The developers of the Bloor-Duff project won an MPAC appeal. Result: Bloordale BIA owed them $200,845 after already spending $157,000. The city denied a repayment plan, forcing cuts to every neighbourhood line item. All for a “vibrant” ‘hood. #TOpoli #Bloordale

Fourteen years after coming across this bike, I met the owner! open.substack.com/pub/sharikas...

They're doing a community consultation without letting the community know they're doing a community consultation.

I’m surprised the CN Tower documentary didn’t mention Tour of the Universe! share.google/f1GUqCXWJxEW...

I asked three chatbots what I've done that they'd never do in a million years. sharikasman.substack.com/p/what-a-cha...

I made a Substack post and here it is. open.substack.com/pub/sharikas...

The Museum of Bad Gifts will be doing a Zoom presentation tomorrow evening for VocalEye, an organization for the blind and low vision community, April 15, 9:30 pm EST. Anyone is welcome to attend. Sign up here: www.vocaleye.ca/events/zoom-...

It took one month and four days for a single greeting card mailed at the post office to get from Toronto to Manhattan—HOW??!?!

A desire line in the exact place where we had a north to south path through Bloordale Beach, and prior to that the exact north to south path through the school parking lot. Some things never change! Bloor to Dufferin Mall! The should’ve just paved it!

Bikeshare van thinks it’s a bikeshare bike, or else why would it be in the bike lane?! #identitycrisis

This sideways map shouldn’t be sideways

The @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social show was a lot of fun! I'm so glad the beach made it in there. Thanks to CT5555 for the Wikipedia entry on Bloordale Beach. Photo by @bananafitz.bsky.social.

Since coming back to Toronto, I've only heard completely bonkers stories about how the city is going to shit.

Don’t you love Toronto’s infinite brown and grey atmosphere.

Car-shaped bike parking in what would normally be a car’s parking spot

I knew palomita in Spanish was popcorn, but I’d never thought about how it also means small pigeon or dove and now I find out it also means checkmark!?

Tomorrow I'll do basketweaving!

Lots of bikeshare stations are closed around Centro in Mexico City today, which was inconvenient for me this morning. Now I find out the closed stations are because of a Shakira concert!?

Bloordale Beach is one of the quirkiest CanCon Wikipedia pages, according to @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social. Thanks to my mom for spotting this in Toronto Life, and for sending photos.

CDMX got so popular, thought I'd try GDL this time. But had enough of GDL, so I made it to my new temporary home in CDMX today by 2 p.m. (goodbye, GDL!) Within 3 hours I ran into a couple I know from Toronto. I've spent 3 months here across 4 trips over the past 11 yrs—never run into anyone before!

I'm lucky to have made it across the city to my new AirBnb in a difficult-to-get, pricey Uber yesterday morning before Uber shut down, before the city shut down. Taxis and Ubers are still not running in Guadalajara. Super quiet here.

Here’s Guadalajara right now from not a news station

Valentine’s Day and Family Day in one weekend? How nauseating!

I've swapped snowbanks and windchills for freight trains honking at every street-level crossing 24/7, a cowbell announcing the garbage truck between 6 and 7 am daily (minus Sunday), a bit of bonkers daytime crime right in front of me, nightly fireworks sounds w visuals absent, and T-shirt weather.

Brunch is only a question, never an answer!

I thought this was the 83 bus stop since it used to be when I was there just 3 weeks ago. The yellow stuff makes it look like a bus stop. Google thinks it’s a bus stop. It looks like a bus stop. It is not a bus stop anymore. I only know this because the bus didn’t stop.

What a show! torontolife.com/culture/the-...

Let me know if there’s anything I should know about! Weird details, little-known facts, unusual west end stuff, things everyone needs to know about…

I embroidered a couple of local (Bloordale/Bloorcourt) characters for this show. You’ll never guess who! The show opens tomorrow.

If everyone claims their winning items from the Bad Gift Auction at the Museum of Bad Gifts, we’ll have raised $370 for the Daily Bread Food Bank. $370 from bad gifts! Imagine that!

Yesterday was definitely the busiest day at the museum.

Is he finally turning on the stoplights at Dupont and future Wallace Emerson CC or just playing with the wires?

I like this post and I’m sharing it. Thanks to Jode Roberts for this!

Last day for the Museum of Bad Gifts!

This weekend is your last chance to see the delightfully whimsical Museum Of Bad Gifts at Northern Contemporary. www.instagram.com/museumofbadg...

Last three days! Come by! 420 Roncesvalles Ave.

I went to the Museum of Bad Gifts and all I got was this lousy T shirt/...

Thank you, Toronto Sun! Come by 420 Roncesvalles for the last three days of the Museum of Bad Gifts.

🇨🇦 'The Museum of Bad Gifts' opens in Toronto People attend the opening of the Museum of Bad Gifts in Toronto, where local artists and community members display notoriously bad gifts they have received over the years.

🇨🇦 'The Museum of Bad Gifts' opens in Toronto People attend the opening of the Museum of Bad Gifts in Toronto, where local artists and community members display notoriously bad gifts they have received over the years.

Friends! There's a Museum of Bad Gifts in Toronto! www.museumofbadgifts.com

I’m so glad to see local installation artist, multiples maker and all round Bloordale booster hit a goldmine with the Museum of Bad Gifts. Go and see it at Northern Contemporary Gallery at 420 Roncesvalles until Jan 4th from 12-6 (except New Year’s Day).

Thanks so much to @jotauzeta.bsky.social for coming by the Museum of Bad Gifts on opening night to get footage for AFP. Here's the museum coverage from Belgian's French-language public broadcaster. www.rtbf.be/article/la-m...

Global came back yesterday, after their fun first visit to the museum last year during our inaugural show. The museum is closed today but will be open again tomorrow. globalnews.ca/video/115928...

Oh, look, the Museum of Bad Gifts on Asia One News TV. I’m at the gallery until 3 today and back on Tues. Come and visit me 12 to 3 whenever the gallery is open! youtu.be/T8Qu2fjCiaY?...

Agence-France Presse makes the news go all over the place—India Abroad reported about our museum. youtu.be/HbHxhVmP41o?...

Agence-France Presse came to the opening of the Museum of Bad Gifts the other night. Come by! We’re open until Jan 4 (closed Monday and Jan 1), 12 to 6 pm, at Northern Contemporary Gallery, 420 Roncesvalles. youtu.be/3Td9JFWMzDM

The new tunnel under the Allen at the station formerly known as Eglinton West (Cedarvale!) is a crazy maze! It’s quicker to cross at street level.

Why get rid of the CafeTO sign when they would just have to put it up again next year?

A great selection of books!