It can't all be positive about the Jays opening day. They got rid of the grab and go camera-aided snack spot, and with it, some of the best collection of variety snacks all in one spot, not to mention beverage variety. The loss of so much Ontario craft beer hurts my patriotic palate.

My best friends David got first post-uni jobs at the coastal provinces, so ~4,000km. First time, it was David M, driving as far as Kelowna from Waterloo, flew back. Following year, David S & I went as far as Halifax, & I drove back alone. Both with less than a week between request & departure.

If the goal is to secure a waterway, and especially its availability for shipping, especially of fuel, and will possibly require troops, how long before Trump in here is like Putin in Ukraine, in objectives, language, and methods?

Vlad's said that this was, for a time, the top Homer of his career. Highest moment of unknown potential and hope, pressure. Coming off of inches or outs of the highest bar, I wonder if these same Reds, the final series of 2026, can set the stage for as joyous a bang to go out with. Less than a week.

Ok, ok, is there any friend I haven't asked about my last remaining sit-with-the-cool-kids Blue Jays opening day ticket? I know I'm pretty ready to replace the last, quiet memories I have from being in that Dome in November, and your loud cheer could maybe be just the right medicine.

"Unenforceable" because listing original price wasn't in the draft, so, in fact, as unenforceable as this plan is without that same change, so, lying to us. Will be excited to see this in action, like bans on hidden salary job postings, loud mufflers, tinted non-rear windows, license plate covers...

I want my Jays to win a World Series, to win games, to score&save runs. As we saw last year, that's best w Glue Jays, guys loving playing w each other, kids becoming friends, sleeps on couches, &yes, elation at random joys, like finding cool paper&coatings, glued together. bsky.app/profile/keeg...

In case you were wondering why Pierre Poilievre went on Joe Rogan's podcast, I have the answer for you! It's for the ladies! The ladies who love him and his sexy Canadian kettlebell! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZRL...

@alexadamsbtp.bsky.social Per your article, a re-draw of the draw is same as modifying the odds; curious why that'd be chosen & falsely labeled as something different. Ex: a coin flip is 50/50 odds. Remove 'heads' as an option to win. Every heads flip becomes re-flip, tails is now absolute 100% odds

In 17 days, I'll be back at the site of perhaps my biggest sports heartbreak. Loudest I've ever heard the Dome. Also the quietest. Every season is a bit like a new relationship. Some forgettable, some bat-flipping irreplicable. About time to start a new one, & test the still-tender but hopeful heart

Asides everything else one could say about all of this, it sticks in my mind that the last time these two air forces spoke pretty similar language about who needed to have what done to them, it's been generally regarded by the rest of the world as (a still ongoing) ethnic cleansing/genocide.

Put another way: the time it'd take to ensure the "children-protecting" premier's proposed (and per studies, less/ineffective vs speed cameras) protective measures ensures that if you are a parent of a child in any school whatsoever, at no point in their entire life in school will these be completed

Tonight, I've driven on snow, been waved into oncoming lanes by a front end (snow clearing) loader by its driver & narrowly avoiding 'fun', smelt wood burning stoves for ages, shared an on-job tipple & chat with a metal drummer with grocer cicerone (👌) as a day job, & made fire. I love winter in ⚜️.

Fiscal Conservatism in a nutshell: delay spending $4M, to get hit with contract cancelation costs, $4-6M in delay costs, to ask people if housing is a human right they would enjoy not having to acknowledge the realities of upholding. Slow clap. Thanks to @alejandrabravo.bsky.social for calling out.

"Tradition is not the preservation of ashes, but the worship of fire." Will need to ponder this Olympics speech nugget.

I'm old enough to recall all the Premiers ago when it was 100% a government-killing offense to be seen as having spent too much on an infrastructure project & been unwilling to admit or investigate it... now how many Premiers ago was that & which party & politicians pushed that notion hardest? 🤔

Legit cool tech. Didn't install a track switch segment, & something would require this or else a complete shutdown? Absolutely work with this. I expect restrictions to drivers would become the pushback, but numbers are just so in favour of smart adaptations like this. Could KW's ION use?

If this is on Twitter, I would expect comparing the replies here with the replies there would tell me plenty about what's actually going on, or not, in each space. I really do like this one. Space, and particular idea.

A demonstration: take a 500ml & a 2L bottle of coke. Put them upside down at the same time. Regardless the extra "lanes" of the much wider 2L pop bottle, the actual limit of the opening (intersection turn lanes, advance greens, presence many times a block, & more) mean water/cars flow the same.

Seems like an interesting pt from Ford. Arguing to remove Bloor bike lanes by saying this'd move more people/goods (which seems to ignore all the ppl/goods bike lanes move), while ~explicitly stating "yes, they'll all move slower". Who are these drivers waiting at home for a chance to move *slower*?

Really must admire how quickly the universe intervenes to point out that, yet again, assertions by some politicians & aspiring mayoral candidates, in this case that bike lanes are clear before roads, are completely off base. (Unrelated: carry a bat & expect to be on base? 🚫you're automatically out)

Lovely chat, @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social facilitated by @moreneighboursto.bsky.social, tonight. Talking a wider view of homelessness than most of us will ever get. Advocates, like people experiencing homelessness, are filled with so many more stories, life, & kindness than some'd have you think...

Lovely chat, @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social facilitated by @moreneighboursto.bsky.social, tonight. Talking a wider view of homelessness than most of us will ever get. Advocates, like people experiencing homelessness, are filled with so many more stories, life, & kindness than some'd have you think...

