#topoli Pearson International Arrivals. The happiest spot in the GTHA.

#cdnpoli A very strange argument from ex Globe columnist @johnibbitson.bsky.social, who is suggesting that columnists/opinion-makers who objected to Alberta’s demands are somehow responsible for the referendum mess. Should they…not express their views…? www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

#topoli A deliciously analog hour spent at UofT’s Thomas Fischer Rare Book library reading a hard copy of a pamphlet by CCF MP Agnes Macphail on the need for wholesale prison reform. Coming soon in @canadashistory.bsky.social.

#topoli Toronto’s version of the Battersea power station, at UTSC.

NYC being NYC..

#topoli Gutter & storm sewer: de-schmutzed. It would be terrific if the City could actually do its part now & remove the detritus.

#topoli Spring in Toronto: sun is shining, birds are chirping, the quote-unquote moveable chairs are chained up in Berczy Square & Market Lane is lined with parked cars. Sigh.

#topoli Walking thru Seaton Village this am: older people out for a stroll, kids going to school, birds chirping - and all this despite the presence of a sky-is-falling small apartment, going up on Barton. (Sky: still overhead.)

#topoli Biidaasige Park, looking great in winter.

#topoli Line 5: that new rapid transit scent…

#topoli More than a week after the storm, this is the sidewalk next to a primary school…

#topoli Wychwood Barns community-made rink, all frozen and cleared and ready to go. ⛸️🥅🏒🇨🇦

Why does it need to be a zero sum game btwn road clearing and sidewalk clearing? Surely this operational riddle cdn’t be that difficult to solve. And yet… #topoli

#topoli A question that pre-dates this week’s epic snow dump: why does the City not shovel/plow the sidewalks that edge city parks, even when internal park paths are cleared? The answer, I suspect, is jurisdictional (PFR vs Transportation services) but the upshot is, well, tough walking…

Regardless of your age, this is the winter you remember from your childhood… ❄️

#cdnpoli If NATO/the world capitulate on Greenland, I’m confident that Canada’s arctic islands will be next.

#topoli #onpoli Re-upping my yearly scroogish gripe-question: Why aren’t infantalizing Xmas songs on an endless loop in big box retails (Loblaws, looking at you) classified as workplace (mental) health hazards subject to Ontario labour/health&safety standards/penalties? There, I said the thing.

#topoli Wychwood Pond looking wintery.

#topoli Any transit geeks out there who know what this thing is? In the Queen subway…

#topoli Mud Creek, looking good.

#topoli The social and ecological disaster created by the Chorley switchback continues apace. @shawnmicallef.bsky.social

#wantitall What’s with Colonel Saunders sitting behind home plate?

#topoli Just one of many reasons why I still get the paper. A keeper.

#topoli Apparently the bespoke at-home retractable security bollard has become a thing…

#topoli Parks are for parking Episode whatever. Wychwood Barns. Note the toddlers in the background. Cc @alejandrabravo.bsky.social

Let’s give this thing the right description: a concentration camp. Cc @nytimes.com

#topoli A friendly Canada Day reminder that we somehow forgot how to build very ordinary and very effective apartment buildings like this guy - 88 units on Bathurst, no angular plane nonsense, no ridiculous windows, no bowling lane lay-outs. Just wide and light filled 1s and 2s. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

#topoli Twenty units on two residential lots on a residential street. This is how to do it.