Oliver Moore

Metrolinx‘s reflexive secrecy will lead directly in this case to making life worse for transit riders

Internal polling by Ford government suggests strong support for expanding Billy Bishop Airport There is overwhelming public support in Toronto and across Ontario for expanding the runway at Billy Bishop Airport, according to internal government polling obtained by the Star.

I would like some of whatever the 11pc who think longer runways at the downtown airport would make Toronto “a major economic centre in the world” are smoking
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Greening cities doesn’t just make them pleasant, it literally saves lives

Fox is on the one hand terrified to ride the subway and on the other hand telling ship crews in a war zone to grow a spine

Studio warrior, ready to fight to the last drop of someone else’s blood

Crude Oil WTI (OIL) o Real-time derived - Currency in USD 111.16 • Real-time Data • 18:09:50 +20.26

there is something poetic about how MAGAs in their 12 mpg F-150s will be hit the hardest while coastal libs who take transit will have the least exposure to skyrocketing oil prices

The Long-Feared Persian Gulf Oil Squeeze Is Upon Us Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has ground to a virtual halt, unleashing the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.

It’s been a half-century since the OPEC oil crisis. Good thing the west has spent that time engineering smaller cars, developing renewables and working aggressively to reduce reliance on fossil fuels
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Globe editorial: The Sunday Editorial: An evolution in how we think about how animals think Intelligent, tool-using, empathetic and self-aware: the distance between humans and other animals is not as great as you think

Your Sunday #longread. Junius goes deep on the sentience of animals and how what we know now should change how we treat them
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

Wild that in one week Toronto has gone from parkas and tuques to patio season. And we are HERE FOR IT

Man fined for parking on double yellows says council will have to take his telly A gardener has said the council will have to seize his television before he pays a fine for parking on a double yellow line

Self-righteous driver entitlement is a hell of a drug. This guy parked on the sidewalk, was ticketed and is refusing to pay the fine “out of principle“
www.theargus.co.uk/news/2591398...

If only Wente was still with us

*resigning

The establishment commentariat is really doing its best to put wind behind Tory. Here’s Steve Paikin — who is a personal friend of the ex mayor — using his publicly funded platform to float the *pandemic made him do it* angle Tory trotted out when retiring
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Rosie DiManno: Why John Tory shouldn’t feel the need to step aside Dirty tactics about personal shenanigans have taken the former mayor out of the race, writes Rosie DiManno, but voters don't have a track record of caring about such things.

This is intellectually gibberish. On the one hand, affairs with employees decades younger than the boss are no big deal. But on the other hand, pointing out the fact of such an affair is dirty politics
www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Ford looking to fill in part of Lake Ontario to build Toronto convention centre Premier floats idea of creating artificial land to house the project

Regular readers will be not be shocked to learn that, even though Ford claims Chow has endorsed the idea, her office says she hasn't seen a formal proposal
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Some urbanism news: my paper has re-started the #cities beat after an ~16-month hiatus. It will be done now by my colleague Patrick White, who I do not believe is on here. Important file, which I enjoyed reporting on, and I'm looking forward to seeing how he takes the coverage in new directions

How to make a convention centre less useful: locate it out of the downtown ... on an island

Gotta to be buff to fight off the nazi punks

Look Inside Richard Hell’s East Village Tenement Apartment The punk-rock icon and writer has spent more than 50 years in his East Village tenement apartment.

You scroll past the peeling paint, the mis-matched furniture and the bathtub in the kitchen. But just when you think, yeah, this is where I'd imagine him living, you see the spin bike
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Inbox: “Pinnacle SkyTower tops off at a momentous 106 storeys”

This project is visible from The G&M newsroom. Frankly, the tallest building in Canada could be more impressive

TIL the amazing story of the 1947 chocolate bar strike, when Canadian kids, angry about a price raise from 5 to 8 cents, protested and boycotted in large numbers. Got real traction but it faltered after red-baiting newspapers started publishing allegations that the the strike was communist-backed

Sure, that bylaw sounds weird. But imagine if every bar-owner just decided for themself how many pinball machines to have. Utter chaos

Fun biking data as the weather warms..

per the TPA, Bike Share Toronto had a record 7.8M rides last year, boosting the service's revenue by 30pc compared to 2024. The amount of subsidy required dropped to 37 cents/ride
www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis...

NEWSTALK 1010 on X: ""You found out that others who were seeking that job actually planned to play dirty." @millandmaitmom talks with former mayor John Tory about what changed his mind to not run again. Listen to the full interview on the podcast here: https://t.co/Wgq89xQMc8 https://t.co/NOnw0XWgdF" / X "You found out that others who were seeking that job actually planned to play dirty." @millandmaitmom talks with former mayor John Tory about what changed his mind to not run again. Listen to the full interview on the podcast here: https://t.co/Wgq89xQMc8 https://t.co/NOnw0XWgdF

In a softball from *the radio station where he appears regularly as an expert* bringing up the fact that John Tory had an affair is characterised as playing dirty
x.com/NEWSTALK1010...

The idiocy is strong in Toronto drivers this ayem

Remember that Hoekstra‘s boss re-posted a video of the Obamas as monkeys

Mr. *i don’t know why they’re so touchy* is a bit touchy

Damn, now we'll never finish Smart Track

Overall, housing *should* move the needle for voters. 79pc would like the provincial govt to make housing a priority but only 31pc believe the govt does so. And 55pc say prov govt actions have made it more difficult to rent or afford housing costs