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Happy to Share! 🌤️ @happytoshare.bsky.social · 4h

Good morning and happy Canadian Thanksgiving. Thankful for this view.

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City of Toronto @toronto.ca · 1d

Apply for a City board, committee, or tribunal today & make your voice heard!

From public corporations to some of the City’s iconic landmarks, your experience & perspective can help guide important decisions that will shape the Toronto of tomorrow.

More: www.toronto.ca/community-pe...

An image of a meeting in session featuring a diverse set of attendees with the text overlay: "Shape your city. Apply now. Cit Boards, Committees and tribunals"

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Muddy York @muddyyork.bsky.social · 7h

On this date in 1873, the newly-formed Argonauts football team played their first game, losing 10-0 to the University of Toronto.

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Joseph V 🍁🇨🇦🍁 @monkeeparts.bsky.social · 1d

Thanksgiving weekend time for some baking, Cinnamon Rolls just out of the over, had to do a taste test. Always make extra cream cheese frosting

#Baking #ThanksgivingCanada #Thanksgiving #Canada

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Brian Lesser @bdlesser.bsky.social · 1d

Four doors in Chinatown Mural Lane, Toronto
#photography #quadriptych #mural #streetart #graffiti #toronto #walkalong #doors #laneway

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Walk Of Life 🇨🇦 @walkoflife.bsky.social · 2d

Morning sunshine #Toronto

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Brian Lesser @bdlesser.bsky.social · 2d

Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

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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Joseph V 🍁🇨🇦🍁 @monkeeparts.bsky.social · 3d

Empty Scientology office building Yonge St., Toronto that has been boarded up since 2013 for "upcoming" renovations. Also are (or were) in a tax dispute with the City.

#Photography #streetphotography #Toronto #B&W

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Brian Lesser @bdlesser.bsky.social · 4d

Mural in a laneway off Baldwin just east of Beverley, Toronto.
#photography #mural #toronto #lane #composite #panophotos #walkalong

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City of Toronto @toronto.ca · 4d

#TrafficAlertTO

Starting Wed, Oct 15, the southbound off-ramp from the DVP to Richmond St will be closed until spring 2026 for critical repairs.

News release: https://www.toronto.ca/news/city-of-toronto-advances-critical-bridge-rehabilitation-on-the-don-valley-parkway-richmond-off-ramp/

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Loretta Robinson @lorettarobinson.bsky.social · 4d

I chased the setting of the harvest super moon this morning in my neighborhood. The sun was rising behind me causing my long shadow in the field.

#SensoryArt #shadow #31DaysOfHalloween #EastCoastKin #Photography

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · Sep 1

A Labor Day classic:
www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...

Labor Day: ‘The March of the Mill Children’

Remembering what it took, across decades, to end the exploitation of children in factories.

www.thebulwark.com

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Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social · 21d

My book about the wrongful conviction of a Toronto teenager in 1956.

In e-book + audiobook formats:

Apple tinyurl.com/5xfn35zz
Amazon tinyurl.com/3fbnkeny
Google Play tinyurl.com/2uvj76sf
Indigo (Kobo) tinyurl.com/2vsr6kbf

@dundurnpress.bsky.social @crimewriterscanada.bsky.social

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Chris @chrisjayphotos.bsky.social · 9d

One of my long time favorite shots. Truck 13 from the SFFD taken in 2018. #firetruck #sanfrancisco #photography #sffd

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Joseph V 🍁🇨🇦🍁 @monkeeparts.bsky.social · 4d

Dundas St E. at the Imperial Pub which after 81 years is closing. Used to spend time upstairs at the Pub Lic. Library with great Jazz Jukebox and pool table when I was in Uni.

www.torontotoday.ca/local/busine...

#Photography #Streetphotography #Toronto

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twistopherrobin.bsky.social @twistopherrobin.bsky.social · 4d

#Photography #Monochrome #AnselAdams

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Kriss @krisskross.bsky.social · 4d

Black and White

#bnw #blackandwhite #photography #streetphotography #scheveningen #netherlands #northsea

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Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social · 5d

I am giving a presentation about 1950s-era Toronto bank robber Edwin Alonzo Boyd.

Where: Wychwood branch, Toronto Library

When: Oct 7 at 2 pm.

Free and open to the public.

Event info tinyurl.com/569r3ya2

My book at Amazon tinyurl.com/3pmav3j4 and Indigo tinyurl.com/y4bl4gv2

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Brian Lesser @bdlesser.bsky.social · 5d

A bird on a wire. O'Keefe Lane, Toronto
#photography #toronto

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Joseph V 🍁🇨🇦🍁 @monkeeparts.bsky.social · 5d

Gorgeous afternoon along the east Don River

#Photography #Landscapephotography #Toronto

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City of Toronto @toronto.ca · 5d

City of Toronto champions digital inclusion with public Wi-Fi across more than 250 locations

News Release: https://www.toronto.ca/news/city-of-toronto-champions-digital-inclusion-with-public-wi-fi-across-more-than-250-locations/

Three people stand in a library near a podium with a Toronto sign, surrounded by bookshelves and tables.

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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 5d

The Venn diagram of urban density and average household GHG emissions is pretty much a circle. Interesting study on “Mapping household GHG emissions in the Greater Golden Horseshoe” from the University of Toronto School of Cities schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/mapping-hous...

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Loretta Robinson @lorettarobinson.bsky.social · 5d

#ColorADay #PinkMon #MagentaMonday #EastCoastKin #Photography #fog

Sunrise in #Portland #Oregon as the fog diffuses the color spectrum.

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Joseph V 🍁🇨🇦🍁 @monkeeparts.bsky.social · 5d

Free exhibit on women trailblazers from Toronto music’s scene spans 80 years from Portia White to Haviah Mighty

#Toronto #Music #History

nowtoronto.com/culture/free...

Free exhibit on women trailblazers from Toronto music's scene spans 80 years from Portia White to Haviah Mighty - NOW Toronto

A new free multi-genre exhibit of women musicians who have blazed a trail in the Toronto music scene is on display at a downtown museum.

nowtoronto.com

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Joseph V 🍁🇨🇦🍁 @monkeeparts.bsky.social · 5d

Sunrise with Canadian Geese

#Photography #Landscapephotography #Sunrise

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