This is #TorontoDanforth A few people showed up this evening ❤️📢✊🏾 City building is happening here!

For @thewalrus.ca, I write about Canada Post. What do we want and expect from it? And is that $1.57 billion in the red really a loss? thewalrus.ca/canada-post-...

Erasing time at Yonge St. & Lawton Blvd. in Toronto - May 18: 1923 & 2023. 1923 📸: Alfred Pearson / Credit: City of Toronto Archives 2023 📸: Jeremy Hopkin Lawton Parkette was renamed Hon. Carolyn Bennett Park on Tuesday April 7, 2026. #onthisday #transit #thenandnow #torontohistory #jeremyhopkin

Does the Ontario government want to hear people’s opinions about the possible expansion of Billy Bishop Airport? Yes! But only by next Tuesday, it seems. And how easy is it to inform the province of your stance? It’s not easy. Not at all. So this is a thread about the hoops, and how to jump them.

Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Cris Derksen, internationally renown Indigenous musician and composer, in a tragic vehicle accident in northern Alberta, returning from her father's funeral. A beautiful soul and musician. Such a loss.

bike lanes require literal years of public consultation and design review. Fundamentally changing the downtown living experience permanently just needs a couple weeks apparently

Thread: It'll be worth the wait.

Begging my fellow Ontarians to cast off their usual apathy and call their councillors/MPPs about this. Ford is slipping in popularity and there’s a chance to shut this down.

Does anything take it's time/normal course/transparent way at Queen's Park anymore?

Block the waterfront. Open up the waterfront. Block the waterfront. Open up the waterfront. Block the waterfront. With each cycle, invest public money. Lots of it. The Billy Bishop Airport expansion would be a new Gardiner, ripping out the heart of what we’ve built along Lake Ontario for decades.

I found that if you select to go in person it will tell you the offer to do that has expired. "Submission error: deadline has passed"

Does the Ontario government want to hear people’s opinions about the possible expansion of Billy Bishop Airport? Yes! But only by next Tuesday, it seems. And how easy is it to inform the province of your stance? It’s not easy. Not at all. So this is a thread about the hoops, and how to jump them.

CBC Radio Metro Morning interviewed me about plans to allow #jets to use Billy Bishop #Toronto City #Airport, and the devastating effects on human #health and Toronto Harbour #environment: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Multibillion-dollar renovation project underway at Pearson airport. This is what’s being upgraded.So why do we need to expand Billy Bishop? www.cp24.com/local/toront...

Toronto's public waterfront is going to be destroyed by JP Morgan and their proposed tax-payer funded expansion of Billy Bishop airport to allow jets to land in downtown. Premier Ford is expropriating land for billionaires. @nationalobserver.com #toronto www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/08/n...

Despite hundreds of thousands of votes for other parties, first-past-the-post gave Liberals 23 of 24 Toronto ridings. Proportional representation would reflect the city's true political diversity, providing more voices to speak out against Ford's airport plans.

Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.

A deep dive into the devastating environmental effects of allowing #jets at Billy Bishop #Toronto City #Airport. This is the report that the Toronto Port Authority kept secret for nine years. Read @spacing.bsky.social online spacing.ca/toronto/2026... #toronto #onpoli @waterfront4all.bsky.social

We at @spacing.bsky.social are trying to answer Billy Bishop questions our elected federal and provincial officials are avoiding answering. What would it cost, who will pay, and who benefits? Please read and share with people you know who are asking questions. Post this on neighbourhood lists.

On fashion’s big night out, we turned the lens onto the garment, retail, warehouse, and delivery workers who make the fashion industry possible. Read the full piece: bsky.app/profile/mayo...

Nice to see one (retired) Liberal have the spine to stand up against this ludicrous and destructive plan www.tvo.org/article/anal...

One thing people tend to forget is that cars themselves generate heat in cities, not just by the pollution they produce. As @awalkerinla.bsky.social notes, parked cars — big metal boxes lining every street, baking in the sun — are "heat amplifiers."

Be part of the change. Leave room for nature.

