Trevor Heywood
@metroscapes.ca
Not all those who wander are lost. I explore Metroscapes, where natural and built environments collide.
🌐 https://metroscapes.ca
▶️ https://youtube.com/@metroscapes
🌐 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
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Dan Levy openly says that Schitt's Creek would not have survived anywhere except the CBC because it was weird and took a season or so to find its feet... Just for reference if you wanna know the ROI on this approach to supporting creative things.
Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Dan Levy openly says that Schitt's Creek would not have survived anywhere except the CBC because it was weird and took a season or so to find its feet... Just for reference if you wanna know the ROI on this approach to supporting creative things.
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Have you noticed a change to Canadian weather alerts?
Canada now has risk based warnings similar to those used in Europe.
Learn more:
#BCstorm #ABstorm #SKstorm #MBstorm #ONstorm #QCstorm #NBstorm #PEstorm #NSstorm #NLstorm #YKstorm #NTstorm #NUstorm
www.canada.ca/en/services/...
Canada now has risk based warnings similar to those used in Europe.
Learn more:
#BCstorm #ABstorm #SKstorm #MBstorm #ONstorm #QCstorm #NBstorm #PEstorm #NSstorm #NLstorm #YKstorm #NTstorm #NUstorm
www.canada.ca/en/services/...
November 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Putting aside that 'Hazel shut down the Lakeview Generation Station' is a false and misleading statement, it's worth having a conversation about ditching gas plants. They fulfill peak energy demand when our other sources reach their max, but battery storage is pretty much there now.
We need strong leadership from Mayor Chow and Toronto City Council to shut down the dirty Portlands gas plant on Toronto’s waterfront. #topoli #onpoli share.nwmd.social/s/JDLXDm3h
Will Mayor Chow shut down Toronto’s dirty power plant?
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November 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Putting aside that 'Hazel shut down the Lakeview Generation Station' is a false and misleading statement, it's worth having a conversation about ditching gas plants. They fulfill peak energy demand when our other sources reach their max, but battery storage is pretty much there now.
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The transformation is extraordinary.
November 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The transformation is extraordinary.
Good morning from the Mount Pleasant area of Brampton. Today I'll be following a pipeline corridor that cuts east-west through the upper middle portion of the city. Gotta head east from the train station, then start north of the Halton Subdivision (GO Transit Kitchener Line). Let's go. #metroscapes
November 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Good morning from the Mount Pleasant area of Brampton. Today I'll be following a pipeline corridor that cuts east-west through the upper middle portion of the city. Gotta head east from the train station, then start north of the Halton Subdivision (GO Transit Kitchener Line). Let's go. #metroscapes
Happy first regular weekend GO Train on the Kitchener line! Considering most folks had to get up before 7 to get ready to be here, and that it's the first day, I'm blown away at the turnout. Platform was crowded; my guess is 150-200 people.
November 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Happy first regular weekend GO Train on the Kitchener line! Considering most folks had to get up before 7 to get ready to be here, and that it's the first day, I'm blown away at the turnout. Platform was crowded; my guess is 150-200 people.
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Finally getting back around to paring my video data. Previous attempts were a mistake that downgraded frame rate and quality, but now it's lossless and focused on trimming large road-based detours. It's making me realize this could save video production time, and maybe something else productive.
November 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Finally getting back around to paring my video data. Previous attempts were a mistake that downgraded frame rate and quality, but now it's lossless and focused on trimming large road-based detours. It's making me realize this could save video production time, and maybe something else productive.
The succession of this building passing another under construction at Yonge & Bloor should be known as the final chapter of The One-on-One Battle.
Canada’s tallest skyscraper is now 100 storeys. This is the view from the SkyTower
Canada’s tallest skyscraper is now 100 storeys. This is the view from the SkyTower
The SkyTower is set to rise to 106 storeys next year, with a hotel, nearly 100 residences, and a restaurant at the top.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The succession of this building passing another under construction at Yonge & Bloor should be known as the final chapter of The One-on-One Battle.
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I just performed contingency planning during meal preparation. I don't know if that's funny or alarming.
November 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I just performed contingency planning during meal preparation. I don't know if that's funny or alarming.
I am now 'my kid called my hobby boring'-years old.
November 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I am now 'my kid called my hobby boring'-years old.
I also wish this, and firmly believe it should be. Now that it accepts bank cards, I don't see the excuse. Some may still cite Metrolinx's fees, I think that's mitigable.
As fewer places take cash, there really should be an alternative form of payment for casual transit riders.
I know why Presto isn’t province wide, but I wish it was. Windsor, like Guelph and Waterloo Region, has its own fare card.
I know why Presto isn’t province wide, but I wish it was. Windsor, like Guelph and Waterloo Region, has its own fare card.
November 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I also wish this, and firmly believe it should be. Now that it accepts bank cards, I don't see the excuse. Some may still cite Metrolinx's fees, I think that's mitigable.
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Approval is better than continued refusal BUT I will point out that the UK does not require pressurized stairwells until a single-stair building reaches 18 metres — and that's a post-Grenfell reform. Requiring one for a three-storey plex is bananas.
Update on my single exit stair ASP: we have an approval!
