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Eric Duncan Parker @allears52.bsky.social · 4d

Looks like an abstract painting!

Eric Duncan Parker @allears52.bsky.social · 4d

An amazing aerial photo of the cranberry harvest recently in Delta BC. Looks like an abstract painting!

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Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @thesidewalkballet.bsky.social · 4d

"The public space in front of the gallery is Vancouver’s only real piazza. It is perverse to hollow this place out and take the energy of its visitors and activity somewhere else."

@alexbozikovic.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...

New Vancouver Art Gallery to be smaller, more Canadian than ambitious original plan

The gallery will move six blocks from its original site, tapping Formline and KPMB for a design rooted in Indigenous tradition

www.theglobeandmail.com

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James Huctwith @dainty-bastard.bsky.social · 7d

This is wonderful. AI imagery is polluting both visual history and the real-world environment. Blockity-block-block!

And remember: reporting and blocking AI content is even better than a duty - it's a pleasure.

Mellow Lugosi’s Dead 🧛🏻‍♂️ @flyingtrilobite.com · 7d

For my new followers on Bluesky, keep in mind many of us won’t even see your profile if you have a generative AI profile pic, banner, or regularly post AI images.

Subscribing to the aimod moderation list below blocks almost all of it and is fantastic.
bsky.app/profile/aimo...

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Matt Armstrong @matta7.bsky.social · 12d

To recap:
- community action;
- a plan made;
- industrial lands remediated;
- a river moved;
- an island made;
- lands made green & nature returns;
- Indigenous people named the island;
- a bridge built & floated into place;
- art & culture floats down the river.
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✨Some dream level stuff! ✨

Matt Armstrong @matta7.bsky.social · 12d

Felt moved, joy & pride.
All at the same time.
The beautiful.. flotilla(?) of canoes travels along newly moved Don River.
Part of A Lake Story by Melissa
McGill put on by @thebentway.bsky.social. In the background is Ookwemin Minising, & the (morning misty) Toronto skyline behind it.

Many cones, each with a large single-colour flag, travel along the Don River, with the Toronto skyline in behind

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Eric Duncan Parker @allears52.bsky.social · 12d

I was there yesterday. There is also a'clicking noise component to it also, when there is a gentle breeze blowing as there was then. A building with a fringe on it! How wonderful!

Matt Armstrong @matta7.bsky.social · 12d

Fringe? On a building?!
Yes! And it sways calmingly in the wind.
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Designed to evoke a dancer’s shawl, in part by Indigenous Architecture firm Two Row, this is the new Indigenous Health Centre operated by Anishnawbe Health Toronto.

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Matt Armstrong @matta7.bsky.social · 12d

Felt moved, joy & pride.
All at the same time.
The beautiful.. flotilla(?) of canoes travels along newly moved Don River.
Part of A Lake Story by Melissa
McGill put on by @thebentway.bsky.social. In the background is Ookwemin Minising, & the (morning misty) Toronto skyline behind it.

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Eric Duncan Parker @allears52.bsky.social · 12d

hee hee hee!

𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 12d

Little known fact: with 3.5 kms of railway track, Swissminiatur, an amusement park outside Lugano, #Switzerland, has more functional rail transit than most cities in the USA

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Eric Duncan Parker @allears52.bsky.social · 12d

Lol!

Eric Duncan Parker @allears52.bsky.social · 15d

A positive move.

Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 15d

Why is the City Of Toronto buying advertorial, featuring chief planner @jasonthorne.bsky.social, in the Star?

www.thestar.com/sponsored-se...

A new vision for Toronto’s neighbourhoods — welcoming back small shops and services

City Council will consider zoning changes that would allow small businesses to open closer to where people live, making neighbourhoods more vibrant, walkable and connected.

www.thestar.com

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 15d

Why is the City Of Toronto buying advertorial, featuring chief planner @jasonthorne.bsky.social, in the Star?

www.thestar.com/sponsored-se...

A new vision for Toronto’s neighbourhoods — welcoming back small shops and services

City Council will consider zoning changes that would allow small businesses to open closer to where people live, making neighbourhoods more vibrant, walkable and connected.

www.thestar.com

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Eric Duncan Parker @allears52.bsky.social · 15d

I believe this...

sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 15d

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood ..

