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Re-Migrant Dreams @stoneape314.bsky.social · 5h

You realize, now, that you're going to need to put forth a half-masting policy to make them realize the ramifications of their decisions.

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Andrew. @g026r.leftblank.org · 10h

The thing about "gentle density" is that it's never gentle enough.

Toronto Star @thestar.com · 10h

Multiplexes were supposed to boost housing in Toronto’s suburban neighbourhoods.

The Star’s interactive map reveals they’re clustered in these areas instead

Multiplexes were supposed to boost housing in Toronto’s suburban neighbourhoods. The Star’s interactive map reveals they’re clustered in these areas instead

Opposition to multiplexes has been fierce in the city’s outer wards, but that’s not the only reason for slow uptake.

www.thestar.com

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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 10h

Multiplexes were supposed to boost housing in Toronto’s suburban neighbourhoods.

The Star’s interactive map reveals they’re clustered in these areas instead

Multiplexes were supposed to boost housing in Toronto’s suburban neighbourhoods. The Star’s interactive map reveals they’re clustered in these areas instead

Opposition to multiplexes has been fierce in the city’s outer wards, but that’s not the only reason for slow uptake.

www.thestar.com

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Re-Migrant Dreams @stoneape314.bsky.social · 11h

People care more about car-jackings in Vaughan than road deaths.

The people with politicians' ears anyways.

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 19d

In a statement, Vaughan Mayor Steven Del Duca pivoted from speed cameras to violent crime, suggesting we should spend more time focussing on the latter. That’s illuminating. Vehicles obviously present the bigger statistical threat, especially to children. But we accept those injuries and deaths.

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Re-Migrant Dreams @stoneape314.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe if we just dressed the camera up as cheese, Ford would allow us to keep them.

bsky.app/profile/tara...

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Re-Migrant Dreams @stoneape314.bsky.social · 1d

Ontario taxpayers paying for ad time on CBS and Fox, great. We might just as well bribe Trump for better ROI

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Spacing Radio @spacingradio.bsky.social · 1d

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...

spacing.ca

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Re-Migrant Dreams @stoneape314.bsky.social · 1d

Continental Europe!

Re-Migrant Dreams @stoneape314.bsky.social · 2d

The info void itself being info

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Re-Migrant Dreams @stoneape314.bsky.social · 2d

Biomedical implants on the other hand ...

Re-Migrant Dreams @stoneape314.bsky.social · 2d

Did the pollster just decide to skip all of Europe?

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Re-Migrant Dreams @stoneape314.bsky.social · 3d

was Hamas recognized as a government actor? I actually don't know the answer to this given the situation of them being a declared terrorist entity (which glides over an obviously very complex and POV based discussion)

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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 3d

The alternative to old bungalows being torn down and replaced by a number of condos or townhomes that costs roughly the same is the old bungalow being torn down and replaced by a large house that costs 3x as much.
This is literally what happened before rezoning

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Farkas gave an example from the Glamorgan neighbourhood, where he said $600,000 bungalows
are being torn down and replaced with $750,000 luxury condos.

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Scott Piatkowski @scottpiatkowski.bsky.social · 4d

"Twice as many Ontarians want to keep elected school board trustees (49 per cent) as want to eliminate elected trustees (24 per cent). Support for elected trustees climbs to 59 per cent among parents with school-aged children."

www.etfo.ca/news-publica...

Ontarians reject Ford government overreach: majority support elected trustees

A new province-wide poll commissioned by the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) shows that twice as many Ontarians want to keep elected school board trustees (49 per cent) as want to el...

www.etfo.ca

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Re-Migrant Dreams @stoneape314.bsky.social · 4d

Didn't know the new Highlander movie was going to be so heavy on product placement

👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 4d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Norm Di Pasquale🇨🇦 @normsworld.bsky.social · 4d

“The province’s recent sidelining of trustees at four boards is not about improved governance. It is about erasure. Erasing local democratic governance severs the link between schools & communities & undermines accountability to the public.” www.thetrillium.ca/opinion/opin... #onted #onpoli #topoli

OPINION: Renewal of school boards needed, not removal of trustees

Four former directors of education argue that instead of eliminating school trustees, a review of the mandate and operations of school boards ‘could be beneficial’

www.thetrillium.ca

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Re-Migrant Dreams @stoneape314.bsky.social · 4d

everything that Ford's done has been to diminish or divert the political organizing capacity of cities (that have typically served as a base for the progressive parties).

somehow I don't think muni level parties will be on his slate

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Re-Migrant Dreams @stoneape314.bsky.social · 4d

@damienmoule.bsky.social

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More Neighbours Toronto @moreneighboursto.bsky.social · 5d

If you're around on October 25 or 26, consider a lovely autumn walk that will showcase local businesses and the residential communities that they are a part of.

Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 5d

A Jane's Walk so nice, we had to run it twice! And now...quadrice?

I'm retreading the steps I took with the folks from @moreneighboursto.bsky.social, but with a stronger emphasis on retail. This topic is being revisited by Council; we're going to win.

www.eventbrite.ca/e/neighbourh...

Neighbourhood Retail & Residential Tour

Join us for a lively discussion on the future of local businesses and residential living in Toronto's neighbourhoods.

www.eventbrite.ca

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Re-Migrant Dreams @stoneape314.bsky.social · 5d

What's behind the carousel of Japanese leadership. Is this mostly internal LDP party dynamics, or something parliamentary or externally driven?

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Re-Migrant Dreams @stoneape314.bsky.social · 5d

Going to be real boring, him stuck in a blocked cave for three days.

Re-Migrant Dreams @stoneape314.bsky.social · 5d

Oh man, all the different scales on the vertical axes kind of hurts when they're gridded like that

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Re-Migrant Dreams @stoneape314.bsky.social · 6d

didn't seem to care about seniors in care homes either

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Re-Migrant Dreams @stoneape314.bsky.social · 6d

wait, that's not how the Orpheus myth goes! what kind of warm and fuzzy version is this?

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