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Let’s transform the heart of the Village into a walkable, car-free space! 🏳️‍🌈🚶‍♂️

We're proposing to pedestrianize Church St (Wellesley to Alexander) from June 19 - Aug 21 to celebrate The 519's 50th & our Cultural District.

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Toronto Parks Need a Reboot - Spacing Toronto Recent Auditor General reports exposed deep-rooted inefficiencies and systemic issues in Toronto’s Parks & Recreation (P&R) Division. Despite these challenges, P&R is staffed by many dedicated public ...

As Toronto's parks department searches for a new general manager of Parks while facing criticism from the Auditor General, landscape architect Fadi Masoud offers proposals for how to revitalize Toronto's green spaces. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

So they aren’t counted in any stats. Cycling on the sidewalk is against our bylaws. Instead of saying we need to ticket cyclists, he’s saying let’s educate so there is a bit of harmony on our sidewalks.

A few still exist but are barely legible. This is a simple education campaign. e-bikes and e-scooters are frequently speeding past at 20-25km speeds past seniors and those with accessibility needs hitting or nearly hitting them, on sidewalks. Most pedestrians hit on our streets don’t submit reports.

Venn diagram showing you can’t achieve stable services, low density and low taxes at the same time.

My semi-regular reminder of a really important reality about cities, density, services and taxes.

Any questions?

Graphic recently cleaned up by @kathrynmathias.bsky.social. #CityMakingMath

I wrote about the state of things.

Proud to be working with a skilled team. Together we’re making local data open, accessible, and interactive with the objective of engaging, educating, and empowering residents.

We meet again end of July.

I was an assistant to Trustees back then and it is very sad to see history repeat itself. But the reality is the chronic underfunding started with the Harris Government and no successive government has done anything to fix it. Learning how to swim should not be a luxury, it is a life saving skill.

I hope this is the first of many investigations into MLS and their lack of enforcement for our bylaws.

So this April 2nd, tariffs are a go, right?

[Toronto, ON] " @cityoftoronto.bsky.social council is sounding the alarm this week after a new report highlights major FEDERAL funding cuts that will hurt the city's ability to help newcomers who can find themselves relying on local shelters & other services...." - #CBCToronto #CDNPoli

Nomination notice I’m pleased to share that Evan Solomon will be the Liberal Candidate for Toronto Centre in the next federal election, and will continue building on our hard work to keep Canada moving forward.

The federal Liberals, once again, show complete contempt for the people of Toronto Centre.

A Council trying to do the right thing on housing. A Mayor using his "strong mayor" powers to stop them. A Premier who stands idly by.

5,000 affordable homes at risk: Ford government rolled back mandates for dozens of Toronto properties on election call eve "We just lost the potential for 5,000 units of affordable housing in a housing crisis for no apparent reason," one city councillor said. "This is a very big setback for

The City of Toronto included affordable housing provisions in its approval of certain Employment Land conversions. The Ford government changed the wording to make the affordable housing optional, then dissolved the legislature the next day with the election call. www.thestar.com/news/gta/5-0...

OPINION: Toronto needs to evolve past its recurring NIMBY housing debate Columnist David Hains encourages councillors to remind their NIMBY constituents ‘the customer isn’t always right’ when it comes to upzoning major city streets

Toronto needs to grow past trotting out the NIMBY greatest hits in every housing debate if it intends to be serious about tackling housing affordability, I write in my latest @torontotoday.ca column

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