Launching Winter Stations 2026 — Toronto’s annual exhibition of temporary outdoor art installations at Woodbine Beach! This is “Specularia” by Andrew Clark (USA) and “Embrace” by Will Cuthbert (Canada).
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A great move. Our turn Toronto—our city hall also has a great observation deck and opening it only once a year for Doors Open is not enough. Let's celebrate our built legacy.
On theme for last night's trivia @jocelynsquires.bsky.social
In Ontario! I believe there were others licensed much earlier in Quebec and the western provinces.
Advocacy can take many shapes. Tonight was all about celebrating art and architecture in our city.
Thanks to everyone who put up with my bad jokes and random facts!
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Always good to see what others are doing.
I don't know what comes next. Maybe my analysis is wrong. Maybe real change is underway. But at the moment it feels like a much ado about nothing. Nothing meaningfully changed for Venezuelans: our country is still under an authoritarian regime, the same people run torture centres and secret police.
It seems all that happened yesterday was a change in who is the head of the regime as a strategy to force them to work with the US, but that's it. No return of democracy, no freeing of political prisoners, and no structural change that will benefit all Venezuelans.
My concern is that much of the press conf. signaled not to what Venezuelans have been asking for ( international aid to support regime change and instating our elected govt) but something very different: a US that is ok working with the regime as long as they can access Venezuelan resources.
4. The US has started speaking of Vzla's 1970s nationalization of oil as "US oil being stolen". This was done under a democratic government and, in fact, by the president Chavez did an attempted coup against. It has nothing to do with Maduro, but it seems to be laying a new narrative on resources.
3. Maduro was not the entire regime, he was a very small part of the leadership. The remaining leaders are some of the cruelest, running things like repression forces, secret police and torture centres. Many of them have the same drug charges as Maduro. Why have they been left in place?
2. In 2024 we elected a new president who is currently living in exile. His VP + leader of the opposition won the Nobel Peace Prize a month ago. We have a legitimate government that we all assumed would take office now, but the US seems to have sidelined them to work with the remaining regime. Why?
1. For Venezuelans, the US removing Maduro from power signalled the regime change we've been waiting for for 25 years. But during the press conference, it was suggested that the US would be working with the remaining regime to "run" Venezuela. So, no regime change? Then why all this?
But while Maduro has been removed, Trump's press conference had a lot of baffling statements that caused many Venezuelans (including myself) to be concerned about what comes next. Here are some things that particularly stood out.
So given this, Maduro's removal from power and seeing him in handcuffs has indeed been very well received by the vast majority of Venezuelans. For many Venezuelans, that goal justified any means—whether it set a terrible international precedent or not.
First off, no one—and I mean NO ONE—should be shedding a tear for Maduro. He was a vile authoritarian who refused to recognize an electoral loss and was illegally occupying the presidency. His regime has over 1000 political prisoners and led to the mass migration of +8 million Venezuelans.
It's been just over 24 hours since this all started and I'm ready to share some perspective as a Venezuelan. I shouldn't need to say this, but since the internet has a tendency to oversimplify: this is my personal view, Venezuelans are very divided on how they feel, and things are still changing.
What news to wake up to. 💛💙💔
¡Feliz año nuevo!
Happy new year Marta!
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The northern lights over Sápmi (also known as Swedish Lapland). Simply magical. 💚
Winter may not be my favorite season, but this year it is delivering some pretty beautiful skies.
My obituary for Frank Gehry:
www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and...
Another year, another @tosoarch.bsky.social BASH! So much fun to catch up with people in such a gorgeous venue. Limberlost Place by @moriyamateshima.bsky.social and Acton Ostry was the perfect place to set off and explore when I needed a break.
Twice in my Toronto life I have lived in apts built during that mid century boom, thankfully. The decision to slow it was correct *at that moment & context* but it led to a disastrous political climate & Toronto’s critical problem today.
One of my favourites. Sad to have missed it this year.
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