Mark Shaw
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🍁 Toronto transit & urbanism nerd | 👨💻 Software Developer | 🌈 Your gay best friend
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I’m just going to repost the Toronto Urbanism Starter pack. It’s got more content since you last saw it!
go.bsky.app/3drLJRM
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over 1 year ago
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2 days ago
Boopgate.
#curling
#olympics
#canada
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Don’t worry the only medal that counts is hockey, coincidentally the sport we always win, funny how that works
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The Toronto police scandal is genuinely hard to follow. Toronto Police officers assist hitmen to assassinate corrections officer on behalf of tow-truck mafia because [click to enter rabbithole]
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All this talk of bilingualism. TFO should make a sequel to Téléfrançais for adult learners. Dialogue: « ostie, c’est quoi ça?? Un ananas qui parle? »
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Oh The Urbanity!
8 days ago
I think every English Canadian should have the opportunity to do a semester of high school in Quebec
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Steve Lafleur
3 days ago
Also worth noting there are a quarter of a billion french speakers out there, which is an economic opportunity for a country seeking to diversity its trading relationships.
policyoptions.irpp.org/2022/09/cana...
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John Michael McGrath
3 days ago
wonder if Germans have some subject matter expertise in this or something
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Nate Erskine-Smith
3 days ago
Students in this country, and this province, deserve better.
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Nate Erskine-Smith
4 days ago
450 people on the call, and we’re just getting started. We run together. We win together. We govern together.
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Damien Moule
4 days ago
To my point of reading the information but not taking it too seriously, just under half of people said they followed the Toronto budget somewhat closely or more. I don't want to impugn the reputation of these fine poll respondents but that is more than the turnout of the last 3 mayoral elections.
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Gold medal WHEN.
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I really don't know how to interpret the property tax question. Only 33% of Toronto (11% of Etobicoke) can answer a factual question correctly about their taxes in 2024 and 2025?
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Sean Marshall
4 days ago
Hahahahaha
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
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Ontario Liberals got a bump in public support after losing leader, poll suggests
In the first Abacus tracking poll for the Star since Bonnie Crombie stepped down from the party leadership last month, the Liberals are up to their highest level of support
https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/ontario-liberals-got-a-bump-in-public-support-after-losing-leader-poll-suggests/article_4e426629-5e2f-4738-8558-1b4929a747ae.html
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Colleen
5 days ago
Remember last week when Councillor Holyday was super-concerned about people visiting loved ones and addressing isolation by helping people get around the city? That was a fun 2 minutes. But it turns out that he just wanted more parking. I'm shocked.
toronto.cityhallwatcher.com/p/one-counci...
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Damien Moule
5 days ago
I ran along Bloor last night and I am just kind of baffled what is happening right now. The city seems to just be choosing to drop it's bike ridership by something like 60-70% by just not plowing the bike lanes. I would be riding if they were clear.
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Colleen
6 days ago
Other people: no one really re-uses those re-usable bags enough to help the environment. Me: I have two from a department store that hasn't existed since 1991.
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J. Kelly Nestruck
6 days ago
CBC got over 1000 complaints about the ads during the Winter Games Opening Ceremonies. I hope
@marcmillermp.bsky.social
is paying attention as I hope that he may finally be the Culture miniter to give the public braodcaster a new mandate...
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
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CBC shouldn’t brush off the over 1,000 complaints it received about ads during Olympics opening ceremony
Commercials chopped up the stories the Italians were trying to tell the world
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/article-cbc-shouldnt-brush-off-the-over-1000-complaints-it-received-about-ads/
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Rich Lafferty
6 days ago
le plus canadien
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I found this archaeological relic underneath the Hudson’s Bay crests downtown. I think it’s from the late 1900s. What do you think it means?
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John Michael McGrath
6 days ago
CALLED IT
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...
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Warm weather and snow sucks, everything is sludge, bring back -20ºC
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈
6 days ago
Just witnessed a model shift ride in front of my eyes this morning. Friend texted the gc that he took transit to work for the first time now that Line 5 opened. Previously he would've had to take a bus-bus-subway trip or a bus-subway-bus trip. Now he can get to work faster than driving.
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If Maine joins Canada they should have to take remedial French and enter as a bilingual province.
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Damien Moule
6 days ago
Toronto rental market has just hit the lower end of a healthy vacancy rate range (3-5%) for the first time outside of pandemic conditions since 2009.
