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Shawn Micallef

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Local tosser Books author (New: Stroll!) Toronto Star column writer Spacing Magazine co-founder U of T instructor Trying to do it a bit different here than the last place. Links to books, etc: https://linktr.ee/shawnmicallef 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · Dec 6

Hi new folks. Last year I rewrote my book Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto. Added like 30000 more words too. My (Toronto) life's work. A very good present to give! Bookstores or direct from Coach House or...

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Stroll, updated edition

THE TORONTO STAR'S "30 BOOKS WE CAN'T WAIT TO READ THIS SPRING"The updated edition of a Toronto favourite meanders around some of the city’s unique neighborhoods and considers what makes a city walka...

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 16h

Watched The Brood tonight. So much good creepy Toronto. Kortright conservation area’s very 70s pavilions. The Brown School on Avenue Rd. So good & weird.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Writing something about ICE and sweet Jesus it is so incredibly dark what they are doing to these cities. We have all seen the videos, but when you wade into the details of their actions, it is extraordinarily bleak.

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 19h

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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Jocelyn Lambert Squires @jocelynsquires.bsky.social · 19h

Spacing is such a great value for a publication. What else can you get now for $26? You can barely get a meal for that anymore!

Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 21h

Long walk on Eglinton for the next print issue of Spacing. Some highlights 1/~ (Do you subscribe? It’s not expensive. spacingstore.ca/products/new... )

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 18h

As long as you bought it, you don’t have to read it. 😘

Jane Roberts @redjane67.bsky.social · 19h

It's on all of our bedside tables.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 18h

I know. It’s a joke.

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Urban Headwaters @urbanheadwaters.com · 20h

This is a great resource: geohub.lio.gov.on.ca/maps/mnrf::o...

Ontario Watershed Boundaries (OWB)

The Ontario Watershed Boundaries (OWB) collection represents the authoritative watershed boundaries for Ontario.

geohub.lio.gov.on.ca

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 19h

(Probably should read on tyranny first)

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 19h

😯🙏🏼

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 19h

And ate it by the All Saints Jesus (in the spirit of Vatican II)

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 20h

Oh we took a break w pizza from old school La Rose Bakery …

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 20h

Neat

Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 20h

I’ve done that before - it’s in the new edition of Stroll.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 20h

Where La Rose ends at Islington there’s an ancient farmhouse facing Islington but in its “front yard” is now a very cool looking mod architectural house. We end at the Martin Grove reservoir. Big sky. Also pumping station/reservoir bldn in distance is round!!! Low so hard to tell in pic.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 20h

Photo of headwater location?

Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 20h

Another mod Catholic Church in the round. And then at Royal York a mod & round medical bldn. This is now all along La Rose Ave. parallel to Eglinton. More stuff here. There’s another round “hilltop chapel” nearby. It’s the round district.

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Urban Headwaters @urbanheadwaters.com · 20h

I was out today as well, still working on my complete West Don River walk from the headwaters to the lakeshore. Confirmed that you can walk Glendon College to Coxwell & O'Connor without stepping on a city street.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 20h

Very nice. You seem to be off the main path too

Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 20h

Very strong Ukrainian population in these parts.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 20h

Superb round Ukrainian church, St Demetrius. Love the mod rectory. As a lapsed catholic, mod catholic bldns give me warm Vatican II vibes.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 20h

Noticed that too. A bit calmer.

Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 20h

With exceptions. Anyway look at this classic rocks in concrete around the driveway sculpture in previous post. Now on Richview, an old street that predated modern-wide Eglinton (west of Scarlett road Eg is highway-like in cancelled expressway right of way). Older houses on Richview. Nail houses!

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 20h

Sorry those battle weary homes are between Weston & Humber. Anyway west of Humber it’s big apt bldn & suburbia land. We exceptions.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 20h

Some residents complained the section in the Eglinton flats wasn’t buried. “Save our park/trees”. It’s minor incision & most of west extension should be aboveground but Doug Ford insisted we spent a few billion more & bury it (near his house)

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 20h

Between Weston rd & the black creek valley some battle weary houses. Some quite old.

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