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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 17d

When the province took over the Toronto District School Board, it also took over the subsidiary that manages the TDSB’s $20 billion worth of land. As @wendyglauser.bsky.social‬ writes, critics fear repercussions not just for schools, but also for whole neighbourhoods.
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What Happens to TDSB’s $20 Billion Worth of Land Under Provincial Supervision? | The Local

The TDSB is one of Toronto’s largest landowners. When the province took over the board, it also took over its subsidiary that manages its properties—and it’s not saying what’s next.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · Sep 10

Like this motherfucker was cooking with this one

Mr Rogers doing a bad job drawing a house but saying it doesn’t matter

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · Sep 10

A good enough reason to spend lots of time doing art is just that it’s fun to do art

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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · Aug 17

My first Starter Pack! The Canadian urbanism and planning community on here is growing. Give these folks a follow. Some well known faces … and some you should get to know! (please re-post!) go.bsky.app/AEYL7FZ

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mapTO @maptodotca.bsky.social · Aug 7

Heading into a glorious time for local fruit in #Toronto. Peaches, pears and plums all looking good.

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#topoli #ediblecity #map #mapping #gis #dataviz

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Tom Weatherburn @tdubolyou.bsky.social · Jul 27

Thanks for posting! Love this account

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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · Jul 12

The news on 9/11…

Utopia District @utopiadistrict.bsky.social · Jul 11

Name something you remember watching in this!

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Tom Weatherburn @tdubolyou.bsky.social · Jul 12

IME teaching juniors how to teach AI to do better means both juniors and AI learn to write better code

Tom Weatherburn @tdubolyou.bsky.social · Jul 11

Would love to see same results on less experienced devs

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Tom Weatherburn @tdubolyou.bsky.social · Jul 3

Feel this deeply. The injustice!

Tom Weatherburn @tdubolyou.bsky.social · Jul 3

It’s open! Feels like there should have been a party. Did I miss the party?

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · Jul 2

New from me at TVO, on Toronto's disappointing sixplex vote and the prospects for the feds and Mayor Chow to get it back on track. Spoiler: she'd still need to use strong-mayor powers, but not in the way you might think. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

TVO Today | Current Affairs Journalism, Documentaries and Podcasts

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · Jul 2

And wonder why their kids can't afford to live near them, and why the local school closed so their grandkids couldn't live nearby anyway, etc etc etc

Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · Jul 2

All these homeowners who fought these zoning changes are going to be wondering in ten years, “gee, I wish there was a small rental building in the neighbourhood.” CC: @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social

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The demographic time bomb is about to detonate

Attention must be paid: there are now more old people than young.

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Tom Weatherburn @tdubolyou.bsky.social · Jul 1

Great portfolio! 👍

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Tom Weatherburn @tdubolyou.bsky.social · Jun 27

not using strong mayor in the name of upholding democracy relies pretty heavily on the premise that the current system is actually democratic. If w had prop rep and actual vote parity it would hold sit a lot better w me

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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · Jun 27

Consumer spending and after-tax incomes both fell in May, adjusted for inflation. #NumbersDay
Full data: www.bea.gov/news/2025/pe...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jun 25

what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · Apr 29

With CBC now having called all ridings it's time for the land-vs-people-vote animation.

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Tom Weatherburn @tdubolyou.bsky.social · Apr 27

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Your Home Without China

We analyzed import data to show where Americans may see product shortages, fewer choices and price increases.

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Joe Cohen @cohenhouse.bsky.social · Apr 27

How quickly does a neighborhood change?

Exposition Park has been ground zero for double duplex development in LA, with more development happening here than anywhere else in LA.

This image illustrates development that occurred in the two square mile section immediately West of USC:

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · Apr 22

The key chart right now:

Usually US economic pain is cushioned by falling bond yields and a strengthening dollar, which mean lower interest rates and more spending power for consumers.

This time we’re seeing the opposite, meaning the pain will be amplified.

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Wency Leung @wencyleung.bsky.social · Apr 22

What happens on Parliament Hill can feel far removed from people's daily lives. @thelocal.to is doing what it does best, covering this election from the neighbourhood level.
Get to know your candidates; they're meant to represent you. thelocal.to/spring-2025/

Spring 2025

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Tom Weatherburn @tdubolyou.bsky.social · Apr 13

I have been trying (not that hard) to get the #openMPAC movement going for 10 years. Doesn’t seem to be catching on lol. Did you know, I kid you not, the Ontario MMAH has to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to access basic MPAC data, just like any other private entity would? It’s absurd.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Apr 6

Wow!

Three scholars at Columbia, Michigan, & Maryland just introduced a measure of the partisan leanings of employers in the U.S.

The data is constructed by linking voter registrations to online worker profiles.

VRscores capture the political affiliations of 21.8M workers across 2.6M employers.

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