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Did they need a crane inside this cathedral because it's Baroque? (I promised everyone that I would only make this pun once this trip and I think that I saved it for the right moment here. A crane in a church?!)

A crane inside the elaborate (Baroque) St Stephen's Cathedral in Passau, running an the was up the maybe pipes of the largest part of the organ.

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Non-sarcastic Bavaria holiday-posting.

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Sure, they're nice buildings. But could we have maybe 10 or 20 times more parking? Not enough consideration about where all of the poor cars will live.

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Making enemies in Germany by explaining to people that they've got to get rid of their bike infrastructure if they want to solve this congestion.

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On the infill side, Salzburg's smallest house says your side setbacks are fake.

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Trying to decide whether to use Mozart's birthplace to post about mixed use (convenience store on the bottom), heritage (museum that you can pay to enter) or multi-family housing (3 doorbells).

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thread is broken because of blocks but maybe this. bsky.app/profile/melt...

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I guess that they don't have the same freeze-thaw cycle as Canada, but I cycled about 20 km on this trail in Austria and only saw three very shallow dents that could barely be considered potholes. It never even occurred to me that such things were possible before.

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ontario mayors: just as bad at taking a group photo as every other conference I've ever been to.

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The fact that Marianne Meed Ward had to explain to a bunch of other mayors that they might be able to cut DCs by reviewing their books for things that they aren't actually building and removing them sort of says everything that you need to know about how real the DC review numbers are.

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In Vienna: bike puns on bike rentals

A rental bike in Vienna. On the rear wheel, it says "I'll be bike."

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some great context from @plannersean.bsky.social. Enough with papering over the problems that we created. Let's redo the Official Plan so that it accomplishes what we say that we want to accomplish.

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Election interference is one of the few things Navarro is actually an expert in, I suppose.

Navarro sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election and in February 2022 was subpoenaed twice by Congress. Navarro refused to comply and was referred to the Justice Department. In 2022, a grand jury indicted him on two counts of contempt of Congress. In 2023, Navarro was convicted on both counts, and in 2024, he was sentenced to four months in jail, becoming the first former White House official imprisoned on a contempt-of-Congress conviction. In January 2025, he was appointed as the

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Don't forget that this was the handpicked Chair of Ontario's housing "plan" implementation team. In case you are wondering how we got here. news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...

To help communities across Ontario build more attainable homes, Ontario is also launching the Housing Supply Action Plan Implementation Team (HSAPIT). HSAPIT will provide advice on market housing initiatives, including building on the vision from the Housing Affordability Task Force, More Homes for Everyone and other government consultations. The government intends to appoint Drew Dilkens, Mayor of the City of Windsor, as Chair and Cheryl Fort, Mayor of the Township of Hornepayne, as the Vice Chair. The other Team members will be selected in the coming weeks, with the first meeting scheduled for early fall

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Voting for whichever mayoral candidate will use my tax dollars to make Toronto cooler. Both temperature-wise and, like, atmospherically.

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Somebody forgot to tell Budapest that they're supposed to have 24/7 policing for all of these pedestrian streets.

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Well, this is what the setbacks on that street currently look like so they're sort of part of the neighbourhood character there.

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One good(?) thing about being an old nerd is that someone makes this error/intentional mis-statement every year and now I could spot it happening from 100 metres away through a blizzard.

Tweet from an account:
Could someone at least articulate why the budget has gone from $10B to $16B in the last 6 years? Neither population growth nor inflation comes anywhere close to explaining it

Reply from @CBailey6:
One of these numbers includes the rate supported budget (water and garbage) and the other doesn't.

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Maybe Google Toronto rents before demonstrating that you have no idea what's gone on with them in the last decade? www.blogto.com/real-estate-...

Tweet from Chris Alexander 🇨🇦🌻
@calxandr
Olivia Chow is herself the bad landlord. For three years, she’s fumbled the housing file: property values collapsed; rents & taxes sky-rocketed; little new housing was built, especially for unhoused & low-income Torontonians. Our city is in crisis: we urgently need change.

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If you look at the Notices of Objection for the properties in that video, the owners are worried about the costs if they need to do any renovations or want to sell. I don't own any property, let alone heritage property so I can't provide exact receipts. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

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I hope the reporters covering Willowdale are getting paid extra. The usual promises to fix everything while somehow changing nothing and for no money, but also sooooo much misinformation.

