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This is what happens when you can’t rely on highly skilled labour to do construction work (because you rounded them up) and have to rely on locals.

D-tier gold leaf

Toronto’s Municipal Election is October 2026

Let’s see them Bike Share stats

Realtors certainly puff a lot about the impact of affordable housing on “property values”…

For people who statistically make no money…

Some realtor made a reel about “Top new condos not to buy because they secretly have affordable housing”

Smells like a RECO complaint

It wasn’t the work of the devil, it was the work of evangelicals. Don’t get it twisted.

My friend didn’t know what to talk about on a date with a mousy academic-type whose sole interests appeared to be The Sims and Baldur’s Gate 3

“Ask her about the latest Sleep Token”
“What’s that”
“Just ask”

So she texted back being like “how did you know????”

I remain undefeated.

Good. Second Harvest undermines every other community food centre that chooses to serve dignified food.

Grocery stores started insisting other food banks haul rotting food away from their stores for free like Second Harvest does in order to receive donations.

So what you’re saying is we need some nuns who know which car parts to abscond

Meanwhile it also bolstered violent driver’s hatred of cyclists

Too many guys seem to think EDC is carrying like a firearm and a knife

Not enough guys know EDC is sunscreen, granola bars, and bandaids

Like if I do my job right the only time a knife is out for lifesaving help

I was once getting off that streetcar at Spadina station when the one and only Desmond Cole got off and yelled at the fare inspectors, “stop criminalizing poor people”

And one of them replied, “shut the fuck up Desmond” as he was walking away from them

Legend.

During the CNE they stop EVERY LRT at Union and cause dangerous crowding on the platform just to check people’s fares. Like wth man. Why am I being held prisoner, I’m trying to go home.

TTC suspends fare inspector after black teen pinned to ground in streetcar incident | CBC News As the city ombudsman launches an investigation into an incident in which a black teen was pinned to the ground on Sunday, the TTC has suspended a fare inspector with pay.

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It is just so stupid to have these overly aggressive, overly militarized goons who drive to work stationed to harass people. They yell too. Loud. Why am I being yelled at.

This is the response from the company that decided to illegally occupy a bike lane to deliver a car, forcing all cyclists into traffic

And the name of that wine? Forgotten Grapes

a cartoon character from the simpsons is pointing at a building and saying ha-ha ALT: a cartoon character from the simpsons is pointing at a building and saying ha-ha

And all the kids that watched you slowly crawl your car to the front are like this:

“We want good design but also it has to blend in with the character of the neighbourhood”

Something good architecture has quite literally never done

The entire concept of NC is so absurd

It is a dog-whistle enshrouding itself in subjective policy to protect a status quo that doesn’t serve us

Why does this feel so Android 18 and Krillin coded

I check the study work plan every update

This.

That’s kind of the issue at hand. It is supposed to be a comprehensive plan, it shouldn’t be updated piecemeal

But the density and volume of content forces that form of updating it.

If it was 50 pages they could update it in one study. The non-policy components could (should) be a slide deck

It is so rare that I refer to any OP language. Just the maps.

I think in recent memory I referred to the OP wind policies, rental replacement policies, and … compatibility.

For a prevailing document it could be 10x as small

Why doesn’t Toronto have one of those sphere-like immersive IMAX screen bars for watching the sports or Love Island or something

Every clip I see I’m like “this is Toronto-coded. King W for sure”

This could be any podium retail block

A hidden Ookwemin Minising gem near Biidaasige Park on :)

Too racist for Centre Island, too broke for an RCYC membership.

Won’t someone think of the middle-class conservatives?

I recommend writing short to anyone I mentor in any way.

“What can I do to advance my career” “read Writing Short. Then do that”

Long writing belies unclear thought.

Get one of those outdoor cycling masks. What I use for my commute on bad air quality days

I’m not OP, but it’s not a lease. They own their unit, it is a by-law in the condo

Zero collateral and yet somehow infinite leverage

At minimum they’re extraordinarily shrew negotiators

At the public consultation on this park a long time ago I pointed out 9/10 people would be crossing the park diagonally.

The response was the landscape architects were confident in their pathway and circulation design as they were expects

So here’s what a desire HIGHWAY looks like

In Toronto you don’t have much of a choice unless you happen to have $1.5m in purchasing power. All our new housing for the past 20-25 years was condos.