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New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

07.11.2025 21:36 — 👍 16532    🔁 5230    💬 799    📌 621

Flag hangs on the side of the train tracks at the King and Dufferin intersection with the text “PARKDALE LOVES OUR SCS”

Over 50 people gathered at a rally today in support of the safe consumption site in Parkdale. SCS save lives. This week, the Government of Ontario stated they are going to defund the site, which is the last in the west end of the city, on November 22nd

30.10.2025 02:10 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Poster encouraging people to contact their MPP to oppose the recent Provincial policy proposal to end month-to-month rental leases

Posters in response to Ford’s new housing bill spotted in Parkdale already ✊🏼

25.10.2025 02:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Starting today, all 100 TPL branches will be open between 12-5 on Sundays. This introduces Sunday service to 33 branches and expands it in many more.

This service expansion was estimated to be done by September this year but was originally part of the TPLs Open Hours Vision, set way back in 2006!

19.10.2025 14:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Queen Street BMV storefront with 3 for $10 promotion for all items in their newly opened upstairs

+6 books to my reading list today

18.10.2025 17:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Canada’s National Observer unveils a powerful tool for fighting disinformation Civic Searchlight brings together municipal meeting transcripts from across Canada into a searchable database for the first time. It has already been used to fight disinformation, report on impact, di...

We're going public today with a powerful new tool for researching, following and reporting on local governments across Canada.

It’s dragging cities and towns into the 21st century by making 550 municipalities’ public meetings easy to search, all in one place, for the first time.

08.10.2025 15:27 — 👍 92    🔁 64    💬 8    📌 6

Horizontal line graph of TTC track replacement bids awarded since 2024. Only three were found, with Midome Construction winning two (1.5M, 2.7M) and Sanscon Construction winning the other ($3.3M). Only the 1.5M bid contained solely track replacement in the contract work requirements.

Was looking at the Open Data for track replacement procurement bids, the database only goes back to the start of 2024 and I found the following 3… missing is the actual bid that sparked my interest.

11.10.2025 02:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dufferin street south of King with 6 Geismar Hydraulic Track Alignment machines used by Midome Construction Services Ltd., lined up in the middle of the street and surrounded by pylons

First round of track alignments seemingly done at King and Dufferin. Midome is running this $2 million dollar contract, equivalent to about $31,000/day. It seems they are often the lowest bidder for track replacements, also securing the $1.5 million and $2.7 million contracts started this year

10.10.2025 17:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0