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🇨🇦 Historic Toronto images @torontohistoric.bsky.social · 8h

I always wondered if the sign was "Je Saves us" or "Jesus aves" and know we know!

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OCAD University @ocaduniversity.bsky.social · 9d

Next week check out MULTIfest at Stackt – Toronto first-ever experiential art festival. More info here: www.multi-fest.ca

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rudy.ca @rudydotca.bsky.social · 11d

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 11d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 11d

How fast do you need to go?

Street Speed & Collision Energy Calculator

Speed limits vary by road type:

• Expressways: Typically 90-100 km/h
• Major Arterials: Usually 50-60 km/h
• Minor Arterials & Collectors: Generally 40-50 km/h
• Local Streets: Usually 30-40 km/h

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 13d

amazing work

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Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 13d

Here are some of the automated speed enforcement tickets given to vehicles assigned to Ford cabinet ministers. #OnPoli

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 16d

Neat seeing the old city hall stained glass from the outside

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 17d

Demo on Saturday. Take to the streets. It’s the only way. Same will be done for the bike lanes when the time comes.

Friends and Families for Safe Streets @ffsafestreets.bsky.social · 20d

📢DIRECT ACTION ALERT! SHARE WIDELY!
Join us to "circle the strollers" around the speed camera at Bloor and Dundas to protest our Premier's reckless attack on road safety. Tens of thousands of kids will be defenseless against speeding drivers in school zones!!
More info: www.ffsafestreets.ca/events

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Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 19d

My most popular online course is back! And this time it's being offered through the LIFE Institute for students 50+.

We'll spend eight weekly lectures exploring the history of cross-border tensions.

Learn more: thelifeinstitute.ca

Toronto vs The United States: A History of Cross-Border Tensions. An online course about the times we haven't gotten along with our neighbours in eight weekly lectures from author Adam Bunch. Begins October 7, 2025. thelifeinstitute.ca

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🇨🇦 Historic Toronto images @torontohistoric.bsky.social · 21d

Grabbed a coffee from Bonjour Brioche on Queen East this morning and did NOT berate someone for walking by with their Starbucks. In Canada!?

Modern colour photo looking across the street at a mural with 3D letters spelling LOCAL and an out of focus coffee cup in the foreground on our left.

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🇨🇦 Historic Toronto images @torontohistoric.bsky.social · 23d

How do we let science and evidence and research dictate these sorts of decisions for us, not the whims of Politicians and 'public opinion' of people who don't even live nearby?

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🇨🇦 Historic Toronto images @torontohistoric.bsky.social · 29d

View across Nottawasaga Bay to the Blue Mountain ski hills never disappoints.

Modern colour photo of wild grass and a tree in the foreground looking across the water.

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Rosanna Brooks @rosannab88.bsky.social · Sep 18

Photography: @rosannab88.bsky.social

#photography

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Damien Moule @damienmoule.bsky.social · Sep 16

I have no sympathy for this. Annex residents complain that the a bikeway one street over has increased traffic on their street, but they don't want their street traffic calmed, they just want the bikeway ripped out. A failure of imagination.

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🇨🇦 Historic Toronto images @torontohistoric.bsky.social · Sep 15

I thought The Studio was a Canadian TV show! Seth Rogan, Catherine O'Hara, Sarah Polley...

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · Sep 13

Happy 60th birthday to Toronto City Hall! 🥳🎂
Officially opened September 13, 1965.

#OTD #OnThisDay #cityhall #architecture #anniversary #Revell #torontohistory #toronto #ontario #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · Sep 13

Massive anti hate crowd in the pits. Small Canada first group is on the run.

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Muddy York @muddyyork.bsky.social · Sep 13

On this day in 1943, the first female conductor appeared on a TTC streetcar due to a labour shortage caused by the war. Unfortunately, all female operating staff had been laid off by July 1946.

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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · Sep 11

Progress stripped away the poetry

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · Sep 10

On this day in 1861, Toronto rolled out a brand-new way to travel: Canada’s very first streetcar line, running along Yonge Street. Operated by the Toronto Street Railway, the debut was marked with great fanfare.

#OnThisDay #OTD #1860s #streetcar #history #transit #toronto #canada #hopkindesign

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · Sep 7

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked footage of radical anti-car cyclists at a training camp.

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🇨🇦 Historic Toronto images @torontohistoric.bsky.social · Sep 7

Muskoka rocks

Modern colour photograph of granite bedrock.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Sep 2

Epstein Survivors Press Conference
Sept 3rd, 10:30 a.m. ET
Tune in to support them.

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The Biking Lawyer LLP @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social · Sep 2

It's that time of year again, welcome back to school kiddos! This week we're going to address Toronto's back to school/micro mobility campaign & ask that they direct all available resources at dangerous drivers who cause hundreds of serious injuries & deaths each year in TO. 📷 @tomflood.bsky.social

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🇨🇦 Historic Toronto images @torontohistoric.bsky.social · Sep 1

Yes! Thanks to the 1872 Toronto printers' strike in Canada that was an important early step towards today being a holiday across Canada and the US!

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🇨🇦 Historic Toronto images @torontohistoric.bsky.social · Sep 1

Yes! Thanks to the 1872 Toronto printers' strike in Canada that was an important early step towards today being a holiday across Canada and the US!