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Park planner (raccoon habitat creator) in Tkaronto
Portions of the park are still under construction so full path/route map might be a little confusing at the moment. Totally hear you about making an interim route/trail map available; great suggestion.
21.07.2025 18:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The easiest/primary trailheads are at south side of Commissioners Street just east of the bridge to get to the south side of the park and at Cherry and Comissioners Street to access the north side of the park. Lots of trails through the park once you get in.
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Updated 6 hrs ago 'We're fixing it now'. Chow taking action to keep pools open By Ilyas Hussein Staff Reporter Amid the scorching heat, Mayor Olivia Chow says Toronto is taking immediate action to keep pools open. To address staffing and safety concerns, Chow said the city is deploying additional lifeguards to city pools to manage schedules, adding more shade structures and are working to have medical professionals checked in or stationed on site. "Pools need to be open during a heat wave. That's obvious to us all," Chow said in a post on X Monday. "We're making sure we have to resources to keep them safe and healthy for City workers and the public alike. We're fixing it now." Updated 6 hrs ago Toronto pools face rolling closures amid heat wave By Ilyas Hussein Staff Reporter
The fact that there have been rolling closures at city swimming pools *because* of the heat is exactly why we need to take heat and climate change seriously.
Even the systems we have to keep us cool are, themselves, vulnerable to extreme climate impacts.
Thermometer reading of concrete exposed to direct sunlight on a hot day, reading over 40°C
Thermometer reading of concrete in shade on a hot day, reading at 28°C
One of the reasons we need to remove more concrete and plant more trees is because all this exposed concrete absorbs an incredible amount of heat, even compared to concrete that’s shaded.
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This is wild for many reasons, but particularly considering how demonstrably and irrefutably effective congestion pricing has been in NYC (not to mention in London, Singapore, etc.).
15.05.2025 20:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Complete the City's survey prior to May 26: ca.mar.medallia.com?e=448169&d=l...
12.05.2025 01:04 — 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Jane’s Walks return to Toronto May 2-4. If you’re looking for a great walk option, try one of these walks being led by my City of Toronto Planning Division colleagues!
23.04.2025 22:44 — 👍 41 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
How investing in neighborhood parks has transformed climate resilience in some at-risk areas grist.org/looking-forw...
26.02.2025 17:31 — 👍 61 🔁 21 💬 0 📌 1
New: my story on the just-completed 1.3-kilometre Don River extension, a billion-dollar project that restores the river's long-lost natural connection with Lake Ontario in Toronto. It's an amazing thing. canadiangeographic.ca/articles/don...
03.02.2025 15:02 — 👍 84 🔁 29 💬 5 📌 5
Can’t be said enough: the right in Canada bleated on for years about patriotism & people not being proud of Canada, of wokeness, reconciliation, statue removal, etc as the problem. Then they are first to lay down in front of a foreign strongman who makes them half chub horny. It was all bullshit.
31.01.2025 20:55 — 👍 1163 🔁 367 💬 79 📌 32
A four panel screencap from ANDOR PANEL 1: Karis saying, "So much going wrong, so much to say, and all of it happening so quickly." PANEL 2: Cassian looking on as Karis continues, "The pace of repression outstrips our ability to understand it." PANEL 3: Karis, continuing, "And that is the real trick of the imperial thought machine." PANEL 4: Karis, finishing, "It's easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident."
i know it's cringe to post star wars as ~revolution~ or whatever, & that's not what this is, but I do think about this sequence from Andor a lot bc I know how paralyzing it is to feel overwhelmed. So, I'll continue working in the lanes where I feel the most needed/helpful.
11.11.2024 19:51 — 👍 2596 🔁 646 💬 6 📌 1The curdled libertarianism here is a consequence of decades of permitting and facilitating billionaires and the sundry powerful to get away with evading taxes, undermining democracy, and flouting labour and environmental laws. If there are no consequences for thee, no consequences for me.
07.01.2025 14:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Doug Ford government paid experts $1.5M to tell them how to reach net-zero emissions. Experts came up with 18 scenarios; each one urged the government to phase out natural gas. The Ford government isn't doing that and hasn't released the report.
An exclusive by me
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