When the province took over the Toronto District School Board, it also took over the subsidiary that manages the TDSB’s $20 billion worth of land. As @wendyglauser.bsky.social‬ writes, critics fear repercussions not just for schools, but also for whole neighbourhoods. thelocal.to/tdsb-takeove...

Like this motherfucker was cooking with this one

A good enough reason to spend lots of time doing art is just that it’s fun to do art

My first Starter Pack! The Canadian urbanism and planning community on here is growing. Give these folks a follow. Some well known faces … and some you should get to know! (please re-post!) go.bsky.app/AEYL7FZ

Heading into a glorious time for local fruit in #Toronto. Peaches, pears and plums all looking good. www.mapto.ca/maps/the-fru... #topoli #ediblecity #map #mapping #gis #dataviz

The news on 9/11…

It’s open! Feels like there should have been a party. Did I miss the party?

New from me at TVO, on Toronto's disappointing sixplex vote and the prospects for the feds and Mayor Chow to get it back on track. Spoiler: she'd still need to use strong-mayor powers, but not in the way you might think. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

And wonder why their kids can't afford to live near them, and why the local school closed so their grandkids couldn't live nearby anyway, etc etc etc

Consumer spending and after-tax incomes both fell in May, adjusted for inflation. #NumbersDay Full data: www.bea.gov/news/2025/pe...

what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

With CBC now having called all ridings it's time for the land-vs-people-vote animation.

How quickly does a neighborhood change? Exposition Park has been ground zero for double duplex development in LA, with more development happening here than anywhere else in LA. This image illustrates development that occurred in the two square mile section immediately West of USC:

The key chart right now: Usually US economic pain is cushioned by falling bond yields and a strengthening dollar, which mean lower interest rates and more spending power for consumers. This time we’re seeing the opposite, meaning the pain will be amplified.

What happens on Parliament Hill can feel far removed from people's daily lives. @thelocal.to is doing what it does best, covering this election from the neighbourhood level. Get to know your candidates; they're meant to represent you. thelocal.to/spring-2025/

Wow! Three scholars at Columbia, Michigan, & Maryland just introduced a measure of the partisan leanings of employers in the U.S. The data is constructed by linking voter registrations to online worker profiles. VRscores capture the political affiliations of 21.8M workers across 2.6M employers.

Across the US, cuts to federal funding for health research are projected to cause losses of $16B and 68k jobs. How will YOUR area be impacted? See SCIMaP, a website that my colleague Emly Falk and her team have created to communicate the impact of funding cuts. Learn and share at scienceimpacts.org

How Old Is Your City’s Skyline? Map of US & Canada What do you notice? brilliantmaps.com/skyline-a...

Bluesky loves links! We don't downrank, and major publishers report that we're sending more link traffic than other sites. Here's the top links shared on Bluesky, updated hourly. theblue.report/week/

January 5, 2025 vs March 25, 2025 338canada.com/federal.htm

The fall of HBC got me thinking about all the empty spaces above & below ground in Toronto & what might become of them. Maybe shops, maybe places for culture. Discotheques in the PATH? A bar on the 6th floor of an old dep't store? Other countries go up and down just fine...my Star of Tor Ont column.

Our online articles & analysis are free to read. The print magazine, 4x a year, helps support that. Think of it as our weird substack or patreon model. Shopping at the store (in person/online) also supports the journalism. If it wasn't for the store Spacing would likely not exist today.

@airbrycki.bsky.social: The good news is that there's a lot of momentum at the state and local level to address affordability challenges, and multifamily completions are still strong, which has slowed asking rent growth.

the study on safety of single stair buildings by pew charitable trusts and the center for building in north america (@stephenjacobsmith.com) is now live www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-...

Blessings upon city and county GIS offices that make road and sidewalk polygons available, so that I can calculate just how much of a city has been sacrificed to the almighty automobile. (Looks like about 8% of Cincinnati.)

Love this piece on the German economy. Well structured story, accessible information and visually stunning. by: @deabankova.bsky.social, @anuragrao.bsky.social, @pkddapacific.bsky.social and Maria Martinez at @graphics.reuters.com @reuters.com www.reuters.com/graphics/GER...

Is flying getting more dangerous? @jburnmurdoch.ft.com crunches the numbers and argues the opposite is true. Gift link: on.ft.com/41chEoH

The ocean, but it’s made of trees

Huh

Why isn't #onpoli's housing supply keeping up with housing need? The new expert report commissioned by my team @EnviroDefence shows Ontario government restrictions on mid-rise apartment buildings have been making it impossible to end the housing shortage.🧵👇 environmentaldefence.ca/2024/11/13/n...

In case it took you a while to recover from your New Year’s celebrations, remember to go check out our list of lists of 2024 data vis: A neat collection of personal favorites, newsroom portfolios, and award-winning visualizations:

Montreal is leading North America as a model for how to effectively and successfully transform streets into vibrant pedestrian spaces. This 80-page design guide from The City of Montreal is a reminder that it takes more than just opening a street to ensure it's truly a sustainable success for all.

Most Americans say they prefer a bigger house in the suburbs vs. a smaller place in a walkable neighborhood. Yet sprawl is objectively bad in many ways, and there is an undersupply of walkable neighborhoods relative to demand. More analysis and walkability data in Climate Lab: wapo.st/41lOtkO

Love these maps by @harrystevens.bsky.social for the @washingtonpost.com. Great analysis and the search tool allows you to see walkability for different cities. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

This looks like a great new teaching tool from the Yellowhead Institute: The Treaty Map treatymap.yellowheadinstitute.org

In my experience this is 100% accurate

This is one of the better pieces I've seen lately on development charges in Ontario. They do have their place but should be used to help shape the growth of our communities, not penalize young homebuyers while rewarding longtime residents with artificially low property taxes.

The new American Dream should be a townhouse www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int... by: @washingtonpost.com, @ashendruk.bsky.social, @byheatherlong.bsky.social

Identifying Places with Power Outages after Hurricane Helene cartoguophy.com/maps/hurrica... by: @cartoguophy.bsky.social #maps #dataviz

🚨New preprint: Assessment of population exposure to pesticide applications in mainland France 🚜Using a high resolution map of pesticide use intensity, we estimated that 25% of the population was exposed to at least one pesticide application per year, with high spatial variability […]

I will be finishing compiling my latest newsletter this evening and sending it out to all subscribers, which gives you around 4-5 hours time to still sign up! Otherwise, I'll post it in 2 weeks for all viewers. visualisingdata.com/newsletter/

🎨 Consistency: possibly the most important consideration when using color in a data visual or dashboard. The role of color is not (only) to make your visual look good, but mainly functional: to provide emphasis and structure, to draw the attention or distinguish categories. (1/4)

tell drake. i want him to know it was me. i played that shit 837283 times

Watch the history of treaty making in Canada unfold, explore the details of individual treaties @yellowhead.bsky.social treatymap.yellowheadinstitute.org #maps #dataviz #builtwithmapbox #svelteJS

Day 24 of #30daymapchallenge: circular shapes only. Soil types of Canada, in point form. w/ thanks to @karaman.is for the pixel point approach I borrowed here! Code: github.com/ivabrunec/30...

mapTO maps are now listed on mapartists.org! A few examples: Direct link: mapTO.ca/store