Phil Parker

Agreed! Waiting on the corner with minimal weather protection (if any) is not the same level of comfort, even with fairly frequent headways from 5-8 am.

Definitely feels like a remnant of Toronto being a much smaller city. There is a network of night busses that run when the subway is closed though - including routes that provide parallel service to where the subway does during the day.

Statistics Canada to cut 850 jobs in 'dark time' for public service, union says Federal statistics agency entered its workforce adjustment period Monday, sending notices to thousands of employees.

Quite frankly, it’s outrageous that Mark Carney is cutting Statistics Canada. If he was Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre, I feel like this would be getting a lot more backlash.

Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.

When you’ve been in grey winter for weeks, it is magical to get above the clouds into brilliant sun. Easy to
forget it’s still up there!

#FactOfTheDay: As the threat of #tariffs contribute to global economic uncertainty, the #TorontoEmploymentSurvey analyzes how tariffs may be affecting our city. In 2025, tariff-exposed sectors experienced a 2.8% decrease in employment, with 208,110 jobs now exposed.

https://ow.ly/kAA650XASrw

This is a great explainer for why protecting employment areas is so important.
youtu.be/lHpifQ-A6HU?...

Graphic with bold text reading ‘Toronto has 1,623,710 employees. A new record high’ on a blue background.

The 2025 #TorontoEmploymentSurvey results are in! That’s 43 years of tracking jobs and businesses in #Toronto.

Map of Toronto showing 120 Major and Protected Major Transit Station Areas approved by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing on August 15, 2025. White dots match MTSAs and orange dots mark PMTSAs, with boundaries outlined around each station area.

Today, the Province of Ontario approved, with modifications, 120 Major Transit Station Areas and Protected Major Transit Station Areas in #Toronto. The decision increases building heights and densities near transit and supports more housing options for these areas.

Learn more: toronto.ca/OurPlan

Definitely. Instant tears every time I went outside.

Easy to lose this in the noise of the day, but the prime minister of Canada just said the US president, leader of the global hegemon, wants to soften us up economically so he can annex us.

That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.

Shawn Micallef: How the Toronto Region Board of Trade got lost in traffic The only thing that will make getting around Toronto better is fewer cars and more people taking public transit, cycling or walking. There is no other way.

How the Toronto Region Board of Trade got lost in traffic. My Toronto Star column on their terrible congestion task force report & how they’ve lost their way of late. $billions on a 401 tunnel? Where’s the rational business people now?

www.thestar.com/news/gta/how...

Think about how the internet is so vast that even the weirdest sub-group can find each other. A dense city is similar in concept. Get enough people in close proximity and there will be some within them to support the oddball stores and fringe cuisines and all the other stuff that makes a city a city

Toronto's best hope is that they give the removal work to Metrolinx. It will take 12 years to plan and design, and the cost will grow to $200 million per km and might never be finished.

$48 Million to tear out bike lanes…which efficiently connect people to commerce, work and public service is foolish for a province trying to boost the productivity of its largest city. Ontario is a joke.

Ford government to ban lawsuits against province if cyclists are hurt or killed on streets where bike lanes were removed Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria tells cyclists: for your own safety, stay off Bloor, Yonge and University when bike lanes are removed.

This is proof they know what they're doing will kill or injure people. This is a malevolent gov't. Treating it as rational is a pantomime of some fantasy benign and good faith politics of yesterlore that doesn't exist. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...