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An eastbound Finch West LRT trundles through the snow on Finch Avenue West in Toronto on opening day December 7 2025.

An eastbound Finch West LRT trundles through the snow on Finch Avenue West in Toronto on opening day December 7 2025.

"Dashing" Through The Snow.

#Toronto #Line6 #FinchWestLRT #Photography

07.12.2025 13:37 👍 585 🔁 98 💬 18 📌 3
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Vehicles registered to Ford cabinet ministers caught by speed cameras more than 20 times | Globalnews.ca Documents obtained by Global News reveal that, over three years, vehicles registered to Ford’s cabinet minister received more than $3,300 in fines for speeding.

NEW: Vehicles registered to Doug Ford's cabinet ministers have been caught by automated speed cameras more than 20 times.

In one case, they were driving 70 in a 40 zone. On average, they were 17 over the limit. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1146373...

06.10.2025 11:34 👍 250 🔁 129 💬 17 📌 47
Beer and book on a table on a patio

Beer and book on a table on a patio

My favourite place for a book and a beer (pic from a couple weeks ago)

21.09.2025 20:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Sunset

Sunset

Summer burner.

20.09.2025 00:01 👍 83 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 0

Done!

12.09.2025 01:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Water molecule at the top of an arch with fountain below

Water molecule at the top of an arch with fountain below

The water molecule at the Rosehill Reservoir!

13.07.2025 21:59 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 1

So: the “Protect Bathurst / Dufferin” astroturf campaign run by Summerhill Market had videos of a guy talking about the neighborhood & RapidTO proposal. Real grassroots feel. Took a screenshot & put it into google image search. Guess what?

21.05.2025 00:52 👍 270 🔁 136 💬 16 📌 61
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Mirtle: Why Sam Bennett should be suspended for his hit on Anthony Stolarz This play is going to be debated into the ground, but the reality is the outcome comes down to what this league wants to be.

Why Sam Bennett should be suspended. And why he likely won't be

www.nytimes.com/athletic/633...

06.05.2025 10:57 👍 112 🔁 19 💬 14 📌 10
A rectangular gray gravestone, inscribed with Whitin Badger, 1906-1992, Dwight Cooke 1908-1992, and underneath the line "THE UNICORN WAITS IN A DARKENING WOOD"

A rectangular gray gravestone, inscribed with Whitin Badger, 1906-1992, Dwight Cooke 1908-1992, and underneath the line "THE UNICORN WAITS IN A DARKENING WOOD"

Hey, who wants something nice?

So I was on tour this month, and when I was doing my event for the Princeton University Library and the Princeton Public Library, I ended up at the graveyard, where I found this gravestone:

05.05.2025 17:38 👍 2425 🔁 847 💬 36 📌 151
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A Gutted Education Department’s New Agenda: Roll Back Civil Rights Cases, Target Transgender Students The Trump administration is subverting the traditional priorities of the department’s decimated civil rights office by making discrimination investigations practically impossible — instead enforcing…

NEW: The Trump administration is subverting the traditional priorities of the Education Department’s decimated civil rights office by making discrimination investigations practically impossible — instead enforcing its own anti-diversity campaign.

02.05.2025 11:00 👍 563 🔁 252 💬 11 📌 19
Pink clouds and apartment buildings

Pink clouds and apartment buildings

30.04.2025 00:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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European Spa Company Therme Misrepresented Itself in an Effort to Expand Into Canada A Times investigation shows Therme, a European firm, exaggerated its track record in securing a deal with Ontario, and government auditors found that the process had been unfair and opaque.

The NY Times has published an investigation into the Therme development at Ontario Place. It found that while the company told the province it had a proven track record of operating six spas around the world, at the time it had only ever operated one. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...

16.04.2025 11:21 👍 293 🔁 169 💬 19 📌 56
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a little girl talking to a boy in a coffin with the words " where are his glasses " ALT: a little girl talking to a boy in a coffin with the words " where are his glasses "
08.04.2025 00:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Omg did someone actually yell “LEAD US BIG DADDY” at Carney at a rally lmfaoooooo

(I saw this on r/onguardforthee and haven’t independently verified!!!)

05.04.2025 01:40 👍 1196 🔁 194 💬 76 📌 57
Chickadee visiting a handful of peanuts with a second chickadee in the background

Chickadee visiting a handful of peanuts with a second chickadee in the background

04.04.2025 18:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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04.04.2025 18:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Shawn Micallef: The family that owns Loblaw are offering $50 million to spruce up Queen’s Park? We should look that gift horse in the mouth It’s hard to envision how $50-million worth of improvements will fit in Queen’s Park North, a greenspace that was recently renovated and is well used.

