The New Reality for Toronto's Crossing Guards | The Local Once a job for local retirees backed by the police, today's crossing guards are poorly paid contract workers employed by private companies. As they confront growing road rage and speeding drivers, the...

Great story at @thelocal.to -- these folks are the real front line against everyday driver rage and asshole behavior and their poorly paid or protected. We do not care though. There has been no popular blowback to standard behavoir. Only the occasional high profile drunk gets people upset.

As someone who has survived multiple jaw bone infections and needed several endodontic treatments for tooth infections, let me tell you that this man died in one of the most painful ways possible

They tortured him. An untreated tooth infection is torture.

The Province Took Over Ontario’s Biggest School Boards to Fix Their Finances. The Numbers Tell a Different Story | The Local Analysis by The Local shows Ontario’s largest boards receive some of the lowest per-pupil funding in the province—raising questions about whether the real problem is mismanagement or the funding formu...

Thanks to @wencyleung.bsky.social and @thelocal.to for their continued reporting on so many matters key to Toronto and the millions who live here. thelocal.to/ontario-scho...

Maybe I'm biased, but this one-of-a-kind visual guide brought to life by @wencyleung.bsky.social and Michael DeForge might be the most entertaining thing you read this weekend. Don't miss it:

CTV News: Minneapolis second shooting amid immigration crackdown CityNews Ottawa: Federal officers shot another person in Minneapolis amid… TheCanadianPress.ca: Trump’s Twin Cities immigration crackdown has made… The Globe and Mail: Man shot amid Minneapolis immigration crackdown dies… CBC: How Minnesota is being singled out in ‘largest’ crackdown…

I really loathe how every major Canadian news outlet is using the phrase “immigration crackdown,” parroting Stephen Miller’s rhetoric for them. What required a “crackdown,” exactly? 😡

This is a lie. I was on the Danforth Saturday night, 24 hours after blizzard, & bike lanes were full of snow & car lanes clear. Sidewalks meh. This man makes things up to rage his way into the mayoral office. Tell your not-online friends & fam.

We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...

And these were the ones ProPublica could find. www.propublica.org/article/vide...

Demonstrators at the January 7, 2026, evening vigil for Renee Nicole Good. A tall flag reads "Fuck ICE."

Minneapolis.

Hello! I would love to speak to women who are fans of Heated Rivalry, including those who are new to MM romance and those who aren't, for an article I'm working on exploring the genre's appeal to women.

My DMs are open or I'm at juliacarriewong.11 on Signal and julia.wong@theguardian.com on email

Nuthouse health food store tree. Bloor West. Lean & tight, this tree wakes early & is in bed by 10. Underneath, Santa will place Amy’s burritos, bulk peanut butter, raw honey & mushroom extract. Organic cocktails for the elves & flaxseed for the reindeer. 11/10
#EveryCorporateChristmasTreeInToronto

Tree next to large small shuttle model

Spin Master toy company lobby tree. Meccano space shuttle category. Supernova tree topper on sleek tree sharing same cool high tech aesthetic as shuttle. A defiant statement in support of NASA-era science in a rude Space X world. All trees are political. 12/10
#EveryCorporateChristmasTreeInToronto

Santa couch trees and toy soldier

Bayview Village tree(s). A postmodern tableau breaking down Christmas myth & interrogating tree-rustling praxis. Exploding star a further disassembly of the Christmas origin story yet couched (literally) in brown mauve 1990s extravagance. A deeply rigorous scene, sharp & soft, in a hyperreal place.

Xmas tree display in mall w Santa and snowmen and presents

Shops at Aura tree. Snow dusted wonderland under (for now) Canada’s tallest residential bldn. Formal skirt transitions to snow fam exploding w uncontainable joy in witnessing drive-by action Santa. A perfect scene to visit & revisit, each time seeing more. 11/10
#EveryCorporateChristmasTreeInToronto

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Public transit is nation-building. Our federal budget should reflect that If the federal government truly believes in building communities that work for everyone, it needs to stop treating transit as secondary and start treating it as what it is: vital national infrastructu...

Only the federal government can provide the stable, predictable support needed to modernize and expand transit systems across the country, write Sam Hersh and Andrew Pulsifer. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/26/o...

It really has been interesting the last while to see Doug Ford's outbursts. The true Ford. From "get a job" to "audit orgs that might support left wing causes". The authoritarian belligerent bully that had no staff to muzzle him in City Hall days is still there. Does Ontario see? Do they care?

This is a hell of a piece.

Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.

Safe bike-lanes mean business.

Rename all of Dundas Street “Yesavage St” & it would be the least controversial Toronto thing this decade.

I'm so sorry, Karen. I appreciated your reporting there! And you are so talented and skilled. I hope you find a new role soon.

The Ford government has announced plans to shred a bunch of tenant protections: news.ontario.ca/assets/files... (pdf, see p. 13-15)

There's actually a ton of things (schools whatever) named after him in Canada. Duke of York Boulevard in Mississauga and Prince Andrew Place in Don Mills to name a few. Plaques galore.

What becomes of them, I wonder.

We actually usually use Line 2 and airport bus to get to YYZ from Main Street Station. Has served us pretty well!

Statement from the president of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trip to Egypt:

“It is unprecedented that Canadian media be entirely excluded from a Canadian prime minister’s foreign trip.”

Infill housing is climate action. More people need to live in the blue zones. Excellent to see @jasonthorne.bsky.social posting this; leaders, take note.

‘Something doesn’t smell right’: $100 million in Skills Development Fund grants traced to lobbyists with ties to Ontario premier Clients of lobbyists with ties to Ontario's premier and his office snagged at least $100 million in Skills Development Fund grants, according to an analysis of the data by CTV News.

New investigation from me!

We took a look at who the lobbyists are whose clients are getting those Skills Development Fund grants...

‘Something doesn’t smell right’: $100 million in Skills Development Fund grants traced to lobbyists with ties to Ontario premier

www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/poli...

Screenshot of LinkedIn post from Yellowknife Mayor describing the costs and consequences of trucks having gotten so much bigger. In the link, he explains the backlash he received for his post.

This is good —the Mayor of Yellowknife NWT in Canada’s far north weighs in on “Car Bloat” (truck bloat actually) and its many big costs & consequences (thanks @davidzipper.bsky.social for heads-up). And like most who dare tell the truth about that, he’s taking flack.
www.linkedin.com/mwlite/feed/...

Toronto hospital housing model ‘a gift’ to residents as ER visits reduced by half Every time Jason Miles walked out of prison, he would be bigger, stronger and meaner.

Really wonderful story here by @liamdevlincasey.bsky.social about what's being touted as Canada's first social medicine housing project. Kudos to @uhn and Fred Victor Centre - more of this please www.cp24.com/local/toront...

The narrative that needs to break through is that Ford will kill kids.

Why? 95% of cameras (in Toronto) are in SCHOOL zones. The other 5% are in community SAFETY zones.

Surely, even his base doesn't want to kill their own kids or grandkids.

pink poster BACK TO SCHOOL TIPS, DRIVER EDITION SLOW THE F DOWN so our kids can get to school safely

not complicated.
a back to school PSA
w/ @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social