So let's dissect the Minister's response regarding the disbanding of the Environment Canada's radar science team. 🧵1/n Is radar science an "essential scientific function"? Radar is the #1 tool for severe storm warnings and our new radars have serious problems with data quality needing to be fixed.

On this day in 1989, the SkyDome officially opened! The brand new multi-purpose stadium with the world's first fully retractable motorized roof was welcomed with a 90-minute opening extravaganza featuring thousands of performers (unfortunately taking place during a downpour).

Note this has a licence plate with "MFR" on the side. This is a manufacturer licence plate, which allows vehicles to be driven for testing / demo purposes. Only vehicle manufacturers or component manufacturers can obtain these.

Informative graphic on the non-standard design of MLB ballparks.

So apparently I missed the re-opening of Amsterdam Bridge by only a few days...

Once again my walk posts will be delayed.

Good morning from east of Toronto Pearson Airport. Today I will be following the Pearson / Finch Hydro Corridor. I'm starting at the Richview Transformer Station and heading east. Let's go. #metroscapes

Broadly, this is journalism leading to the ultimate civic action: someone running on the ballot. Specifically, this is Matt's excellent data tracking of local governance.

City staff "even warned against the project because it might lead to “risk associated with high attendance or overcrowding” — as if a lot of people coming out to enjoy something is a reason to not do it."

Kids should absolutely be consulted more in playground design. They are the primary users, and the purpose of a playground is to make it satisfy their adventure and imagination. Great to see this, but it should be a regular, mandatory part of park planning.

I can't wait for this to be done. Just a few days ago, I took a GO train in and got off from the west/north end of the train. It was a 750 metre walk from the end of the GO platform to the subway platform. I'll be happy when this opens, and we can shave half a click off of that transfer.

10/10 no notes.

Dead Man Walking.

this annoys me beyond measure daily

This is straight up dumbassery by the pickup driver. The trolley doesn't appear out of nowhere. #wrLRT

Cool video from Don Joey. I wish we had as much lower gorge access as the other side of the Niagara River.

If you don't consult @itsonlykotsy.bsky.social's updated on @urbantoronto.bsky.social, you should.

Green means go. Yellow-flashing over red over red means Advanced Clear to Stop, I believe?

Very cool to see my shots make The Weather Network's piece on Pinnacle Sky Tower!

But also: North American road engineers doing their thing and having a traffic light management that is totally unresponsive to real traffic conditions, so they let through enough cars to saturate each segment and overflow into the upstream intersection.

Toronto drivers gotta be Toronto driving

A case for establishing and maintaining formal trails: using untreated woodchips reduced ticks by about half, and woodchips treated with the pesticide nearly eliminated ticks. Not keen on the insecticide used (deltamethrin) but halving tick incidence is still a huge impact.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

59 years ago today, on May 23, 1967, the first GO Transit trains departed from Oakville and Pickering bound for Toronto Union Station. GO Transit began as a single commuter line, with trains every 20 minutes during rush hour, and every hour off-peak and on weekends.

Amazing to see Rodney's vision turn into a small bit of fruition, but leave it to Toronto to overrule the interests of local residents and businesses to give cars an escape hatch.

More on the dismantling of radar science in Canada. Thanks to The Weather Network and Mark Robinson for publishing this! www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/scie...

Canadians can spend their summer exploring all that nature has to offer with free admission to national parks operated by Parks Canada from June 19 to September 7th. https://ow.ly/blkC50Z3nRP

Good morning from between the Upper and (lower) Beaches. Today I'll be documenting the shoreline east of the downtown core, as well as two ravines that (indirectly) connect to it. First leg is Small's Creek. Let's go. #metroscapes

This part of East Bayfront always trips me out.

I seem to be unable to post pictures right now. Downtown waterfront cell network is struggling.

Good morning from Exhibition Place in Toronto. Today I will start my explorations along the central waterfront, heading east from Trillium Park. I'll be covering part of the Don later on. Let's go. #metroscapes

Taking the GO train into Toronto this morning, currently going express from Bramalea. The overhead system decided it was time to cram in 8 different courtesy announcements, one after the other.

I have watched a lot of radar around these parts and I don't know that over ever seen a radar signature like that. Heed weather warnings and take cover if this is affecting you! #ONstorm

LOCATIONS IN THE PATH: MOUNT BRYDGES, DELAWARE, LOBO, KOMOKA, KOMOKA PROVINCIAL PARK, LOBO SIDING, LAMBETH, NORTHCREST, LONDON, WESTMINSTER, GLANWORTH, POND MILLS, FANSHAWE CONSERVATION AREA, NILESTOWN, BELMONT

5:46 PM ET - TORNADO WARNING now issued for London - Parkhill - Eastern Middlesex County. TORNADO LOCATION: OVER MOUNT BRYDGES MOTION: MOVING QUICKLY TO THE EAST AT 60 KM/H HAZARDS: TORNADO WIND: DAMAGING (90 - 110 KM/H) HAIL: UP TO QUARTER SIZE (UP TO 2.5 CM)

Oh man. Waiting to carpool in Aberfoyle this morning. I just walked from the a local bus hub to the local Tim's. Hostile. Could be cooler and put Aberfoyle back on the map after that a commercial bottler took a hike.

I took 290 pictures yesterday 💀 It may be a couple days before I get get these up on site. These are supporting a side project, and that has higher priority.

There's some kind of slow order or disruption between Dupont and St Clair West, and I do not miss this feeling of purgatory.

Good morning from Yonge and Lawrence. This week will be a little different in that I will be refreshing some of my Toronto walks, and they will be broken up. Today we'll look a few different tributaries in the Don River, starting with Burke Brook from Yonge to the West Don. Let's go. #metroscapes

Catching up with the ghosts of Toronto's built heritage at The Guild Park.

May 16, 1853: the Ontario, Simcoe & Huron Railway begins revenue operations. It is the first steam railway in Toronto—and Canada West (now Ontario) . The original OS&H wooden station was located close to where the eastern Front Street entrance to Toronto Union Station is today. 1/2

New from me in @torontostar: breaking the delay culture at City Hall should be on the agenda in this fall’s mayoral race. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

**POLL** A: Flat B: DEM Tilt

The open-source requirement on service discontinuation would change the entire calculus of planned obsolescence. Companies build lock-in by making the switching cost infinite. If the law made source code the default exit ramp, they'd have to compete on quality instead.

Someone caught the error and a new NOTAM was issued. The fireworks show will go.

That was unexpected.

Those fireworks cannot go ahead now. The NOTAM is expired. If they bang them off anyway then it's a ROGUE event, subject to serious penalties, unless someone realized the error and a new one is declared before 22:45, when the news article says it will be.

There is a NOTAM in effect for the airspace 1000 metres east of Billy Bishop. But for an odd time, before dark, and almost over now, in 15 minutes.