farmtario.com/news/conserv... Under the Doug Ford government, more than 320 acres of farmland has been lost EACH and EVERY day. Now members of his government are opposing faster public transit because of its consequences on *farmland.* #ONpoli #environment #food #hipocrisy

Ontario PC MPPs push back on Alto rail over farmland fears

Eleven MPPs say the project is moving without adequate consultation or farmland protection, as an advocacy group plans a Sept. 19 protest.

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Column by @shawnmicallef.bsky.social 4 days ago: be ready, the fight over Billy Bishop isn't over. Mark Carney today: we can't rule it out. I think the race in Beaches—East York got interesting again.

Carney doesn’t rule out jets at Billy Bishop airport, a move welcomed by Ford officials

Prime Minister Mark Carney is refusing to rule out commuter jets at Billy Bishop airport in the future, but says his government's immediate transportation priorities in the Toronto region are

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Imagine you're the CF and planning the same exercise. You send a notice to the provincial emergency management office, regional emergency services, relevant utilities and local municipalities. Inform them that navigation contingencies be made.

Justin Ling@justinling.ca · yesterday

Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...

"Strangely enough, having lived in Toronto for nearly half a century, I don’t think I’d ever walked these trails before."

I thought I knew Toronto — until a new plan threw me for a Loop | TVO Today

Connecting 80 kilometres of trails across the city is an ambitious plan. it may pay untold dividends.

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Ontario rail operators: "we don't need double-track, thanks to strategic passing sidings and the magic of ✨️scheduling✨️" Also Ontario rail operators: "we arrived at the passing siding 5 minutes late, so we will have to wait here for 20 extra minutes while we wait for opposing traffic"

JackTatt 🇨🇦@jacktatttran.bsky.social · 2d ago

Fun fact: If you have good punctuality and timetable discipline, you can run pretty frequently as single track with timed overtakes. The Swiss do this a lot, the Zurich S10 runs up to every 10 minutes with single track with passing tracks and strict punctuality.

👏 STAY 👏 AWAY 👏 FROM 👏 THE EDGE 👏 OF 👏 THE 👏 BLUFFS

Toronto fire crews rescue man stranded on Scarborough Bluffs cliff — possibly for 24 hours

Toronto Fire Commander John Davidson told reporters the male was there for about 24 hours, but the official acknowledged he couldn’t confirm the timeline.

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The beauty of valley fog this morning. #NYwx #PAwx #onwx

This butterfly site works much like the ex-bird site, and many people who weren't fascists left the ex-bird site to be here. That's just what it is.

The Verge@theverge.com · 3d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

A #metroscapes data note: the Toronto Shoreline dataset has been updated to reflect opening of Biidaasige Park West and the filling of Parliament Slip. This includes the embedded maps but not the pie charts.

Toronto Shoreline

An analysis of Toronto’s shoreline, breaking down it’s length, ownership and public access.

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During construction is often the best time to see mass timber! This is the new tower at UofT, designed by MJMA and Patkau!

I'm not sure Niagara-on-the-Lake can be fully recovered to absorb another 100mm of rain. #onwx #ONstorm

Happy Lower Don Trail Opening day to all who celebrate!!!! After what feels like a decade of closure (since 2023 in reality), the trail has finally (mostly) been reopened. I took a ride down to see the finished product. So far its looking promising. #bikeTO #cycleTO #LoveTheRavines #Toronto

If I uploaded this before, I forget when or what I said. But this is an April 28, 2005 statement in the Ontario Legislature from when the Liberals announced the closure of the Lakeview Generating Station. It's a historic moment, and yet it makes me laugh. I had to add some commentary / captions.

I have said this since Mackinnon's letter came out- we have not heard the end of this. It is a pause. They are not making any more Q400 turboprops, and eventually it is either allow jets or close the airport. We should be looking forward to the latter.

Shawn Micallef@shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 5d ago

🛩️ v 🏖️ People who aren’t used to winning, won. At the same time, people who often win lost for once. The losers are throwing tantrums. Winners should take the win to heart because it truly belongs to them & no one else. My column on this remarkable grassroots mobilization in @thestar.com

I'd expect a company to rush out a feature "because it's AI", with no regard for moral impacts on society or economic damages to the creative class. But to tank trust and reputation of its own product?! Holy moly.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 6d ago

Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...

