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Can the Eglinton LRT outrun the bus?
The Eglinton-Crosstown LRT will soon open, finally, and it should be significantly faster than the local buses it replaces. There are reasons to be hopeful that this project will be more successful than the Finch West LRT, but it also has a lot more riding on…
The Eglinton-Crosstown LRT will soon open, finally, and it should be significantly faster than the local buses it replaces. There are reasons to be hopeful that this project will be more successful than the Finch West LRT, but it also has a lot more riding on…
Can the Eglinton LRT outrun the bus?
The Eglinton-Crosstown LRT will soon open, finally, and it should be significantly faster than the local buses it replaces. There are reasons to be hopeful that this project will be more successful than the Finch West LRT, but it also has a lot more riding on its performance.
seanmarshall.ca
January 30, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Can the Eglinton LRT outrun the bus?
The Eglinton-Crosstown LRT will soon open, finally, and it should be significantly faster than the local buses it replaces. There are reasons to be hopeful that this project will be more successful than the Finch West LRT, but it also has a lot more riding on…
The Eglinton-Crosstown LRT will soon open, finally, and it should be significantly faster than the local buses it replaces. There are reasons to be hopeful that this project will be more successful than the Finch West LRT, but it also has a lot more riding on…
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TORONTO! Tickets are now available for @thewaroncars.bsky.social LIVE.
Join us Feb 5th for a conversation about cities, transportation, and their new book, Life After Cars. Generously sponsored by @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social .
🔗: www.cycleto ca/cars
Join us Feb 5th for a conversation about cities, transportation, and their new book, Life After Cars. Generously sponsored by @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social .
🔗: www.cycleto ca/cars
January 19, 2026 at 4:20 PM
TORONTO! Tickets are now available for @thewaroncars.bsky.social LIVE.
Join us Feb 5th for a conversation about cities, transportation, and their new book, Life After Cars. Generously sponsored by @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social .
🔗: www.cycleto ca/cars
Join us Feb 5th for a conversation about cities, transportation, and their new book, Life After Cars. Generously sponsored by @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social .
🔗: www.cycleto ca/cars
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Ion: An Ontario LRT that somehow works
With proper signal priority, reliable service, and a flexible route, Waterloo Region's LRT is a good example of a successful transit service and planning tool. Though it has a few issues - including some slow sections and a restrictive operating contract -…
With proper signal priority, reliable service, and a flexible route, Waterloo Region's LRT is a good example of a successful transit service and planning tool. Though it has a few issues - including some slow sections and a restrictive operating contract -…
Ion: An Ontario LRT that somehow works
With proper signal priority, reliable service, and a flexible route, Waterloo Region's LRT is a good example of a successful transit service and planning tool. Though it has a few issues - including some slow sections and a restrictive operating contract - Ion works well.
seanmarshall.ca
January 19, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Ion: An Ontario LRT that somehow works
With proper signal priority, reliable service, and a flexible route, Waterloo Region's LRT is a good example of a successful transit service and planning tool. Though it has a few issues - including some slow sections and a restrictive operating contract -…
With proper signal priority, reliable service, and a flexible route, Waterloo Region's LRT is a good example of a successful transit service and planning tool. Though it has a few issues - including some slow sections and a restrictive operating contract -…
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In theory, I've never liked the Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit, which bridges the gap between a person's income and market rent — it's a landlord subsidy. But it's also one of the only ways we move people into housing. These cuts will leave people on the streets. www.thestar.com/news/gta/cit...
City expects to help two-thirds fewer homeless households with private-market rent subsidies this year
While province assures no one enrolled will lose subsidy over funding, the city expects less money to refer new homeless households, budget docs show.
www.thestar.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:01 PM
In theory, I've never liked the Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit, which bridges the gap between a person's income and market rent — it's a landlord subsidy. But it's also one of the only ways we move people into housing. These cuts will leave people on the streets. www.thestar.com/news/gta/cit...
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Great team out today clearing the Bloor bike lane of snow (+ slush) from Royal York Rd to Runnymede. #biketo
Summary by @jnyyz.bsky.social
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Summary by @jnyyz.bsky.social
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January 17, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Great team out today clearing the Bloor bike lane of snow (+ slush) from Royal York Rd to Runnymede. #biketo
Summary by @jnyyz.bsky.social
jnyyz.wordpress.com/2026/01/17/b...
