Oliver Moore

Work truck. Wank truck.

Is there anywhere people are more hapless than an airport?

A reminder that after 200 bear attacks in seven months, you still check for cars first and second. The guy texting behind the wheel is still more likely to kill you than the 🐻.

The Hunt Is On for Bears in Japan After Deadly Attacks

“When you cross the street in Akita now, you look right, you look left and then you look for bears"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/w...

“His physique, while not Olympian, places him in the upper echelons”

Elon Musk created an imaginary friend that tells everyone how awesome he is

I believe the technical term for this is extortion

A City Is Broke. Can Billionaires’ Urbanist Dream Offer It a Last Chance?

No. And not just because of Betteridge’s Law
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/b...

Globe editorial: Toronto shuts the door on the corner store City council’s wrongheaded limits on convenience stores go against what makes cities great, not to mention the free market

Junius: "Other concerns spoke to a more serious problem among some of Toronto’s leaders: an inability that crosses ideological lines to understand what makes cities good"
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

The most amazing part of this CV is that The Globe used to cover high school sports

Klimt Painting Becomes the Most Expensive Work of Modern Art at $236.4 Million At Sotheby’s first sale in its new headquarters, it became the priciest work of modern art ever sold at auction.

In what feels like the triumph of art over gimmick, Klimt painting sets auction record while solid-gold toilet attracts just one bid and sells for only 1pc more than raw material cost
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Curaçao has fewer people than Sudbury

People move to the suburbs for al kinds of reasons. It would seem unwise to ignore the effect of price in shaping that choice

Toronto councillor wants to save a strip mall, even if means thousands of homes don’t get built 1km from a subway station

Trump, keen student of history, is presumably channeling Roosevelt: “He may be a bastard, but he’s our bastard”

This GTA rideshare driver says his earnings have never been lower. Why he and others say Ontario’s new minimum wage law isn’t helping Rules guarantee minimum wage $17.20/hour for “engaged time” — spent actively completing trips or deliveries — but ignore time spent waiting for work.

Hot take: It's a bad thing for a ride-hailing driver to work 139 hours in a week. Bad for him, bad for traffic safety. Just bad
www.thestar.com/news/gta/thi...

Opinion | London’s sad decline is a warning to New Yorkers In three terms as mayor, Sadiq Khan has crushed the economic life out of Britain’s capital.

Ah, here it is. A hit piece warning New Yorkers against voting for Mamdani. It’s a crock, of course, cherry-pick whatever metrics you want, London is still the greatest city in the world
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

One of the big brains in the WaPo commentary stable recently opined that London was a city in decline. Absurd. But, if true, London Ontario just has to bide its time for a century or two

Wall Street Blows Past Bubble Worries to Supercharge AI Spending Frenzy Firms such as Blue Owl Capital have raised trillions in investing firepower. The artificial-intelligence build-out is a perfect match, though warning signs are flashing.

Well this isn't concerning at all..

"any worries on Wall Street about a possible investment bubble have largely been trumped by the fear of being left behind"
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

These are the same people who tie off their dog's leavings in a sack and hang it from a branch in the ravine, or place it neatly on a rock

Can you throw dog doo-doo in someone else’s garbage bin? The debate over the ‘politics of poop’ City bylaws. Vigilante justice. It’s an age-old debate that gets neighbours up in arms. “The politics of poop,” one dog owner said, “are intense.”

No. Arguably the real problem is that most cities don't have enough public garbage cans. But their absence doesn't mean the nearest private can becomes a public receptacle. Also, it's just weird to imply that the alternatives to dumping are littering or not picking up
www.thestar.com/life/can-you...

Years ago I wrote about this very thing, pegged to a converted garage in London. Fun spot though all done a bit quick and dirty cause of a short-term lease. Haven’t been back to the site and heard it eventually went into receivership, but is still operational
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toron...

Found my Met Gala outfit

A reader kindly and gently reminded me that I had somehow forgotten Etobicoke-Lakeshore, which also took much more than its share. Mea maxima culpa. I would note that this makes the point even stronger. Four of Toronto’s 25 wards took a stunning 95.5pc of the city’s growth from census 2016 to 2021

Exactly. The papers will moan about the cost but what choice does the city have? Unless by pure chance they have people on staff who used to do this sort of work they’re flying blind

Calling it now. If a substantial contingent of ultras travels to Toronto for next year’s World Cup games the city will be caught totally flat-footed. They better be hiring serious international consultants to tell them how to manage this

Ezra’s Pound is pretty good

Now don’t anyone be a bad person and joke that the Sun and Post clearly need skills development

You’re don’t have to read the piece everyone is ranting about

It's crazy that so much of Toronto being flat or shrinking is unremarked or actively hidden. You get Cllr Mike Colle, whose ward grew only 1.7pc, saying his constituents are "threatened" by constant change. Or residents in the Annex, which has fewer people, saying there's no space for more density