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Elected officials shouldn’t have the power to vote against traffic signals or lower speed limits. I don’t think this because I don’t believe in democracy; I think this because I believe in evidence-based placemaking & city-building. Safer streets shouldn’t be situational or left up to a vote.

Doctors, pharmacists urging Ontarians to get flu shots as province sees rise in cases https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-flu-shot-province-sees-rise-in-cases-9.6977916 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter

The high standards of the Royal York Drifters have gone downhill I guess. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

I like looking at apartment/condo floor plans. Here's a 1-bedrm in midtown Toronto that's like a lot of others. Where the heck do people keep their clothes? I looked at the building's larger units (even 3-beds) & same issue.

Sir Frederick Banting wasn't just the co-discover of insulin. He was the youngest recipient of the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine, an accomplished artist, and a decorated war hero. This is the story of one of the greatest Canadians. 🧵 1/12

In my brief block by block encounters with crossing guards I see how drivers menace them, inching towards. What a whole shift must be like. The Premier and other politicians, Toronto Police, other forces, have taken the lid of all this. A death drive amid other bs rhetoric of public safety.

A man (a crossing guard!) is dead at the hands of a dump truck driver, and the Mayor is here to tell us that people walking and cycling have "a role to play in keeping our community safe." No, Andrea. The dump truck driver has to not kill people, and you have to not let him kill people. That's it!

Nostalgia about neighbourhood retail is not a strategy — the City's heavily compromised decision on neighbourhood retail may result in no new neighbourhood retail, writes senior editor @johnlorinc.bsky.social. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

Join Parents Against Speeding and FFSS in a literal marathon walk (42km) in circles around Doug Ford's constituency office. We're going to show him that we're in it for the long haul, and this fight is NOT over. Join us for a few laps, or a few hours. 964 Albion Rd Etobicoke Anytime between 12-8pm

#UofT’s central steam plant has been a cornerstone of campus operations since the 1950s, now heating almost 100 university buildings & local landmarks such as the Royal Ontario Museum. ⚡️ uoft.me/bZY

I would like to challenge this assertion by an Eastern Passage resident, she said: “It’s not rocket science: you don’t put high-density units in between single-family dwellings. That’s not good city planning.” I would argue that it is, and a mix of densities is good for cities & their residents.

Right? that's the incoherence at the root of this. Councillors are simultaneously against this because the stores will be too popular and drive too much activity while at the same time being financially unviable.

Holyday relying on a 1933 theory of neighbourhoods does not surprise me. He's an embarrassment.

When we’re doing city planning, why aren’t we asking simpler questions? Like “How could your life be easier if your city or community were different?”

Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star

"People are frustrated being stuck in traffic. I get it. But, picking fights with cyclists and other vulnerable road users isn't part of the solution.” cc: @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social @ffsafestreets.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead. Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

A growing percentage of young women no longer see a future in the U.S. trib.al/aWZWjWn Roughly 40% of women aged 15—44 said that they would permanently move abroad if they were able to, according to a 2025 Gallup Poll. That included 45% of single women, and 41% of married women.

Come hear me talk next week in the Beaches! #TOHistory

i don't know what it will take for planners to understand that noise pollution, air pollution, and unsafe streets are not the sorts of places we should be focusing dense and affordable housing this isn't even a major arterial - and look how loud it is midday on a friday.

Councillor Myers: "Just so I have it clear, the city is paying $1.5 billion for these GO Train stations. Who's going to own these assets when they're complete?" The province, says staff. Myers: "So the City of Toronto has paid $1.5 billion to build assets for the province." Staff confirm, yes.

Bravo calls SmartTrack a "back of the napkin" plan where "somehow, the people of Toronto were convinced that we should put municipal tax dollars, from the property tax base, to subsidize and fund a provincial transit expansion program ... just to fulfill a campaign promise by our former mayor."

WTF NB Power - why are you allowing a US company to do this? 🤬 A proposed data centre in the Lorneville area of #SaintJohnNB would gobble up the equivalent of almost half the electricity N.B. Power will get from a controversial natural gas plant in the Tantramar area. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Tree-ring dating has revolutionised our understanding of the age of ancient buildings. A house in Norwell (Notts) which was thought to be 18th century turned out to be 14th century. To find out more about dendrochronology please join us on 25 Nov: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...

Oh, good. If there’s one thing I want my province to be, as gambling threatens to ruin professional sports, it’s more of a gambling hub. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Loblaw reports Q3 profits of $794 million, up from year ago. Isn’t that the news we want to hear while we struggle to buy groceries?

Close to half of Toronto households rent & we finally have a mayor who cares.

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

"There's always going to be debate in city planning. Always. But there's good faith debate, based on disagreements, and then there's deliberate lies and misinformation." Print article ICYMI of my @abcnews interview on the truth & lies about “15-Minute Cities. Still REALLY important.

Excellent:

Lincoln

Women were excluded from clinical trails until 1993 in the U.S. and 1997 in Canada. @namshine.bsky.social talks with @docmcohen.medsky.social (@queensuhealth.bsky.social) about excluding women has shaped medicine and harmed women’s health, on (MIS)Treated: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...

Bellwood, Illinois, just west of Chicago.

The folks at IntegrityTO have finally weighed in on neighbourhood retail with AI generated scenes of creepy faceless loiterers congregating outside a 7-11… Mind you the recommendation (that didn’t make it past committee) was for *corner lots*. They can’t even prompt right.

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

BUT SNOW!!! #BikeTO

We need a borough system so that the old city isn't continuously held hostage by inner-suburb councillors. Should also keep every single thing from going to whole council. Something like Montreal or NYC?

Yes it's wintery & chilly today, but almost all of us can get warmer with more heat or layers. The extreme heat of summer is so much worse, accompanied by humidity & -- increasingly -- smoky air. Welcome winter! ❄️

From article: - prov provided 78% of operating revenues for Ont universities in 1987-88 - by 2001 was 36%; in 2022 <25% - result: lowest per-student funding of any prov in Canada

Just shovelled snow in front of my house and also shovelled in front of our elderly neighbour’s house. This is a reminder to help each other out please everybody. (and also a reminder to my other neighbour that I am older than you.)

the weirdest thing about this is Musk specifying "delights in being mean" as a bad thing, when he and his entire cult have only ever felt anything close to joy when they're bullying, mobbing and abusing people

Especially when there are cats involved.

Windows flood light into a 17th century convent hospital, now Ghent city museum. #WeekSforShadows #AlphabetChallenge 📷

"Canadians do not live in a pretend world. They know there is no tax on food. They know which party always votes against affordability. Against dental care, pharmacare, childcare, basically anything with the word "care" in it." - Caroline Desrochers. #cdnpoli

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Join us Wednesday AM as we ride against Ford's attack on bike lanes, bus lanes, pedestrian friendly neighbourhoods, tenants rights & more! This omnibus bill aims to distract & divide communities with intersecting interests. We need to unite & ride against Bill 60! www.cycleto.ca/bill_60_prot...

"At this moment of crisis, Carney needs to invest in projects that will help create the jobs of the future and truly build Canada up, not burn it down." Former Mayor, David Miller

I’m getting ready to co-teach our new course on Canadian architecture. So, What *is* Canadian architecture? Well, it’s a long story. Or rather, *many* long stories.

Cladding going up on the Frank Gehry-designed “Forma” in downtown Toronto by developers Great Gulf and Dream.