ATTENTION ONTARIANS!
While filing this year's tax returns, you might want to pay a little bonus cash to our "Protect Ontario" campaign. We strongly suggest you take up this special offer and maybe lay off with the Freedom-of-Information request. It's for your own protection.
Do Ford and Carney's "Protect Ontario" and "Build Canada Strong" ad campaigns put media outlets (which are desperate for revenue) in a conflict of interest?
The ads are misleading on some levels and undoubtedly dishonest on others ... not to mention costly and annoying.
Could you imagine if the media outlets had resources needed to fully investigate all the corruption going on (not just at Queen's Park)? Part of our mess is that we've been far too soft on politicians and agencies such as Metrolinx and IO.
I do suspect some mob connections, but that's another story.
For now ...
"For the people"
"Respect for taxpayers"
"Stop the Gravy Train"
"I'm the only Premier in history that refuses to use the Premier's plane ... I prefer to drive around and talk to the people about things that matter"
Mob being …. Ontarians?
How many columns has this guy written about some waste of money outrage? Amazing work here.
When we were kids, heading to Balmy Beach PS and, later, Malvern Collegiate, we'd take the "ice-storm challenge" and try to walk up Scarborough Road without being late for school or ending up in the ER.
Really good read in The Guardian about "The Last Spy" and long-term hazards built into how the West fought the Cold War. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...
Some tech-savvy geographer should be able to give us a firm case for Toronto's steepest street. If I had to suggest East End candidates, there's Scarborough Road between Queen and Pine and Ingham south of Hogarth (near Broadview and Danforth).
I doubt there will be any lasting damage.
He can overpay by 10s of billions for the subway projects and nobody cares. He can also say stuff like this on the video, and nobody calls him on it. He'll be Teflon till an opposition party can get its act together.
Couple of lovebirds hanging out in my backyard.
Overspend on stuff you don't really want
and we'll give you 25,000 bonus points!!!
Air Force One
Raindrops on tree branch
Spring rain #RainyDay #Raindrops #NaturePhotography #MoodyTones #AfterTheRain #BranchDetails #MinimalMood #QuietMoments #NatureLovers #MacroPhotography #SoftFocus #GrayDay #RainyMood #SimpleBeauty #OutAndAbout
Much Too Young
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdu8...
Yeah. I'm that weird guy on my street who cleans a fair bit of the curb and keeps the drainage system flowing as much as possible throughout the winter.
Directional signage for TTC bus routes 51 and 151 at Leslie Station in Toronto
51 151 Photography.
#Toronto #Subway #Signage #Photography
Also, it is appropriate that the new station once known as Science Centre now has a leaky ceiling.
Leslieville station won't even be in Leslieville.
#Toronto once took pre-winter leaf cleanup seriously.
The pre-amalgamation Public Works Department deemed clear curbs essential for drainage (especially through winter and spring). Apparently, City Transportation is in charge now, but doesn't care. The leafy mud gets too heavy for sweepers.
Quelle surprise!
When Toronto's Coxwell camera was in place, I noticed it was exceedingly rare to see vehicles break 50 km/h in the 40 km/h zone (I could tell because of a conveniently placed 'Your Speed' sign). When the camera was removed 50+ became quite common and 65+ was suddenly not unusual.
Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
Looking west on Queen Street West to Bay Street, 103 years ago today - April 13, 1923.
📸: Alfred Pearson
Credit: City of Toronto Archives.
#OnThisDay #1920s #queenwest #torontohistory #jeremyhopkin
But the trickle down has to begin sooner or later.
I doubt 99.9% of Canadians have given any serious thought to what joining the EU might entail. Between pollsters and lazy streeter 'news' stories, 21st-century Canada does seem to put a lot of stock in uninformed opinion.
U.S. gas prices.
Good guy and a true gentleman!
It's 40 years since then soon-to-be-fired Canada Post CEO and ex-Toronto Transit Commission chief Michael Warren told our luncheon table that per-household mail delivery cost twice as much in Etobicoke and Scarborough as in old Toronto and that sprawl similarly made good transit much more expensive.
Yet Toronto was once very good at it.
Oh, oh! Was it something I said?
Have Ontario propaganda ministry officials centralized operations to ensure Xi Jinping can't steal Metrolinx's secrets for success in Scarborough?
#Metrolinx is bragging today on X that the Scarborough Subway Extension tunnel-boring machine is more than half way thru its 6.9-km journey. What they conveniently don't tell you is that tunnelling was to have been finished in the fall of 2024. It's on pace to take 6 years to complete a 2-year job.
