Shawn Micallef

Israel now considers independent journalists to be terrorists. They admit targeting Al Jazeera reporters and cameraman and deliberately killing them. I don't know how anyone can defend Israel's war crimes.

Israeli Strike Kills 4 Al Jazeera Journalists, Network Says

Israel needs to provide evidence immediately to support their claim that this journalist and the other Al Jazeera journalists they killed in a targeted attack were, as they claim, "Hamas terrorists."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/w...

Sickening. Every journalist in America should think deeply about the fact that most American politicians are willing to accept and indeed facilitate the murder of our colleagues.

There is a cohort of Canadian establishment journalist who won’t be moved by this at all.

Anas al-Sharif: Four Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strike near Al-Shifa hospital Al Jazeera had condemned a "campaign of incitement" by the IDF against its reporters, but the military claims one of the journalists was part of Hamas.

“Four Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strike near Gaza City's Al-Shifa hospital” — www.bbc.com/news/article...

Will it ever rain again?

This city here is like an open sewer, you know, it's full of filth and scum.

Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.

The sidewalks are stained, the leaves are covered in dust & the dunes smell like piss.

#dlws

Nice throwback reference by @shawnmicallef.bsky.social to the Garrison Creek Demonstration Project. Another ambitious Toronto idea - it was even part of the 1996 Venice Biennale. Should be more than plaques in the sidewalk!

We bbq’d corn last night & wondered: why don’t bbqs have lava rocks in them anymore (which we called “charcoal”). It was the thing back when, now few have them. Some say good for heat distribution & catching drippings others say was always unnecessary. Weird little wormhole to go down.

Mentions of Zohran Mamdani, who is not the mayor: 1

Mentions of Eric Adams, mayor: 0

Back in 1996 Brown + @kstorey.bsky.social created a demonstration plan to trace Garrison creek in and around the park w storm water ponds. I think it could inspire a linear trail thru city today (as I write in column).

The park has some of the best views of the tower because it sorta seems isolated from the rest of the skyline.

Ah thx

I love to have a walk through Trinity Bellwoods park when I visit Toronto. It’s a lovely spot to wander in

Beach / umbrella

It’s fine

Keith Richards arrest site 1977

Excellent plaque at the former Harbour Castle Hilton.

Hanlan’s point ferry dock

On to Valhalla

Shawn Micallef: Let’s Fix it: Trinity Bellwoods is the hardest-working park in downtown Toronto. Here’s how it can finally become the great place it should be As good as Trinity Bellwoods is, there is still room for improvement.

Let’s Fix it: Trinity Bellwoods is the hardest-working park in downtown Toronto. Here’s how it can finally become the great place it should be. My column
on how Trinity Bellwoods can get even better.

Shawn mentions the importance of having a park entrance that let's people know that you're somewhere special. I believe Victoria Park in Kitchener does this well.

As a neighbor and resident of the Bellwoods area the quickest fix would be turning the Ossington strip into a pedestrian space.
Hit the park at sunrise on a Sunday morning and it’s nothing but pizza boxes and Bellwoods brewery bottles. The park is overspill for Ossington on weekends.

Trinity Bellwoods Park Access & Circulation Study Trinity Bellwoods Park is a popular destination for relaxing, exercising and socializing, as well as a central route for walkers and cyclists. The City is conducting a study to assess the park’s pathw...

The city is undertaking an improvement study now. Time for you to submit your own input in how to improve it.

Shawn Micallef: Let’s Fix it: Trinity Bellwoods is the hardest-working park in downtown Toronto. Here’s how it can finally become the great place it should be As good as Trinity Bellwoods is, there is still room for improvement.

Let’s Fix it: Trinity Bellwoods is the hardest-working park in downtown Toronto. Here’s how it can finally become the great place it should be. My column
on how Trinity Bellwoods can get even better.

They have a bunch

Reminder that despite what the roads feel like for the author, much of the benefit to the vision zero speed limit decreases have been to stop drivers from killing and hospitalizing *themselves*.

Restaurant front & sign

Ravioli w burrata

An Amaro bottle

Friday night old school Italian on St Clair. Stop by La Bruschetta for all your burrata & amaro needs. Amaro w an Etna view even. If you go tell Silvia & Brenda I sent you.

There is a so much work & writing on why Toronto like this and how to fix it. It’s all there. Years of it. People to talk to working on this. It all doesn’t exist here.

Reserves coming from Fort York

The column is v frustrating. Yes traffic is bad. Everyone knows. People will nod/rage (at speed cameras? 30kph?) but it’s a disservice to readers as there’s zero analysis of why TO is stuck: political impasse preventing doable solutions. It’s an AM radio rant: anger inducing but no insight. Why?

Foreign correspondents > “Broke Britain’s on the edge of financial disaster, Labour’s out of its depth — and people are angry. I’m scared for what’s to come.” — Andrew Neill, Daily Mail, 22 July. Brillo lives largely in the South of France > “Migrant hotels are radicalising Middle England.” — Guy Dampier, Daily Telegraph, 22 July. Dampier lives in Germany > “Small boats and sky-high legal immigration will continue to wreak demographic havoc. This change is permanent. Millions of immigrants from clashing traditions will bring only more of their friends and families. None of these people are going home.” — Lionel Shriver, Times, 24 July. As Shriver explained in her column, she recently moved to Portugal, having previously migrated to the UK from America > “Epping proves the police are the paramilitary wing of the left.” — Richard Littlejohn, Daily Mail, 25 July. Littlejohn lives in Florida for much of the year > “All the online censorship & superinjunctions can’t keep the English down. Regime change.” — Former MP and Telegraph columnist Douglas Carswell commenting on footage of asylum hotel protests, X, 3 August. Carswell lives in Mississippi > “Unless our leaders get a grip — and fast — exasperated communities will turn vigilante. Then things could get really ugly.” — Isabel Oakeshott, Daily Telegraph, 4 August. Oakeshott moved to the UAE in January for tax reasons

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Many of the columnists seemingly egging on English rioters don't even live in the UK. Private Eye again

Many Guelph folk spoke legendarily of the trash there. Even heard tell of it in Windsor.

That’s the only trasheteria I’ve been to (circa 1996)