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Help Edmonton stay winning. Consider Toronto as a cautionary tale.

And imagine the time and money that we can save by not having to figure out what Councillor Perruzza is talking about every month.

Darlington nuclear plant refit completed early and under budget First announced in 2016, the refit of the four Ontario Power Generation reactors was intended to keep them running until 2050.

I'm sure it helps that it's a refurbishment, but 9 years for a nuclear project is my new metric. The City of Toronto has been talking Lawrence Heights revitalization since 2007, officially kicked off in 2015, and they still don't even have a development partner. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Cities are for people!

"Maybe the city's full" says the man living in a 2.7 million dollar house on Palmerston, while sipping $170 scotch after defeating a multiplex proposal across the street.
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GO Train derailment

GO Train derailment

crews working on tracks

UNION STATION - SIGNAL ISSUE

GO Train derailed at Union Station.

GO says "signal issues" at Union.

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Next Stop: Davisville Stage 1 of the project is now complete and the final reports are now available, please refer to Information and Reports below. Additional information on the project will be provided in future updates....

I went to a meeting about Davisville a few years ago. The idea was to use development to fund the engineering of the build over, new park space and affordable housing. Don't think that anyone had actually done the math on it. So, basically, Toronto happened. www.toronto.ca/city-governm...

Sunday-first calendar of February 2026, neatly occupying four rows from Sunday the 1st to Saturday the 28th.

happy rectangular february, sunday-first world.

Must be something in the water there.

"What if I told you that there was another party with our best policies, but their leader isn't hugely polarizing and they hold more political power to do stuff?" I don't know if that's the speech that I would be making if I were trying to prevent floor crossings.

Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.

📷️: Aaron Lavinsky

it turns out that the fascists were the real threat to free speech all along, not some cringe Oberlin students

It's bad when this guy says it and it was bad when Gregor Robertson said it. Unless something new was actually built, housing wealth comes from rent-seeking. It isn't earned.

I was a long time City Hall follower but knew little about zoning until 1 chat with Eric during a pandemic Zoom. That's why I joined More Neighbours when he started it. Many were on the Yellowbelt's case before us, of course, but Eric motivated people to get involved politically, make change happen.

One of Eric's best qualities. He won't always end up agreeing with you but he will always hear you out.
For the bike lane Qs, know that Eric went into the mouth of the beast (AM 640) so that Ben Mulroney's complaints wouldn't go unchallenged, to make the case in a way that might convince opponents.

Here's the City of Toronto's definition of its operating budget ("day-to-day"). But in fact its operating budget includes transfers to and from reserves (which are neither day-to-day revenues or expenditures), and discounts and reserves which are wrongly treated as expenses and revenues.

New zoning bylaw that could reshape city passes unanimously at council | CBC News Ottawa city council passed a sweeping overhaul of zoning rules on Wednesday, capping off a years-long process that’s supposed to make it easier to build housing in the city.

We've done it.

Refinements and corrections will certainly come. There are still areas where we want to push the envelope further. But our understaffed team, working on a tight timeline, has delivered what is very likely one of the most aggressively pro-housing zoning reforms in the country.

So jealous of all of these far-off exotic places and their fancy new 6-plex and up zoning.

That's wild

My take is that I have my own secret security question and I don't care what theirs is. I just enter the answer to my own question regardless of what question they use. Gets tougher in multi-question setups though.

It’s the big day! The appeal hearing @cycletoronto.bsky.social’s successful Bill 212 case is being heard at Ontario’s Court of Appeal. Time permitting I’ll try and live post the proceedings, like I did for the Ottawa convey injunctions back when #lawtwitter was a thing.

Looking into Canadian laws on air rights for our new reverse angular plane era.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

I am heartbroken about the loss of Kirsty Duncan. I was always impressed by her devotion to science, the environment, animals, health and to the community she served as MP for Etobicoke North. She was a friend. During her battle with cancer, she was inspiring…

Big thanks to my neighbours on Mount Pleasant today. Some of this is probably the City overnight but I saw some of you out shovelling this morning and you are the best.

impassible city street crossing covered in snow New mom with stroller becomes expert in mountaineering - Now trains K2 expeditions.

"New mom with stroller becomes expert in mountaineering - Now trains K2 expeditions"

View of two open hot dog vendors with no customers in a snowstorm at Toronto City Hall

🚨Toronto City Hall hotdog vendors are still open!
#snowTO #ONstorm

I keep thinking about this fact that his last words were are you okay and hers were I'm not mad at you and it feels like a weird coincidence but it's just a reflection of the fact that the people who are coming out to take care of their neighbors are good and the people who are after them are bad