A stork nesting on your roof is a sign of good luck. Hundreds of migrating storks gathered on a Ukrainian farmer’s field is a wonderful omen.

@robertmaslak.bsky.social · yesterday

Polskę 🇵🇱 i 🇺🇦 wiele łączy. Także bociany. Польщу 🇵🇱 та Україну 🇺🇦 багато що об’єднує. Зокрема й лелеки. Jest połowa sierpnia i bociany zaczynają gromadzić się na polach w większe grupy – to tzw. sejmiki bocianie. Ptaki intensywnie żerują przed migracją. #bociany #ptaki #polska #ukraina

Fines for fare evasion exceed fines for parking in every city across Canada. On average, you’ll be fine fined 4X more for skipping a $3.75 transit fare than skipping the same parking fee. This disproportionate enforcement impacts impacts low-income riders hardest.

School of Cities@uoftcities.bsky.social · 5d ago

Our new policy brief summarizes research on transit enforcement which found that mechanisms vary widely across Cdn cities; tickets are higher than for parking infractions; costs exceed generated revenue; marginalized populations are disproportionately impacted https://ow.ly/FHQN50ZvVoF

Toronto's industrial waterfront has been transformed into a restored river and 330 acres of public parkland, reconnecting the Don River to thousands of years of Indigenous heritage through landscape architecture. Read more in ASLA's THE DIRT: https://bit.ly/3UdDBnx

Incredible goal from Dorsch here, but I don't understand this build-up from the Revs at all. They just go left-to-right and play straight into a blind alley. There's zero thought to reversing play, changing tempo or dragging TFC further upfield. Also no runs in behind to stretch them.

NIKLAS DORSCH FROM WAY DOWNTOWN ON HIS HOME DEBUT 😳

Timeless humour! A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to: “I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂 Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA #Archaeology

On the Peameal Bacon sandwich and how “one immigrant butcher’s solution to an overabundance of cheap grain and another immigrant butcher’s solution to a pile of unwanted bacon scraps became a symbol of Toronto.” buttondown.com/theswordandt...

Notable Sandwiches #146: Peameal Bacon

Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I eat our way through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week,...

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Can’t come soon enough! Getting to the airport in Canada’s 2nd largest city is a time- and money-wasting slog. This week the first trains are being tested on the REM light-metro line to #Montréal ‘s Trudeau airport. Should be in full revenue service by 2027. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/g...

REM | Les essais débutent sur la branche vers l’aéroport Montréal-Trudeau

Prochaine station, l’aéroport. De premiers trains ont commencé cette semaine à circuler de façon automatique et à basse vitesse sur la future antenne du Réseau express métropolitain (REM) vers Montréa...

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Meanwhile, Toronto recently shut down its Bid Award Committee, one of the few places you could find such info.

Marco Chitti@chittimarco.bsky.social · 4d ago

Or that the city has proceeded to a "PAYMENT OF EURO 5.88 IN FAVOR OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF SAN LAZZARO DI SAVENA (BO) AS REIMBURSEMENT OF NOTIFICATION COSTS" Every single adjustment to a contract, disbursement, or transaction is publicly available with a click.

I'm reading Mark Lamster's biography of Phillip Johnson and my god, I knew of his Nazi flirtations but had no idea the depth, how much time in Berlin, but also in the US his authoritarian infatuations & action around Huey Long & Father Coughlin. 1/2 www.marklamster.com?page_id=2863

Would this be record transfer fee for CPL? Selling your top prospects is tough but helps attract more players that will see it as a legitimate development path.

Tom Bogert@tombogert.bsky.social · 5d ago

🇨🇦 Sources: Vancouver Whitecaps finalizing deal to acquire Canadian youth int’l midfielder Emrick Fotsing from CPL side Vancouver FC. @manuelveth.bsky.social first reported. Fotsing, 18, talented player. Fee in region of $400k. Several other MLS teams wanted him. Could finish season in CPL on loan

Here (in red) is the alternative route to the Bloor bike lanes in Etobicoke. Only an imaginary person who prefers riding twice the distance of the direct route would ride this. BradFord knows this. It's just performance for his base. @mlongfield.bsky.social @bronwynroe.bsky.social

Matt Elliott@graphicmatt.com · 6d ago

Bradford also does the bike-lanes-belong-on-side-streets thing. Would be great if proponents of this kind of thinking could show us a map. Which streets? How do they lead to a cycling network that’s actually useful? Aren’t a lot of the places that cyclists want to get to on main streets?

My Toronto Star take on festival challenges: 1. Crowds aren’t the problem; poor spatial planning is. Many festivals have outgrown the car-centric streets and spaces where they began. Their growth needs to be matched with permanent pedestrianization, better design, and placemaking approaches.

This literally translates to: “Ukrainian forces are east of the Wet Shores River near Mosquito.” You only imagine how miserable that fight must be.

Malcontent News@malcontentnews.bsky.social · last wk.

Ukrianian forces are east of Mokri Yaly River near Komar.

