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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 14h

The world’s longest rainbow path. The 600 metre “Long Walk to Equality” by artist Travis Myers at Hanlan’s Point on Toronto Island … the location of Canada’s first Pride in 1971.

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Marta O'Brien @archhistory.bsky.social · 1h

Wish the rest of Ontario would get on him about this. His failures in health care alone should have everyone furious.

Anne Marie Aikins @femwriter.bsky.social · 2h

His meddling serves as a distraction from the bigger scandals

The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 14h

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Marta O'Brien @archhistory.bsky.social · 1h

This is great, especially for people who can't file their own return due to neuro differences or disabilities.

Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 4h

Canada’s new government is starting Automatic Federal Benefits. We’re going to pre-file taxes for up to 5.5 million low-income Canadians, so they get the benefits they are entitled to — money that would otherwise be left unclaimed.

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Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 2h

Clinics are the one place patients should be SAFE

Colds, flus & coughs are the #1 reason why Canadians see a doctor

…so where did masking in healthcare go?

It’s political.

Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

How politics is putting patients and health care workers at risk www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... @drgorfinkel.bsky.social @thestar.com

𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

"Masks prevent the transmission of respiratory viruses. The science is clear," writes Iris Gorfinkel. "The standards are in place. A health policy that reacts to hospitalizations and deaths falls below the long-held standard of do-no-harm. Policies that are enacted only once hospitalizations are high do the opposite.

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David Rider @dmrider.bsky.social · 5h

Found this visitor take interesting, from Reddit yesterday. Lively dysfunction

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Marta O'Brien @archhistory.bsky.social · 1h

Sadly, some of them sit on City Council.

Marta O'Brien @archhistory.bsky.social · 1h

Purchases earn Canadian Tire Money that can be spent in the store or at their gas bars. Much valued by Canadians since 1958! 2/2

Bundles of colourful paper "money" printed by Canadian Tire for use in their stores.

Marta O'Brien @archhistory.bsky.social · 1h

Not Canadian, eh? Canadian Tire's been around since 1922 when it started as a tire -- then primarily automotive parts -- store. Now also sells sports equipment, hardware, housewares (inlcuding small appliances), & seasonal stuff (garden centre in spring-summer). Over 500 stores across Canada. 1/2

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 6h

Oct 10, 1922: Outdated streetcars being loaded onto CNR flatcars at TTC Hanson Yard (Coxwell Ave. & Hanson St.) to be shipped to Northern Ontario, where they would serve as emergency housing after the Great Fire of 1922.

#OnThisDay #OTD #1920s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 13h

The safe and equitable movement of people in this city (with all due respect to the 26 people in council) goes far beyond e-scooters on sidewalks.

The city is car centric and car dependent.

There needs to be a recalibration of how space is allocated to prioritize people over cars. #PoliticalWill

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Norm Di Pasquale🇨🇦 @normsworld.bsky.social · 13h

Hospitals & police chiefs agree: speed cameras save lives. So why is Ford banning them?

Ford is putting kids & pedestrians at risk just to let reckless drivers off the hook.

Tell Ford to keep speed cameras & enforce speed limits. Sign here: www.progresstoronto.ca/petition-pro... #topoli #onpoli

Tell Ford Keep Speed Cameras: Protect Kids & Pedestrians — Progress Toronto

Doug Ford announced plans to ban speed cameras—making it easier to speed. This move puts children and pedestrians at risk. Tell Ford and Queen’s Park: keep the speed cameras and keep enforcing speed ...

www.progresstoronto.ca

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Marit Stiles @maritstilesndp.bsky.social · 12h

Two years ago, the RCMP launched a criminal investigation into Doug Ford’s Greenbelt Grab.

Two years later, it’s déjà vu — Labour Minister David Piccini admits he personally picked which of his friends got millions from the Skills Development Fund.

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Marta O'Brien @archhistory.bsky.social · 12h

An amazing place that too many people don't know about!

Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 12h

Yesterday I took my students on a field trip to the mothership: the Thomas Fisher rare book library at U of T (the head of Roberts’ brutalist peacock). Cool open to the public display drawing from collection. Atwood’s original Handmaid’s draft et al.

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.bsky.social · 2d

"City leaders attribute this achievement to long-term, systematically implemented policies grounded in the Vision Zero philosophy, rather than any single initiative."

Yes, it's about both the technology and the downstream work.

urban-mobility-observatory.transport.ec.europa.eu/news-events/...

Helsinki records zero road deaths over the past year

Helsinki has recorded a full year without traffic fatalities, credited to long-term Vision Zero policies, lower speed limits, safer street design, and expanded walking, cycling and public transport in...

urban-mobility-observatory.transport.ec.europa.eu

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Jeff's Fact Checker @thunderbayed.bsky.social · 2d

PP wishes criminals a peaceful and happy life.

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Marta O'Brien @archhistory.bsky.social · 2d

Still not enough. Take away their licence.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 2d

This is Clio. She did not study for the test today. Also does not know how to read. 12/10 (IG: paspastotoro)

a black and gray long-haired yorkiepoo sits at a desk in a university classroom. a piece of paper lays on the desk in front of her, her paws propped up on the desk as if she's bracing herself. there are students in the background hunched over and working on paper in front of them. the pup looks at the camera with a concerned side eye. she's realizing she probably should have read some of the homework before eating it.

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ArtHist @arthist-net.bsky.social · 2d

JOB: Assistant Professor, Architectural History, Pennsylvania State University

https://arthist.net/archive/50820

Assistant Professor, Architectural History, Pennsylvania State University

Elizabeth Mansfield. University Park, PA, USA, 01.08.2026, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.10.2025

arthist.net

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Marta O'Brien @archhistory.bsky.social · 2d

Yet Ford & others defend ditching the cameras. SMH.

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Marta O'Brien @archhistory.bsky.social · 2d

Yup. Same in Toronto.

Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 2d

This is what is so frustrating about bike safety blitzes. Drivers are violating laws every damned minute of every day.

And... the blitzes to deal with them are so rare they don't exist.

David Hope @davidhope.ca · 2d

Another day, another #Ottawa driver sailing through a red light. All I can do is wave I guess.

#OttBike

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Marta O'Brien @archhistory.bsky.social · 2d

OMG that man is an idiot. Ward 2, is there no one else you can send to Council? Please?

Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 2d

Councillor Stephen Holyday has motions.

- reduce operating hours of cameras
- reduce number of cameras
- limit cameras to school zones only
- wrap cameras in "high-visibility" vinyl wrap.

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 2d

Councillor Chernos Lin asks about the highest speed recorded by Toronto's speed cameras. Transportation General Manager Barbara Gray says it was 187 km/h in a 50 km/h zone at Midland & Montgomery — on Jan 25 at 10 p.m.

"That's shocking," says Chernos Lin.

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine being the Secretary of Transportation for the entire country and cheering ripping up a crosswalk because of your hatred. Sad little man

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2d

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 2d

"You've been warned" should be written at the top of every ballot

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