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Trevor Heywood

@metroscapes.ca

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Not all those who wander are lost. I explore Metroscapes, where natural and built environments collide. 🌐 https://metroscapes.ca ▶️ https://youtube.com/@metroscapes

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · Aug 19

3,000 km of walking #metroscapes across Greater #Toronto, , #Hamilton, #Niagara, the #Tri-Cities, #Guelph and #Ottawa. Roughly the driving distance from Charlottetown to Dryden. #hiking #cities

Map of Metroscapes walks in the Greater Toronto Area.

Map of Metroscapes walks in Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and Guelph.

Map of Metroscapes walks in Hamilton and Niagara.

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 2h

I got here because someone posted this on reddit: Māori MPs erupted into haka when the bill was on the floor of Parliament, resulting in suspension of procedure.

From the nextlevel community on Reddit: New Zealand parliament temporarily suspended after members break out into a spontaneous haka

Explore this post and more from the nextlevel community

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 2h

Fell down a rabbit hole. This is about Hīkoi mō te Tiriti (Māori for 'March for the Treaty'). New Zeland's coalition government sought to redefine principles of the Treaty of Waitangi in November 2024. The indigenous Māori people erupted in protest, asserting it would erode their treaty rights.

New Zealand Protest (Māori Hikoi)

YouTube video by Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 11h

I was doing a bit of research, and gotta say, I really like how TRCA kicks off this 10-year watershed plan for Etobicoke Creek with the indigenous origin of its use and name. Three indigenous names point back to Alder trees.

Page ii of the Etobicoke Creek Watershed Plan (2024-2034)

https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2024/ph/bgrd/backgroundfile-244329.pdf

"Etobicoke Creek Watershed is covered by Treaty 13 (Toronto Purchase), Treaty 14 (Head of the Lake Purchase), and Treaty 19 (Ajetance Purchase) signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit. The land in the watershed is the territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, and the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. Treaties 13 and 14 reserved Etobicoke Creek as a fishery for the Mississaugas of the Credit."

"The Mississauga peoples used the land around Etobicoke Creek seasonally and as a salmon fishery before being displaced by settlers. This led to a collapse of the traditional economy.

"The Mississaugas’ relationship to water is embedded in their creation story, its teaching, and prophecies. This story, Kiinwi Debaadjmowin, tells us that everything is interconnected as intricate systems. This
interconnectedness is explained in the first seven fires of creation. Creation birthed life through the projection of first thought and heartbeat. The seven fires grew in succession – the stars, the sun, the moon, movement, seeds of life, Earth, and human beings."

"Origins of the word Etobicoke:
Adoopekog – place of the black alder
Atobi Coake – black alder creek
Eobicoke – the place of the alders"

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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 15h

“How Bike Share went from death’s door to one of Toronto’s fastest-growing ways to travel” in the Toronto Star www.thestar.com/news/gta/how...

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 1d

Well that's a bummer.

Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 1d

And if you're looking to listen for free instead of paying to view.

Sportsnet 590 The Fan

Sportsnet 590 The Fan Radio, Shows and Schedule

www.sportsnet.ca

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 1d

Keegan Matheson @keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 1d

George Springer, on the first damn pitch the #BlueJays see in the ALCS:

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 1d

FIRST. PITCH. #BlueJays

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 1d

Shoutout to The Brock Press for this excellent review of a new GO station, as well as a VIA climbdown on potential service changes, in a single article.

New Go train station opens in Hamilton, VIA rail drama - The Brock Press

Several new developments in rail transportation have occurred in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton areas. These developments involve efforts from GO Transit and VIA Rail to increase connectivity and co...

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 1d

I usually tack onto one of my Canadian playlists on the weekend, but just need to throw this one out for positivity.

Hold On, I'm Comin'
Sam & Dave
Hold On, I'm Comin' (1966)

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=8T3BhEikz6E

Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 1d

(from yesterday)
Location: Downtown Trail and Royal City Park

Quantity: 1 bag

Notable finds: large amount of cigarette butts by a bench

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Observing The City @observingthecity.bsky.social · 2d

Did you know Toronto has 15 permanent bicycle counters around the city? I have created a portal that should be updated monthly when the city updates their open data. It's live now at: observingthecity.ca

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 1d

It's good year round IMO, but summer is pretty lit (see banner in profile; essentially the same angle).

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 2d

You can also refer to this @shawnmicallef.bsky.social

North GTA Watersheds

An overview of the watersheds across the main urban portions of York Region.

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 3d

One thing that doesn't help: this year's Atlantic hurricane season. We're coming down from peak season, and there have been few systems entering the gulf. Those systems usually bring moisture up into eastern Canada at least, but this year, most cyclones get swatted out to sea.

A map of the tracks of all tropical cyclones in the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, as of October 10, 2025. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2025_Atlantic_hurricane_season_summary.png

A map showing the tracks of all Atlantic hurricanes which formed between 1851 and 2019. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atlantic_hurricane_tracks.jpg

Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 3d

New drought map from @agriculture.canada.ca is out. "At the end of the month, 85% of the country was classified as Abnormally Dry (D0) or Moderate to Extreme Drought (D1 to D3), including 76% of the country's agricultural landscape."

Canadian Drought Monitor map from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, as of September 30, 2025. https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/agricultural-production/weather/canadian-drought-monitor/current-drought-conditions

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 3d

I think @thestar.com could benefit from talking to employees about this. Quotes are from CEOs raking in the profit. I am supportive of it, but I see clerks that seem tired, overstimulated and nervous on Friday and Saturday nights. They are on the front line of groups looking to keep the party going.

Toronto Star @thestar.com · 3d

Ontario’s expansion of alcohol sales has been a “real game-changer” for convenience stores, driving higher foot traffic and replacing revenue lost due to a “huge” decrease in cigarette sales, according to the Convenience Industry Council of Canada.

Ontario’s convenience stores were in trouble, until beer and wine sales. Now revenues are surging

A new survey by the Convenience Industry Council of Canada found that revenue on all products in convenience stores was up 12 per cent this September in Ontario compared to last fall.

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 3d

I may need to come to Toronto on November 16. At least I *hope* I need to come to Toronto on November 16.

Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 3d

Did they really think the same guy who renamed their defense establishment as a 'war department' was going to win a peace prize?

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Jake Tobin @jaketobin.bsky.social · 4d

Why is this every city sign

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 4d

Some of you may remember when plants started springing back to life in the new Don River mouth, but this article dives deeper: discovery of a micro resurgence of life since those plants sprouted. American chestnut pollen, a seed from the 1500s, remains of peat bogs, worms, larvae and zooplankton.