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I rode the Finch light rail today. It’s slow, but it has potential, and it brings with it a lot of good things. Read my latest article now:

open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...
A New Tramway and a New Leaf.
Canada’s newest urban rail line open to the public.
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December 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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📍 Trillium Park, Ontario Place #Toronto
December 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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CHCH will be airing a report regarding last night's gathering of white nationalists in Gore Park in Downtown Hamilton.

It will air during the 6:00 p.m. newscast. #HamOnt

Watch live on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqho...
CHCH Evening News at 6
YouTube video by CHCH News
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November 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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#topoli #onpoli New from me on @spacing.bsky.social: When did we begin dismissing opioid addiction, especially among homeless encampment residents, as "delinquent" behaviour? Contrary to the claims of pundits like The Globe's Robyn Urback, there's much more to this story. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
When did we start describing opioid addiction as "delinquent" behaviour? - Spacing Toronto
In a widely read, shared and commented upon column in Saturday’s Globe and Mail, columnist Robyn Urback asked a question that, I’d say, is on a lot of people’s minds these days: how did we “normalize ...
spacing.ca
November 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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November 15 marked a full three years in my role as Councillor for Ward 2. Every year, around this time, I write about another year gone by, what I’ve learned in this job, what people tell me when they see me at a meeting, stop me in the street, or share their thoughts with me in an email. #HamOnt
November 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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More and more people want encampments evicted. Neighbourhood groups are suing shelter providers. Now, they're attempting to stop supportive housing in Parkdale. You can't have all three!

Please sign and share in support of PARC and supportive housing! tinyurl.com/parcpetition
Build Supportive Affordable Housing at 1499 and 1501 Queen West
The City of Toronto, and Canada as a whole, is in an unprecedented affordable housing crisis. Many struggle to find safe and stable housing in Toronto and Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre (PARC) wa...
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November 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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CHCH is reporting that there has been a pedestrian fatality on Upper Ottawa Street.
This is, very tragically, the third pedestrian fatality in a week in Hamilton.

www.chch.com/chch-news/pe...
Pedestrian killed on Upper Ottawa Street in Hamilton, road closed
Police say a pedestrian fatality has closed a section of Upper Ottawa Street in Hamilton on Thursday morning.
www.chch.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Thank you to everyone who came out to tonight's ride and rally on the one-year anniversary of Bill 212. We're not done fighting to protect our streets and your rights. cc: @ffsafestreets.bsky.social @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
📸: @jnyyz.bsky.social

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October 22, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Napanee’s precarious transit links

At the end of November, Deseronto Transit will cease operations. The lack of sustainable intercommunity transit funding and support for rural transit has resulted in more gaps throughout Southern Ontario.
Napanee’s precarious transit links
At the end of November, Deseronto Transit will cease operations. The lack of sustainable intercommunity transit funding and support for rural transit has resulted in more gaps throughout Southern Ontario.
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October 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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We made a river. My long read on Toronto’s visionary port lands project: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
After 18 years of work, Toronto’s Port Lands opens to the public
Now known as Biidaasige Park, the project is part of $1.5-billion effort to renew the area’s ecological and Indigenous past
www.theglobeandmail.com
July 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM