Ricky Leong
@rickyleong.com
🖖 🚇 🚌 📻 📸 Ugly bag of mostly water. He/him. Random musings about such varied subjects as photography, urban planning, transit/transportation, travel, Star Trek, shortwave radio and more. My professional alter ego is @rickyleongyyc.bsky.social
You are learning what I have noticed doing my job: it seems a lot of folks don’t think to look at what you’ve written before to get a broad sense of your point of view.
January 8, 2026 at 7:24 PM
You are learning what I have noticed doing my job: it seems a lot of folks don’t think to look at what you’ve written before to get a broad sense of your point of view.
Were you around for the 1998 ice storm? 😅
December 30, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Were you around for the 1998 ice storm? 😅
Discount chocolate + reward point redemption = post-Christmas indulgence
December 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Discount chocolate + reward point redemption = post-Christmas indulgence
Also: Merry Christmas!
December 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Also: Merry Christmas!
I was on the bus earlier today so I could deliver some gifts and visit a little with friends …
December 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I was on the bus earlier today so I could deliver some gifts and visit a little with friends …
I’m sorry you had to experience that.
December 22, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I’m sorry you had to experience that.
Hope you’re feeling better! Late to this party but I suggest you look up a BBC show called “Quite Interesting,” sometimes simply known as QI …
December 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Hope you’re feeling better! Late to this party but I suggest you look up a BBC show called “Quite Interesting,” sometimes simply known as QI …
All nutritional supplements are a deep rabbit hole, frankly …
December 4, 2025 at 6:44 AM
All nutritional supplements are a deep rabbit hole, frankly …
FYI: The transfers at Panama station existed pre-REM, as local transit ran express buses to downtown Montreal from there, all day every day. At peak hours, this was supplemented by some local routes that extended their routes across the river, but those also did pickups at Panama.
December 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
FYI: The transfers at Panama station existed pre-REM, as local transit ran express buses to downtown Montreal from there, all day every day. At peak hours, this was supplemented by some local routes that extended their routes across the river, but those also did pickups at Panama.
As I say to anyone who will listen, it all looks the same once it gets to our tummies! 😋
December 1, 2025 at 3:43 AM
As I say to anyone who will listen, it all looks the same once it gets to our tummies! 😋
Hope she feels better soon!
November 29, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Hope she feels better soon!
Something I wrote for work in 2023: calgarysun.com/opinion/colu...
"My friend, who set down roots in one of Calgary’s far-flung suburban neighbourhoods, says he would have loved to have considered living closer to the middle of town to raise his family." But there was nowhere suitable for him.
"My friend, who set down roots in one of Calgary’s far-flung suburban neighbourhoods, says he would have loved to have considered living closer to the middle of town to raise his family." But there was nowhere suitable for him.
Leong: Calgary needs to think bigger when it comes to building homes downtown
Wouldn’t it be cool if some of Calgary’s underused skyscrapers became comfortable multi-household dwellings for families of all sizes?
calgarysun.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Something I wrote for work in 2023: calgarysun.com/opinion/colu...
"My friend, who set down roots in one of Calgary’s far-flung suburban neighbourhoods, says he would have loved to have considered living closer to the middle of town to raise his family." But there was nowhere suitable for him.
"My friend, who set down roots in one of Calgary’s far-flung suburban neighbourhoods, says he would have loved to have considered living closer to the middle of town to raise his family." But there was nowhere suitable for him.
As an editor, I 100% approve of your PSA for good writing at the end of the episode. As a newspaper guy, extra points for lede vs. lead, haha
November 13, 2025 at 1:35 AM
As an editor, I 100% approve of your PSA for good writing at the end of the episode. As a newspaper guy, extra points for lede vs. lead, haha