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Shawn Micallef

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Local tosser Books author (New: Stroll!) Toronto Star column writer Spacing Magazine co-founder U of T instructor Trying to do it a bit different here than the last place. Links to books, etc: https://linktr.ee/shawnmicallef 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · Dec 6

Hi new folks. Last year I rewrote my book Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto. Added like 30000 more words too. My (Toronto) life's work. A very good present to give! Bookstores or direct from Coach House or...

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Stroll, updated edition

THE TORONTO STAR'S "30 BOOKS WE CAN'T WAIT TO READ THIS SPRING"The updated edition of a Toronto favourite meanders around some of the city’s unique neighborhoods and considers what makes a city walka...

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 1h

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
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National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 1h

It's a firehouse of it but every 10th thing elicits a vocal "holy shit"

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 1h

Wiggles album.

Photo of Wilford Brimley or the hit comedy drama COCOON

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 2h

Googles the groom. More stories. It's all there.

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Firms with ties to Brampton councillor, mayor got ‘unfair advantage’ on contracts, docs say - Toronto | Globalnews.ca

An external investigation, alongside almost 500 pages of communications, memos and notes, suggests two firms with links to Brampton council members may have received an advantage.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 2h

Sustained front pages in the star on greenbelt. But you reinforce my point: it's the voter.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 2h

Perhaps, but it's there, in the open. It frustrates me when people think somebody will save them. They have to save themselves.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 2h

Here's another for "the media is not covering the Ford gov't's scandals"

Ontario voters continue to eat up this gravy train of shit with a shrug.

Jack Hauen @jackhauen.bsky.social · 4h

NEW: David Piccini, the minister whose office picks Skills Development Fund recipients, was in Paris this weekend at the wedding of a lobbyist whose clients received millions from that fund.

From me and @charliepinkerton.bsky.social.

www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

Ontario labour minister attended lobbyist’s wedding after granting his clients millions in training funds

Two clients of lobbyist Michael Rudderham have received more than $8.5 million in Skills Development Fund grants, records show

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 2h

I mentioned an upcoming audit of Toronto's tree care practices. There have been tragic incidents. It's easy to find butchered trees on streets & in parks. Council + mayor need to be critically watching this in light of the parks non-responde to their request.

secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

When a tree knocked me flat, the unhoused community in a Toronto park came to my rescue

In those terrifying moments of chaos and fear, something extraordinary happened

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No Quit White Panels @lesleynope.bsky.social · 12h

We’ll get em tomorrow. Not worried.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 12h

But at least most people don’t like the Yankees.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 13h

That’s what I mean.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 13h

It will be better to have another win in Toronto anyway.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 13h

We all work thru this in our own way.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 13h

Ah now they’re playing like a Toronto team.

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Dylan @dylan89.bsky.social · 18h

This one got me today. When did they announce a water feature with 1000 dancing fountains?

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 20h

I get fed a lot of ads re Ontario place (Ontario taxpayer $). I hadn’t seen this rendering of the amphitheater before. Wild - a total rebuild? Note the spa doesn’t exist in background. Anyway, bookmark this image.

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · Jun 2

Starting up my old Twitter #fountainsTO thread on Bluesky with Toronto's most iconic fountain, Nathan Phillips Square. The theme of the thread is that fountains are good and Toronto should have more of them. Feel free to contribute!

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 20h

At least kids are soft eh. An old brittle person would crack so fast.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 20h

I wave in many circumstances when people are good. Reinforcing good behavior is not a bad thing to do. I don't think it's subservient.

Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 20h

Like last week when I saw a ped get lightly hit by a driver who didn't stop as he crossed a sidewalk and the ped apologized.

A rotten culture we have built here around cars and trucks.

Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 21h

Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.

They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 1d

Same. I actually like steak houses because the sides are all super.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 1d

Ironically (or not) the current The Keg vernacular is very much "cottage mcmansion"

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 1d

Remember when the suburban The Keg's looked like this? Windsor's still has the tower thinger. maps.app.goo.gl/AbvPj1xJdTPL...

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 1d

20 years ago will & grace established how the gays make it safe for the straight people to buy property in neighbourhoods they populate. The dads don't even have to sleep with a bat.

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 1d

fellas is it gay to live in a city

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 1d

The executives.

Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 1d

The realities of capitalism and markets imply that if Trump accelerates his assault on the Canadian economy, forcing Canadian companies to choose between insolvency or moving production and jobs to the US, nationalist fervor may not last. Some executives are already considering it.

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