Zarezade is opposed to what he calls a “drug-injection homeless shelter” at Sheppard Avenue W. and Yonge Street. He is referring to the proposed shelter being built by the city at 68 Sheppard Ave. W. to serve Indigenous women and children; it is not a safe consumption site.

...the request was rejected and never came into force—however, in materials promoting Yusifov’s candidacy, the request is characterized as “official drug policy,” which Yusifov argues will “destroy minds and destroy families.” He links the policy to Councillor Lily Cheng, who spoke at a Board of Health meeting where the idea was considered in 2023. The website promoting Yusifov shows a screenshot of a CBC News article about the decriminalization request with its real headline, but the broadcaster’s photo has been replaced by a more salacious image that shows a person using drugs. Yusifov did not reply to The Local’s request for comment.

He wants to push for a line-by-line financial oversight at the City, expand affordable housing options while maintaining single-family neighbourhoods, invest in well-lit public infrastructure, and repair damaged sidewalks.

He is critical of people who are homeless or use drugs in public, calling them “drug-addled derelicts” who “deprive our residents of enjoying the parks and recreational facilities our city provides.” He is also critical of increases to property taxes.

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It's funny. Media will interview Patrick Condon who says that land values quadruple if you permit fourplexes. Then they will interview real estate people who say land values drop "big time." And it never seems to occur to media to check the land values to see which "experts" are right. (neither)

Justin Bregman, a real estate broker with Justin Bregman and Associates, says there is financial fallout for owners of homes next door to newer forms of housing.

He said he's reluctant to put a dollar figure on the drop in value that homes experience once a multiplex has gone up next door, but “it’s definitely affecting value ... big time."

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Toronto doesn't need a volcano. We have a heritage register where councillors bulk list hundreds of properties at a time with the stated aim of making the city into a "live museum" (actual councillor quote) instead of letting new people live here.

This report recommends that City Council include 258 properties identified in
Recommendations 1-7 of this report on the City of Toronto's Heritage Register.
The properties are located in the Midtown in Focus planning study area adjoining the
Yonge-Eglinton intersection, and comprise commercial "Main Street" properties located
on both sides of Bayview Avenue, Eglinton Avenue East and West, Mount Pleasant
Road and Yonge Street.

This report represents Phase 1 of a project to
"batch list" all of the properties in the study
area that have been identified for inclusion on
the City's Heritage Register.

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I mean, yeah, I wouldn't recommend upzoning the less white areas while downzoning the whiter areas. That's obviously bad!

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Helpful summary. I'm not sure if there will be implementation issues (presumably if it were easy to do reviews in parallel, they would already do that?). And it gets more into the negatives later in the piece. 🎁 link: www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

One is to conduct all reviews across those many departments (for instance involving impacts on waterways or wildlife) simultaneously, not sequentially as has tended to happen, and then have approvals granted in one fell swoop by the environment minister rather than scattershot by half of cabinet.

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If we're going to call out progressives for supporting regressive zoning, let's call out fiscal conservatives who raise taxes on basic needs. (The post-2023 changes came in after Chow got into office but were approved in a vote under Tory and the previous Council and were being phased in after).

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1. Amazing framing. I love this fire. 2. Does this mean that Mayor Chow will use the upcoming DC review to extend the DC reductions beyond the 3-year window? www.thestar.com/news/gta/cit...

“Because I’ve eliminated most of the development charges, that our friend Councillor Bradford had levied while he was on council, it’s now saving a couple $35,000 if they buy a new home,” Chow said.

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Also, please just open these up to all residents of the ward. It's weird to show up to a City-run meeting and hear that a bunch already happened that you weren't invited to because you have to form and manage your own community association to get an invite to the pre-meeting meeting.

Meeting regularly with community associations to get ahead of development applications by identifying and providing proactive feedback on development sites.

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A number of good ideas but I want councillors to admit that the Official Plan plays a big role here. Too many councillors are content to pretend our development patterns are a law of nature. No. They are a result of not being able to build apartments in half the city. Let's redo the plan.

Educate renters and ensure compliance to Rental Renovation License Bylaw.
Secure fair compensation for rental replacement.

