I walked through Hintonburg just now, but sadly, everything had closed for the Sunday evening. Good to know my instincts were correct that I should come back!
08.03.2026 23:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I walked through Hintonburg just now, but sadly, everything had closed for the Sunday evening. Good to know my instincts were correct that I should come back!
08.03.2026 23:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Whoa. This is a great recommendation. Thank you!!!
08.03.2026 20:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In Ottawa for a few days! Send me your suggestions for buildings, bread, and urbanism.
I've visited a couple times and have seen many of the obvious tourist sites, though I do plan a return to the Canadian Museum of History.
A win for Toronto and coffee and Dan. 👏
08.03.2026 19:23 — 👍 54 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
DID YOU KNOW? Toronto's "Mink Mile" is home to some of the most valuable real estate in Canada, which is how they can afford to install interactive water features directly inside the path of travel within shopping concourses.
08.03.2026 15:54 — 👍 36 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
We've seen similar dynamics here in Toronto for a couple decades where former multi-residential buildings get converted into single family housing. As-of-right.
It's only in the past few years with the EHON reforms that the arrow can now go both directions.
An underdiscussed benefit of putting a price on parking (that is well covered by our lord and saviour Donald Shoup, RIP) is that if you do happen to be driving, it becomes much easier to find a spot! Politicians bold enough to do this may get more buy-in by explaining how drivers benefit.
08.03.2026 03:31 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Don’t forget to leave milk and cookies out tonight for Chronos
08.03.2026 03:34 — 👍 34 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Enjoying a now-totally-legal 😀 espresso at Finch Store w/ Mayor Chow, Councillor Bravo & one of the main community voices who helped make the neighbourhood retail initiative happen @anotherglassbox.bsky.social Thx to Yana & entrepreneurs like her who bring life + community to local neighbourhoods!
07.03.2026 22:37 — 👍 118 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 1
I didn’t do it intentionally but two weeks in a row I wrote about bad P3 projects. Maybe you can’t run the public service like a self-interested business.
08.03.2026 01:08 — 👍 38 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 2
Photo from last night. The fog was unreal!
08.03.2026 03:17 — 👍 25 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0Mayor Chow, Councillor Bravo, and Chief Planner Thorne came by to give Finch their business license. Surreal, delightful, lovely.
07.03.2026 15:45 — 👍 94 🔁 14 💬 4 📌 2Some 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
06.03.2026 22:59 — 👍 25 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
it's a shame because, regardless of the signal priority situation (fix coming soon!), this junction at sunnybrook park could've just been at-grade at the south side of the road to avoid the intersection entirely.
one of biggest design blunders of this line.
Today, we examine how cities consistently overestimate the rate at which seniors downsize their homes while simultaneously incentivizing them not to downsize, and how this creates a shortage of family-sized homes for young families.
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watc...
Breaking news! I have my first opinion piece in the Toronto Star today! I got to make fun of John Tory AND make a joke about me playing for the Blue Jays, so it's safe to say that this was the most fun I've had writing something in a while. 💙 www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
06.03.2026 19:00 — 👍 298 🔁 42 💬 30 📌 4
This shit, this right here.
Requiring more envelope than needed for any given square foot of housing adds cost, AND neuters efficiency.
Modern mid-rise multi-story residential building with large windows and balconies above a brick base, surrounded by trees and people walking nearby.
Modern mid-rise multi-story residential building with large windows and balconies on a city street corner under a cloudy sky.
Modern mid-rise mixed-use building with a Starbucks coffee shop on the ground floor under a partly cloudy sky.
The City is updating its Mid-Rise Building Design Guidelines — and we want to hear from you.
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A map of Toronto with multiple boxes of text and red dots indicating school zones that should 30kmh but aren't
Jones Av is one of the most densely populated active transportation corridors in the city
8 Schools less than 150m from Jones
JK to Grade Twelve
5 elementary w/ 1 French; 1 high school & 1 Indigenous School from Jk-12
5000+ students
Did I mention NO 30kmh school zones?
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Trump going on camera talking about how he'd rate his war from 1-10, asking how we're liking the "performance" like this a fucking Broadway show. These monsters only respect strength and money. They don't give a shit about diplomacy. I feel like I'm going insane.
05.03.2026 22:45 — 👍 110 🔁 6 💬 6 📌 2Guys, I can’t do another one. I will retire to run a bar in Malta if this happens.
05.03.2026 02:06 — 👍 400 🔁 47 💬 26 📌 2
students (including high school students) rallying against cuts to OSAP funding had to face a massive police response at queen's park today.
some students got beat up and arrested by the cops - just for fighting for their own access to education. doug ford's ontario 🫤
The station master's wife actually wrote an account of her experiences roughing it at a tiny railroad stop for the Globe and Mail!
05.03.2026 04:02 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I'll do great-grandparents because it's more fun:
1 station master/telegraph operator in remote N Ontario
2 teacher, homemaker, then freelance writer
3 lighthouse keeper
4 homemaker, then assistant lighthouse keeper
5 school principal
6 homemaker?
7 ? Logger?
8 ?
John Tory wanted everyone to like him and be nice to him and not bring up anything awkward.
This meant no vision, no direction, just avoiding the ire of talk radio and Rosedale.
His clearest agenda items were too-low taxes and a bogus transit plan that died. Some legacy.
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Tomorrow: Join Creative Communities Commons & The Bentway's Ilana Altman re. how The Bentway challenges the notion that infrastructure is only functional or fixed in purpose; how legacy structures evolve; and how artists work as city-builders https://ow.ly/6HJR50Ym5l8
04.03.2026 11:00 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Yes!! That’s what gets me so upset about Hurontario because it’s all your points combined!
1. Hurontario is the literal street name (+1 for wayfinding)
2. Hurontario is also known as Hwy 10, which connects two lakes (yay geography)
3. Both Lake Huron & Ontario have Indigenous related etymologies
Are conventions so valuable? The main business of Toronto's Exhibition Place is conventions, and they claimed $600-million a year in economic impact. On 192 acres of land in the middle of a prosperous city.
That is not a lot of money.
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Generally, he said, that authority is well placed. Council doesn’t have time to “referee” millions of little bylaw deviations in construction — it needs to focus on big-picture zoning policy. If it weren’t for the committee, all council would have time for is minor variance requests, he said. And if decisions were left solely to planning staff, he said that would create a lack of transparency. The tradeoff is that by delegating to the committee, council loses its say in these matters. It can’t overturn committee decisions.
I dunno, I feel like ultimately the goal should be to have zoning rules in place that don’t require “millions of little bylaw deviations” just to get housing built. www.thestar.com/news/gta/six...
27.02.2026 16:34 — 👍 56 🔁 11 💬 5 📌 3
My @thestar.com column this week: there’s no science that can make sense of Doug Ford’s decision to move the Science Centre.
The new facility will cost more and deliver less — and waste a whole bunch of time that parents and kids will never get back.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...