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Hey wait -
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7 days ago
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Lindsay Britts in the Sky
7 days ago
I'm now available for hire for New Canadian Counseling / Services de Conseil pour les Nouveaux Canadiens. Roll up your rims and keep your sticks on the ice: we've got a lot of Heritage Minutes to watch.
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Michael Druker 🇨🇦
7 days ago
One weird trick to get to 100 million Canadians
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Whoa the new update is crazy -
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Brian F. Kelcey
7 days ago
I'd rather see it crash into the river in a spectacular TV special than give in to another petulant shakedown.
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I'm sad we're all like the northern suburb of Urban Planning/Transit and not a Canadian cluster.
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My thesis is public consultation quickly corrupts good (or at least okay) people who just want to be liked.
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I’m gonna need to see a lot more olympics posting, what are you watching?
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Shoshanna Saxe
8 days ago
My first job after grad school included working on the design of two Eglinton Crosstown Stations. Very jazzed to ride the line today. And it was fast!
#TTC
#Toronto
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Phil
8 days ago
It is said that Napoleon was so awestruck by the beauty of Paris, Ontario on a state visit in 1843 that he named the French capital after the town immediately upon his return home.
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Observing The City
8 days ago
Pleased to say the underground portion of line 5 well surpassed my expectations. Looking forward to it improving even further with 80km/h max speeds coming in March.
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Tai Huynh
8 days ago
First impression of Eglinton Crosstown is that it feels more “LRT” than Finch West. On the western arm which is underground, it’s max speed is 56 km/h although it’s capable of much faster.
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Reece Martin
8 days ago
Thank God it's a lot faster than Finch. It is like 7:00 a.m. on a Sunday but this feels properly quick. I'm happy.
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I've been thinking about how to modify the at-grade portion of the
#EglintonLRT
so that the experience & operations are more like the underground portion. I've put some words and drawings together & I'm happy to hear your thoughts!
#TOpoli
#Transit
#TTC
kevinrupasinghe.substack.com/p/improving-...
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Improving the Eglinton LRT - Fewer Intersections
An ongoing question we'll need to answer: How do we modify the at-grade portion of the Eglinton LRT so that the experience and operations are more like the underground portion?
https://kevinrupasinghe.substack.com/p/improving-the-eglinton-lrt-fewer
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To be honest, Ford constantly trashing other conservatives is good politics
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Doug Ford calls on Danielle Smith to ‘stand up’ against separatist push from some Albertans
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is calling on Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to 'stand up' and denounce a push for separatism from some residents of her province.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/doug-ford-calls-on-danielle-smith-to-stand-up-against-separatist-push-from-some-albertans/
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Nathan Lauster
10 days ago
This was always the best case for Western Alienation
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If you can’t handle me at my -26ºC then you don’t DESERVE me at my best
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Chris Moise
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🚲 Cycling Network Update Progress on key routes: ✅ Adelaide/Richmond: Mostly cleared 🚧 Sherbourne/Bloor: Operations started tonight 🔜 Next: Dundas, Gerrard, Shuter I am coordinating with the City Manager’s Office to address the delays and improve prioritization for major routes.
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😳 “My dick and my heart race when you practice your 2nd official language!”
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Jacob Loo Dawang
10 days ago
I will stand by bagged milk any day of the week. - Takes up less room than jugs, especially as you work your way through it. - Slower to go bad. - Can freeze.
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There are only two kinds of people: “Why doesn’t the Prime Minister do something about this!” vs “Why doesn’t the federal government influence via money the Provincial government who owns the Municipal government who has the jurisdiction into doing something about this!”
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Phil
10 days ago
It is our God given right as Laurentian consensus patriots in central Canada to be raised on milk swimming in microplastics, and it's not something I would ever expect the carton people (derogatory) to understand
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It’s not left vs right or English vs French. It’s people who have bagged milk vs the godless heathens who don’t!
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Guess the map!
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The Ontario Liberals might invent a new rule designed specifically to bar Nate-Erskine Smith from running in Scarborough. The petty drama will continue until morale improves!
#onpoli
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Ontario Liberals divided over Nate Erskine-Smith byelection bid
Doly Begum's decision to jump from the provincial NDP to run for Prime Minister Mark Carney's federal Liberals in Scarborough Southwest has rocked Queen's Park.
https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/ontario-liberals-divided-over-nate-erskine-smith-byelection-bid/article_77a10cd6-25e4-4daf-a6f2-e77ab60cdc4c.html
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