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I am not shocked that the councillor's attempt to strike a compromise (even if creates an unviable project and will raise costs due to delays, even if they get the 2nd building back) was not enough for objectors. But we've got an important investigation going on: was she *really* ever a gardener?

Replies to a Facebook post.
From Niagara Neighbourhood Now (NNNow) 6 days ago:
We actually enquired about when Cllr Malik was a member of the garden. It seems, until corrected, one season, 14 years ago.
From Emil Glassbourg:
Councillor Malik is no gardener! Her ward has dozens of unfulfilled garden spaces. I give her a failing grade. The new city gardens in our area are full of invasives that are spreading around the neighbourhood.

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

One thing that reduced *some* delays is, if the City wants to build housing on its own land, one random resident can no longer hold them up for years at the Ontario Land Tribunal. (Yes, this appears to be an attempt to appeal the one-building compromise proposal that moves but keeps the garden).

Facebook post from Niagara Neighbourhood Now (NNNow) one day ago:
BOLLOCKS! (WE’RE LOOKING FOR SOME LEGAL ADVICE! CALL SAUL?Unfortunately the appeal for Garrison Flats Community Garden by a resident to the Ontario Land Tribunal has been declared null and void thanks to Doug Ford’s C23 bill on who can appeal! Ya! No ordinary citizen even when they put up the bucks. The resident has until TOMORROW to appeal based on being
Applicant or the person that requested the amendment (N/A?)
A specified person or public body
The registered land owner of any land to which the plan or by-law would apply to appeal under this section. (N/A)
OK, so maybe this is difficult but if there is a LAWYER in the hood who knows the ropes to these things let us know and we would appreciate it.
Democracy good: not getting a fair go and protesting something you care about, bad. As for that “affordable housing” argument of our councillor, It’s possible with the land available without tearing up a community asset and gouging out a precious part of the park (the naturalized berm)

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Love everyone's reaction on the At Issue panel to Althia Raj saying that Canadian airports are "quite well-run." www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmBP...

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NAFTA had its time as a training ground.

Awkward three way handshake between Enrique Pena Nieto, Justin Trudeau and Barack Obama

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I get wanting to minimize confusion but I'm not sure that the "super duper mega deduction" people get to give naming advice right now. www.thestar.com/politics/can...

The idea that Canada would bid for “associate membership” in the EU was first reported by the Wall Street Journal Sunday. Canadian officials spent the past few days denying Canada was seeking outright membership, and was not the one to propose the term “associate member.” A senior Canadian official told the Star Tuesday that the Carney team did not in fact view it as a helpful term.

“We don’t particularly like it because it implies some form of membership,” the official told the Star. “What we’re trying to do is something new and different.”

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Too much plane content today. Posting some old train content, for balance.

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What an absolutely bananas way to describe that a segment of track was missing 18 screws. www.thestar.com/news/gta/new...

The cause of the derailment was “a legacy infrastructure condition that developed over time,” said Metrolinx CEO Michael Lindsay at the organization’s board meeting Thursday. “We have continued … to make sure, exhaustively, that a similar condition does not exist anywhere else on the railroad.”

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What's fun is that there are bajillion rules around signs and advertising but apparently there's no basic requirement for the City to ask who is renting their space or why. Which is weird because I've rented a library room for a non-profit and had to provide that info. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Nichole Jankowski, a spokesperson for the city, told CBC News that a one-time grounds rental at the Fort York National Historic Site had been approved for a third-party drone operator.

But she said the city was not informed of the client associated with the display and what it was for.

"[The city] is updating its booking requirements to add disclosure of this information as a requirement for future bookings," Jankowski said in an email.

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Oh, you want to talk about growing space for trees in low-rise Neighbourhoods? Why simply support or oppose the limited list of official proposals when we could instead revisit parking requirements for rooming houses.

A large poster board at a City of Toronto consultation entitled "Growing Space for Trees" with a few suggestions about landscaping and soft landscaping. On the right are three spaces: Support and Oppose have sspaces with little stickers to vote. The additional comments space has a post-it stuck underneath.

Zoom of the post-it from the previous photo. It says "Council should remove parking requirement for rooming houses to allow more soft landscaping."

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