Dylan Reid
@dylanreid.bsky.social
City man: Spacing magazine editor, walking, messy urbanism, Renaissance urban history. Also freelance editor. dylanreid.ca
It seems obvious to me that with Canada's geography, a prime nation-building project would be a government owned satellite communication network. And $500 million is cheaper than most of the projects chosen so far, and there's a Canadian company ready.
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Why Canada’s roadways are studded with cellphone ‘dead zones’
Ottawa has not adequately pushed cellphone companies to increase coverage, experts say, preventing people in emergencies from receiving help
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November 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
It seems obvious to me that with Canada's geography, a prime nation-building project would be a government owned satellite communication network. And $500 million is cheaper than most of the projects chosen so far, and there's a Canadian company ready.
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www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
A reminder of just how much Pearson got done in 5 years with a minority government (and this isn't even all of his accomplishments).
November 22, 2025 at 3:32 AM
A reminder of just how much Pearson got done in 5 years with a minority government (and this isn't even all of his accomplishments).
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And it has indeed come to pass.
Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
November 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
And it has indeed come to pass.
Survey about ideas for Queen's Park North (which was just updated, very nicely, a few years ago).
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Queen's Park North Revitalization
Learn about the final vision and guiding principles for the park revitalization, and provide feedback on the draft big moves and design ideas for the park. The survey closes on December 14, 2025. Take...
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November 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Survey about ideas for Queen's Park North (which was just updated, very nicely, a few years ago).
www.toronto.ca/city-governm...
www.toronto.ca/city-governm...
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Gonna check in on Canada, where politics is more normal... I see there is a convoy headed to Ottawa to avenge a flock of dead ostriches
November 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Gonna check in on Canada, where politics is more normal... I see there is a convoy headed to Ottawa to avenge a flock of dead ostriches
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"I hate the Trivago ad."
My son, aged 6.5 yrs.
My son, aged 6.5 yrs.
November 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM
"I hate the Trivago ad."
My son, aged 6.5 yrs.
My son, aged 6.5 yrs.
Listening to my Dad's Gordon Lightfoot collection, noticing how many of his songs are about transportation - trains (Steel rail blues, the trilogy), planes (Early morning rain), ships (Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald). Apt for ballads from sprawling Canada.
November 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Listening to my Dad's Gordon Lightfoot collection, noticing how many of his songs are about transportation - trains (Steel rail blues, the trilogy), planes (Early morning rain), ships (Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald). Apt for ballads from sprawling Canada.
"New Democrat MPP for Toronto Centre and former city councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam says nothing is stopping the city from deploying temporary measures that would widen sidewalks" www.thestar.com/news/gta/wal...
Walking on Yonge Street shouldn’t feel like a contact sport — so why the delays to widen the sidewalks?
Despite the city having taking steps in the form of YongeTOmorrow, a project that hopes to increase and improve pedestrian safety — relief for that busy stretch of Yonge Street
www.thestar.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
"New Democrat MPP for Toronto Centre and former city councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam says nothing is stopping the city from deploying temporary measures that would widen sidewalks" www.thestar.com/news/gta/wal...
A couple of years ago we put out a public call for pitches at Spacing and got a few AI generated ones - but also some good genuine ones. But now we mostly just send out the call to a list of writers. I'm definitely concerned about getting these kinds of pitches now AI is more sophisticated.
"Every media era gets the fabulists it deserves." This
@nickhunebrown.bsky.social
piece about journalism grifters in the age of AI slop is fantastic, bonkers & sad on so many levels thelocal.to/investigatin...
@nickhunebrown.bsky.social
piece about journalism grifters in the age of AI slop is fantastic, bonkers & sad on so many levels thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A couple of years ago we put out a public call for pitches at Spacing and got a few AI generated ones - but also some good genuine ones. But now we mostly just send out the call to a list of writers. I'm definitely concerned about getting these kinds of pitches now AI is more sophisticated.
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So much of our infrastructure, planning, environmental, and road safety measures seem to be based around politicians' fear of slightly inconveniencing easily-angered motorists. Pedestrians, cyclists, and public transport users are barely considered in their calculations.
November 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
So much of our infrastructure, planning, environmental, and road safety measures seem to be based around politicians' fear of slightly inconveniencing easily-angered motorists. Pedestrians, cyclists, and public transport users are barely considered in their calculations.
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Ontario slashed thousands of boards in the ‘60s. Critics warned of government interference. — by @jbcurio.bsky.social
How Ontario consolidated its school boards — and set the stage for education fights that still rage today | TVO Today
The province slashed thousands of boards. Critics warned of government interference
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November 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Ontario slashed thousands of boards in the ‘60s. Critics warned of government interference. — by @jbcurio.bsky.social
In my introduction to the @spacing.bsky.social waterfront issue, I wrote about how the city has somehow been unable to fix the Amsterdam bridge at Harbourfront Centre for years. At council this month, the City finally found the money to fix it. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
In my introduction to the @spacing.bsky.social waterfront issue, I wrote about how the city has somehow been unable to fix the Amsterdam bridge at Harbourfront Centre for years. At council this month, the City finally found the money to fix it. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...