Summary by @jnyyz.bsky.social
jnyyz.wordpress.com/2026/01/17/b...
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New episode of our housing series The Overhead on the @spacingradio.bsky.social feed: from Parkdale in Toronto to the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, community land trusts are growing, and keeping housing affordable in their communities: spacing.ca/national/202... @bshnode.bsky.social
The Overhead: Community land trusts gaining ground - Spacing National
THIS EPISODE: Community Land Trusts Gaining Ground A good news story in recent years is the amount of progress Community Land Trusts (CLTs) have made in communities across the country. New CLTs are be...
spacing.ca
January 5, 2026 at 3:18 PM
New episode of our housing series The Overhead on the @spacingradio.bsky.social feed: from Parkdale in Toronto to the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, community land trusts are growing, and keeping housing affordable in their communities: spacing.ca/national/202... @bshnode.bsky.social
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I did this interview at Yonge & St Clair, the reporter hoping he'd catch a gig worker bombing down the sidewalk. Instead a pickup truck was parked in the bike lane behind us, and for the entire conversation rider after rider was forced into traffic.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
December 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I did this interview at Yonge & St Clair, the reporter hoping he'd catch a gig worker bombing down the sidewalk. Instead a pickup truck was parked in the bike lane behind us, and for the entire conversation rider after rider was forced into traffic.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Two years ago, @thelocal.to did an issue on how this long-awaited transit line promised to transform northwest Toronto. Yesterday, @royinori.bsky.social and photographer Duane Cole rode the line with locals to try to find out if the LRT can keep up with its promises. thelocal.to/finch-west-l...
Can the Finch West LRT Keep Up With Its Promises? | The Local
After years of delay, Line 6 is now running across a historically isolated part of the city. At its launch, politicians posed, transit enthusiasts assembled, and some locals wondered if it was worth t...
thelocal.to
December 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Two years ago, @thelocal.to did an issue on how this long-awaited transit line promised to transform northwest Toronto. Yesterday, @royinori.bsky.social and photographer Duane Cole rode the line with locals to try to find out if the LRT can keep up with its promises. thelocal.to/finch-west-l...
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I rode the Finch light rail today. It’s slow, but it has potential, and it brings with it a lot of good things. Read my latest article now:
open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...
open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...
A New Tramway and a New Leaf.
Canada’s newest urban rail line open to the public.
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I rode the Finch light rail today. It’s slow, but it has potential, and it brings with it a lot of good things. Read my latest article now:
open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...
open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...
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CHCH will be airing a report regarding last night's gathering of white nationalists in Gore Park in Downtown Hamilton.
It will air during the 6:00 p.m. newscast. #HamOnt
Watch live on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqho...
It will air during the 6:00 p.m. newscast. #HamOnt
Watch live on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqho...
CHCH Evening News at 6
YouTube video by CHCH News
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November 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
CHCH will be airing a report regarding last night's gathering of white nationalists in Gore Park in Downtown Hamilton.
It will air during the 6:00 p.m. newscast. #HamOnt
Watch live on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqho...
It will air during the 6:00 p.m. newscast. #HamOnt
Watch live on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqho...
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#topoli #onpoli New from me on @spacing.bsky.social: When did we begin dismissing opioid addiction, especially among homeless encampment residents, as "delinquent" behaviour? Contrary to the claims of pundits like The Globe's Robyn Urback, there's much more to this story. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
When did we start describing opioid addiction as "delinquent" behaviour? - Spacing Toronto
In a widely read, shared and commented upon column in Saturday’s Globe and Mail, columnist Robyn Urback asked a question that, I’d say, is on a lot of people’s minds these days: how did we “normalize ...
