Wow. When I was there a few weeks ago, that was well over dry land.

I did a deep-dive into Ben Mulroney's extracurricular activities: At the same time as Mulroney is filling-in as host of The West Block, he is also working for two registered lobby groups and as an adviser to several companies – some of whose CEOs he's interviewed on Global News 640 Toronto radio

The DVP rainbow has been defaced again.

I've added to assignments "must quote something from in class"....feels like trying to stop niagara with a thimble

The west side of Toronto is a 15 minute city unless you need a post office!

Also: football stadiums

Putting lives at risk is a "data point"?

As Ford endorses vandalism, the city twists ever tighter and it's costing us billions. driving.ca/column/lorra...

"In the long run, these deluded CEOs may realize this isn’t realpolitik. It’s a suicide pact." www.wired.com/story/silico...

I will never forget when resident association reps objected to neighbourhood retail consultation over the summer because so few of them were in the city in the summer. And they complained about an "equity" issue. Equity for the people who own multimillion-dollar homes and can afford long vacations.

If you love the song “Me and Bobby McGee” you absolutely must read @elongreen.bsky.social on the life of the woman who inspired the song.

In which parents(!) compare kids(!) getting measles(!) to an unavoidable(!) car crash — www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Shawn is right. I’m really excited about the evolution of this city. Proud to call it home & here for all the growing pains because I love it ✨

This is such a smart column by @shawnmicallef.bsky.social -- I like the metaphor of Toronto as an unruly teen

The best days of Toronto are certainly ahead of us. Honestly the biggest impediment to Toronto realizing it's potential is an adversarial provincial government. It's bizarre that it's politically beneficial for the ONPC to hate on Toronto, yet economically terrible for the province.

Imagine all these cyclists taking up ten times as much space in a car. Who says bike lanes cause more traffic? Tell them they’re an idiot.

The Toronto Star’s City Report Card survey suggests six in 10 Torontonians believe that the city’s best days are in the past. Given the challenges Toronto faces right now, it’s an understandable position, but it’s wrong. My column on teenage Toronto. The future is bright if we….(pls read n share).

SkyDome is OPEN

I’ll be at Red Pegasus for the next hour signing books - it’s their 30th birthday on college street this weekend.

Yesterday I took a fantastic architecture boat tour organized by Toronto Society of Architects. More to come - see their listings & sign up. torontosocietyofarchitects.ca/events/

They really don’t like to show pictures of the thing itself.

Absolutely wild. Israel targeted and massacred 31 journalists and media staff in Yemen. The second-deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded. The Israeli regime is built on war crimes.

Around 6pm today. There’s often so much bike traffic in the lanes it’s routine to stop 20m behind the line.

I’ve tried to understand this kind of post, now a cliche, of a site that is has a totally manipulated algorithm (aside from everything else). No thanks.

Harvested the basil tonight (grown in a few pots) & made two batches of pesto. Put in ice cube tray & freeze so summer on demand in winter. This is a deez (pine) nuts post.

This is the only good content on the internet today.

Active incidents list says 2-alarm "Fire - Highrise Residential" Hope everyone's okay.

Been here for 25 years & never came across an proper aerial rescue set up. Big operation at Sherbourn & Esplanade today.

If he see Adam ask him. He’s always showing up to stuff. I will next time. If I don’t get an honest answer I will walk away from him.

Every time I come home from visiting family in Europe, that’s what I feel: Toronto is still a teenager, a work in progress, and therefore full of potential. Good read by @shawnmicallef.bsky.social.

"Of course, some people pine for that smaller, quieter, thinner Toronto, and that’s fine. A big city may not be for them, but Toronto has always had ambitions to be bigger." @shawnmicallef.bsky.social is spot on here.

Hark! A Toronto sage has words for a yearning population. Thank the wellness gods & their investors for this prophet.

Toronto as seen from Lake Ontario at 6:22pm on sept 19 2025. The water is most perfect. The sandbar is endless. Something something sublime. It’s still summer.

Few people know but Ben Affleck has a Toronto residence (Canadian spelling).

I agree. bsky.app/profile/hewe...

Not just that it is bigger. But that it will be different in the future, and that difference may include a more prominent role for it, and that will depend partly on whether we want that more prominent role

Here nor there, weeksa ago we were wondering when did the US have the population Canada does now (41 million). Answer: around 1872. I don't know why I keep thinking about that, but it somehow put things in some (a?) perspective. The US had fought independence & civil wars by that point.

Yet another for those who think the media aren't covering Ford. A large part of Ontario just doesn't care what Ford is doing.

When I interviewed Jarvis Cocker for the Toronto Star recently, I ended up with way too many quality quotes to fit into an 800-word piece, so for this week's stübermania newsletter, you get our complete director's cut of our conversation: stubermania.substack.com/p/a-conversa...

This is .... weird.

MGMT problem at parks, and there always has been. Need a new head to make this kind of stop. Mayor Chow must force change here.

Arlene said it best

The widely accepted narrative that Trump "chickened out" on Chicago is completely incorrect. ICE's incursions are getting worse here every day.

The line from Liberals who did stand is that they were standing against political violence and people didn't see the whole context. Well, make your own Kirk-free statement and stand for that. It's weak.

Kneecap banned in Canada as of today

The worst thing might be that I'm not even sure governments are hiding particularly good secrets. It's just a default belief that as little information as possible should be released.

Secret Canada. It's a problem.

For what good it does her. Listen to how *angry* the antis are at even just extending parking restrictions, the smallest change possible. Shout out to the conspiracy theorist at the end—that one is truly wild.

Whoa. This guide immediately goes where you're not expecting. I appreciate Shawn's juxtaposition of the many layers of Berlin. It speaks to the power of the built environment to carry memory, some of which exposes contradictions separated only by time. We celebrate the present by knowing the past.