NEW! For Toronto Today @torontotoday.ca I look at the rise of Nelvana, including its role in introducing an iconic Star Wars universe character. #TOHistory www.torontotoday.ca/local/histor...

1) THREAD: Congratulations to the 2025 AL East Champion Toronto Blue Jays! And now, for your reading pleasure, a thread of stories I've written about the Jays over the years... #bluejays #torontohistory

I was sitting next to a stranger: a wildly enthusiastic 60-year-old Haligonian at his first ever Jays game. He just kept telling me over and over again: This. Is. Awesome.

Magic Number: ZERO

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THE ALEJANDRO KIRK GAME!

Just watched a grand slam from the nose bleeds

When they tore down the original Woodbridge train station, my dad bought it for a dollar, and then he and his friend drew a plan of it, numbered each plank as it came down, and put it back up on our property. I can offer that I learned the basics of carpentry in the shop it became.

Today is British Home Child Day. From the 1850s to the 1920s, thousands of orphans or children living in poverty in the UK were shipped to Canada as indentured servants. These "surplus children" often suffered abuse or mistreatment.

The fight of man against power is the fight of memory against forgetting. Milan Kundera

Today!

Down with the Yankees. Down with the Rays. Up with the Blue Jays.

Tomorrow!

Just to be clear: Rewriting the past is all about changing the present too. Who declares past injustices just, is trying to create a future where they are no longer seen as wrong when repeated.

Speaking of switching between the white panels and all-blues to fix a funk

Some snaps from my n’hood Church-Wellesley Village. I’m always struck by the contrast between old & new in Toronto—it’s like two cities existing at once.

1) Now that a busy summer is over, I am booking projects for fall, winter, and beyond. If you're looking for a public historian, a historical consultant, a general writer, or research assistance for current, ongoing, or upcoming projects, I can help.

Ending home mail delivery is an acute attack on entrepreneurs, freelancers and gig workers who work from home. We need mail services at home when we work from home and operate businesses from home!

(deep breath) Fuuuuuuck Yoooooutuuuuuube

I am giving an afternoon presentation about 1950s Toronto bank robber Edwin Alonzo Boyd at the Wychwood branch of Toronto Public Library on Oct 7. Event deets tinyurl.com/569r3ya2 My book at: Amazon tinyurl.com/3pmav3j4 and Indigo tinyurl.com/y4bl4gv2 @crimewriterscanada.bsky.social

The Toronto Parking Authority’s 2026 budget submission includes some AI-generated art that appears to depict some sort of dystopian future in which Green P takes over the entire city and rules with an iron fist. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

At this point in 1993, the Jays were playing a homestand against Boston while trying to hold onto a narrow lead for first place over the Yankees. Sounds stressful, can't relate

Tomorrow. Sept 24, at 7:00 pm I'm giving a 1-hr talk looking inside 2 Toronto mansions. Former homes of "Mr Christie" (cookie maker) & Wilmot Matthews are both now part of U of T campus. Talk is free at Northern District branch of TPL: www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?E...

The DVP rainbow has been defaced again.

Toronto, the city of small old buildings in front of new tall buildings.

A new walking tour! Explore the seedy underbelly of Victorian Toronto with stories of crooks, con artists & thieves. Happening this upcoming Saturday!

Someone took the chip from their Presto Card and put it into a magic wand.

That was fun! Let's do it 9 more times. You've got next weekend and the weekend after to catch on the @tosoarch.bsky.social boat tours as part of the Water/Fall festival! Thank you to @waterfrontoronto.bsky.social and Waterfront BIA for making this possible 🩵🛥️ torontosocietyofarchitects.ca/tours/

1986-09-19: Starting for AL East-leading Boston at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto, the legendary Tom Seaver, 41, leaves after 4 IP due to a pulled calf muscle. The Blue Jays win 6-4. It was Seaver's last career appearance. He retired with 3640 strikeouts, the 3rd-highest career total at the time.

Tomorrow! Are you coming?

Toronto’s Old City Hall turns 126 today! 🎉 Opened Sept 18, 1899, it remains a landmark worth celebrating. There’s still time to catch Summer at Old City Hall — free events running until Sept 26, giving the public rare access inside. #Events #Toronto #Canada #History #OldCityHall #JeremyHopkin

The Blue Jays as a franchise are .500 for the first time since May 20, 1995.

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

The Blue Jays franchise is now 3849-3850 (regular season). A win tomorrow and they will be .500 again as a franchise for the first time since May 20, 1995 when they were 1416-1416.

The standing ovation in Parliament today to honour Charlie Kirk was one of the most embarrassing things I’ve ever seen from that building, and I gotta tell you, that list is long

I visited the little park at the end of Polson Street for the first time. A little hidden gem, or at least semi-precious stone.

Sorry to say I have to postpone Sunday’s tour. I’ve hurt my foot, but will announce a new date as soon as I can!

Scarborough Civic Centre, Scarborough 1973, Raymond Moriyama Architect. An architectural and graphic design gem that has been (for the most part) very well preserved. The civic centre still features the old City of Scarborough logo, as well as the departmental supergraphics.

Sorry to say I have to postpone Sunday’s tour. I’ve hurt my foot, but will announce a new date as soon as I can!

One of my favorite things to consider is that the pigeons we see in cities are abandoned information infrastructure

If you thought access to LAC was bad now (it is) get ready for it to get *a lot* worse.

Tomorrow!

In the aftermath of the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837, Lieutenant Governor Sir George Arthur ordered the construction of this blockhouse, along with six others forming a defensive ring around Toronto, to guard the city against the possibility of renewed uprising.

On this day in 1947, Toronto streets turned into rivers of foam when the city tried out a new street-cleaning method. 🚛✨ #OnThisDay #OTD #1940s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

Starting at noon!

Today! A free lunchtime Zoom talk all about scandalous Toronto love affairs! It’s the first in my new series of monthly talks about our city’s scandalous history. Happens at noon today! Get your free ticket here:

Toronto! Join author Victoria Freeman to launch Where Histories Meet: Indigenous and Settler Encounters in the Toronto Area. An essential book for everyone who wants to understand the history of the place they live. RSVP to claim your spot: buff.ly/RHJ8Lki Books sold by @anotherstoryto.bsky.social!

Comeback win number 44 coming up…