🇨🇦 Stephen Wickens 🇨🇦

Chow & council now have to - must - own this but it really seems like Tory signed the city into a shit contract that almost has these contractors laughing at residents.

Louis Armand, long-time chief of France's national railway system, didn't live long enough to see le Train à Grande Vitesse, that country's high-speed rail system. But he was a seer, proclaiming that "railways will be the mode of transport for the 21st century, if it can survive the 20th".

If true, it is truly remarkable.
Indonesia breaking temperature records
for more than a 1,000 consecutive days?

YouTube video by Jeremy Hopkin Now & Then: Withrow Park, 1923 & 2023.

Withrow Park in Toronto, erased to reveal people skating on the same spot exactly 100 years before.

Feb. 10, 1923 📸: City of Toronto Archives
Feb. 10, 2023 📸: ©Jeremy F. Hopkin.

#waitforit #thenandnow #OnThisDay #1920s #skating #parksandrecreation #TorontoHistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

Those sick of provincial overreach
might want to form a Parti Torontois.

Yes because “being positive” obviously is the best strategy for unraveling this clusterfuck of a transit quagmire. Somedays Ontario politics feels like it is a @thebeaverton.com story waiting to happen

The Eglinton Crosstown fiasco has been more a symptom of dysfunction at Metrolinx and Infrastructure Ontario. The inquiry we need goes well beyond studying this project or Finch West. We need to seriously end the secrecy and change how agencies with the power to buy votes report to the politicians.

C'mon #Metrolinx and your 'communications' staff:
You have a #derailed #GO train. Trying to soften
the message by calling it a 'disabled' train
reflects badly on you. This reluctance to level with the public in simple, clear terms says so much about where this troubled organization's priorities lie.

Nation could really use Catherine O'Hara to deal with passing of Catherine O'Hara OTTAWA - Following the passing of screen and comedy legend Catherine O'Hara, nationwide reports indicate that the only thing Canadians could use to cheer them up from their grief is Catherine O'Hara.

@thebeaverton.com - making news make since, since, I'm guessing Confederation? This one is heart-warming and so true thebeaverton.com/2026/01/nati...

For decades I've tried to get to Ottawa to skate the canal.
Finally made it yesterday with a brother and a friend.
We had so much fun we went back for more today.
Thousands and 1,000s of skaters were out having fun, including nuns in full habit and a couple saying 'I do'.
Do it! I highly recommend!

Further to your point: Some of the troika's people would go out of their way to ignore or even, occasionally, troll fairly knowledgeable people who've been warning them about impending problems for decades.

#EastEndLove Round 2 @dylanreid.bsky.social :)

@anthonyfarnell.bsky.social @pialiroy.bsky.social @marvinmacaraig.ca @stephenwickens.bsky.social @dmrider.bsky.social @dontmesswiththedon.bsky.social
@evergreencanada.bsky.social @grahamwithers.bsky.social #EastEndTO

a person walks in front of a streetcar's headlights and is framed in shadow against a huge amount of falling snow mid-storm on 01/25/26

Snow Crossed

#toronto #snowTO #ONstorm #x100vi

How New York is dealing with the snow.
I don't know how well it's work and at what price, but it's an interesting model that might be of interest here in Toronto.
@toronto.ca

Might just be a glitch, but it should be noted that reliable meteorological reporters are telling us the east end got it hardest by the storm.

Walk their words kinda works, but I meant walk their WARDS

Apparently I've been unfair by not including a bsky link for the other councillor representing Coxwell. I did include him in my parallel X tweet, but Brad Bradford doesn't appear to be on Bluesky. All councillors and their staffers need to walk their words and see what their constituents are facing.

Don't get me started about TTC stops. There are so many stops where you can't use the back doors of the buses because of the wall of snow. Lots of places, the sidewalks at the front doors are only marginally better.

I'd click the like, but I can't like what I'm seeing.

How much longer should we be patient with @toronto.ca over half-assed sidewalk clearing? Three days after the storm, the walk down Coxwell was an eyeopener, dangerous. Scooters in the street and seniors struggling with shopping carts. @paulafletcherto.bsky.social @mayoroliviachow.ca how.ca #SnowTO

Doesn’t Toronto have the ability to do Montreal-style snow removal? (Just more slowly because they don’t have to do it as often.)

Nah, our politicians first have to spend a few days defending the way we do things before deciding there's an emergency.

Cars with giant snow hawks on their roof and 2 feet on the sidewalks. Craven Rd in Little India

Snow-Hawks!

Leslieville and the east end sure got more lake effect snow than downtown. wow.
#Toronto #snowTO #ONstorm

Early this evening, tire ruts had already become de facto sidewalks. #Toronto #Snowstorm2026 #SnowTO

There's nowhere to plow the snow to.
Where are the old Toronto MetroMelt machines?

Osgoode Hall, 1941

Artist: Nicholas Hornyansky, 1896-1965
Medium: Aquatints (prints)
Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, Toronto Public Library

Notes: Osgoode Hall, Queen St. W., north east corner University Ave., looking east. Toronto, Ontario

#1940s #art #printmaking #TorontoHistory #jeremyhopkin

You'll be relieved to know that the plow driver
who hit a hydro pole remained on scene.

Most of the problems with the Avenues Plan effectiveness were apparent and ignored almost from the start ... just like the problems with early attempts at streetcar rights of way on Spadina, Queens Quay and St. Clair. The new emphasis on some north-south 'Main Streets' should be more effective.

Alstom and Ontario's government need to get their stories straight about Toronto's new subway trains. The province tells us it and the feds are upping their antes to $1B each, or 55 trains for $2.75B. lnkd.in/gKb6CT-w Alstom says it's now a 70-train order, but at the old $2.3B tab. lnkd.in/g6DNkcz5

Metrolinx bought from Alstom for Finch West and Mississauga's Hurontario line because Bombardier was showing signs of being unable to deliver trains for the Eglinton Crosstown in time for its opening. (Now, if the Crosstown opens this year, it will do so with 7-year-old trains).