Thanks to sixplex and single stair supporters Mayor Olivia Chow, Cllr Jamaal Myers, @joshmatlow.bsky.social and others who get why single exit stairs are key to creating livable, accessible, small scale housing. 1/6
Thanks to sixplex and single stair supporters Mayor Olivia Chow, Cllr Jamaal Myers, @joshmatlow.bsky.social and others who get why single exit stairs are key to creating livable, accessible, small scale housing. 1/6
After TO Council passed a motion indicating the City was open to Alternative Solution Proposals for a single stair in apts up to 4 storeys, I applied for a single stair in a 3 storey Part 9 6plex.
I’m told it’s the first one, so it’s a test case. Here’s how it’s going.
#singlestair #sixplex
I’m told it’s the first one, so it’s a test case. Here’s how it’s going.
#singlestair #sixplex
November 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Approval is better than continued refusal BUT I will point out that the UK does not require pressurized stairwells until a single-stair building reaches 18 metres — and that's a post-Grenfell reform. Requiring one for a three-storey plex is bananas.
I'll be riding the first weekend GO train this Sunday, and getting off at Mount Pleasant to do a Metroscapes walk. I've begrudgingly had to drive to many of my walks in the GTA, so it'll be nice to not have to do that!
When the first regular weekend GO train from Kitchener gets to Guelph, we’ll be joined by our friends from @taaguelph.bsky.social!
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I'll be riding the first weekend GO train this Sunday, and getting off at Mount Pleasant to do a Metroscapes walk. I've begrudgingly had to drive to many of my walks in the GTA, so it'll be nice to not have to do that!
I second @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social: destroy the Toronto Parking Authority. The [parking arm of the] TPA is "an explicit subsidy for car users in a city that’s already choked by traffic congestion...[and] occupies a massive amount of land in a city that’s being crippled by a housing shortage." #TOpoli
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November 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I second @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social: destroy the Toronto Parking Authority. The [parking arm of the] TPA is "an explicit subsidy for car users in a city that’s already choked by traffic congestion...[and] occupies a massive amount of land in a city that’s being crippled by a housing shortage." #TOpoli
"Western electric-vehicle battery manufacturers currently import 100 per cent of their graphite from Asia. This plant will make the supply chain independent". The new plant will be locasted in Yarmouth Yards next door to the PowerCo (Volkswagen-owned) EV battery plant currently under construction.
$3.2B graphite plant to bring up to 1,000 jobs to St. Thomas
Premier Doug Ford was in St. Thomas on Thursday morning to mark a $3.2-billion investment by Norway-based Vianode in a local plant officials say will eventually employ 1,000 and help power about two m...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
"Western electric-vehicle battery manufacturers currently import 100 per cent of their graphite from Asia. This plant will make the supply chain independent". The new plant will be locasted in Yarmouth Yards next door to the PowerCo (Volkswagen-owned) EV battery plant currently under construction.
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Actually a pretty good diagram
Wow!
This is actually *really* useful as a teaching tool.
This is actually *really* useful as a teaching tool.
November 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Actually a pretty good diagram
This is an excellent and underappreciated point. Children's mobility means kids can go places to do things they enjoy. It makes it more likely they stay out of trouble, and more likely they develop positive social lives. We should be enabling that.
Reed Nadler from Kitchener, age 13, urges approval of ION light rail to Galt. Cites accessibility, travel times, land use impacts, and credits rearrangement of bus network. ION opens up opportunity for children's mobility. Encourages approval of extension to give those opportunities to Cambridge too
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
This is an excellent and underappreciated point. Children's mobility means kids can go places to do things they enjoy. It makes it more likely they stay out of trouble, and more likely they develop positive social lives. We should be enabling that.
Crazy that this was like this only 15 years ago.
Nov 18, 2010: the City of Toronto eliminates the "Dufferin Jog" at Queen and Dufferin Streets, long hated by west-end residents of the city. The $40 million Dufferin underpass project took two years to complete, meeting its original budget but nearly a year behind schedule. 1/3
November 19, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Crazy that this was like this only 15 years ago.
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November 17-19, 2014:
A massive lake effect snow event impacted Buffalo, New York. Over the course of 3 days, bands from Lake Erie produced snowfall rates up to 3-6" per hour. Totals in many areas peaked at over five feet. Tragically, thirteen people were killed.
A massive lake effect snow event impacted Buffalo, New York. Over the course of 3 days, bands from Lake Erie produced snowfall rates up to 3-6" per hour. Totals in many areas peaked at over five feet. Tragically, thirteen people were killed.
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 AM
November 17-19, 2014:
A massive lake effect snow event impacted Buffalo, New York. Over the course of 3 days, bands from Lake Erie produced snowfall rates up to 3-6" per hour. Totals in many areas peaked at over five feet. Tragically, thirteen people were killed.
A massive lake effect snow event impacted Buffalo, New York. Over the course of 3 days, bands from Lake Erie produced snowfall rates up to 3-6" per hour. Totals in many areas peaked at over five feet. Tragically, thirteen people were killed.
I originally saw this on Reddit a few days ago. Never heard of @switchangel.bsky.social until that point, nor did I know that strudel.cc existed. This is the best side of the internet, and it's going to open up a whole bunch of fun for me.
Coding Trance Music: in the beginning
YouTube video by Switch Angel
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November 18, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I originally saw this on Reddit a few days ago. Never heard of @switchangel.bsky.social until that point, nor did I know that strudel.cc existed. This is the best side of the internet, and it's going to open up a whole bunch of fun for me.