode of "Peepshow"

#mattgoogles Edmund Fitzgerald SiriusXM satellite channel

Please share YouTube links to the most regionally specific representations of where and when you grew up. Like… local sandwich shop commercials. Footage of amateur theater productions. Hyper regional news stories. I wanna see it all.

Pesky e-bike riders delivering food to people should be ticketed... @tps.ca there appears to be a double standard here because stopping in for some Jerk King, although delicious is not actively responding to an emergency. The use of the lights here, while clever, is certainly inappropriate.

Our pals @ontariobybike are looking for your input on your cycling activities in Ontario. Take the survey at: www.surveymonkey.com/r/2025Cyclin...

Make no mistake. The bike lane provisions in Bill 60 are bad for Toronto. But they're WORSE for the rest of the province which to-date has been largely unscathed in Bill 212's aftermath. Kudos to @bikeottawa.bsky.social and advocates fighting back across Ontario. ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-...

How soon after Halloween is too soon to watch Eyes Wide Shut?

"When students are caught cheating on exams, the punishments get stricter — we don’t get rid of exams. So why is it different for traffic rules?" asks a high school student. www.thestar.com/opinion/lett...

Bill 212 at least pretended it would set criteria for new bike lanes. Bill 60 drops the pretense. Cycle Toronto deputed at Executive Committee to warn about the poison pill that would take power away from people and their communities and give it to cars. www.youtube.com/live/Gult3x5...

"Despite Ford stating speed cameras are ineffective, regional data shows that since launching its program in February (following a pilot program that had been in place since 2021), average speeds in school zones have decreased by 15 km/h."

You've got 18ish days to comment on Bill 60, Ford's latest anti bike lane laws! Read our blog on taking action, the importance of identifying intersections w other communities affected & what your local cycling advocacy groups are doing to fight back! www.thebikinglawyer.ca/post/bill-60...

I get into the dumbest arguments on tiktok. One time it was about why you should proceed full speed into an intersection when the cars in the lanes next to you are stopped (this was on a video where someone did that and crashed right ino a red light runner).

I must have taken crazy pills again.

"'Community priorities' masquerading as heritage policy is exactly what Ontario’s Housing Affordability Task Force warned about in 2022. 'Heritage preservation has … become a tool to block more housing,' the report noted."

I’m so tired of Doug Ford being the Mayor of Toronto. 🤦🏽‍♂️ Apparently he forgets that he’s supposed to run the Province of Ontario. Can’t even elect him out, because the other parties, voters can’t get their shit together. 😔 #ONpoli #TOpoli

Remember last year when the Ontario government promised they would "unveil a plan to work with our municipal partners around the province" to develop a "common sense, evidence-based bike lane policy"? Here's their plan: roads are for cars.

We'll be at Executive Committee today highlighting how Bill 60 would also expand and escalate Bill 212. Controlling how municipalities plan and build their cycling networks wasn’t enough; now Queen’s Park is making explicit to Ontarians that roads are for cars. www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis...

Every compromise is more dead & injured people of all sorts. And it doesn’t matter, Ford still banned them. So stop compromising & take a real stand. All this does is make drivers feel more emboldened to drive dangerously.

The omnibus Bill 60 is (almost) impressive how many terrible proposals it's bundling together that will make life worse for Ontarians. And still hurting from their court defeat, Ford believes packaging it as more bikes v cars culture war is a 905 political winner. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Annual reminder that The Cranberries' song "Zombie" is not a Halloween song.

That's a photo of my headache rolling in.

SIGNS! FFS. Thanks to all those fantastic people, orgs and communities fighting back against this harmful legislation. People will die and be injured as a result of Ford and Sakaria yanking out speed cameras.

NEW: Whether you measure it by number of supporters, fundraising ability, or by the size of its militant groups, the white nationalist movement in Canada has never been larger or more of a threat.

I’m sick of sharing this link so help me bury the NIMBY opposition to cute neighbourhood shops! They just put a petition with a measly 209 signatures into the record to kill—not modify, kill—this small step towards maybe having corner stores again Let’s tell them what we want: c.org/fYSGWfvYJv

We have unfortunate news about passengers under 16 on e-bikes and e-cargo bikes in Ontario. It appears, they are not allowed. Read our blog for a deep dive on the law and what you can do in response: www.thebikinglawyer.ca/post/e-cargo...

More tax cuts for home buyers, but nothing to actually build new homes. Meanwhile, this government keeps bringing up more anti-tenant policies. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

So we did an entire additional year's worth of outreach on neighbourhood retail, including explicitly with these RAs and they just deny any of it happened and announce their concerns can never be met because they're specious. www.thestar.com/business/tor...

"Since becoming Premier, Doug Ford has overseen dramatic year-by-year drops in the number of homes being built. In fact, shortly before tabling Bill 60, they backed away from their promise to build 1.5 million homes by 2031. Tenants make an easy scapegoat for his housing failures..."

Ford government is scrapping fixed election dates (which they'd already ignored once) and abandoning its pre-writ spending limits (which were found unconstitutional.) news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...

I have been periodically checking in on the homicide rate in the city and it's been tracking over 50% lower all year. And yet it's the first time where my parents asked me what I thought about some random stabbings multiple times. It's going to be a long year. www.thestar.com/news/gta/cri...

There's only about 2.5 hours worth of plot in a whole season Peacemaker isn't there?

#FlashbackFriday Thx @jnyyz.bsky.social "Political Blind Date" was a @tvotoday.bsky.social (TVOntario) original series from 2017-2022 Two politicians with opposing points of view try to get to know each other on a date to bring to life opposing perspectives on important Canadian issues.

Muahaha! On Sunday I shut down traffic in the whole city so I could run a half marathon and today I conned the taxpayers into paying for an X-ray of my foot! Tres diabolique!