screenshot of an interactive map showing location of garden suites and laneway housing in Toronto as light green-yellow dots on a blue background
recently updated a map showing growth of laneway housing / garden suites in Toronto (2018-2025)
check out charts, interactive map, and a few words here: schoolofcities.github.io/gentle-densi...
#toronto #maps #housing
Another combo with more options than I'd imagined (Thursday March 5)
Wordle 1,720 5/6*
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It's time we started seeing Doug Ford not as a populist, but as a flake. Just flakey ideas.
(TBH the idea of putting one in East Harbour is the least crazy. There's space and eventually transit, and not likely demand for offices or condos for a while.)
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Once again I will point out that most deaths in early concentration camps occur from illness and poor conditions. But these deaths are not accidents; this is one of the intended outcomes of a concentration camp.
How Flightradar24 became the go-to platform for the world to watch global aviation crises unfold
Cities often find the $$$ for public joy investments when major events like FIFA come to town—live music, expanded patios, art installations, pedestrianized streets. A bit like families who only bring out the “good china” when guests are visiting.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The rate is the same for condos. It's actually higher for buildings purpose built for rental, but renters don't notice because it's included in the rent. City is very gradually reducing that difference.
Deer and elk are already using the new wildlife overpass in Osburn, safely crossing Interstate 90 instead of risking deadly traffic. Last year, Kylie Mohr wrote about this “bridge to nowhere.” Now, it’s a bridge to safety for wildlife and drivers alike.
Potentially interesting talk at the University of Toronto about how important walkability around transit stops is for supporting transit in India - an issue very relevant to Toronto as well. schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/event/social...
(It's quite likely we'll have a mild winter or two next, but that gives us time to get the program organized for when a hard winter comes around again)
Pretty pleased to see that the mayor agrees with my suggestion in an earlier Star article that Toronto might benefit from a "surge capacity" citizen shoveller program for extraordinary storms. www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...
Felt like that from the outset.
“the only debate that seemed to be remaining was whether the US would launch in concert with Israel or if the US would wait until Iran retaliated on US military targets in the region and then engage.”
8. No, Trump launched an illegal war, because our ally put him in a no-win situation in which, as one source told the Post,
4. Early reporting on the war suggested that Israel was going to attack Iran without or without Trump, and that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had lobbied him to join the effort.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
There was only one option with the letters I had, I just needed to figure it out (Wednesday March 4)
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I wish some major media outlets would do broad reports on the impact of death threats on our politics, and on who's doing them (MAGA men mostly from what I can tell), and why law enforcement appears to be doing so little about them. They are such a big (submerged) part of our politics now.
No kidding
Her city councillor, Stephen Holyday, told the Toronto Sun he doesn’t get many complaints from constituents about the shelter – to the point that he finds it odd. He knows the shelter planned for 66 Third St. in a neighbouring ward has been divisive, but hasn’t seen anything like that level of opposition in central Etobicoke. “I’m a little surprised by that,” he said, “because I know the community that I live in are vocal about things, as they should be. “I would’ve thought I would’ve heard more from people just up the street and I didn’t – including people that I know in the community. I’m not sure what’s happening exactly.”
Puzzled by lack of complaints, Councillor Stephen Holyday thinks it’s kind of weird that his constituents aren’t vocally opposing a new homeless shelter. torontosun.com/news/local-n...
Protest signs about arts, culture, and heritage cuts. On Granville Street in Halifax with an office building in the background
One of the chants:
"Bring back the HST! Don't cut our community!"
Reverse that 1% HST cut and the museums and festivals and music and Nova Scotia publishing are secure again
‘please do not rely on the US government for assisted departure or evacuation at this time. there are currently no United States evacuation points.’ — the recorded message you hear when you call the Office of Overseas Citizens Services hotline.
I'm not making this up. if you're an American stranded in the Middle East and you call the State Department help line, you get a recorded message pretty much telling you to go fuck yourself. thank you for your attention to my extremely angry post about it. link is here: bit.ly/409JSAA
There was a fancy dessert cafe in Toronto delightfully called "Just Desserts"
Yeah, I had to replace my tablet and of course it's 11 so I'll be able to compare. Right away I saw they were discouraging saving on the machine and pushing saving in the cloud.
Meanwhile, they're encouraging Iranians to get out in the streets to overthrow the regime.
The war of massed, cheap long-range drones has gone global in the Middle East, and early results have shown a lack of readiness for air defenses to handle them.
Serious enshittification. I am still clinging to Windows 10 on my desktop (there was a temporary continuing support option). But maybe I'd better upgrade before 12 becomes my only option (11 is quite bad but clearly it's just going to get worse).
SCRIPTWRITER: So, for the bad guys, I've got a cabal of secretive scientists!
SCIENCE CONSULTANT: Have you ever MET scientists?!
*scriptwriter goes to AAAS meeting*
SCRIPTWRITER: So, for the bad guys, I've got a cabal of secretive Golden Retrievers who are hiding tennis balls...
It’s the time for all the dog waste and cigarette butts to reappear from the receding snow banks.
Turns out the Province gives significantly less funding per student to the large school boards it accuses of fiscal mismanagement
thelocal.to/ontario-scho...
I imagine it would be hard to concentrate on anything too weighty
