🇨🇦 Stephen Wickens 🇨🇦

Need to ban them on the lower Humber River too.

Toronto Council approves motion to ban jet skis and motorized watercraft 150 metres from Woodbine Beach shore – Beach Metro Community News Jets skis are seen on the far west end of Woodbine Beach on Friday, July 18. Photo by Alan Shackleton. By ALAN SHACKLETON Toronto Council has approved a

✅ Toronto Council has unanimously passed Cllr Brad Bradford’s motion to restrict jet skis near eastern beaches — with support from Cllrs Morley & Kandavel (Humber Bay & Bluffers).

A win for swimmers, paddlers & wildlife — less noise, more happy.

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#JetSkiBan #TorontoBeaches

Metrolinx says Scarborough Subway Extension budget has doubled, offers little update on progress New Metrolinx documents show the price tag for the Scarborough Subway Extension, projected to open in 2030, has soared to more than $10 billion.

Hate to say I told you so, but ...
thestar.com/news/gta/met...
And I should add that this is only the tip of the Metrolinx iceberg, one that could be a threat to Ontario's credit ratings and the public's willingness to tolerate stuff going on under the cover of extreme secrecy.

Daddy's home: Andy Byford to make NYC return for Penn Station remake, White House says The move puts the former head of NYC Transit in control of one of the country's most consequential construction projects.

Train Daddy Byford is back in the Big Apple
gothamist.com/news/daddys-...

Usually, #Metrolinx floods our feeds with 'good news' PR/BS. But there's been silence about the apparent fact that the long-bogged-down Scarborough subway extension's TBM (Diggy Scardust) is finally moving again. I guess making an announcement would require admitting it's 2+ years behind schedule.

The temperatures across north Africa and southwest Asia are alarming, and the fact they are not considered major mainstream news in North America is troubling.

If Rebel News and True North are to be granted standing at an official federal leaders' debate, we need to ensure that The Daily Worker (if it still exists) and the New Labour Press get to ask questions to provide some 'journalistic balance' from the far left. info@debates-debats.ca

The year is 2350. Humanity has established a colony on Mars and supersonic trains criss-cross the planet.

American commuter railroads' conductors still punch holes in little paper tickets to confirm tickets have been checked, while running 1960s train held together with paperclips.

'It was a rainy day'

And, as a senior, my TTC fare is C$2.25

We complain a lot in Toronto, but my trip from home in the east end to Pearson is a single TTC fare, and I've done it in as little as 65 minutes.

“vietnam has been very unfair to america and owes us compensation” is a wild take

Some key lessons regarding the Spadina 510 were pointed out 20 years ago, but the city didn't seem eager to even consider inconvenient truths. worldwidewickens.com?p=246

Metrolinx did issue a half-assed acknowledgement of SSE tunnelling problems in November (in Verster's last public statements before fleeing town), but there's an important story here that is being ignored. Diggy Scardust is probably at least two years behind schedule. Public is owed an explanation.

Lots of us have known about the Spadina streetcar's problems for more than 20 years. This Globe and Mail story, from 2005 made me a pariah in some circles.
worldwidewickens.com?p=246

That and the Kool-Aid would be bleach.

“There is only one thing worse than fighting with your allies, and that’s fighting without them.”

—Victor Hugo

We’re entering the “worse” phase.

Fuckin' eh to zed!

The U.S. economy can develop a beautiful
herd immunity by drinking the tariff bleach.

Maybe one more tax cut will start the trickle down.

Is the medicinal leech industry exempt from tariffs?

Too bad Barbara Tuchman is not around to write a sequel to her 1984 classic, "March of Folly ... From Troy to Vietnam"

By 1920, the network of interurbans in the US was so dense that a determined commuter could theoretically
hop interlinked services from Waterville, Maine, to Sheboygan, Wisconsin—a journey of 1,000 miles—exclusively by electric trolley.

🚋🧵

Canada should absolutely have high speed rail, which is why I'm really concerned about the process we are taking to go in that direction. It's a mega sized P3 that is *not* how any successful high speed rail networks were built.

Neil Young says he may be barred from returning to US over Donald Trump criticism The US-Canadian dual citizen speculates he may be ‘barred or put in jail to sleep on a cement floor’ after his European tour, after years of speaking against Trump

Neil Young fears he might be unable to return to the U.S.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...

Damage from that storm is why the house numbers on Kippendavie start at 19 and 20 and the land south of Kew Beach Ave. is a park.

Some of my earliest memories included visits to that Tamblyn's drug store on the southeast corner in the early 60s. The same trips would include Loblaw's, on the site of what became the Weston building.

3. Also, Edward Rogers visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Rogers's SkyDome security staff kicked out a #BlueJays fan who was wearing a 'Canada Is Not For Sale' cap. If you have to follow the Jays with other fans, do it at your local sports bar. They need the business and the beer will be cheaper.

2. Labatt's and CIBC also owned the #BlueJays for 24 years. The first 6 were dismal, but expansion franchises didn't get much help back then. Of the other 18 seasons, 14 were winning ones with 5 division titles (in a 7-team AL East) and 2 World Series titles. Go away, Rogers.

1. In the world of sporty diversions that don't matter:
The Toronto #bluejays are overdue for a front-office housecleaning, but they probably need new ownership much more. Rogers has been in control for 12 winning seasons in 24 years, with just one division title and no World Series appearances.