Mark Jackson-Brown

TTC to take over Finch West LRT following successful trial run | CBC News The Toronto Transit Commission will take the Finch West LRT to the finish line following the success of a 30-day trial run, the province announced on Thursday.

Of note, the O-Train Trillium Line finished trial running October 31, but didn't open to the public until 2 months later, on January 6th.
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A picture of a monitor, with lighting highlighting a diamond shaped set of fingerprints, with some smudging between them

The telltale smudges of a 3 year old learning about the on-base indicator graphic

Hell yeah #bluejays

Tonight begins the first World Series that a Pope, the Supreme Pontiff, the successor to St. Peter, the Servant of the Servants of God, will be paying attention to.

In all the "stadium comparison" engagement posts I've seen going around, they all miss that the really fucking cool part of the SkyDome is looking up at the CN Tower

BlueSky — "It's Real People!"™️

Alright so like obviously this whole clip is a great example of how AI has just 0 object permanence or understanding of how anything fits together, but it *is* kind of a great representation of the way you experience the world in a dream where nothing makes sense once you wake up but it did in-dream

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I am too lazy to actually edit the comic, but I'm sure we can all make the appropriate substitutions 😆

The movie is pretty dumb, but this is overall the correct sentiment.

Finch LRT takes a decisive lead in the Ontario race. But will they beat the REM's Nov 17th?
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Dear YouTube, I subscribed to this channel for their well produced 10~15 minute animated videos.
No, I do not want notifications for the replay of their 2 hour rambling livestream zoom call

Goes To Jail was *my* Ernest movie.
Man just straight up becomes a superhero in the climax!

Curiously, my kid's (TDSB) school already has a colour day scheduled; wearing green for dwarfism!
Time to go draped in the flag for Sierra Leone?

Maddening that there is a perfectly good pedestrian underpass to the Eglinton subway station, but because everything is a gigantic Omni-Contract, we have to have some trains not bump into each other in the train yard for 3 weeks running before we can walk through this tunnel.

Metrolinx planned a new GO station for this rapidly growing area of Toronto. Now it’s in limbo — again The proposed GO station was one part of a massive development planned for the former site of the Mr. Christie’s Cookie Factory on Lake Shore Boulevard West.

Tying this GO station to a development application was incredibly stupid. We spent years trying to get housing to pay for everything under the sun and now we're paying the price.
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Final test of Eglinton Crosstown paused after incident last week, province says | CBC News Metrolinx has paused a final test of the Eglinton Crosstown light-rail transit line after an incident late last week, Ontario's transportation ministry says.

Whelp; I guess that wraps it up for 2025.
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When the were last in the series (pic from 1992 - city of Toronto archives aerial photo collection) the SkyDome was in more of Dodger Stadium surrounding (minus the park). A sea of downtown parking lots (and railway lands) not yet filled in with city.

World Series LA/Toronto wager:
Whichever city wins gets to be where the next Star Trek series is produced

Game 1 World Series tickets at SkyDome ranging in price from $1700 to $8000

My heart goes out to those poor people who just bought World Series tickets *an hour ago* and then I guess had something come up and can't actually go!!
It must be terrible for that to happen to you! You wanted to see the game so bad!!

Shooting the Yankees in the back of the head execution style was an unbridled joy. The Peter Griffin Chicken fight against the Mariners was much more emotionally fraught. The Ms fought bravely. Immense respect for the team and its continually suffering fan base.

Curious to see prices on World Series tickets.
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh I don't think the SkyDome can fit 277 thousand people

Oh Canada!

Quebec plants a flag in the ground!
Are either Metrolinx LRT on track to beat it? Who knows! They'll probably announce opening dates with 5 minutes to spare.
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Honestly the honking outside is far more sustained than I expected for just winning the series *before* the World Series

The real World Series

Temporary tattoo applied to my kid's cheek of the Blue Jays mascot(?)

The answer: yes!

Breaking out some classic Blue Jays paraphernalia for the kids...
I wonder if these 32 year old temporary tattoos work...

At the Ren Faire today, we watched a blacksmith give a 30-minute demonstration about swords. And at the end he said, “My lecture is now over, here are some kittens to pet.”

*Proceeds to uncover 2 large pet carriers and pulls out 6 kittens.*

But looks like O-Train East is scheduled for trial running soon, joining the Finch and Eglinton lines, which are (nominally) under way.
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Cross-border travellers face longer wait: Gordie Howe International Bridge opening delayed to early 2026 Travellers face longer wait as Gordie Howe International Bridge opening delayed to early 2026

The Gordie Howe Bridge is officially off to 2026
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