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Like many places these days, Scotland lets the public name their snow plows. But they take it up a notch and offer a live tracking map so you can follow Thistle Grit Through, Robert Brrrns and Ice Sweeper Willie on their rounds
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
November 21, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Like many places these days, Scotland lets the public name their snow plows. But they take it up a notch and offer a live tracking map so you can follow Thistle Grit Through, Robert Brrrns and Ice Sweeper Willie on their rounds
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
Very lucky second guess got me most of the way there (but of course now regretting I didn't quite get a 2). (Thursday November 20)
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November 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Very lucky second guess got me most of the way there (but of course now regretting I didn't quite get a 2). (Thursday November 20)
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I loved this show so much (though it gets a bit over-weird towards the end). While I don't have quite those reactions, I do adore delicious desserts as one of my great pleasures in life.
Kantaro: The Sweet Tooth Salaryman on Netflix is the closest thing to a live action version of Food Wars. I feel like I'm eating food wrong because I do not have the reactions he does from eating sweets. Good fucking lord.
I don't wanna mention spoilers but when you get to *that* episode.. wtf 😳😂📺
I don't wanna mention spoilers but when you get to *that* episode.. wtf 😳😂📺
November 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I loved this show so much (though it gets a bit over-weird towards the end). While I don't have quite those reactions, I do adore delicious desserts as one of my great pleasures in life.
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I've been saying for years: The Saudis have all this money, but they spent it *so* stupidly. The money for LIV golfers was insane. Same with Ronaldo? And Noem? What?
"the Saudis can't bribe people any more because they spent all their money on sports teams and deeply stupid infrastructure projects they'll never finish" is a plot twist I didn't see coming, I'll be honest
November 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I've been saying for years: The Saudis have all this money, but they spent it *so* stupidly. The money for LIV golfers was insane. Same with Ronaldo? And Noem? What?
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Before our recent screening of The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, Spacing's John Lorinc wrote about the film – a look at the arrival of privately-owned public spaces in NYC in the 1960s & urbanist-author Holly Whyte's work to document how they were used https://ow.ly/lFIR50Xsuh0
November 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Before our recent screening of The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, Spacing's John Lorinc wrote about the film – a look at the arrival of privately-owned public spaces in NYC in the 1960s & urbanist-author Holly Whyte's work to document how they were used https://ow.ly/lFIR50Xsuh0
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When they say Trump calling a reporter "piggy" is "just being honest," they are revealing a key feature of the reactionary mind: it believes, at a deep brainstem level, that *everyone* is awful & selfish & ugly on the inside. Everyone just suppresses it out of fear of social disapproval. Not Trump!
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
When they say Trump calling a reporter "piggy" is "just being honest," they are revealing a key feature of the reactionary mind: it believes, at a deep brainstem level, that *everyone* is awful & selfish & ugly on the inside. Everyone just suppresses it out of fear of social disapproval. Not Trump!
Just remembering that Erin O'Toole's Conservative Party slogan in his election was "Secure our Future"
We’re reinvesting in the Canadian Armed Forces, building up Canada’s defence industry, and hiring new border and RCMP personnel to secure our borders and keep our communities safe.
November 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Just remembering that Erin O'Toole's Conservative Party slogan in his election was "Secure our Future"
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The missile does not, in fact, know where it is.
Ukraine Is Jamming Russia’s ‘Superweapon’ With a Song
A few years ago, Putin hyped the Kinzhal hypersonic missile. Now electronic warfare is knocking it out of the sky with music and some bad directions.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The missile does not, in fact, know where it is.
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Big congratulations to my Walk Toronto colleague @leescott.bsky.social on the publication of her new book, "Step Outside: Walking your Way to Health and Happiness"! plumleafpress.com/product/step...
Step Outside: Walking your Way to Health and Happiness - Plumleaf Press
With STEP OUTSIDE, fitness leader and founder of WoW Power Walking, Lee Scott brings to the reader decades of experience helping people find awe, fitness, and health from outdoor walking. This is a bo...
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November 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Big congratulations to my Walk Toronto colleague @leescott.bsky.social on the publication of her new book, "Step Outside: Walking your Way to Health and Happiness"! plumleafpress.com/product/step...
I knew this combination was going to be trouble! (Wednesday November 19)
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November 20, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I knew this combination was going to be trouble! (Wednesday November 19)
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"For a generation, politicians in Toronto’s inner suburbs have decried their relative lack of amenities while also systematically opposing any measure that would provide them with more amenities" - @thekeenanwire.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Edward Keenan: Toronto’s decision on corner stores may seem like a win — but it’s only a half-measure on top of another half-measure
Watch City Hall long enough, and you’ll inevitably conclude that some councillors here simply hate urban life.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
"For a generation, politicians in Toronto’s inner suburbs have decried their relative lack of amenities while also systematically opposing any measure that would provide them with more amenities" - @thekeenanwire.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/star...