Come visit the homeland of all Kuligs! Zakopane, Kasprowy Wierch and Morskie Oko are an “affordable alternative to the Alps”. Hit me up for the best shacks to get oscypek (smoked goats cheese) from a cranky old góral. www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

Poland's Tatras: The affordable alternative to the Alps

Breathtaking alpine scenery and budget prices make this overlooked Polish escape an alternative to Europe's overcrowded mountain regions.

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Five storey kindergarten in Munich designed by Kere Architecture and HK Architects Built predominantly from timber. I especially love the timber slides that connect floors!

Notable that all the major news media outlets in England describe these attacks on Police and homes as 'protests'. An organised gang of yobs and thugs set on illegally removing someone from their home is terrorism. #BBC #Sky #ITV #NewsMedia

paulusthewoodgnome@paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · last wk.

I've got to be honest. Until now, I simply haven't registered the shocking far-right thuggery in Thetford. Partly my fault, no doubt but also, it feels like it's not had the headlines that would have been guaranteed not that long ago. Is this becoming the new abnormal? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The replies and quote tweets here feel like a microcosm of why it's so hard to build non-market housing and get funding for it. People don't understand the programs that we already have, what about them works and what doesn't, and how much it costs to build housing. I'll try to be brief. 🧵

Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 2w ago

Together with the City of Toronto, we’re getting more than 5,600 rental homes built. We're building 18 new housing projects across the city — with shovels in the ground on more than 80% of them this year. Read more: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...

Vacancy tax avoidance, in New York City

Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2w ago

"As a joke, comedian and entrepreneur Madi Walser started a website to advertise New York City artists willing to stay in empty vacation homes as 'charity to the 1%.' Then, she received eight inquiries from pied-à-terre owners interested in joining." Wild read 🎁 www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

In EXPO, I go to Edmonton to find out how the Canadian city is building the best civic architecture on the continent. As city architect Carol Bélanger tells me, “whoever controls the procurement ultimately controls the design quality.” www.expothemagazine.com/expo-essays/...

How Edmonton Became the Architectural Capital of Canada — EXPO the magazine

City Architect Carol Bélanger is reimagining municipal bureaucracy and changing the rules of procurement.

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QUALIFIED 🇨🇦✅ The #CanM20 are heading to next year's FIFA U-20 World Cup 😎🏆

GOAL 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 MAX VOGELE ARE YOU SERIOUS 🤯🤯🤯 🔴 Watch #CanM20 on OneSoccer

A story of cause and effect: Last November, Ontario banned cities from using speed safety cameras to issue tickets. Reckless speeding immediately surged in Toronto, Ottawa, Guelph, and cities throughout the province. A 🧵 about my latest in Bloomberg (gift link)

What Happens When Speed Cameras Get Shut Off

In 2025, Ontario banned automated traffic enforcement. Now the number of drivers exceeding the speed limit has surged, according to traffic data.

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walking on finch avenue only to find this goofy parked on the sidewalk. before i could say anything, a red pickup pulled up beside him and the driver cussed him out on my behalf. my least expected ally. i love north york

But does this mean for the next FIFA Peace Prize!?!?

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 2w ago

FIFA president Gianni Infantino's leadership has become "radioactive" and his 10-year reign as head of world football "is over", says a former head of IOC marketing u.afp.com/SHoJ

A unique satisfaction watching someone like Infantino try to bury their latest massive L as a Friday afternoon news dump.

Adam Sawyer@adamjst.bsky.social · 2w ago

Good. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

'When it comes to Black history & slavery, many Canadians believe our country's story begins with the Underground Railroad, Canada acting as a benevolent safe haven for enslaved Africans escaping the bitter bondage of the American South...there's more to the story...' @shellenedrakestull.bsky.social

Eric Very@ekvery.bsky.social · 3w ago

Emancipation Day Underground Freedom Train Ride is a unique and awesome tradition the TTC runs with the Blackhurst Cultural Centre. A non-stop ride between Vaughan Metropolitan Station and Union Station with singing and drumming to celebrate emancipation day. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Lviv today…

The Ukrainian Review@theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 3w ago

🇺🇦❗️ Today, Lviv shuddered from a massive direct hit directly on high-rise buildings: the enemy directed 22 (!) missiles at the city and at 4:45 a massive strike was delivered – more than 21 residential buildings were damaged, Sadovyi noted.

Rocky the dog was pulled alive from the rubble of the home of a large family in Radushne,Dnipropetrovsk region,after it was struck by a Russian missile Rocky is the only one left unharmed. At the time of the strike,the parents, their seven children,their 18-month-old grandson were inside the house.

Russia’s war continues to spread as missile lands in Polish field leaving 10-metre crater. Romania has intercepted 3 russian missles over the last few weeks too. radio.lublin.pl/2026/07/10-m...

10-metrowy krater w Tarnawie-Kolonii. Na miejscu są służby [ZDJĘCIA]

Policja potwierdziła, że w miejscowości Tarnawa-Kolonia na polu odnaleziono krater i porozrzucane elementy niezidentyfikowanego obiektu. Okolicznych

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