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Toronto urbanism/city planning doomers to Jason Thorne after the new Ookwemin Minising plan drops

Excited to share the updated plans for Ookwemin Minising on the Toronto waterfront, a new community for 21,000 residents. New features include the Centre Commons, a pedestrianized space running through the heart of the island (design by SLA, Allies and Morrison, Trophic Design, GHD).

"We go through everyone she might be thinking of until it becomes clear: she’s getting Brad Bradford mixed up with Brad Bradford.” www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

We have to hope councillors have the courage to push back against staff on this. It's so common to see elected councillors in Toronto fold immediately if there's pressure from the unelected staff. Cart leading horse behaviour. Imploring our elected councillors: you are there to lead, act like it.

someone in the parks dept absolutely dodge rammed their way through withrow park last weekend

I see a lot of catastrophizing online about the change to community mailboxes, but as someone who grew up with one in a suburb, it was fine. More secure if anything. Nice little walk to go get the mail. A large majority of the country has had them for decades already. www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...

Brad couldn’t even hold onto his pro-housing ideals amid his shameless conservative metamorphosis. You can compare everything he says today against what he said in 2021 and it’s a near perfect inverse.

Canadian kids in the 90s would just be watching TV and then suddenly a cartoon television would tell you "how 'bout you log off and touch grass"

I think in the future we will look back on stories like "failing shoe company pivots into AI compute and its stock explodes upward" as an obvious sign that the AI economy was reaching maximum stupid, and everything that followed should have been obvious www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/a...

The 510 has a fully dedicated right of way along its entire length and has the slowest average speed of any route, even in Toronto? That's wild!

Amazing news for renewable energy in Ontario today: the IESO LT2e procurement, which was "technology agnostic", just released results. 14 projects, 1.3 gigawatts of new power, entirely solar and wind. Average price of $87/MWh. Ontario's next era of renewables buildout is officially underway.

don't talk to me or my son ever again

>Canadian company builds solar panels in Malawi >is paid in Malawi's (volatile) currency >invests those payments in local farmers growing chili peppers >sells chili peppers to Nando's, in USD >builds sustainable business model on Cheeky Nando's This is my favourite news story of the year so far.

I'm losing it at this delivery robot getting absolutely smoked by the Brightline train in Florida 🤖🚅

a not infrequent toronto experience where they'll basically turn transit off for the weekend and just go ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

trump has discovered the doug ford strategy for getting rid of wind projects you don't like

few things feel as good as crushing the google maps estimated walk time. 22 mins? did it in 16. hell yeah

we (humanity) are actually working on this plan already!

we aimlessly muddle amid the ashes of our own potential

We all hate the time change, and this is your semi-annual reminder that permanent standard time is better than permanent daylight time www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

how your email finds me

hilarious (derogatory) for Danielle Smith to now push a set of gross anti-immigration referendum questions when just a few years back we had to see this shit on the TTC for an entire summer

"We will be mean to everyone around us and take advantage of all of them. In return, everyone around us will be kind and gracious to us and give us lots of goodies. We are very smart."

The electricity grid making an appearance at the Super Bowl half-time show 🤯

hear me out: peaky blinders but it's the toronto tow truck mafia in the 2020s

Whatever you think about Quebec sovereignists, at least they run in elections with the clear platform of “we are going to do a referendum” Alberta’s situation of a mealy-mouthed party who won an election almost 3 years ago with no explicit separation question on the ballot is much more fraught imo

90 minutes long?? Cancel the football game, this is MY super bowl

Dude where’s my car

realizing that brutalism is Actually Good is the key to unlocking your architecture third eye

Sunday morning Toronto transit discourse nuke

Being profoundly upset about the 51st state stuff was not an unreasonable reaction.

most people, left and right, treat traffic violence like the weather and not a specific policy choice

Now that both York and TMU have stations named for them I feel it is my duty as an alum to demand that U of T also gets a station (it’s only fair). We will take either Queen’s Park or Museum. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Pedestrian struck by motorist on Parkside a block from the speed camera that vigilantes kept tearing down that caused ford to remove them from all Ontario. Drive as you wish Ontario. Nobody matters. This is what you voted for.

If you yank their supports they literally do wither on the vine. Car suburbs not being able to afford their own existence without higher-level gov’t support or endless sprawl growth is @strongtowns.org 101 stuff, it’s surprising to see Stancil so resistant to it.

I take it all back, maybe it’s actually good that millennials can’t afford homes

We're not against nice things, you see, we're just in favour of the rules that make nice things more-or-less impossible. It's very complex. Stop being mean to us on the internet.

"they're making corner stores a culture war issue"

run the ad again doug

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The vibes, they are very good. 🍁⚾️

Your regular reminder that a minority of anti-everything people have de facto control over quality of life in our city. They spout easily refutable lies, eg. "neighbourhood interiors were never intended for commercial activity", but councillors still take their side, almost every time.

These miserable misanthropes moved to a neighbourhood with grandfathered retail and then have the audacity to say it and not they are out of place. www.torontotoday.ca/local/city-h...

In this neighborhood we say NO to good pizza ✊ www.reddit.com/r/toronto/s/...

happy halloween