spacing.ca
November 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
#topoli #onpoli New from me on @spacing.bsky.social: When did we begin dismissing opioid addiction, especially among homeless encampment residents, as "delinquent" behaviour? Contrary to the claims of pundits like The Globe's Robyn Urback, there's much more to this story. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
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November 15 marked a full three years in my role as Councillor for Ward 2. Every year, around this time, I write about another year gone by, what I’ve learned in this job, what people tell me when they see me at a meeting, stop me in the street, or share their thoughts with me in an email. #HamOnt
November 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
November 15 marked a full three years in my role as Councillor for Ward 2. Every year, around this time, I write about another year gone by, what I’ve learned in this job, what people tell me when they see me at a meeting, stop me in the street, or share their thoughts with me in an email. #HamOnt
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More and more people want encampments evicted. Neighbourhood groups are suing shelter providers. Now, they're attempting to stop supportive housing in Parkdale. You can't have all three!
Please sign and share in support of PARC and supportive housing! tinyurl.com/parcpetition
Please sign and share in support of PARC and supportive housing! tinyurl.com/parcpetition
Build Supportive Affordable Housing at 1499 and 1501 Queen West
The City of Toronto, and Canada as a whole, is in an unprecedented affordable housing crisis. Many struggle to find safe and stable housing in Toronto and Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre (PARC) wa...
tinyurl.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
More and more people want encampments evicted. Neighbourhood groups are suing shelter providers. Now, they're attempting to stop supportive housing in Parkdale. You can't have all three!
Please sign and share in support of PARC and supportive housing! tinyurl.com/parcpetition
Please sign and share in support of PARC and supportive housing! tinyurl.com/parcpetition
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CHCH is reporting that there has been a pedestrian fatality on Upper Ottawa Street.
This is, very tragically, the third pedestrian fatality in a week in Hamilton.
www.chch.com/chch-news/pe...
This is, very tragically, the third pedestrian fatality in a week in Hamilton.
www.chch.com/chch-news/pe...
Pedestrian killed on Upper Ottawa Street in Hamilton, road closed
Police say a pedestrian fatality has closed a section of Upper Ottawa Street in Hamilton on Thursday morning.
www.chch.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
CHCH is reporting that there has been a pedestrian fatality on Upper Ottawa Street.
This is, very tragically, the third pedestrian fatality in a week in Hamilton.
www.chch.com/chch-news/pe...
This is, very tragically, the third pedestrian fatality in a week in Hamilton.
www.chch.com/chch-news/pe...
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Thank you to everyone who came out to tonight's ride and rally on the one-year anniversary of Bill 212. We're not done fighting to protect our streets and your rights. cc: @ffsafestreets.bsky.social @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
📸: @jnyyz.bsky.social
jnyyz.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/p...
📸: @jnyyz.bsky.social
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October 22, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Thank you to everyone who came out to tonight's ride and rally on the one-year anniversary of Bill 212. We're not done fighting to protect our streets and your rights. cc: @ffsafestreets.bsky.social @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
📸: @jnyyz.bsky.social
jnyyz.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/p...
📸: @jnyyz.bsky.social
jnyyz.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/p...
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Napanee’s precarious transit links
At the end of November, Deseronto Transit will cease operations. The lack of sustainable intercommunity transit funding and support for rural transit has resulted in more gaps throughout Southern Ontario.
At the end of November, Deseronto Transit will cease operations. The lack of sustainable intercommunity transit funding and support for rural transit has resulted in more gaps throughout Southern Ontario.
Napanee’s precarious transit links
At the end of November, Deseronto Transit will cease operations. The lack of sustainable intercommunity transit funding and support for rural transit has resulted in more gaps throughout Southern Ontario.
seanmarshall.ca
October 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Napanee’s precarious transit links
At the end of November, Deseronto Transit will cease operations. The lack of sustainable intercommunity transit funding and support for rural transit has resulted in more gaps throughout Southern Ontario.
At the end of November, Deseronto Transit will cease operations. The lack of sustainable intercommunity transit funding and support for rural transit has resulted in more gaps throughout Southern Ontario.
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We made a river. My long read on Toronto’s visionary port lands project: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
After 18 years of work, Toronto’s Port Lands opens to the public
Now known as Biidaasige Park, the project is part of $1.5-billion effort to renew the area’s ecological and Indigenous past
www.theglobeandmail.com
July 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
We made a river. My long read on Toronto’s visionary port lands project: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...