Glyn Bowerman

Need to keep looking to see what the policies for parks and Privately Owned Public Spaces are. That kind of stuff is deep in the weeds (heheh).

That’s a great one!

Yuuuuuup

‘Mr. X’ claims Minister David Piccini tipped him off about Greenbelt removals John Mutton made the claim in an interview with the integrity commissioner and then on a podcast. The minister denied it through a spokesperson

NEW: ‘Mr. X’ claims Minister David Piccini tipped him off about Greenbelt removals
John Mutton made the claim in an interview with the integrity commissioner and then on a podcast. The minister denied it through a spokesperson.
www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

So the actual bylaw is front lawns must be 75% soft landscaping, which does not include artificial turf. And Toronto public health warns to wash your hands after contact and to avoid heat exposure since artificial turf contributes to the “heat island effect”: www.toronto.ca/wp-content/u...

I am but a humble print editor, desperately beseeching for high resolution images to accompany copy. Please sir, madam, spare a jpeg for a wretch such as I?

Unless I missed something, AstroTurf is not allowed in the City. It’s non-permeable and bad for flood mitigation.

Screengrab from the FIFA store online with an image of a 2026 Wprld Cup Toronto Poster Grey T-Shirt. It has a huge print on the back, unevenly placed at the top two thirds of the shirt and spanning armpit to armpit

No. No, surely not. Right? And for $50? Stop it.

Sliwa commits to $1.2 M, annually, for bunting and silly hats.

NEW: White House announces it's going to pause, and potentially cancel, $11 billion in infrastructure funding (via the Army Corps of Engineers), specifically citing cities, like New York, represented or led by Democrats. More to come.

PODCAST: Spacing Radio 90, Bless this urban mess - Spacing Toronto Change in cities is often slow, when using official channels. There is a desire to achieve the perfect plan, one that balances everyone’s needs an preferences. But sometimes you need to get down and d...

"Messy Cities" is featured on the @spacing.bsky.social podcast, as co-editors @shebuildscities.bsky.social , @zahraeb.bsky.social and @dylanreid.bsky.social discuss genesis of the book and the ideas behind it with host @glynbowerman.bsky.social spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

Meet the scientists sounding the alarm about the doomsday risks of mirror life | CNN Kate Adamala started work on a cell in which the natural molecular structure is reversed. Then a possible doomsday scenario became clear.

Oh this is fun. Oh joy. What excellence.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/17/science/mirror-cell-life-dangers?cid=ios_app

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

Plus we had to listen to certain opportunistic politicians cry fowl about how long the Gardiner was taking. Gimme a break 🙄

Fired, tarred and feathered, divers other things…

Meanwhile, Toronto's transit and active transportation projects continue to face delay after delay with there's still no word on when the Finch West and Eglinton Crosstown LRT lines will open. It goes to show Toronto & Ontario need to rethink their priorities. #BikeTO #WalkTO #TTC #TOpoli #ONpoli

Leeds win argument over ban on fans To a huge collective sigh of relief from all concerned, UEFA yesterday banned Galatasaray supporters from the second leg of Leeds…

Some folks arguing about the Macabi Tel Aviv fan ban don’t know ball. Plenty of precedent: www.irishtimes.com/sport/leeds-...

If you insist on being a tool, why not be a tool that builds housing?

Self-Portrait, by Kazimir Malevich, 1910-11, 📸 via @BRWalkoff

Today on talk radio, pundits went from criticizing the youth criminal justice act and the bail system, to, on the subject of the Golden Knights goalie who was acquitted in the hockey rape scandal, saying “I have faith in the justice system.”

Hmm.

Haha! That’s hilarious 😂

I threw on the radio for this one. My first time doing that, but it was nice. Romantic, kind of.

Somebody woke up vintage Mad Max Scherzer

Carney’s really painted himself into a corner because the tariffs Canada imposes ultimately hurt Canadian consumers, but he sold them as a kind of a kind of patriotic assertion of sovereignty. Most people don’t understand the first part, but they were all in on the second part.

I’m not convinced their ideologies are that different. The branding is, I’ll grant you.

This is yet another example of where the province *should* do unilateral housing reform for all municipalities via changes to the building code, to enable single stair buildings. A lot of people with moderate opposition to new housing claim to want more 2+BR apartments; this is how we get there.

Ever send an email and, when you don’t get a reply, you check your Sent box and can’t find what you wrote, until you realize you didn’t actually send the email, you just thought about carefully and with perfect lucid clarity but no real life follow through?

Y… you ever do that?

Canada is currently experiencing record high inequality, but our banker Prime Minister thinks the wealth gap should be even bigger