It's so stupid that Toronto looks like this. You either have a fortune to own a house or pay to rent a box in a highrise (also a fortune) because the city was worried about loose women filling three storey walk-ups 110 years ago. Dumbest hick town on the planet.
Big reason why Liberty Village sucks is because it was designed like a suburb for people from the suburbs to move to Toronto + act like they're still in a suburb.
@PoorOldRoloTony
Apparently she's been working on a huge Star Wars Galaxy's Edge video, but I think it's been over a year since her (excellent) Evermore video.
Me, absolutely glowing, feeding them lines from thirty year old Mr. Show sketches + watching them stare miles past me. "24 is the highest number!" I exclaim. Worst night of both their lives.
You can + should refuse service to cops or anyone else doing this. Sam James refused to serve people who were "just stopping for a sec" in the Harbord bike lane outside his shop + guess what: no more parking in the bike lane outside his shop!
Blocking bike lanes is dangerous. It contributed to the death of a cyclist. Since then we've heard a lot of talk about enforcement, but if the people responsible for road safety regularly park in bike lanes what message does that send to other road users?
@WillSloanEsq
Setup for inevitable pivot to "after much soul searching, I've come to believe that Israel's military has gone to far" in June 2024 after Gaza has been reduced to ash.
Starting late April: Every other UP Express train; one every 30 minutes, will be running express to and from Pearson Airport. UP Express trains will continue stopping at Bloor and Weston stations every 30 minutes. This is to allow airport travellers to use the service.
The galling thing about the Revue mess is that it’s yet another reminder Toronto has to keep bending to the will of these cryptkeeper ass landlords.
No art or culture or common space can happen without some greedy skeleton granting us permission to live.
One of the counter arguments to defunding police has always been, "But what about big emergencies that call for SWAT teams?". Well, between this + the NY subway shooting I think we know that no longer sticks.
Divert those billions to things that will actually help people.
The rollout and messaging were bad.
But Uvalde, IN MY MIND, is just the most recent example of how defund/abolish doesn't seem so foolhardy after all. If cops are going to stand around when there's an active shooter, then be thwarted by a locked door, what good are they?
@NYCFirm
Yes, almost entirely. And because of our insane zoning, perfectly good 20 storey rental buildings are being torn down to build condos on the same lots.
@WillSloanEsq
It's a little strange that the movie grinds to a halt to impart a lesson about mob mentality when there is also a serial child killer on the loose offscreen.
The nerve of this guy to campaign on parks after two years of closed washrooms, non-functioning water fountains, + violently clearing tents during a pandemic.
Parks are an essential part of what makes any city liveable, and Toronto is no exception.
I'm committed to making Toronto cleaner and greener by continuing to invest in our parks, and build even more of them. Learn more about my plan:
An RCMP informant built his own police car + carried out the largest mass shooting in modern Canadian history, but we can't learn anything about it because it would hurt the RCMP's feelings.
A lawyer for the
#RCMP
union tells the
#NovaScotia
mass shooting inquiry no officers should be called to testify because it would be retraumatizing. Lawyers for victims' families strongly object. Story soon in
@globeandmail
@broderick
Getting a takeout bag of ice from a fast food joint is the most insane element. Dying to see a wider shot of what appears to be their office or cubicle?
ANOTHER Delta employee wearing a Palestinian pin is causing a stir, this time on a ATL to FLL flight (DL2345).
Delta is a U.S. based airline with no routes to Palestine.
Why isn’t she, along with the man we featured Saturday, wearing U.S. pins vs. these?
@popshifter
@adamgolding
@shawnmicallef
Moral panic over single people (mostly young women with jobs) + immigrants has largely kept affordable housing off the map for a century.
Grandparents attending a school track meet in Kelowna stopped the event and demanded a 9 year-old female student be examined to make sure they weren't a boy competing in a girls event.
Steve Albini created or had a hand in a staggering amount of the music that has been the soundtrack to my life. Always assumed he’d be around making records for another 30 years!
Resquiescat, King 👑 👑👑
I expect talking to an actual puppet on a real set makes the work 1000x better than people on a green soundstage reacting to a tennis ball that will be editing into a scary space monster 8 months later.
I know we say this every year, but Michael Caine didn't have to go that hard for A Muppets Christmas Carol. Look at this man. He genuinely believes Kermit the Frog is really talking to him
From yesterday morning, I saw a film called Helen & the Bear at Hot Docs.
The director, Alix Blair, talked Palestine in her introduction and was heckled by the audience. At an event like this, there's no excuse for this behavior. Kudos to Alix for her patience.
#CeasefireNOW
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It’s cool that almost no real jobs exist or will pay you anymore. People who did the same job at the same company as me twenty years ago owned homes, raised families, went on vacations. Pretty wild!
Montreal police have now barricaded the peaceful Rad Pride solidarity march from entering into the Gay Village. Cops have surrounded the march in a kettle formation.
@WillSloanEsq
Citizen Kane + Vertigo are movies you could show to someone who hasn't seen a single classic film + they'd feel like a new world had opened to them.
Jeanne Dielman is up there with Battleship Potempkin as Great Films I'd Recommend to No One.
A piece of Union Station’s concrete ceiling fell on someone during rush hour + mayoral candidates are reassuring rich homeowners their taxes will stay rock bottom.