📍 West Island, Ontario Place, 2022 #Toronto Now destroyed.

Some great ideas - actually a nice thread about civil society being strong! Sometimes you need to see it.

#2 Toronto, Canada -- Wednesday, 8 April (official Canadian book launch event) Details & tickets: www.eventbrite.ca/e/book-launc...?

A new exhibit at the Toronto Archives opens on May 1. Subseries 58 explores photographs created for the City’s Roads Section during the first half of the 20th century by arranging them in grids based on visual themes, associations, repetitions and typologies. https://ow.ly/n3Pp50YBqTV

Just been sent this wee video from home - it’s the first day of the season for MV Glenachulish (the Glenelg-Skye ferry), last manually operated steel turntable ferry in the world. It can carry 6 cars. “Big time weather today” #Scotland

trans power from beirut 🏳️‍⚧️ 🧿

One of our team members has been taking an insightful online class on Lebanon’s history with @ayoub.bsky.social - and we wanted to share it for anyone else who might be interested 📚 Registrations for the May 2026 course are open - head to eliaayoub.com for more details!

Ontario Nature has tracked every piece of legislation that has weakened environmental protections in Ontario since 2018. “Because you can't fight to protect nature without knowing which protections have been taken away.” @ontarionature.bsky.social catalog.ontarionature.org/tracked-chan...

📍 Butterflyway Lane #Toronto

My chat in The List magazine with Graeme Farnell of Edinburgh based photography based publishers, MuseumsEtc list.co.uk/news/graeme-... Jo Spence: The Unknown Recordings; The Erasure Of Palestine -Ahmad Al-Bazz; & Culture And Capitalism-Henry Giroux from MuseumsEtc museumsetc.com/collections/...

The red wing blackbirds are back. It‘s so disorienting that the world is crashing, but it‘s also spring. #birds #WildlifeArt #NatureArt

📍 Toronto Music Garden #Toronto

📍 Toronto Reference Library Thursday 9th April, 7- 8PM #Toronto Through the lens of her transformative work Black Public Joy, Pitter will explore how reclaiming public space as sites of celebration and connection is an act of resistance and renewal. www.eventbrite.ca/e/jay-pitter...

It’s a new year and things are still bad! If you want to join folks in Toronto who are doing organizing, activism, and mutual aid work to make things less bad, I run a calendar/newsletter that tracks it all. Newsletter returns tomorrow, or use the iCal/RSS feeds! Tell your friends! showuptoronto.ca

"As of mid-March, as many as 1 in 5 people in Lebanon have been displaced by Israeli military operations."

Excellent 🧵⬇️

📍 Trillium Park, Ontario Place #Toronto

Beautiful early Spring morning, these Whooper Swans flying over Aberdour thinking about journeying north soon #birds #birding #nature #birdingscotland @fifebirdnews.bsky.social #birdsseenin2026 #fife

📍 Birdsong | Toronto Irish Film Festival Gorgeous film. Following ornithologist Seán Ronayne on a mission to record the sound of every bird species in Ireland. Elusive corncrakes, Skellig Islands seabirds, stunning starling murmurations, and the loss we face by eschewing biodiversity protections.

📍 Tommy Thompson Park #Toronto Out to Pen B to catch a look at the King Eider (a few months late).

#HearThis Sharing 3 pieces of Black specific content with my kids this week. 1. Transatlantic Slave Trade 2. Hate the Player: Ben Johnson 3. Bam Bam h/t @nestruck.bsky.social @francescabouaoun.bsky.social I think these stories are all worth #Amplifying medium.com/@lanrickbenn...

"In order for me to write poetry that isn't political I must listen to the birds And in order to hear the birds The warplanes must be silent." —Marwan Makhoul

📍 Trillium Park, Ontario Place #Toronto Sunrise dip, still some light ice in the water. Grackles, song sparrows, a horned grebe, and a couple of mink.

“More than 1.2 million people have been forced out of their homes since the beginning of March… Israel’s attacks have also killed at least 1,116 people and wounded 3,229 others, figures from Lebanon’s Ministry of Health showed.”

You can now listen to @warghetti.bsky.social, @justinsalhani.bsky.social and I talk about the Israeli war on Lebanon on @thefirethesetimes.com — wherever you get your podcasts thefirethesetimes.com/2026/03/27/v...

📍 Christie Pits Park #Toronto

New It Could Happen Here Dana El Kurd speaks to @ayoub.bsky.social about Israel’s attacks on Lebanon in recent weeks, what this means for the Lebanese people, the impact on Hezbollah, and broader implications for the world.    linktr.ee/ICHHpod

Two Canadian Screen Awards nominations for Your Tomorrow - for director Ali Weinstein and editor Caitlin Durlak. So well deserved for this amazing team ♥️ Forever grateful to be part of this chapter of Ontario Place. Watch it here: youtu.be/sGP4pvSXdh0?... #Toronto

“White phosphorus can also lie hidden in the soil and spontaneously combust when uncovered by farmers, posing a continuing threat if the people of south Lebanon are able to return to their homes.” #Lebanon

Thankful for the folks taking this to court - raw sewage and agricultural runoff are killing Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland. "Where there was once abundance, there are now no flies for the eels to feed on, barely any birds, and stretches of water that smell so foul you cannot stand near them."

This is a powerful video from @friendsofearthni.bsky.social This is what is at stake for our rivers, lakes and seas. Their future belongs to, and depends on, all of us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiXp...

An album never out of regular rotation. (Although also enjoy every subsequent version of Suburbia)

I know basically everyone in this list and theyre all v good

If you can’t help, please share with anyone you know! Again these are reliable Mutual Aids to help the displaced in Lebanon. I’ll add more in the thread as I hear about the 🧵1/x

📍 McCaul Street #Toronto

Entire South evacuation notices, homes demolished, bridges to the north being destroyed. “Already, we have no state electricity, no water and we have diesel shortages. If all the routes to the north get cut off, ​who knows what the future could hold for us”

The war on Lebanon and Iran is destroying lives. I can’t get post how most of the discourse I’m seeing is ignoring the human and environmental catastrophe.

📍 DROM Taberna #Lebanon fundraiser for mutual aid work, with food from Elias Hashem and Meyjo El Jawhary. Donation details in photo ⬇️

A radio producer in the US asked me to send daily voice notes about what life was like for me in Beirut over the last three weeks. My part is the last 10 mins or so. revealnews.org/podcast/iran...

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New Featured Collection on YSA! Granton Hub archive is a treasure trove of local knowledge and history and aims to elevate Granton’s profile and provide a focus for area’s diverse and evolving communities. Find out more: yourscottisharchives.com/granton-hub

Homes.

📍 Lake Ontario #Toronto Tundra swans are still on the move over the waterfront (this skein joined by a few snow geese)

📍 Graffiti Alley #Toronto Palestine sunbird by Nick Sweetman, a symbol of identity and resilience.

📍 Inner Harbour #Toronto First spring island ferry.

📍 DROM Taberna | Steadfast Strangers #Toronto

Island Awakening | Ward's Island and Algonquin Island, March 21 + 22 #Toronto Guided nature walks, birding tours, Indigenous-led cultural programming, live performances, hands-on arts and crafts, and interactive environmental activities. www.waterfrontbia.com/events/islan...

This thread was inspired by the @urbantruth.bsky.social initiative, which comes at a critical moment as urban myths continue to dangerously shape policy and practice. It’s my early contribution—because telling the truth about cities is powerful, and the range of truth-tellers and sources matters.