For my business school governance class I wrote a paper about @patagonia.com this week. I didn't have their results in time to include but am reading them now. If you're curious about the real impact of the products you buy this is a good peek behind the curtain. www.patagonia.com/progress-rep...

Back in may 2008, when bloor bike lanes were just a dream, I attended bells on bloor and took a few random photos. Do you recognize anyone #biketo?

This is the greatest story ever told: A person in Hamilton, ON stole a city bus and then proceeded to make the stops along the way, allowing passengers to board and exit freely. The person actually refusing someone looking to board with an expired pass. 🔥🔥 hamiltonpolice.on.ca/news/police-...

+ we wouldn't "need" the files if we actually believed survivors.

I’m so curious about all the ins and outs of the Bluesky alt-text advocacy. The premise is that it’s easy for everyone to do and it helps people so we should all do it… are those assumptions correct?

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...

This is such an important episode. It explains a lot of experiences we have living in women’s bodies.

John Tory was not a very good mayor in Toronto. He benefited from friendly media, no vocal critic, and a good local economy. Many of his decisions and missed opportunities have made life in the Toronto harder than it needed to be. It's not finger-pointing to flag it now; it's how we learn.

Bogoch is obsessed with being on tv and will say whatever he needs to, to be asked back.

Found a navy merino sweater at the thrift for $10... got home and looked it up and it sells for $250!

For those of you in Public Health and Infectious Disease communities who are offended by this, let's turn that around: If bad engineering led to a plane falling out of the sky or a bridge collapsing or the electrocution of kids in a daycare, I'd call that out, too. Address failure. Directly.

At 20 years old, Karl A. Peckol was the youngest crew member of the Edmund Fitzgerald. He would now be 70 years young.

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Toronto snowstorm

There’s a weird error in the Government of Canada job bank. The roles are shared with salary info but when you click through to the actual posting they’re all about 30% lower than on the government website, or put differently, the government is showing 50% higher.

Coyote out for a stroll on roncy this morning.

And so begins the 2025 #Davenportage A 17km canoe carry across Toronto from the Humber to Don River. #ravinerambles #davenportage #paddleTO

Years ago, while watching the incredible transformations of places like Paris, we asked ourselves, “Why are these leaders breaking through the status quo?” After analyzing eleven cities around the world, we found some answers, and it starts with prioritizing impact over power. youtu.be/jHDKb0l4nHg

NYT: Did women ruin the workplace? "A toxic workplace does not become toxic when the issue is vocalized; it was already toxic. The question desires to blame women for 'creating' the idea of toxic workplaces when these spaces were already ruined." www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...

Do kids even watch Wall-E anymore? Or is it too real?

Love music biography audiobooks but it takes forever to listen to them because I keep pausing to listen to songs and albums.

"So many #patientadvocates go into advocacy because we were treated as unreliable narrators of our own lives." Great quote from Gwen Darien of the Patient Advocate Foundation during @fredhutch.org's Value in #Cancer Care Summit #VCC2025 #CanSky

Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot. n.pr/3JKj19D

A couple weeks ago a friend was telling me about someone she knew who had been on maternity leave, and said she had taken "the full year." I said, "A whole year? Wow, what kind of fancy job does she have that gives her a YEAR of leave?" and my friend looked surprised & said, "... welcome to Canada?"

This book coming out in early 2026 looks interesting.

This is a good deal. $20 for all this food delivered to your door. www.oddbunch.ca

Unexpected pleasure of working on an MBA is choosing topics for papers. As part of my governance class I have to choose a number of companies to learn about... currently reading up on Metrolinx's accountability, oversight and structures. Thinking about learning more about Patagonia next.

Too hungry to fall asleep, too tired to get a snack. 🤷‍♀️

Staring at Canada's own gender-based analysis of its budget. Give you one guess at the main beneficiary of all the major spending investments....

hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue. we’ll all subscribe en masse

Your reminder that COVID and flu shots are now available! Get them so we don't all spread it around and kill your grandpa or baby.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

Now that the dust has settled, I’ll say the jays loss is a heartbreak, but it’s the kind of heartbreak that reminds you how great it is to have a heart.

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

The gutting of Teen Vogue, a publication which dared to treat its readers seriously and with respect, is an especially dispiriting day in old media's long, self-destructive forced march to nowhere

The new thermostat seemed like it needed A LOT of access and information and didn’t believe it was connected to power even though it was so I reinstalled the old one.

This is awesome news! Congrats Dr. Morawska! (Thanks @ziadfazel.bsky.social for the heads-up) www.abc.net.au/news/science... #CovidIsAirborne #CleanAir

The blue jays run created so many nice conversations between strangers at a time when we worry we might argue about stuff we really care about every time we talk to someone new.

So I think that’s what I’m grieving the most today. I’m not upset about a banner. Though that would have been sweet. I’m not mad about a lost parade or not getting a new hat that says CHAMPIONS across it. I’m grieving the sudden jarring loss of joy.

Bo Bichette: “I’ll remember this group forever. This group has taught me what a team is. I think it’s probably the most valuable lesson of my career.” ❤️‍🩹 #BlueJays

Still recovering from that heartbreak. Watching an old film and sewing.

"I have watched a million games over the years. I’ve never watched one that comes anywhere close to this one. This wasn’t just a Toronto landmark moment. Given the stakes, it was one of the greatest games of baseball ever played. Maybe the greatest. That probably doesn’t help you much right now." 🎁

Still proud of my beautiful boys

I second Cheryl on this. This team brought this city so much joy and we need to thank them with a celebration. 🎉

Their skill. And that huge heart. Thank you, Blue Jays. We'll see you again next season. ❤️

I think we should have a parade for the blue jays. Look what they did for all of us. ❤️

For those people whose sportsnet subscription isn't working, if you have prime video just get a free trial of citytv and watch the game from the live channel

PSA: if your feed is out, go to www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/...

An Air Canada flight right now