Buck O’Neil’s eight decades in baseball truly exemplified the lifetime achievement award that bears his name. The Hall of Famer who impacted the National Pastime as a player, coach, scout and storyteller was born #OTD in 1911.

Reminder: A lot of great books published this year during absolutely bonkers news & world event times. That squashes people talking about them. Keep buying books please, keep borrowing them from libraries, and for the love of all that's good, talk about them. Post about them. 📚

This is the crux. There is an entire cohort of municipal politician in Canada who actively don't like that they live in cities (reflective of a lot of voters).

Grew up close to at least four or five corner stores. They were all zany and housed zany things with tremendous value. It's a package deal.

He’s reading your posts and it’s getting to him. Cuz they’re true.

“I’m appalled at the implication that we’re against the very things we’re opposing.”

Don't be ridiculous, everyone knows the best beef patties are inside TTC subway stations. They'll have to transit in.

Deputy Mayor Malik asks if the city has received a lot of complaints about existing retail within neighbourhoods. Staff say of 1,000 neighbourhood businesses operating over last five years, 60% had no complaints, another 35% received five or less.

*facepalm*

Yup, got this press release… I wish folks would just pretend that they live in a city, for once.

Buried in the Doug Ford govt's fall budget are changes that would remove parts of Wasaga beach from provincial protection. As I reported in August, those parts are 60% of the world’s longest freshwater beach and the main nesting area for the endangered piping plover: thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...

I mean... I'm speechless www.thestar.com/sports/blue-...

Huge congratulations to Shalaya Valenzuela of Tseshaht, winner of the national Tom Longboat Award. Silver in Paris with Canada’s Rugby 7s, a UBC champion, and a powerful role model for Indigenous athletes. Read more at Ha-Shilth-Sa. Go Shalaya! #TseshahtProud #IndigenousExcellence

🧵 Hello! I've gotten an influx of new followers on this forum so I wanted to introduce myself properly! I'm an author, creative collaborator, and urbanist. I'm Toronto born and raised, the son of immigrants.

Our thoughts are with the communities across the Caribbean as they courageously face Hurricane Melissa. OISE Dean Erica Walker and the Alumni Association are organizing a donation drive to collect new and unused essential items. We thank you for your generosity and compassion. #OISEUofT

Haaland’s evolution, the difference between being good and being great and what is the most intriguing league right now? All this and more on today’s episode! Available on the free feed, or ad-free on the members feed! www.patreon.com/posts/haalan...

A THREE RUN HOME RUNNON ALLLL YOUR CANDY ASSES! #worldseries

1) From the vaults: a piece I wrote for TVO @tvotoday.bsky.social on how Ottawa nearly cancelled trick-or-treating in 1982. #Halloween #ontariohistory www.tvo.org/article/are-...

THE TORONTO BLUE JAYS BASEBALL CLUB THEY BETTER PUT SOME RESPDCK ON OUR NAME LETS GOOO #worldseries

HOW BOUT THOSE BLUE JAYS!!! #worldseries

Terrified Jays fan still trapped inside Game 3

Join us in celebrating 20 years of Telling Tales Out of School, supporting People for Education. This year, we are honouring the legacy of the late Dr. Charles Pascal and celebrating the remarkable career of Annie Kidder. 🎟️ Get your tickets: eventbrite.ca/e/telling-ta... #OISE

A heartfelt thank you to all OISE and JICS alumni, staff, friends, and community members who joined us to celebrate 100 years of the Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study (JICS) at our Centennial Alumni Homecoming! #JICS #JICS100 #OISEUofT Take a look: www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...

🎓 New grad Dr. Tanitiã Munroe's tireless service to Black youth has produced groundbreaking research, and legacies like youth leadership programming. This moment is a resounding milestone. Congrats, Dr. T! Her story: oise.utoronto.ca/about/news/1... #OISEUofT #OISEGrad25 #UofTGrad25

5-5. Keep the faith. #worldseries

I still don't understand why it was removed...

