Love this from the Elementary Teachers of TO, responding to the Ford crony takeover of our school boards! Need a Trustee? Better Call Paul! 😂 #topoli #onpoli #onted

This will kill people. Doug Ford is going to kill people. So we’re clear. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

This is the thing. People don't advocate for speed cameras because they want speed cameras as a first option. They advocate for speed cameras because every other effective option to make streets safer are effectively disallowed.

Thanks Danforth-Kingston 4 All for organizing today's "Just Bluffing Around" ride to help show support for bike lanes on Kingston Road! My blog post about the ride is now up for your viewing pleasure! #BikeTO #ScarbTO #TOpoli #VisionZero www.twowheeledpolitics.ca/2025/09/just...

Panic at the Silent, Virtual Disco

Ana Bailão has been fighting for housing forever. She got basement suites & laneway homes through Council before @moreneighboursto.bsky.social even existed. She worked with Tory and Perks to legalize rooming houses citywide. Build Canada Homes has a huge amount of work ahead. She is a great choice.

Ever wanted to attend or participate in a City of Toronto planning consultation but didn't know where to start? We've got you covered with a 101-style video to show how easy and non-intimidating it is. And if you want more support, send us a ping on our Discord or social media accounts.

Decided to go do some on the ground reporting for the Scarborough-Rouge Park by-election.

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

Report: At this point we are just trying to figure who Canadian Parliament WON'T give a standing ovation to

With credible reports that there will soon be a major increase in federal immigration enforcement activity in Chicago, I want to once again highlight the Family Support Network - a rapid response resource run by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR). Use it if you spot ICE.

This seems weirdly unsustainable at first, but it's OK because we're building a Dyson sphere around the solar system to host it.

New research from @pewtrusts.org finds that new housing slows rent growth most for older, more affordable units, and not allowing more homes to be built—even for high-income residents—pushes up all rents. www.pew.org/en/research-...

Search For Public Restroom An Epic Ordeal Of Alienation, Humiliation, Human Cruelty https://theonion.com/search-for-public-restroom-an-epic-ordeal-of-alienation-1819566549/

Low-density zoning near expensive transit projects might work well to appease the NIMBYs, but it’s an economic disaster for both cities and transit agencies.

Apropos of nothing, a reminder that German stock markets kept climbing in an almost uninterrupted fashion in the run-up to WW2. Investors are really, really bad at pricing serious institutional and political risks.

I found this paper very interesting: "Democracy is also more than elections; it is a set of values, norms, and other participatory mechanisms that must be continually safeguarded." interactives.lowyinstitute.org/features/dem...

Even if you believe Carney is playing 4D chess or have some esoteric take on tariffs, the fact is Carney misled voters Carney said one thing, then he did the exact opposite And not just on some obscure policy – on the single biggest issue in one of the biggest elections in Canadian history

what the hell, this was an actual thing?! dutchreview.com/culture/dutc...

Lovely music for the times. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Canada has a problem: we don’t own the data that informs our biggest policy decisions. Writer @vassb.bsky.social explores why we’ve come to accept a system where private platforms hoard core economic intelligence and treat it like business as usual: thewalrus.ca/canada-labour-data/

The Canadian govt should acquire the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, using NPR & PBS as platforms to reprogram Americans and convince them to join #Canada Heritage Minutes, Littlest Hobo, Anne of Green Gables, 30 year old reruns of Rick Mercer sitcoms, NFB animations, JFL gags…

Has Toronto found its out-of-the-box solution for buildings casting shadows? Some may say that this is an overcooked solution to Toronto's ziggurat terracing, but now SFH neighbours can't complain about their poor overshadowed tomatoes!

Ah hah! They were lai see pockets!

It's not you, Canada (okay it's a little you), it's us. "Canada isn’t in a housing starts slump—Ontario is"

That looks suspiciously like a "lai see" red envelope being used to hold the bribe. Lucky money indeed!

Did you see this? Unions across Canada backed up the flight attendants...and they won! Air Canada had to give them a deal! That's what happens when workers stick together. Don't miss out on the next big win – join Workers Together! share.canadianlabour.ca/s/f2dOmzCO #cdnpoli

If you’re keeping score at home, Svalbard is where they built the Global Seed Vault — a storehouse of seeds humanity needs to survive in the event of a global catastrophe.

Reporter from The Local is looking for Scarb Rouge residents & voters for their opinions on the upcoming by-election. Contact @rebeccaga0.bsky.social if this is you!

Remniscent of Google breaking the effectiveness of their own flagship search product for "business goals"

Relying on external tech advice is a symptom of decades of gutting technical, subject-matter and management expertise in the public sector. That the advice about AI opportunity/demand will now come from a technology *vendor* generates a real pickle for future procurement.

Waiting for the point when the WH spokesperson says, "This administration looks forward to the Rapture, as all believers do, which is why we're relocating all males named Jesus to Israel."

"Housing wonks waited to see whether the Ford government would match its pro-housing rhetoric with policy action. And waited. And waited." Unfortunate advocates like @cbailey6.bsky.social ran through months of witty, themed posts on an MTSA-watch until this finally happened last week.

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

THEY ALSO SEEM TO CARE ABOUT THE “NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTER,” BUT I’M A “CHARACTER” WHO LIVES IN THE “NEIGHBORHOOD” AND THEY DONT LIKE ME AT ALL. SAD!

I’m gonna say armed troops from red states descending on a blue city is just a few inches — or maybe one exchange of gunfire — short of a civil war’s opening stages.

hundreds of national guard troops stationed around union station, the white house and the capital to do...what exactly? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/u...

the message from the white house is that you live in a city run by people the president doesn't like, you will be occupied like you are an enemy of the state.

A caveat: This is not going to "add 1.5 million homes over 25 years." Toronto only has 1.3 m homes right now. It permits more homes. This matters because it reduces land values for apartments and improves affordability, even if not all of those homes are built. www.lewis.ucla.edu/research/bui...

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mad king (complimentary)

Great way to relate the impact of a car crash with something people can directly understand! buff.ly/ANAJuP6 #yegbike

Bruh

Coincidentally, the CivicTechTO community is holding a conference THIS week at UofT St George campus! Come to Civic Spark if you're interested in the future of our public life. Join fellow community organizers, technologists, public servants, mutual aid networks, researchers, and designers.

How anti-Communism, the John Birch Society, and neo-segregationism gave us the NIMBY movement — and how saying "yes" to new housing is a winner political movement. [from the Bug-eyed and Shameless archives] www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/the-wonder...

Populists promise easy answers and then can't pivot when things don't work. There is no willingness to implement anything that requires effort. Blaming municipalities gets old fast, especially when Ford has demonstrated that he's willing to interfere on everything other than housing.

Not that I'm particularly fearful yet of Toronto going down the fash imposed martial law pathway. But you've got to figure that Jamaican patties have pretty awesome aerodynamics.

one of the easiest and worst functions of online culture is to serve you back your own despair

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.