Toronto should look the Weston $50 million Queen’s Park gift horse straight in the mouth. My Toronto Star column.

29.03.2025 14:04 👍 110 🔁 40 💬 10 📌 7

I think it would work with just job title and organization. It would semi-anonymize people in less senior jobs, identify people at the very top, and provide helpful information for context and comparison.

28.03.2025 22:24 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Congratulations! You solved the Mini in 0:13

Congratulations! You solved the Mini in 0:13

I guess my day is all downhill from here
Wordle 1,369 2/6

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19.03.2025 11:30 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rendering of public washroom with text TO the Loo! Register now.

Rendering of public washroom with text TO the Loo! Register now.

Have you ever had trouble finding a public washroom on the go? Join the TO the Loo! and share your ideas for the Toronto toilet of the future.

✨ Win cash prizes and have your design featured in @spacing.bsky.social

💥 Sign up is open now! Visit publicspace.ca/competition for more details

15.03.2025 15:30 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
I keep thinking about Thucydides, who wrote, “The strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must.” Is that Canada’s position now? Will we have to suffer what we must?

Yes, because we live next door to the United States, which has a president who talks like President McKinley at the end of the 19th century, who is openly aggressive toward near neighbors. I think the prime minister was right when he used the words trade war, and the president said it himself: I will not use military force, but I will use economic force to coerce you.

It is economic warfare. We have to understand that, and that’s what all of us got wrong, including me. We expected a version of this, but what we did not anticipate was that it would be framed within a broader context of economic war, and that became apparent during that first trip to Mar-a-Lago when Trump talked about Canada becoming the 51st state. And he understands it’s not coming through the use of military force and formal annexation. But, again, pay attention to what he said Tuesday night about the Panama Canal and Greenland: We’re going to do it one way or the other.

I keep thinking about Thucydides, who wrote, “The strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must.” Is that Canada’s position now? Will we have to suffer what we must? Yes, because we live next door to the United States, which has a president who talks like President McKinley at the end of the 19th century, who is openly aggressive toward near neighbors. I think the prime minister was right when he used the words trade war, and the president said it himself: I will not use military force, but I will use economic force to coerce you. It is economic warfare. We have to understand that, and that’s what all of us got wrong, including me. We expected a version of this, but what we did not anticipate was that it would be framed within a broader context of economic war, and that became apparent during that first trip to Mar-a-Lago when Trump talked about Canada becoming the 51st state. And he understands it’s not coming through the use of military force and formal annexation. But, again, pay attention to what he said Tuesday night about the Panama Canal and Greenland: We’re going to do it one way or the other.

Really sobering read. @stephenmaher.bsky.social interviews Janice Stein, founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.

www.gzeromedia.com/gzero-north/...

07.03.2025 00:37 👍 48 🔁 28 💬 7 📌 2
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There has to be a rainbow right now…but not from this view

05.03.2025 22:40 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Acclaimed TVO Doc ‘Your Tomorrow’ Captures the End of an Era at Ontario Place | TVO Media Education Group Film raises vital questions about the future of public spaces, premiering March 21 Toronto, Ontario, March 3, 2025 -- One of the year’s most acclaimed

Premiering on @tvotoday.bsky.social March 23rd at 9pm! Acclaimed TVO Doc ‘Your Tomorrow’ Captures the End of an Era at Ontario Place tvo.me/acclaimed-tv... #topoli #onpoli

04.03.2025 22:05 👍 47 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 2
Sunrise clouds

Sunrise clouds

Good morning

03.03.2025 11:47 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is a really good podcast and this is a very sweet episode that will make you cry

27.02.2025 19:12 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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27.02.2025 12:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Opinion | There Is No Going Back (Gift Article) The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.

Gift link—latest from @jamellebouie.net on the stakes of what we’re facing

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

05.02.2025 11:53 👍 37 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 2
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Ford seen on video saying he was '100% happy' Trump won U.S. election — until tariff threat | CBC News PC Leader Doug Ford was captured on video after a news conference Monday saying he was happy that President Donald Trump had won the most recent U.S. election — that is until Trump responded with tari...

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

04.02.2025 11:49 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I don't disagree...I kinda miss the stupid bullshit pings every so often

17.12.2024 22:54 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Amazing service from @spacingstore.bsky.social and Good Foot: delivery of Toronto stuff at my door less than 24 hours after placing the order

17.12.2024 18:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0