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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 7h

Check out our latest podcast where we get into the nitty gritty of “messy urbanism.” Plus, how some Toronto laneways are getting a glowup: spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

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...

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Jamie Bradburn @jbcurio.bsky.social · 12h

NEW! For TVO @tvotoday.bsky.social I look at the #BlueJays first playoff run, the "Drive of '85."

www.tvo.org/article/a-mo...

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 12h

I'm not afraid. Come and get me, Donald.

I will stand up for the law and the Constitution. That’s what we do in the State of Illinois.

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Spacing Radio @spacingradio.bsky.social · 11h

We have a new episode up, and it starts with three of the co-editors of the new book “Messy Cities: Why We Can’t Plan Everything. Dive into the wonderful world of Messy Urbanism: spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

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...

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 12h

On our latest @spacingradio.bsky.social podcast, we speak to the co-editors of the new book “Messy Cities: Why We Can’t Plan Everything.” And we preview the latest issue of the magazine: spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

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...

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 13h

New @spacingradio.bsky.social episode for you! We have the team behind the book “Messy Cities: Why You Can’t Plan Everything,” we speak to The Laneway Project, and we preview the newest Spacing Magazine: spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

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...

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 4d

It’s a fair point!

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 4d

100% agree

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, it’s pretty clear what they’re doing. We all want the best for you up here.

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 4d

I’m in Canada, so the party lines break down a little differently. But I understand you

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 4d

I think you misinterpreted my point

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 4d

“Progressives don’t care about the issues facing men today.”

We do. It’s why we’re socialists. Ya dinguses.

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 4d

This is brilliant because Trump will look like he supports Maduro if (when?) he complains about the choice: www.cbc.ca/news/world/n...

Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize | CBC News

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Maria Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader, it was announced Friday at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo.

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tm @catturd2.bsky.social · 4d

I have just been informed that the Nobel Prize Committee has been eliminated in a targeted peace strike

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 4d

Tim Curry dressed as a girl guide, holding a box of cookies, standing at a front door of a home

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 6d

Take a listen to my conversation with @arshy.bsky.social about why politicians seem to be incapable of doing anything -- aside from enriching their friends. Enjoy!

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The Decline and Fall of the Canadian State (w/ Nora Loreto)

How austerity and privatization have killed state capacity

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That One Canadian @onecanadian.bsky.social · 5d

Oh HELL NO! No ICE in Canada EVER!!

Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 5d

Classic CBC. "Bill could lead to law enforcement acting more freely in Canada"

How does a US bill lead to this, without Canada actively allowing this? Can we use the active voice? Can we actually use words the way that journalists are supposedly able to?

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U.S. bill calls for more integration between Canadian, American border agents | CBC News

The U.S. Congress is being asked to adopt legislation that could lead to Canada and the United States further integrating their enforcement of the border — including allowing U.S. officers to more fre...

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 5d

I guess money can’t buy you happiness, but bigotry gives you a sense of purpose? 😒

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 5d

No harm in a report, I guess. But I live in a dump by the rail tracks. My bed wobbles and the pictures on my wall rattle every time a train goes by. People without a care in the world sure cast a wide net to fill that void.

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Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 5d

Despite all your submissions, disappointed Council adopted the item without debate. With new cycling projects not moving forward and previous approvals put on hold, the (already modest) planned progress of Toronto's cycling network is at risk of being set back a decade.

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Protecting Public Investment and Advancing Interim Solutions Along Sheppard Avenue East - by Councillor Shelley Carroll, seconded by Councillor Jon Burnside (Ward 17)
* Notice of this Motion has been given.
* This Motion is subject to referral to the Infrastructure and Environment Committee. A two-thirds vote is required to waive referral.

Communications have been submitted on this Item.

Adopted

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 5d

2017: Media outlets pivot to video. Tech bros: learn to code

2024: Tech companies destroy coding jobs with AI. Tech bros: learn AI

2025: AI companies pivot to video

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Negro Frolics @desmondcole.bsky.social · 5d

this is just a pilot project, but it's also an acknowledgement from Toronto city council that we need alternatives to policing

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 5d

Council votes 23-1 to APPROVE deploying crisis service workers on the TTC subway system. They'll be stationed at Spadina Station, Union Station, and Bloor-Yonge, and respond to calls anywhere in the downtown U-shaped track area.

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Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 5d

Here's a good example of how the consensus around urban density in KW differs from many other medium-sized cities. At a development proposal meeting, a Waterloo councillor responded to the "high-rises aren't for families" trope with a comment that they are in no way a lesser-than form of living.

This drew a rebuke from Coun. Royce Bodaly. “There are many, many residents who live in the city of Waterloo who are raising families in high-density apartment buildings, and I don’t think that we should be suggesting that is some sort of lesser-than way of living,” he said.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 5d

NEW: Federal judge dismisses Drake's defamation case against Kendrick Lamar storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The issue in this case is whether "Not Like Us" can reasonably be understood to convey as a factual matter that Drake is a pedophile or that he has engaged in sexual relations with minors. In light of the overall context in which the statements in the Recording were made, the Court holds that it cannot.

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