In the woods, is perpetual youth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (1836)

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Eric Duncan Parker @allears52.bsky.social · 20d

...'all the truth in the world adds up to one big lie'...

Bob Dylan - Things Have Changed (Official Video)

YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO

www.youtube.com

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Eric Duncan Parker @allears52.bsky.social · 20d

Have a listen here folks....

How Do We End Political Violence?

YouTube video by Matthew Cooke

www.youtube.com

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Community Bikeways - TCBC @bikewaysto.bsky.social · 22d

A Made-in-Canada transportation system ... "What is more patriotic than sitting beside a fellow Canadian on a bus, streetcar or train, thereby helping to preserve our farmlands, wetlands and wildlands?"

www.torontotoday.ca/local/opinio...

OPINION: Why we need a made-in-Canada transportation transition

Toronto’s once-great bicycle manufacturing industry was a salve against American automobile culture

www.torontotoday.ca

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · Sep 5

Three times in one week. These are dark times, my friends.

Upon Seeing The Saint George's Flag Next To Anti-Refugee Graffiti Again This Week

Sometimes I wonder what Saint George, a man who had a Palestinian mother and a Turkish father,
a man who gave away his possessions to the poor and the sick, to those most in need of aid, a man who was taken as a prisoner of war and tortured, would think
that a flag in his name is flown by a country that is sending arms to destroy his mother's homeland while using that same flag as a symbol to say that those who need asylum most
are enemies who are not welcome here.

- Nikita Gill

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Eric Duncan Parker @allears52.bsky.social · 28d

See how simple this is Canada?

Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · May 2

"In 2020, [Portland, OR] approved building [middle housing] on lots zoned for single family homes... A new report from the City says, it's working. 1,400 new units built in just a few years and each one is $300,000 less expensive than a typical single family home." @nbcnews.com

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 28d

THIS JUST IN: #Canada's government is going ahead with Alto, a high-speed rail line between #Quebec City and #Toronto.

Trains to reach speeds of up to 300 kilometres (186 mph) per hour.

20 million people, half Canada's population, live in this corridor.

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Eric Duncan Parker @allears52.bsky.social · 29d

Luv ya Matt!!

Trump's Corrupt Court Declares Racism is Legal

YouTube video by Matthew Cooke

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Eric Duncan Parker @allears52.bsky.social · 29d

Sometimes shit just happens, my mother used to tell me...

Learning to fly. (via @kaedobrien/IG)

YouTube video by SLS

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Eric Duncan Parker @allears52.bsky.social · Sep 9

Wonderful!

𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · Sep 9

"Mary-Two-Axe-Earley Station"

Awesome name for a métro station!

After a Mohawk woman who led 1985 fight to amend the Indian Act after losing her status for marrying a non-Indigenous man.

Today #Montreal unveiled names for 5 new stations on Blue Line

montreal.citynews.ca/2025/09/09/s...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Sep 8

Most excellent thread on making ICE melt.

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · Sep 7

Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

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mlongfield.bsky.social @mlongfield.bsky.social · Sep 7

Channing Tatum gets it: "I mean, Toronto is dope.... when I worked here and got to live here, riding a bike around was like my favorite thing on the weekends. You just sort of mob around, everyone's on bikes, everyone's sorta you just go to restaurants and bars"

Now Toronto @nowtoronto.bsky.social · Sep 6

Channing Tatum thinks Toronto is dope! He's here for the TIFF premiere of his film "Roofman" and told us what he loves most about the 6ix! #TIFF50 #TIFF2025 #ChanningTatum

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Sep 8

The battle against authoritarianism is fought in the streets, but also in the mind.

The War for the Imagination

I and we are wildlife whose natural habitat is libraries, when it comes to physical space, because they contain books in which minds roam free through time and space, encounter Dogen and Dante and Sap...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · Sep 7

Japanese sando in the park. So civilized. (Imanishi Sando Bar in McCormick Park, Toronto).

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