Mark Shaw

Disappointed to see Toronto’s planning committee not support small-scale retail in n’hoods in their ever growing quest it seems to suck all the charm out of the city. Corner stores & cafes next to houses? The horror.

Only Councillor Matlow stands for neighbourhood coffee now and he needs our support -

Yeah but it closes at 10pm

I joined Dan Seljak for a coffee at a neighborhood cafe (that would currently be banned from opening in Toronto) to discuss how local retail like this, along with grocers and convenience stores, contribute to our quality of life.

Toronto is a lame-ass city in many respects (you can't have a corner store on a residential street unless it opened before 1959)

Top municipal issues are Pizza Badiali and that one corner store that makes lattes.

in Toronto we aren’t allowed to have nice shops in residential areas and according to these ladies, an example of why that’s important is because there’s a place in our city that makes pizza that is *so freaking good* that it attracts people from all over the world

These miserable misanthropes moved to a neighbourhood with grandfathered retail and then have the audacity to say it and not they are out of place.
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Is he okay?

Organized opposition to everything 😔

As always, watering down the proposal before consultations does not actually help it go over better. It never works and yet we keep trying to appease the unappeasable. You can make the change infinitesimal and some RAs will still pretend it's apocalyptic, spreading misinfo to their mailing list.

Darn… the Residents Associations are often like 2 people so it wouldn’t surprise me

‘We’re reasonable people’: Residents’ group fears noisy bars will follow new city rules allowing neighbourhood corner stores Residents’ group fears noisy bars will follow new city rules allowing neighbourhood corner stores

So is the opposition to this just a successful one-woman astroturf?

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Community consultation is just completely broken.

“Pizza Badialis is a huge issue”

… is it though?

Prince Harry and now the Pope? Toronto and Canada truly stands alone.

Signage at a burger place 100% Fresh Canadian Beef Five Guys 416-591-0404

Patriotically ordering from my local Canadian Five Guys to stop Donald Trump once and for all, you’re welcome

Yeah tbh his best traits are the willingness to backtrack on anything too unpopular, and keeping the far right in check

Now we understand why his family disowned him.

Etobicoke Centre Coun. Stephen Holyday said he remains as opposed to neighbourhood retail as he was back in December, suggesting having businesses in neighbourhoods could worsen worries about home break-ins. “There’s a heightened acuity about strangers in the area,” he said.

Councillor Stephen Holyday suggests permitting more neighbourhood retail will… increase residential break-ins? So, like, people who are in a neighbourhood to go to a store will decide, on a lark, to commit some spontaneous burglary? www.thestar.com/business/tor...

Yeah it’s pretty much a moonshot crazy idea due to track ownership between Kitchener and Brampton

It should be 15 minute GO service (all the way to Kitchener) who’s with me

This is ridiculous. UP Express is not express if it's making 2 additional stops (3 if it also goes to Woodbine). People going between Union and Pearson are getting squeezed by commuters during core hours. Not a way to welcome or say goodbye to visitors, or generally get people out of taxis.

To be fair it’s probably better covered in French

They should invent a fall that lasts long enough to wear all of your spring/fall outfits at least once

Everyone deserves at least three Indigo bookstores, they have different vibes.

X is bad for you.

Net approval rating in the United States for: - Donald Trump: -10% - Canada - +49% From CNN broadcast

It’s time to vassalize the US like it’s a HOI4 Kaissereich mod.

We will be greeted as liberators.

Never forget what they took from you.