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Mark Shaw
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🍁 Toronto transit & urbanism nerd | 👨‍💻 Software Developer | 🌈 Your gay best friend
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Mark Shaw @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · Nov 15
This #followfriday I’m just going to repost the Toronto Urbanism Starter pack.

It’s got more content since you last saw it!

go.bsky.app/3drLJRM
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coldwarhost.bsky.social
vraiment
November 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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spacequeennorah.tgirl.gay
The children yearn for Cybersix and Totally Spies
nikostratis.com Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 12h
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
markshawtoronto.bsky.social
K but we’re the world’s leading exporter of gay hockey romance though
Heated Rivalry poster, coming November 28th
November 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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sharonk.bsky.social
probably the strongest case for Ashton for NDP leader
I think it succeeded to a large degree because he took advantage of a political vacuum and terrain that had been abandoned by the Left. One of the anecdotes in the book I share is from Ginny Roth, a key Conservative strategist who was previously communications director for Poilievre. When I talked to her at a Conservative Party convention, she admitted her party was seizing an opening that had been left by the NDP. She had traveled around with Poilievre and told me that “if Canadians are not going to get it from a Bernie Sanders on the Left, they’ll take it from someone on the Right.”
November 26, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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mdruker.app
me: I need Ontario government officials on here

also me: so I can yell at them
November 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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metroscapes.ca
Like, how do you make a poster like that when your own chair stood with Hazel 25 years ago about this?
Article from page 31 of the Toronto Star, March 29, 2000. Ontario Clean Air Alliance Chair Jack Gibbons and the late then-Mayor of Mississauga Hazel McCallion pose in front of the Lakeview Generating Station, advocating for its converson to natural gas.
November 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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thewaroncars.bsky.social
This is one of the reasons congestion pricing works.
cameroncorduroy.bsky.social Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 4d
i wonder how much of Americans' views on driving vs. transit would change if they had to pay for gas/insurance/etc every time they turned on the engine

"i'm not paying $5 to take the train to work twice a day when i can just drive" is a genuine opinion held by so many people
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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chanface.bsky.social
Some more footage of the ride over to Queen’s Park:

Loved seeing everybody pass by the “You save this bike lane” banners by @cycletoronto.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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philmarfisi.bsky.social
Imagine the Vulcans land in 2063 and we don't have high speed rail from Toronto to Montreal yet?
thespaceshipper.com The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 4d
Star Trek: First Contact was released 29 years ago today.

We'll be soon halfway between the film's release and First Contact Day (2063). 😄
Star Trek: First Contact
November 23, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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auguststreet.ca
ttc looking a lot different this week
entrance to a TMU station, formerly known as Dundas, with new signate up with the new name a vertical wall strip map showing line 5 and line 6 a vertical wall strip map showing line 5 and line 6
November 23, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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alexbozikovic.bsky.social
Toronto deliberately killed apartment construction in the early 1970s, after a generation-long building boom.

Almost all of that housing was built by “the market.”
jamaps.bsky.social Jeff Allen @jamaps.bsky.social · 4d
Charting number of rental units in apartment buildings in Toronto by year of construction

(This is a quick update to a similar chart I made ~2.5 years ago)

#toronto #housing #dataviz #NationalHousingDay
Stacked bar chart showing the number of apartment units in Toronto by year of construction with categories for private, TCHC, and other social housing. The vast majority were built in the 1960s and 1970s, with a minor up-tick in recent years.
November 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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jm-mcgrath.bsky.social
Apparently "build enough homes"
mdruker.app Michael Druker @mdruker.app · 5d
I want to hear your uncomfortably big ideas for Canada!
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
markshawtoronto.bsky.social
A single pedestrian street in our biggest city
mdruker.app Michael Druker @mdruker.app · 5d
I want to hear your uncomfortably big ideas for Canada!
November 22, 2025 at 2:43 AM
markshawtoronto.bsky.social
Environmental assessment: 2019-2022
Approved: 2021
Construction start: 2030
Completion: ???

