2002

If you have Public Mobile, log into your account, go to payments, and apply promo code PMDATA10 for a free 10GB of data a month for the next 2 years.

My question was already answered by Christopher Holcroft a few weeks ago in the Hill Times. Nieuport (staff + consultants) met with the PMO 8 (updated since pub) times since last summer. MP Chi Nguyen (airport MP) had 7 meetings with Nieuport inc four in March. www.hilltimes.com/2026/05/14/t...

Toronto got it (eventually) @planningpeeps.bsky.social

A city’s tool to solve minor housing issues is overwhelmed. @theglobeandmail.com​ @johnlorinc.bsky.social @plannersean.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/...

This past weekend’s rainfall was a great test of the floor protection changes to the lower Don, and looks to me like it passed with flying colours. Read that the Coxwell Bypass Tunnel is also open now too? Great improvements by the city.

Jet Dreams on Toronto Island. Read part 1 of @iandarragh.bsky.social's investigation into what would it cost, who will pay, and who benefits? With a new graphic custom-made for Spacing detailing the likely extension. spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

Junius is not amused “without meaningful penalties, there’s no pressure on cities to stick to their [HAF] commitments … the way Mr. Robertson folded on Calgary suggests Ottawa isn’t really serious about rezoning” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

Today at CoA I was very happy to get approval for this great 4 storey, 16 unit apartment building on Gerrard near Norwood. Absolutely smooth sailing. All 2 bedrooms and has 1 level of underground parking.

Listen to @mattgalloway.bsky.social 's long interview w former Toronto police det Idsinga on force's racism, anti-semitism & corruption + terrible leadership. This kind of honesty from a cop is rare & we need more of it. Police brass are accusing him of harming trust, but he says they already did.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGm9... Had a great time chatting with @johnpasalis.bsky.social again about multiplexes

It is really, really not difficult to not fucking do this over and over again. toronto.citynews.ca/2026/04/22/b...

99percentinvisible.org/episode/664-... Fantastic episode about the history of middle class NYC co-ops, and the surprising (to me) partnership between Robert Moses and socialist housing builders in urban renewal/“slum clearance”. (And Jane Jacobs being wrong about towers can’t make community)

NIN live at Cochella now www.youtube.com/live/bkCTPTw...

These pro-airport people have no real arguments. Asinine culture-war garbage from top to bottom. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Aerial photo, 1931: No problem Aerial photo, 1979-2004: Problem

Another day, another “it shouldn’t be this hard to give the city what it says it wants.”

I am very interested in the Project Hail Mary trilogy

Great episode about Senakw www.npr.org/2026/03/27/n...

The Blue Jays pregame 50th celebration was awesome www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnPq...

Had a great time giving the Mayor a tour of some of the many multiplex projects I’ve worked on. www.instagram.com/reel/DWZax_L...

I mean

My new favourite YouTube series. No lies detected. youtu.be/qJd4TCjJWv0

The staggering amount of money Ford demands the people of ON spend on his cope because he lost the mayoralty race is infuriating. But if waterfront ruining jets arrive at the Island it will be the sole fault of federal Liberals who will deserve to never win a single seat in TO again.

‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Director: “This is about how you lose your country — through small acts of complicity: when a government murders people on the streets, when oligarchs take over the media… we all face a moral choice. But even a nobody is more powerful than you think."

Markham’s mayor for the first time has used his strong mayor powers… to block city-wide 4plexes that council approved. Presumably this puts in jeopardy the federal housing money the city has already agreed to, as this was a condition of those funds. www.markham.ca/sites/defaul...

CLORCA is too close to cloaca

Love this transformation at 325 Sammon in East York. Its owners got 2023 minor variance approval to convert its garages into residential units, and replace its driveway with landscaping. Before/after photos (the landscaping is still a work in progress and will be great I'm sure)

Reminds me of when I found this amazing BSOD at The Bay #RIP www.blogto.com/city/2007/11...

Very happy to have variance approval for this wonderful 3 storey apartment building for my client @pamelablais.bsky.social This Office Ou designed project is the first to receive approval for a single stair alternative solution. That approval allowed space to add an additional unit.

www.youtube.com/live/shr_3Ok... sorry, thought I time stamped it but apparently didn't.

Suburban Sprawl may seem cheap, but even the costs we CAN count are far too high, and we ALL pay them. HT Smart Prosperity Institute #UrbanTruth institute.smartprosperity.ca/library/publ...

The contrast between this young person's comments and the comments of the landed gentry could not be more start. She speedtalks through a greatest hits of what Toronto urbanists have been advocating for for a while now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=shr_...

secure.toronto.ca/council/agen... Really good mayor's motion to PHC today to help improve the committee of adjustment. I don't think significant changes are needed, current system works really well the vast majority of the time. But tweaks can be made to make it even better.

Thanks to everyone that came to Sunday's edition of "Making Room: a Citizen Developer's Guide" Some great discussions and ideas sparked by @realliamgill.bsky.social's journey developing a small apartment without prior development experience. Joined by @plannersean.bsky.social for the fireside chat.

Looking forward to this book launch tonight (which features a few of my photographs) www.mqup.ca/Books/T/Toro...

GREAT NEWS! @plannersean.bsky.social is joining our discussion this Wednesday evening. He has over 25 years of experience in planning, specializing in multiplexes and backyard units even before the CIty of Toronto legalized them. (He can answer a question or two about disc golf too...)

The Citizen's Developer Guide launches on February 18th, but you can register for the FREE download here: www.moreneighbours.ca/news/dev-guide

9 years ago this week I started a project. Can't share it yet, but eventually. www.honestedsdemolition.com

Love these new Dylan Cease discs coming to the Toronto Open in March. www.instagram.com/p/DUlyk4HkYp...

Unfortunately, the variances for this were refused because it violates the sanctity of Toronto’s neighbourhood character, section 4.1.5 of the Official Plan, and that one guy who hates fun.

The half time show showed the importance of walkable mixed use neighbourhoods. House, bodega, nail salon, Ricky Martin… all in walkable distance.

Waiting for the 15 post thread from @dieworkwear.bsky.social about this suit

Local disc golfer did great at the Olympics

CBC Gem has so much Olympic coverage. It’s fantastic.

Don Valley Brick Works 18 years ago youtu.be/SxOVaeSOM0E?...

youtu.be/5PfK8duRayo?... 19 years I was contacted by a student who wanted to make a class project video about urban exploration (which I was big into). My self and an Urbex team mate brought them into Hamilton’s Lister Block and the Brock Works. A little cringe, but hey some cool shots.

It looks like a really great plan, and it has nothing remotely similar to the “existing neighbourhood character” fetishizing that Toronto’s does in 4.1.5