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Trevor Heywood

@metroscapes.ca

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Not all those who wander are lost. I explore Metroscapes, where natural and built environments collide. 🌐 https://metroscapes.ca ▶️ https://youtube.com/@metroscapes

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · Aug 19

3,000 km of walking #metroscapes across Greater #Toronto, , #Hamilton, #Niagara, the #Tri-Cities, #Guelph and #Ottawa. Roughly the driving distance from Charlottetown to Dryden. #hiking #cities

Map of Metroscapes walks in the Greater Toronto Area.

Map of Metroscapes walks in Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and Guelph.

Map of Metroscapes walks in Hamilton and Niagara.

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 16h

One thing that doesn't help: this year's Atlantic hurricane season. We're coming down from peak season, and there have been few systems entering the gulf. Those systems usually bring moisture up into eastern Canada at least, but this year, most cyclones get swatted out to sea.

A map of the tracks of all tropical cyclones in the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, as of October 10, 2025. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2025_Atlantic_hurricane_season_summary.png

A map showing the tracks of all Atlantic hurricanes which formed between 1851 and 2019. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atlantic_hurricane_tracks.jpg

Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 16h

New drought map from @agriculture.canada.ca is out. "At the end of the month, 85% of the country was classified as Abnormally Dry (D0) or Moderate to Extreme Drought (D1 to D3), including 76% of the country's agricultural landscape."

Canadian Drought Monitor map from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, as of September 30, 2025. https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/agricultural-production/weather/canadian-drought-monitor/current-drought-conditions

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 17h

I think @thestar.com could benefit from talking to employees about this. Quotes are from CEOs raking in the profit. I am supportive of it, but I see clerks that seem tired, overstimulated and nervous on Friday and Saturday nights. They are on the front line of groups looking to keep the party going.

Toronto Star @thestar.com · 18h

Ontario’s expansion of alcohol sales has been a “real game-changer” for convenience stores, driving higher foot traffic and replacing revenue lost due to a “huge” decrease in cigarette sales, according to the Convenience Industry Council of Canada.

Ontario’s convenience stores were in trouble, until beer and wine sales. Now revenues are surging

A new survey by the Convenience Industry Council of Canada found that revenue on all products in convenience stores was up 12 per cent this September in Ontario compared to last fall.

www.thestar.com

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 17h

I may need to come to Toronto on November 16. At least I *hope* I need to come to Toronto on November 16.

Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 19h

Did they really think the same guy who renamed their defense establishment as a 'war department' was going to win a peace prize?

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Jake Tobin @jaketobin.bsky.social · 1d

Why is this every city sign

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 1d

Some of you may remember when plants started springing back to life in the new Don River mouth, but this article dives deeper: discovery of a micro resurgence of life since those plants sprouted. American chestnut pollen, a seed from the 1500s, remains of peat bogs, worms, larvae and zooplankton.

Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront

A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton

www.theguardian.com

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 2d

a blue jay mascot is standing in front of a crowd of people .

Alt: a blue jay mascot doing a little dance

media.tenor.com

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 2d

a man in a captain america uniform is sitting in a room and saying `` i understand that reference . ''

Alt: Captain America "I understood that reference'' meme gif

media.tenor.com

Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 2d

It's a small piece, but a step in the direction I advocate for.

Screenshot of the Metroscapes Toronto Shoreline page with the Water's Edge Promenade extension highlighted.
https://metroscapes.ca/toronto/projects/shoreline/

Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 2d

OOhhhh, my Toronto shoreline data needs to be updated! Last time I took a walk here, it was still fenced off at Sherbourne Common.

Toronto's waterfront promenade just got a stunning new extension

Toronto just reclaimed a little more waterfront with the opening of an extension to the popular granite-paved promenade that stretches across the cit…

www.blogto.com

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 2d

Yes, it includes the "GO Subdivision" (Lakeshore East line from Pickering to Oshawa). It doesn't include the Union Pearson Express Spur to the airport yet, that's part of QA/QC. It should be noted that these are just corridor lengths, and not a breakdown of individual tracks.

Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 2d

I have more thoughts on how the GTHA rail network (for all owners and operators) has significantly changed over the last 75 years, and ignoring the bypass is ignoring that history. This graph is incomplete and will require QA/QC, but it's a hint at the trajectory we should be maintaining.

Incomplete graph of GTHA railways by owner and passenger operation, 1960-2025 (with an errant bit that will be future targets)

Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 3d

This is educational, but also depressing at the same time. It's not just slop hurting @kurzgesagt.org, but like, the whole web.

AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

www.youtube.com

Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 3d

No doubt it would take a long time. I'd expect it to take at least 50% more time than the CN (Halton/York) bypass. But that's why we gotta stop kicking the can down the road and start today.

Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 3d

And not just for rail service. That would make an excellent rail trail...

Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 3d

User feels like GTHA Bypass is not getting any love. Of course not. Wynne carved away at it, Ford killed it, and the feds haven't tried to revive it with their participation.

From the gotransit community on Reddit

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 3d

Suspension of accts from Bluesky has called into question the mission and very existence of Blacksky. "If bsky can still suspend you, what's the point?"

For one usually Bluesky doesn't just suspend you. They delete all of your data AND suspend you. Moving to Blacksky prevents that. 4/11

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 3d

Good bot.

MLB (Bot) @mlbbot.bsky.social · 3d

LEGENDARY slide by Vladdy 😭

#ALDS

Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 3d

Day 1324. I had to go pick up a couple items tonight, but I tacked on a trip to the library (for myself!) and a public transit trip. Not bad for a Tuesday.

Blue lights in the interior of a Guelph Transit Nova LFS, Guelph Ontario Canada

Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 3d

What a sick capture

Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 3d

Yeah, it was a side thought that fell out while pondering the parental weight on Millenial Canadian parents' social lives.

Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 3d

Is it possible why some of us here band together here online is because we're simultaneously digital / professional extroverts and casual social introverts?

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 3d

"Fourteen properties on Fadear Creek Road were placed on evacuation alert on Monday evening 'due to the potential imminent failure of the Fadear Creek dam.'"

"[The Thompson-Nicola Regional District] said the Fadear Lake dam is considered an unauthorized structure and has no permits in place."

Ministry officials worry dam could fail at small lake, cause flooding in Lower North Thompson - Kamloops News

www.castanetkamloops.net

Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 3d

It's the art of public sector wordsmithing.