C’mon just close the street to cars already
November 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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ianboudreau.com
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
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navneetalang.com
For the Star, I make the case for the condo/apartment as aspirational -- that the Canadian dream can also be an apartment in a dense neighbourhood and not, as is so often the case in this country, be taken to only ever mean a detached house. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Navneet Alang: Condos get a bad rap. Here’s why they should be part of the Canadian dream
My parents bought their first home for 11,000 pounds (approximately $20,000) in 1974. It was an ordinary small row house on a dour street in East London. Now, more than
www.thestar.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
markshawtoronto.bsky.social
Yves Engler says it would be racist to exclude him from the NDP debate stage. Can anyone translate this? #ndp
Yves Engler post: Time to confront NDP's racist foreign policy problem Would it be racist for the NDP to exclude a white cis male who played Junior A hockey from its leadership race? Maybe so, if one considers it from a Haitian or Palestinian perspective. On November 10, I formally submitted to NDP vetting. It's now up to the three-person vetting committee to decide if party members will be allowed to vote for me in the leadership race. It would undoubtedly be undemocratic for the backroom committee to deny the participation of a campaign with a thousand volunteers, but would it be racist? Or to ask it slightly differently is it racist to exclude someone who has led the charge against Canadian policy towards Palestine, Haiti, Africa and the Global South? If one concludes that Canadian foreign policy is fundamentally racist then it probably would be racist to exclude a leading critic of those ideas.
November 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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chanface.bsky.social
Why are they edging us 😫😫😫

www.ttc.ca/riding-the-t...
TTC Customer Service v @TTChelps We can't hold this in any longer: Line 6 is on the way! To learn more about what this means for your trip: bit.ly/3KaiUEm 11 KILOMETRES 18 NEW STATIONS 1 SMOOTH RIDE
November 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
markshawtoronto.bsky.social
If you aren't on the learn french with youtube streetcar yet, I really recommend this channel for beginners. Bonus challenge: See how much you can understand:

youtu.be/jxO0Shlfn70?...
Dreaming French Is LIVE!
YouTube video by Dreaming French
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
markshawtoronto.bsky.social
Canadian cultural export 🫶

I follow romance fans from France who like bought a Crave subscription and VPN just in case
kjbee27.rwrb.social Kim @kjbee27.rwrb.social · 7d
INTERNATIONAL RELEASE FOR HEATED RIVALRY
November 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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annehidalgo.bsky.social
Bonne nouvelle : Paris à nouveau en haut du podium ! 🏆

Le Copenhagenize Index classe notre ville au 2ᵉ rang mondial pour la qualité de ses aménagements cyclables.

Cette reconnaissance souligne à la fois notre engagement pour le vélo, la sécurité de nos pistes et leur maillage dans tout Paris.
Paris classée 2ème meilleure ville du monde pour la qualité de ses aménagements cyclables. Avec en fond, une photo de cyclistes sur une piste cyclable.
November 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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rrboola.bsky.social
TMU (formerly Ryerson) Station ((formerly Dundas Station))

It's a renaming turducken.
graeme-wa.bsky.social Graeme @graeme-wa.bsky.social · 8d
Just super ironic to rename a station after a renamed university.
November 19, 2025 at 1:06 AM
markshawtoronto.bsky.social
The ghost of Christmas future at Toronto Metropolitan University "TMU" (formerly Dundas) station -
Subway map of Toronto. Features: - The (unopened) Finch West LRT - The (unopened) Eglinton Crosstown LRT - New Cedarvale station rename - New TMU station rename
November 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
markshawtoronto.bsky.social
Read about the slowest streetcars in the world on the streetcar to complete the experience
graphicmatt.com Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 8d
My @thestar.com column this week: A third-party review says Toronto’s streetcars are among the slowest in the world. But they don’t have to be.

Maintenace improvements, operational changes and a little political will could really speed things up.

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Matt Elliott: Toronto’s streetcars are some of the slowest in the world. Here’s how the city could speed them up
The TTC likes to blame the sluggish pace of streetcars on things beyond its control, but the data tells a different story.
www.thestar.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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amybrown.xyz
you can't make me learn what "cloudflare" is. I shouldn't have to know these things. I have a sensitive artistic spirit
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM