28% of Ontario's population lives near major roads/highways, and the provincial public health agency outlines all the bad population health outcomes this induces (link here: www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/docu...). Policymakers and urban planners are not connecting the dots.

throwback: I did an overnight trip to Toronto in September 2021 and stayed in a hotel near the DVP/Eglinton and snapped this picture - one year after the line was supposed to open - nearly 4 1/2 years ago

Newsletter #158 is out on Masonville, Sunningdale, and Uplands! Read and subscribe #ldnont open.substack.com/pub/southern...

Gotta say that after spending a bit more time on Threads that its all very Facebook-y in how much absolutely fake and unverified garbage floods the platform. AI videos, people writing "BREAKING NEWS!" and sharing an unsourced meme, etc.

talking about Hyde Park & Fox Hollow in this week’s newsletter! Read and subscribe #ldnont open.substack.com/pub/southern...

THE BALD BEET RED MEN ARE JOINING THE BATTLE ON THE SIDE OF HUMANITY TRULY THE REGIME IS LOSING THE MANDATE OF HEAVEN

With all the stuff going on with X, it’s still a wonder that progressives/the left still screenshot posts from there to put in their Instagram posts and infographics and such

I rarely get fired up enough to write to government, but...

Talked about Old North and Western University in this newsletter. Essential reading if you care about this place open.substack.com/pub/southern...

Londoner here! I have a lot of my own criticisms of here from an urbanist perspective but I’ve truthfully found so much to love about this place. We’ve let people feel too comfortable in attacking our city.

Saskatchewan’s greatest export

Being profoundly upset about the 51st state stuff was not an unreasonable reaction.

Newsletter #155 is out! Talking about Medway, mainly Whitehills. read and subscribe #ldnont open.substack.com/pub/southern...

Mel Brooks turns 100 this year!

Newsletter #154 - Best of 2025. Please read and subscribe today, #ldnont southernontariojournal.substack.com/p/newsletter...

Newsletter #153 is out! Talking about my holiday among other things. Read and subscribe #ldnont open.substack.com/pub/southern...

He's running

*yelling from inside the getting kicked in the nuts factory* it's actually insane that you guys won't come in here

Newsletter #152 is out! Talking about London International Airport and surrounding area! Read and subscribe #ldnont southernontariojournal.substack.com/p/newsletter...

There’s a local political story in #ldnont that’s been a thing since late last night, and I won’t say more other than this: the previous council going about filling two vacancies back in fall 2021 was *awful*

I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen

#topoli #onpoli New from me on @spacing.bsky.social: When did we begin dismissing opioid addiction, especially among homeless encampment residents, as "delinquent" behaviour? Contrary to the claims of pundits like The Globe's Robyn Urback, there's much more to this story. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

I read this this morning, and you should too #ldnont.

the Ontario PCs might get me killed and that’s not hyperbole

Met my partner in May 2022 through Bumble, we’ve been together ever since, and it will be one whole year on 15 Jan since I moved in with her. before this, dating through the apps was tough for me. Nothing lasted past a few months. I’m very grateful for who I’m with.

Newsletter #151 is here! Last newsletter for a few weeks as I’m on a break until December 12. #ldnont open.substack.com/pub/southern...

istg every tech guy wants their Steve Jobs iPhone announcement moment and the best any of them can do is "what if we tape the phone to your fridge?" "What if we tape it to your car?" "What if we tape it to a front door??"

im beginning to think it was a mistake to stake our entire economy on chatbots and fake internet money

The real galaxy brain Canada is to make London Ontario the biggest London, but Canadians are afraid to dream big

“leopards eating my face” remix

I wonder what a similar map looks like for #ldnont? I do know that for 2016-2021 alone, the census tracts representing Old East Village and 4 contiguous CTs in Old South were among those where population decreased

Someone should ask Starmer and Mahmood whether they think the Kindertransport, for example, should have been a return ticket. Whether Alf Dubs, rather than becoming a Labour MP and now Lord, ought to have been sent back with his family to Czechoslovakia once it was liberated from German rule.

Semi-regular reminder to absolutely politicize my death when I’m killed by a reckless driver. I trust you all to take that opportunity and make the most of it, whether to advocate for more public transit, Vision Zero, or bike lanes

Newsletter #150 is out! In Stoneybrook and Stoney Creek in Northeast #ldnont! Read and subscribe and share today open.substack.com/pub/southern...

This has been my gripe for a long time now. If you took the words seriously, rigorously, if we established a clear right to housing in the Charter, then you'd basically nuke municipal zoning nearly in its entirety — certainly as it's practiced in Ontario.

A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

Taking the bus today through #ldnont and I am still not over city council voting down rapid transit to the north and west. Absolute malice

Having normal and healthy friendships with women. I’m not joking

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

Newsletter #149 is out! going to the district of Fanshawe, and exploring, Fanshawe conservation area, and the lake! Read and subscribe! #ldnont open.substack.com/pub/southern...

As a man in my mid-30s who is of Indian and African descent and is a cyclist, Zohran Mamdani’s imminent election is very inspirational

William Shatner from Rescue 911

It warms my heart to see families bike together with them.

I’m proud of the Toronto Blue Jays no matter what

This. 💥 Bravo to Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew for stopping & to the Speaker for asking Premier Kinew to ensure the offensive remark was recorded in Hansard, in perpetuity. (The Opposition is so because they wouldn't search for the remains of murdered Indigenous women.) www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

Newsletter #148 is out! I speak my mind about Wortley Village and Old South. Read and subscribe and share today! #ldnont open.substack.com/pub/southern...

Not my city obviously, but I was just talking with my partner recently more or less about how reactionary anti-urban attitudes span the political spectrum

BALL GAME

Every time a pundit says ‘woke’ they should be asked to define it. On the spot before anyone can move on with the discussion. Every single time

Seriously, stand at the old MuchMusic building at Queen & John and face south and picture everything from there to Lake Ontario being flat, hot asphalt and that's the Dodgers Stadium parking lot