Most people would cut this. A patch of grass in a housing estate. No spraying. No “tidy”. Left alone: bees, butterflies, life. It looks messy to some. But this is what a living place looks like. 🌱🦋

Two crossing guards in Ontario have been killed on the job in less than six months (and both since the Ford government emboldened motorists by removing speed safety cameras). There should be a public inquest or coroner's report. This is not acceptable.

Can we stop pretending the federal government is a passive observer here? Billy Bishop is federally run, federally regulated & mostly federally owned. The City didn’t stop jets a decade ago; the feds did. If jets come to YTZ, it will be because the federal Liberal government wants them #cdnpoli

My @thestar.com column this week salutes some real heroes on the streets: crossing guards. Drivers in Ontario are emboldened & dangerous. The guards are precariously employed, disrespected, threatened & a pedestrian’s thin line of defence. It’s absurd we need them yet they’re essential.

PRESS RELEASE: NoJetsTO Condemns Announced Expropriation of City Owned Airport Lands and the Expropriation of Little Norway Park as part of Bill 110. “Ford plans to take our land, pave our park, and leave Torontonians in the dark” mailchi.mp/nojetsto/pre... #topoli #onpoli

"The one thing Doug Ford has been consistent about is his love for jets. VERY consistent, in fact. He wants a jet on the island airport. He wants a jet in his driveway. He wants a jet at his condo in Florida. He wants a jet at his Muskoka cottage," says Councillor Josh Matlow.

when are journalists in the rest of the world going to express a suitable level of outrage over their colleagues being systematically murdered by israel?

📍 Toronto Islands | Shrouded in fog, treetops floating above the lake #Toronto

The airport's ec-dev arguments are completely bogus. bsky.app/profile/alex...

To summarize McQueen: jets present no inconvenience, the pollution is irrelevant, there is no impact on new development, the neighbourhood won't be less comfortable, the airport is the underdog and Olivia Chow started it. Does he think we are all stupid? Is this the best they've got?

10. "Any jet proposal must ensure the area surrounding Billy Bishop is no less livable than any other multi-purpose neighbourhood in Toronto." That is not possible. A 5x expansion of the airport will be a huge imposition.

8. The 50 acres of Ward's and Algonquin Islands are not private. They already include streets, green park space, beaches, public washrooms and restaurants. You can visit them. They are nice. 9. The 210 acres of the airport form a barrier between the park and the busiest part of Toronto.

7. Jets, according to the TPA's own studies, present real health risks. "There's lots of other pollution" is not a reason to allow even more pollution.

4. Two million people is less than 5% of air passengers in Toronto. 5. 1.5 million people visited the Island park last year. 6. If YTZ was to close - which is not on the table - all its business would immediately go to Pearson.

1. Doug Ford started this year's debate, probably to intervene in the municipal election. 2. He's being lobbied by Nieuport, the company backed by private equity and advised by JP Morgan, which owns the terminal. 3. The airport has support from Rosedale, half the media and half of council.

These pro-airport people have no real arguments. Asinine culture-war garbage from top to bottom. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Psst: Friday is the last day to apply for our brand-new BIPOC reporting fellowship in Ontario! Spread the word and send in your application. #cdnmedia #journalismjobs thenarwhal.ca/ontario-repo...

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

At some point even a political party that desires power above all else needs to have some self respect.

Was in Stratford earlier today. There’s a very good stock of turn-of-the-century brick and beam factories, now largely loft apartments, studios, event spaces, offices, and small crafts. Furniture manufacturing was once a big industry in Stratford.

One more iteration of history: History has numerous examples of rogue, settler states wiping out civilisations or threatening to do so. As Indigenous scholars state, the ‘post’ in ‘postcolonial’ is in the future. We, as collective humanity, deserve a peaceful future.

AI minister meets with mining, energy companies on environment impacts — not green groups www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/06/n...

Transport Canada wants to learn how headlight glare affects road users and what vehicle or lighting features may influence how people experience it at night. tc.canada.ca/en/corporate...

had to go see the landback skyscrapers for myself

While we sit on our hands in Ontario, agog at the anti-democratic direction the US is going, Doug Ford godzillas on, smashing and trampling local democracy here.

Whoa! As of today ALL bus lines within the municipality of Copenhagen are electric! Good for climate, local environment, passengers and public budgets. #dktrp #dkgreen via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddel...