Big crowd this afternoon in Trinity Bellwoods park.

Excellent turnout at community meeting with Councillor Bravo and Metrolink about the delays on the West Railpath trail.

This version of ROBIN HOOD, with a 20 year old Uma Thurman as the meanest Maid Marion ever, is my gold standard for Robin Hood films.

ANOTHER floor crossing?!? Look, it's allowed, and Harper certainly benefited from them (and had Jason Kenney ridicule an NDP motion to ban them) but maybe this is getting a little out of hand? I dunno.

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Voted in the University -Rosedale by election.

if 1967 had live blogs

Attended the All Candidates Meeting for the University - Rosedale by-election last night. Full house, good discussion. My full notes are at the link. Leaning NDP after strong performance by Serena Purdy.

Last bit of snow (if I can call it that) in my neighborhood.

Board game night last night! One we played was a 5-player game of SANTIAGO, which is about planting and irrigating crops, but is really about capitalism and corruption. I usually get skunked in this game, and 5 players it's especially cut-throat, but I got second place which I am very pleased with.

Thieves made off with more than 12 tons of KitKat bars in a chocolate heist that has left Nestlé scrambling.

Anti-Ford demo at Queen's Park today.

My annual plug for Studio Tax for Canadian tax submission. It's $17.50 but for that you can up to ten different submissions for 2025, and it's free if your income is under 20K. I've used it for years and I stand by it.

French language school in downtown Toronto. Love how the street address is in the French format.

Happy St. Paddy's Day!

The latest White House thinking on the Strait of Hormuz.

Participated in a Don't Mess with the Don garbage pick up this morning, under the Gardiner east of Cherry. Over 100 bags picked up. I was going to wimp out thinking it would be too cold and wet but my brother (also there) shamed me into doing it.

The social damage being done by legalizing on-line gambling, making it available to essentially everyone 24 hours a day without leaving your home massively outweighs the problems of illegal gambling it was supposed to fix.

One of these days I'm going to have to set up a simulation to try and figure out why the wind loves to leave a little pile of leaves right at the bottom of my steps.

If Matt Berry is hosting the Oscars I might actually watch for once.

Was at the Reference Library tonight for a talk (future of public knowledge, quite good). After I was checking out some of the table displays of books (like New Fiction) and saw a book left face down. Turned it over and it was the bio of Musk with his face on the cover. Left it face down.

The snow at your curbside may have melted, but Toronto has six snow mountains scattered about the GTA, and the amount of salt in them is a real problem.

It's just amazing to think about how many dump truck loads of fill have gone into the Spit.

That didn't take long! The byelection here in University Rosedale was just announced two days ago (April 13) and campaign signs are already going up.

All Tory ever wanted to do was maintain the status quo and go to baseball and basketball games as The Mayor.

Just saw BLADE OF THE GUARDIANS, a righteous old-school wuxia wonder from Yuen Woo-Ping. A big screen must see!

My friend Colin at the Meridian Arts Center last night for the performance of some of his music.

Kim Ju-ae may or may not be the next ruler of North Korea, but she wears the Black Trenchcoat of Evil very well.

I mourn the loss of the mass-market paperback because you only have so much shelf space!

Big turnout at Rally for Ukraine at Nathan Phillips Square.

So are they going to lock Andrew up in the Tower of London? That's what it's for after all.

2026 basically

And Carney does it again! Is this a record number of floor-crossers? I'm can't quite decide if this make a snap election (bad idea IMHO) more or less likely. Carney might get his majority with the outstanding by-elections, or he might feel he had the wind at his back and go for it.

Hope no one needs to buy a hard drive this year.

There's still a few cars on my street that obviously haven't moved since the giant snow dump three weeks back.

Watching the Men's 10,000m speed skating. Whenever the skaters go around a particular corner, you can hear a coach bellowing inarticulately.

Live Jazz at the ROM member's night (It's jazz week here on Blue sky)

Fern Lindzon and friends playing at the Rez tonight.

Made it into Nerd Market at Hart House. Many vendors. Good crowd. Although everyone bulked up in winter coats makes moving around feel like bumper cars

At Hart House for Nerd Market 6. Long line to get in but it's moving well.

Snowplow clearing the Harbord bike lane #BikeTO.

Here's some good news for a change, the Don River is coming back to live following the construction of its new outlet (and Biidaasige Park).

There's a new diner open at the location of the late lamented Mars Diner.

This is my riding, and people on Blue sky I respect are saying she's first-rate on health care issues.

Here's a petition to force a review of foreign ownership of Canadian Media outlets like Post Media, which is majority owned by a US hedge fund. The link to sign is below.

And it's still coming down.

I'm having an oddly highly productive Monday morning.

The Zamboni cleaning the ice skating track on the Bentway under the Gardiner Expressway.

Just decisively won a game of STONE AGE with 183 points at board game night.