Jocelyn Lambert Squires

A win! But it took thousands—including petition signatories, tour participants, emailers, Matlow’s staff, the mayor’s staff, the councillors themselves, and some I surely forgot—to keep momentum and morph this into consensus. Thank you all.

I was radicalized at 13 when I wrote my Grade 8 speech on light pollution and learned for the first time that a better world was possible

Ford turns Ex Place into some kind of amusement park/casino/nightclub, then says it's much better because it's "year-round use", even though Ex Place is already used year-round. That sounds like classic Ford bullshit.

I wonder what dissolving the Toronto Parking Authority Board will do for Toronto Bike Share?

The fascinating lore that is shared in Council! And nice to know Toronto's traffic is and always has been a problem.

I find the retail in neighbourhoods resolution interesting because it doesn't actually look like it's adding any retail inside neighbourhoods (like what I enjoy in Seaton Village), but rather, legalizing it in areas with existing retail where I had no idea it wasn't legal (like Harbord).

Council votes 22-3 to APPROVE the plan to continue negotiations with the Weston Golf Club re: acquiring land for the Humber Trail, with authorization to initiate expropriations if necessary.

Whoa, this is awesome!!!

To be fair all the transit agencies you've picked are real ones with a big reach. I tried BART, and there are only like five lines to it's hard to go wrong.

Pizza too!

You could fill your bag with Trader Joes treats on the way back and double your profit!

In general, it seems silly for cities with 100k+ populations to have part time councillors. Shrink the councils if you need to, but part time councils in medium sized cities seem built to privilege representation from dual income, upper middle class households who can make this work.

For food, I'm from California and one broad cuisine that really stood out is Caribbean. For fancy there's Patois, for favourite street food check the internet, but 100% eat a Jamaican patty.

Unique to Toronto: Indian roti, Nani's Gelato, Pizza Badiali (Google this to learn about n'hood retail)

If you have patience for a lecture, there's a talk on the housing catalogue developed for CMHC, being given at the University of Toronto architecture school.

You could also check out the Architecture & Design Film Festival. There are a few Canada specific films. adfilmfest.com/adff-toronto/

I went back to Family Mini Mart today to show you all what neighbourhood retail actually looks like. No AI. No Music. Time to grow up.

The shamelessness of aping my own documentation and art (their creation on the left, my photo on the right) to exaggerate the impacts of retail… Sad. Derivative. Misleading.

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Toronto Cenotaph — a quiet, carved reminder of the cost of war that has gathered Torontonians in reflection every November 11 since it was unveiled in 1925.

#remembranceday #war #sacrifice #cenotaph #memorial #TorontoHistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

A friend is coming from Europe to Toronto in a few weeks (not peak anything) & trying to book a hotel. Found a middle-market hotel downtown for $395. That is bonkers. More expensive than London or Paris in the summer. Toronto needs a whole bunch of new hotels. Maybe dead condo mkt can pivot.

We were on a call with some American colleagues and they joined us in the moment of silence, it was nice to see it observed on a business call.

Nice house, little of heritage significance, sold for $3.85-million. 100m from Bathurst subway station

BUT SNOW!!!

#BikeTO

Building Value(s): Inside AZURE's Human/Nature Exhibition Focusing on questions of value in the building environment, four thought-provoking exhibitions animated the Evergreen Brick Works.

My curatorial debut! Building Value(s) was staged at @azuremagazine.bsky.social's Human/Nature conference in late October. A meditation on demolition, preservation and the value of our buildings — whether expressed in carbon and collective memory.

it's *severely* underrated how having frequent train service on GO lines would transform travel in this city + region, and cut commute times in half, sometimes to a quarter even. hundreds of thousands of new transit riders, slashing congestion, cleaner air.

let this one station serve as an example.

Impressive use of pooch puns. And I’m glad I read this news or I may have called Toronto Animal Services. My fav park. It’s impressive, whimsical work by Claude Cormier.

This is my robot vacuum, named Robot. Today, Robot has eaten a phone charger and taken it to the hiding spot under the sideboard. Try telling me Robot isn't a pet.

"Meet Me By the Fountain" by @langealexandra.bsky.social.

Putting a self plug for "Toronto Architecture: A City Guide", for which I helped author @alexbozikovic.bsky.social as researcher. Why is it great? Well, what could be more fun than reading about 1000+ buildings/landscapes in Toronto???

At this point, I would really love to know what level of responsibility the urban planning field feels for the fact that stacking renters on highways/arterial roads is so common in North America, it is featured in Amazon ads for sound level meters.

At my undergrad, linguistics, computer science, and math all counted for the same requirement bucket

I think syntax (linguistics) should be required for CS students. Coding is a human language and its useful to know how that is structured

Matt Elliott: Without acknowledging hard truths, Toronto’s traffic czar isn’t likely to get very far It’s probably good that this new position will come with a handsome salary because this traffic czar will be given an impossible task. There’s no solving Toronto traffic, writes Matt Elliott.

"There are too many cars and not enough roads. Absent a radical reform like a congestion charge similar to New York City — where a price on driving in the city causes people to look to alternatives — there’s no way to reverse the trend." -Matt Elliott

two people at spadina carrying sleds down the stairs into the subway, winter in toronto has officially begun ❄️