When people send you files in zipped folders, and they zip *the parent folder*. Particularly when file path lengths are already approaching the max 260 characters.

Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · 7d ago

What is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?

I've called the ex-bird site a Nazi bar, an echo chamber and a bot farm. People occasionally bail on BlueSky without understanding its role with growing the ATmosphere, and create some excuse about what they think X gives them. But if views for 12 fascists tank that bad, what the hell is the point?

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 6d ago

So CBS and others invested in a pro trump audience that won’t arrive, alienating their actual audience, and trump propagandists are losing audience bc people are souring on Trump. Also helps explain the increased racist shrieking as they try to farm engagement www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...

The only parts of Toronto's transit system that are "at capacity" are pieces of the bus network in suburban areas where they feed into the subway and where the solutions to the capacity problem are the easiest. There's nowhere in Toronto that should turn away development because of transit.

Rockwood has a population of 5,800, and is hosting a party fit for a medium-sized city.

Finally abolishing that abomination of a name.

Matt Elliott@graphicmatt.com · 6d ago

Councillor Paula Fletcher's motion to rename the Main Sewage Treatment Playground to "Ashbridge’s Bay Sports Hub" CARRIES via show of hands. Wait, what was wrong with the old name. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

Huge news out of Mississauga. After 80 years of operation, oil refining at the Mississauga Lubricants Centre will cease operations by next year. The Dallas-based owner, HF Sinclair, said they will maintain a presence on site for research, blending operations, and packing / supply chain / logistics.

Canada’s largest base oil producer to end refining after 80 years in Mississauga | INsauga

A landmark industrial site on Mississauga’s waterfront is entering a new era, with the facility historically known as the Clarkson Oil Refinery set to end its oil refining operations after more than 8...

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Yo dawg, I heard you like junction railways, so I junctioned your spur, so you can have a spur of your spur.

"should we replace a parking lot—" me: yes, next question "okay but should we replace a *money-losing* parking lot—" me: did I stutter? "should we replace a money-losing parking lot with a shelter for Indigenous women & children?" me: ...am I having a stroke right now? Is this what that feels like?

Unsurprising that a fix was in to allow the expansion. Disappointing that a byelection (vs. opposition on its face) may have been the driving factor. Infuriating that this could turn into further delays for Alto.

‘Disappointed’ Doug Ford spoke privately with Mark Carney after decision blocking Billy Bishop expansion

Carney cancelled the island airport scheme before it could cause his Liberals any political turbulence, including potentially in the Aug. 31 Beaches—East York byelection that the prime minister called...

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The Transportation Safety Board has released a report into a CN locomotive rear-ending an Exo train on Nov. 21, 2023. www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports... It finds the CN train ignored a speed restriction and was going almost three times that limit.

Making a semi annual pilgrimage to see the sunken hulk of the Former Toronto Ferry, the Bluebell. Built in 1906, she served TO for almost 50 years before being retired & eventually sunk. Her sistership, the Trillium is still in active service some 116 year later #paddleTO #SUPTO #TOhistory #ferry

Good afternoon from Keating Channel. Today I will be exploring Ookwemin Minising and the new Don River mouth. This includes the newly opened second phase of Biidaasige Park. Let's go. #metroscapes

Toronto really needs some interim transit priority on Lake Shore Boulevard East between Parliament and Cherry. I've been on the 114 bus for 10 minutes, as all right-turning drivers struggle to find space between cyclists and pedestrians, and lots of line cutters squeeze in from the centre lane.

This is absolutely fascinating and a little bit mind-blowing 👀 h/t: @hankgreen.bsky.social youtu.be/YhwkaH1-S7Q

You Have Never Seen a Normal Star

YouTube video by Hank Green

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*WE* did this, fellow Torontonians. We flooded the biased federal survey and flooded our MPs' inboxes and made them get a spine and stand up to Ford and push a weak kneed federal cabinet. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Federal government grounds Billy Bishop airport expansion

The just-concluded public survey suggested strong public opposition to the project, according to a federal government official.

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