Oliver Moore
@oliver-moore
Deviant pedestrian. I’m bullish on cities, opposed to fascism and write editorials for The Globe and Mail. Never 51. @moore_oliver at the bird site, which I've mostly left. Will try to respond via omoore@globeandmail.ca. Header pic by Mervyn Sequeira
Well then, air was worse than I realised. Resistance training for the lungs
Being mayor of a major city is an important job and not some kind of booby prize for politicians who have run out of other jobs to contend
PM picked quite a week to argue that the climate plan he inherited was too expensive and divisive
Being on the ninth floor of a 32-storey building is no reason not to enjoy a patch of grass
The best approach, as always, remains *don’t read the comments* But if you do read them, occasionally you run across one that makes it almost worth the slog
The #TOpoli haters will try to tell you that SmartTrack is not a real thing
Is the idea that you take the subway to College stn and then hop the 506? I’ve gotta say, bad advice. Instead go to Christie stn and walk ten minutes south
There’s a line between giving people info and blasting them so hard with safety theatre you freak them out. And I think a full-train wrap ad vaults over that line
Perhaps because these are both fundamentally e-commerce outfits, they truly have no clue about animating a retail streetscape
Congratulations of sorts to my colleague Tony Keller for coming up with the most offputting characterization of Trump’s behaviour www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
I’m as brutalist is the next guy, but man the Obama library is something insane. Pic via NYT
Noticed this week that the staircase to nowhere, which spent years fenced off, is finally open and connecting Eglinton Ave and Wilket Creek Park. And people say Metrolinx can’t get anything done
Update: it’s been sorta scrubbed off, leaving a ghostly dog. Which tells that it was unsanctioned and the company used very tenacious paint to make it last a long time. So my question, what’s the penalty? If the city does nothing but remove it no lesson is learned
It is intuitively obvious that people will cut corners and break rules if paid poorly, but interesting that they will play it straight if given a proper wage. Likely applies as well to burrito bikers/drivers
Not a fan of sidewalk advertising, which is ugly and commercialises public space. But this, wow. Allowing this in one of the nicest areas of the city, a high-tourist zone, is a real *stay classy, Toronto* moment