All this. I don’t care if some people find flying out of downtown easier. We need to stop letting these people run Toronto like it’s the place people have to be when they’re not at the cottage. We live here, we like it. Park not planes, @liberalca.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social
Begging Olivia Chow to not set the tone by *meeting Doug Ford in his home* and to start lying down in front of some tractors. Elevated Gardiner rebuild, decimation of Ontario Place and the Science Centre and now Toronto’s waterfront as a major airport are on your watch, Olivia, they’re your legacy.
if Ford really wants a Toronto waterfront legacy project, that would be it. but it would be forever tainted by what he’s already done to Ontario Place.
“Ford has been perpetually preoccupied by a waterfront plan that has never needed his ideas — and will be worse because of them.” www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... #topoli #onpoli
a drawing of a monk wearing dark glasses and rolling dice at a table
gambling monk, germany, 15th century
wow! probably not that much process as you’re electric already. One installer should be able to handle it, unless it’s wildly different from the typical gas & forced air setup.
We got a Fujitsu last year, premium price like Mitsubishi but solid and very quiet.
Installer was Switch Heat Pumps.
YTZ is the biggest waste of land in Canada. It takes in 4% of Toronto's air traffic and obstructs what should be the country's greatest urban park. TPA has a profound conflict of interest. Of course they want it to expand, and of course they have reports claiming this is very very important.
the streetcar routes all running ~50% slower vs 2014…wow. I always felt like the Flexities were slower (or operated slower?) but I didn’t realize it was this bad
We've seen similar dynamics here in Toronto for a couple decades where former multi-residential buildings get converted into single family housing. As-of-right.
It's only in the past few years with the EHON reforms that the arrow can now go both directions.
Cutting aid to spend on defence sounds great to the bloke down the pub
But it never works
Aid is a pittance compared to defence budgets. Cut the entire aid budget to buy two tyres on a fighter jet
Canada’s defence budget is ~$80bn or 16% of federal budget. Aid is $6bn or 1.2%
1010 & TVO framed Tory misconduct as an affair. FTR he had a secret romance with a junior staffer who reported to him. He helped get her a job at Rogers-owned MLSE in a role dealing with him & his office on issues involving public funds. He then voted at city council on an issue she handled at MLSE
Yet *another* terrible Doug Ford idea for Toronto's waterfront, with generous coverage via a government leak to @robertbenzie.bsky.social.
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
it’s not a big deal when *my* social class does it
huh 🤔
This is a profound continental divide. Canadians overwhelmingly view other Canadians, even those unlike them, as being good people. Americans, more than any other country, view their neighbours and fellow citizens as bad people. Anti-Americanism flourishes in the United States
Does CBTC impose lower speed limits than before? On which parts of the line? Are vehicles now crawling across intersections and other conflict points so they can potentially stop to avoid a car, or is the top speed between stops just overall lower now?
Mr. Eliason, who advocates allowing single-stair construction for small multifamily buildings as a solution to the housing crisis, said he learned how common the design was outside the United States while working in Germany in 2019. After seeing an 11-story tower his firm at the time had designed, Mr. Eliason recalled, he turned to his boss and said: "Something is wrong here. Where's your other stair?" "He's looking at me, and said: 'What are you talking about? If there was another stair, there wouldn't be any room for the homes'"
Single-stair gets the New York Times treatment. @holz-bau.bsky.social reminds us why they call the last line the kicker: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/b... (gift link)
this rings true - I can think of several colleagues who went into software after studying, and sometimes even starting a career in, other types of engineering
New from me at TVO, arguing that convention centres are a colossal waste of money and whether Toronto attracts the annual conference of dental surgeons is simply not a pressing public policy matter. www.tvo.org/article/anal...
new S(ubstack)-Bahn post: 20 years ago, Seoul was haggling over whether to install platform screen doors at its Metro stations. many called it a waste and an impossibility.
now it’s at all Metro stations across South Korea. how did this transformation happen?
www.substack-bahn.net/p/how-seoul-...
Almost like shutting down safe consumption sites and funneling money away from harm reduction and into abstinence grifting makes things less safe and increases harms. This is consistent with decades of data and was completely predictable.
India Habitat Centre - Eco Brutalism in New Delhi, India (1993) r/brutalism
For US automakers, Trump's election in 2024 may have been an extinction-level event.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/b...
Our report is about NYC, but waste handling and collection is an issue in many places across North America. Toronto has their huge T-shaped loading docks (www.azuremagazine.com/article/park...), Philly has similar issues to NYC, which will become exacerbated as it builds more multifamily housing.
📈📊: Ontario appears to have pulled back on sharing data. That's an idea we put to the premier's office, which told us:
"To imply the government has reduced or removed process measures is factually incorrect and misleading to your readers.”
Here are the examples #OnPoli
Forget the drawings. This is a flawed project being sold with false claims. My column: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
In 2025, there were 1.5m daily cycle journeys in London, equivalent to nearly half of daily Tube journeys.
Evidence shows that London-wide, cycling infrastructure is effective in reducing risk exposure: Protected cycling infrastructure reduces injury risk to people cycling by 40-65%. Around 33% of all cycling in London occurs on Cycleways, but only 15% of cycle casualties. 76% of people cycling feel safe on Cycleways compared to 40% feeling safe on other roads. 70% of Cycleway users felt safer after the introduction of the Cycleway.
Road safety factors are more likely to be attributed to the driver of (recorded in 2024) the other vehicle than people cycling, with three of top five factors relating to behaviour of other drivers. • People cycling undertaking an illegal turn and/or not complying with traffic lights is a factor in only 3.7% of all collisions resulting in a cycling fatal or serious injury (same prevalence as drivers undertaking illegal turns and/or not complying with traffic lights).
A 2023 analysis showed that in the 2016-22 period, we saw a greater reduction in risk in boroughs where the Cycleway network expanded the most. Conversely, risk increased most in boroughs with no or limited investment in Cycleways.
Some interesting London cycling stats in this TfL FOI, if that's your thing tfl.gov.uk/corporate/tr...
"The system's power comes not from its truth, but from everyone's willingness to perform as if it were true, and its fragility comes from the same source. When even one person stops performing, when the greengrocer removes his sign, the illusion begins to crack"
- Mark Carney
He also says "I live in a decent neighbourhood, you know, families". I know we've all heard this so many times that we're a bit numb to it but I just want to say this is a call for the city government to segregate and only govern for a certain class and it's not compatible with liberal democracy.
Historic neighborhoods with iron preservation mandates don't stop change. They accelerate change. Historic preservation turns units for renters into mansions for billionaires
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