Democracy dies in darkness, I believe a onetime pillar brick of it once said.

It is quite blunt, and unsurprising, that the Environmental Protection Agency will now not consider impacts on the environment, only on businesses' costs, and ends the haggling between Ds & Rs about the value of a human life, setting it at $0. A continuing story for those continuing to not listen.

It was once the normal Canadian winter thing to drive to Maple Leaf Gardens to watch a hockey game. Now, it's an ice rink, and a fitness facility, and shopping all under that same roof, and maybe the new Canadian winter thing is to bike your gear down for your match. The right tool for the right job

At ~22k rides per day, bikeshare is moving as many people as a highway lane, or the busiest city lane. For vastly less cost, vastly broader reach than any roadway project, vastly quicker to create, and much more rapidly growing, too. Seems like the kind of thing we should tap into, not out of.

If Ford was really the Small government (pay for what you use, road toll style) Pro-commuter (lowering travel times for drivers, transit users) Pro-business (vastly higher sales growth) Business-minded (show me the data) Politician he wants you to think he is, why is he making every opposite choice?

Last week, TO approved upzoning on some wards' major corridors, w a carve-out for school sites. Is that any worry? Seeing a school torn down for 7->6 McMansions seems a poor trade. Similarly, I'm torn to know a school near me was torn down, for ~40 homes at $1.6M+. Less bad, but what'd be better? 1/

Underneath the veneer of "it doesn't fit neighbourhood character" or "there'll be too many trees lost/shadows created" or "this housing isn't the right/affordable kind" lies the ever-present truth: blocking the creation of more housing supply helps existing owner equity at the expense of all others.

When I hear fire departments becoming anxious about single stair, an unfamiliar form, I can understand it. People were also afraid of seatbelts when they were first introduced. The point is to actually look at the studies, or in our case what the majority of the world does, & learn, not rest in fear

When you're clearing and salting the sidewalks, making sure there's a trench to the sewers for you and your neighbours' runoff (and pointing out they've left their pipes set up to flood their home), and you realize oh no, I'm what child me was most afraid of...

Edward Scissorhands as 🇺🇲Christmas movie 2025. Folk discover those they don't understand/relate well to, or seek to. Happily take the benefits they provide to ignored parts of their lives, for crumbs. Upon being rebuffed for further plundering, see such rebuff as all out war, & banish, to their loss.

More than half of Toronto drivers in a Universtiy of Toronto study didn't look for people walking or on bikes before turning right. Study used eye-tracking tech. Increasingly deadly vehicles, dumb laws, and irresponsible driving equal people being injured and killed. www.utoronto.ca/news/more-ha...

"Why don't media represent my communities, my generation?" Well, when you chop out the spaces that grow them, it's kind of a lot harder. A friend who started at Waterloo's campus radio now works for CBC. Countless others who wrote for our campus paper now inform you elsewhere. This is awfully sad.

Cycling and Pedestrian Projects is hiring a Senior Project Manager to help build bikeways and sidewalks that contribute to a safe, equitable and livable city. Apply by December 19. https://jobs.toronto.ca/jobsatcity/job/Toronto-SENIOR-PROJECT-MANAGER-TRANSPORTATION-SERVICES-ON-M/597960217/

I'm excited to share this big report, a few years in the making, which contemplates how policy and financial reforms could make it possible for tenants to build wealth through renting. I call it Shared Prosperity Rental (SPR) Housing.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar

Heritage Conservation perplexes me. Take Draper St: worker rowhomes of 1.5 centuries ago, facsimiles of what 1%ers who could afford the 1st automobiles had. Now it proudly helps stop worker housing, instead filled w the 1%ers who can afford the first self-driving cars. What is real, what is cosplay?

When folk say the public service & unions - which I support over the binary opposite - are irreproachable in how they do things, it is beyond easy to find examples where, just as the world indefensibly bends to the whims of a few billionaires, cities & countries bend to their indefensible whims too.

Should we check with Doug? A new request has been made as was done with speed cameras; is it time to ban public transit? www.newsbeep.com/277015/

Is there a chance this (wasteful, useless, deadly) proposed change is just what happens when you grew up and were nepotized into and inherited a labeling company: there's no better solution than some form of label, and if it fails, just make it bigger?

We had a parking lot described as ❤️ of the community. Now we have new housing, amenities, parks, described as removing "that opportunity for friends & neighbours & your local shopkeepers, where you can actually feel that you're not just in this world by yourself" "a complete massacre to this area"

When housing in Toronto is proposed which removes a tree, remember that preserving that exact tree all but assures vastly more trees are destroyed elsewhere, with drastically less ability to be replaced.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Preparing for my cross-city multimodal trip, to see how best to save multimodal options for myself and future generations.

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Would this be exactly the spot automated enforcement cameras belonged? The driver may have been helped by Ford banning them. The 52 year old crossing guard, however, won't be around for the eventual acknowledgement that "please pay attention" signs, all Ford might put here, won't help the next one

Yesterday I sat for a lecture by 3 folks from ReHousing. Hosted by UofT's school of Arch, they detailed the history of change in Toronto, how post-war suburbs rubber-stamped neighbourhoods as repetitive as a 100 floor condo does today, horizontally, & how for half a century we've seen near no change

This is what can make advocacy work so hard. On biking, on transit, on housing, it can take serious work to debunk even a single completely false source of material. And even when it is as astroturf as the anti-transit lane campaigns Toronto just saw, councillors will still hold it up as gospel.