🎓 At 73, when many are enjoying retirement, Gerald Feeney walked across the stage to receive his Master of Education from U of T's Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). 👏 Congratulations, Gerald! Read more: www.oise.utoronto.ca/about/news/1... #OISEUofT #OISEGrad25 #UofT #Education

In a nice coincidence with the Jays, the new issue of Spacing opens with a mini-section on sports - with a feature on Toronto's other baseball team (the other Maple Leafs), whose games, by contrast with the Jays, are free, and @jbcurio.bsky.social on the major league baseball teams we almost had.

Dang, Yamamoto’s stuff is super nasty! #dodgers #worldseries

Blue Jays dedicate 11-4 blowout to Donald Trump 🇨🇦

When you play the Reagan tariff commercial in the middle of the World Series after the DC dictator throws a fit the day before.

WELCOME TO TORONTO, DODGERS, STAY A WHILE WHY DONTCHA

As Nas once rapped: “How you like me now, I go BLOAW!” Blue Jays just woke the world to what they can do. Win or lose, this series is gonna be one for the books #bluejays #worldseries

That's the sound of 50 million Americans realizing the Jays are a real fucking baseball team

YHEY PUT 11 ON THE DEFENDING WORLD CHAMPIONS #bluejays

Check out our latest podcast where we get into the nitty gritty of “messy urbanism.” Plus, how some Toronto laneways are getting a glowup: spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

NEW: David Piccini, the minister whose office picks Skills Development Fund recipients, was in Paris this weekend at the wedding of a lobbyist whose clients received millions from that fund. From me and @charliepinkerton.bsky.social. www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

"We’re operationalizing our old corridors—taking ancient trade routes our elders told us about and articulating them in a modern context." Indigenous nations plan tariff-free trade corridor across US-Canada border. From our friends at @nationalobserver.com:

401 Richmond alone reports 24,000 people came by thru bldn last night during nuit Blanche. What a validation of the desire for public life in this city. Toronto seemed so lit last evening. Every year there’s grumps curmudgeons & naysayers but people come out for NB, esp this year. A renewal.

It’s an excellent time to check out my Torontonian and GTHA folk starter pack to find many people crowing about the triumph of the Blue Jays ⚾️ … go.bsky.app/NHeRuz5

Go Jays! (book property of @jbcurio.bsky.social )

Two Indigenous women MLAs in Winnipeg have had their offices firebombed in the past six weeks. And yet, it hasn't been national news. Hear about this and more on today's 7-minute Daily News podcast. sandyandnora.com/daily-news-o...

Further to the point I'm partly trying to make in this article, I recommend one TRC thing you can do today, which is watch my friend Leena's film (the reason I use the term Good Canadian in this article) - *showing* what Canada is still doing now: gem.cbc.ca/the-good-can...

It was very special to work with six brilliant, thoughtful Indigenous writers — Michelle Good, Julian Brave NoiseCat, Eva Jewell, Janelle Lapointe, Anna McKenzie and Riley Yesno — on this series about truth and reconciliation, in print & online for @thewalrus.ca. thewalrus.ca/truth-and-re...

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Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

Congrats, Laura! www.cbc.ca/books/litera... #cbc #nonfiction #canlit

📚 NEW: Associate Professor Cassie J. Brownell (brownellcassie.bsky.social) has been named winner of the 2025 Media Literacy Award from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)! Congrats, Professor! #OISECelebrates Learn more: ncte.org/awards/ncte-...

John Coltrane was born on this day September 23, 1926. The legendary saxophonist's sole album as a leader for Blue Note was his 1st great masterpiece—"Blue Train"—a locomotive set of hard bop fueled by the bluesy title track. Listen or get the Tone Poet Vinyl Edition: bluenote.lnk.to/JohnColtrane...

An important counter narrative to the recent headlines — actual journalism about the daily lives of asylum seekers in the UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...