Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

None of the housing issues we have are a surprise and, more importantly, were not a mistake. We've known this was going to happen for many decades, and did it anyway deliberately

If you voted for any of these three clowns I need you to immediately [REDACTED]

Look, land transfer taxes are a bad way to raise revenue but they also make the dumbest people alive show their whole ass so I'll allow it

Etobicoke absolutely fucking loves this guy btw

New heritage parking lot just dropped

Heartless opinion but the transit cannot be used as warming centres for people without homes, or mental health issues General consensus seems to be "just let them be" but the TTC is a paid service, and constantly having disruptive people on them is bad for that service 1/

I don’t think it is progressive to force urban homeowners like me who live in fire-safe areas to pay higher home insurance premiums to subsidize people who choose to live in McMansions in places with very high fire risk.

JFC

Ford has literally only one idea

If you ever wonder why the 401 is the busiest road in the world, this is why A sleepy Saturday morning train delayed by AN HOUR AND A HALF just to the first stop, with basically all other trains showing massive delays too There are no other options to get around this province other than the 401

woo woo brain rot isn't some amusing character quirk, it's not harmless, it's literal child murder

We're completely screwed if our response to measles is going to be asking antivaxxers - the most selfish and stupid people in our society - to voluntarily self-report and quarantine for 21 days each every time they get exposed

Like the CPC has been bashing the carbon tax for literal years, Carney puts forward bill C-4 to actually remove the tax, and Poilievre obstructs the bill Unserious leader. Why would anyone serious want to be in his party?

There's a chance that poilievre 1. Blows a 30 point lead in the polls in the fed election 2. Gets voted out of his own seat, getting dropshipped into a CPC +100 riding 3. Singlehandedly gives the LPC a majority And STILL wins the leadership vote. There's really no one better in CPCs ranks?

It's actually hilarious how much contempt the Ontario government has for its voters Doug "He's Just Like Me" Ford gets 35 weeks of vacation a year www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Gotta say, when you live in an apartment building and work from home, and you live a five minute walk from a subway station, it really changes your relationship with winter snowstorms. I just stand at my window and look out at the city and the snow falling and I say, "That's beautiful, man."

This is fantastic news. We just need to be ready to do the hard work of saying *no* we cannot have a stop on every block. Toronto is lower density than Paris, or Zurich, or Berlin. It should not have a wildly *higher* density of stops.

It's fucking insane that, when a driver kills a toddler, we choose to build a concrete bunker around the kids instead of addressing the driver problem

The Finch West LRT being slower than the bus it's replacing might be my personal Joker moment. The army of people who fought to preserve LRTs in the face of a mountain of dishonesty from multiple parties deserved an honest effort to make them actually operate well. Instead, we get Toronto.

The most infuriating part of this multibillion dollar boondoggle is that none of these outcomes are unexpected. Every single transit advocate has been shouting from the rooftops for years that these issues would happen, and they were all ignored

The city of half-assing

What are we doing here? 170m between streetcar stops. It makes the service borderline unusable.

My employer has officially gone from "we are going to implement AI as much as possible" to "if anyone has any ideas for how we can accurately implement AI, we are open to hear them" It took them longer, but even my mgmt sees how inaccurate it is and how it creates *more* work for us. Unusable

To put this in explicit terms, as I said sometime ago, Toronto has managed to build a new street railway line which is slower than the bus it’s replacing. That’s on top of the abandonment of our tram network, which has new trams, but is otherwise falling apart and using antiquated . . . Everything

“The average speed [of the upcoming Finch LRT] is slower than the 36 Finch bus during some periods, a rather poor showing for a rail line on its own reserved lane.”

Toronto, the city of half-assing that succeeds in spite of itself

If you ask the average person why used car prices went vertical in covid, they will answer correctly "because we stopped making new ones" But when it comes to housing, we have study after study showing the exact same thing, and it still isn't enough to convince the avg person

🗣️ BLUE JAY

Wow so weird how this keeps happening. It's unreal how much shit the median rural/suburban Ontario voter loves to eat

None of these guys have *ever* had a real job lmao

WE DO IT AGAINE 🐦

A lot of people dislike government for a lot of dumb reasons, but one very real reason is that $142M of DESIGN COSTS have been booked for one streetcar line. People feel like they're being scammed out of their tax dollars because they *are*

I really try to make jokes and find fun ways to spin terrible news on here, but I read this and the only thing I have to say about it is that Doug Ford is a piece of shit who shouldn't be running an Arby's, let alone a province. Fuck you, Doug. share.google/gPPqvtiuqD0O...

"shuttle buses are not operating" What the fuck? "Hi everyone, sorry the subway is down for planned work! No, you don't have another option to get around"

These new apartments would be great for local seniors to downsize into. This development would destroy zero housing.

You can't follow toronto city council closely and maintain good health.

Two things are true: 1) living today in a developed country is scary/uncertain and we are backsliding 2) since I've been born, I've witnessed the greatest improvement in worldwide quality of life in history The people who want to go back to some "golden age" are full of shit

This will not be news to regular readers, but it's worth noting whenever Toronto council debates housing (or transportation or neighbourhood amenities) that just three of the 25 wards absorbed three-quarters of the city's population growth between 2016 and 2021

Almost everywhere in the City of Toronto has fewer people that it did 50 years ago

In my brief block by block encounters with crossing guards I see how drivers menace them, inching towards. What a whole shift must be like. The Premier and other politicians, Toronto Police, other forces, have taken the lid of all this. A death drive amid other bs rhetoric of public safety.

Your elected officials loudly hate when their wards are successful, culturally or economically. This is why Toronto is where it is Your elected official would rather save 3 minutes on their commute than make their ward an interesting/good place to live, and that is not an exaggeration

Small government conservative wants to define a list of what stores can sell so they don't accidently sell zany things with little value Really love how much conservatives care about small government and cutting red tape

Imagine working for Metrolinx. I would get fired if I printed an incorrect number on page 48 of our investor reporting package, meanwhile these guys get to fuck up all day, every day, while getting taxpayer money, hide their mistakes from the taxpayers, and nothing ever happens

Holyday absolutely fucking loves taxes

This is really bad, actually

This has been my gripe for a long time now. If you took the words seriously, rigorously, if we established a clear right to housing in the Charter, then you'd basically nuke municipal zoning nearly in its entirety — certainly as it's practiced in Ontario.

It is a massive, massive problem that I make as much money as the MAYOR OF TORONTO I move numbers around a spreadsheet and have few direct reports. The mayor of Toronto manages... Toronto The mayor should be pulling 7-digits

I'm going to become the joker. A normal lead and the play *isn't even close* and the Jays are WS champions Unbelievable