Education is not a business; it is an essential public good. These changes impose a corporate management structure on public education, replacing evidence-based practices and teacher discretion — informed by their professional expertise — with ministerial directives.
The @showuptoronto.ca newsletter is switching to a Thursday schedule! Subscribe to get a weekly digest of all the events on the calendar, along with whatever's on my mind that week. This week, it's supervised consumption sites and not hardening your heart buttondown.com/showup/archi...
Is Ford feeling heat over proposed changes to FOI laws? Perhaps. His govt dropped another alcohol announcement today -- in this case BYOB for "cultural or community outdoor public events ... farmer’s markets, movie screenings, art exhibits and neighbourhood festivals"
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The institutional buildings of 1960s Canada were extraordinarily well-built. Throwing them away would be madness.
The 1969 Science Centre is an incredible piece of architecture. It needs some work.
The new building complex is a kludge that will be inferior by any measure.
Canadian Architect's Elsa Lam continues to shine light on the shameful new Ontario Science Centre project. Already way over budget, costing many times more than any needed work on the existing Moriyama building. www.canadianarchitect.com/contract-awa...
Oh good, overtime hockey, I’ve been meaning to have an extended heart attack
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
Very stoked!
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From the creator of Heated Rivalry
Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a group of journalists grabbed it and are relaunching the food magazine as a worker-owned co-op. Love it. [gourmetmagazine.net]
So unbelievably sad!
Jewish Folk Choir lane sign
Happy last day of Hanukkah. Passed by here this morning. Some good Toronto history to dip into. ontariojewisharchives.org/Explore/Them...
Send a letter to MPPs telling them that watering down protections for Lake Simcoe is a bad idea! share.nwmd.social/s/vB9Znfln
If you're in Toronto, they're playing it live at Cameron House on Sunday at 4:30. 🏄♂️🎸🧑🎄 I've seen it live the past few holiday seasons, it is always a good time! (Extra happy to have the recording, since I can't make it to this year's show.)
I am biased because this is my brother's band, but if you're looking for some festive tunes, I highly recommend Astro Surf's Nutcracker Suite. Tchaikovsky, surf rock style! astrosurfrock.bandcamp.com/album/astros...
So they worked so much harder, and consumed so much more energy, to produce an AI piece of shit that was so shitty they had to delete it and also delete the evidence of how hard they hard to work to make that massive piece of shit
Big vehicles have their place, but choosing an w oil crisis created a market for smaller vehicles in the 1970s, it's time to demand automakers return to providing vehicles appropriate for jam-packed cities.
Personal (choice) is political
Let’s talk about the size of trucks & SUVs in the city. My column on the virtue & status signalling of vehicle bloat.
From this week's: "It is easy to lament our defeats... It is harder to remember, though no less true, that the world would be a much worse place today if not for the efforts of organizers across the ages who all faced more defeats than victories." 💙
Once again plugging @showuptoronto.ca, which is not only a listing of ways to get involved but also a weekly beacon of light for your inbox. Politics in this city feel heavy atm (largely due to the province), and I so appreciate the hope this round-up offers. showuptoronto.ca
I walked along a few kms of College St this morning before 9am. Day care drop then carried on. Watched the people push and cycle their kids around, some dad on a cargo bike waved & said hi to some tweens walking in front of me. All very Sesame Street.
And this gov't has contempt for it all.
Clean up your mess and pay your bills you greedy deadbeats.
Elected officials shouldn’t have the power to vote against traffic signals or lower speed limits. I don’t think this because I don’t believe in democracy; I think this because I believe in evidence-based placemaking & city-building. Safer streets shouldn’t be situational or left up to a vote.
I love Toronto but the fact that permitting convenience stores in residential neighbourhoods is an actual debate reminds me of how incredibly conservative the city is. Like, are people okay?
Tenant rights are at risk on Ontario - Bill 60 will result in an increase in evictions. People will lose their homes as a result of this bill. Help us support the cause. share.nwmd.social/s/3c0qxrqH
A broken-bat double-play grounder by Alejandro Kirk ends the game.
#Bluejays fall 5-4 in 11, but what a show they put on. It hurts now, for sure. They had the game a few times, but this World Series is going to go down as one of the greatest ever.
