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Damien Moule @damienmoule.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

At least they're not talking about St Lawrence again, the last housing that they seem to have thought was worth building. Everything since then was awful, I guess.

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I keep hearing councillors go on Toronto the Politics the Show to tout the achievements of Toronto Builds rather than express concern that it and its precursors have yet to build a single unit of affordable housing after 7 years and this needs focused council attention. I am confused.

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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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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

"Have you considered that not everyone can live in Toronto?" My friend, we have barely even tried. Skill issue, as the kids say.

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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

So great. I didn't know what to expect. I wish that I had more time.

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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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Finally, a Premier with the courage to ask: do people really need housing *in* the cities where their jobs are? Why not simply commute for three hours a day so that Christine can continue to imagine she lives in a small village?

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh, I didn't realize that the City had allowed plumbing for the the second floor AND a door to the basement. This sort of over-the-top luxury needs to be regulated ASAP. 🙄

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priorities.

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It would be really fucking great if we prioritized housing for humans the way we do housing for cars.

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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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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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That's @damienmoule.bsky.social's song. (And @henrikbechmann.bsky.social)

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Nice that we're back in familiar territory where we want housing to be both more and less affordable though.

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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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But also, the point of the listing is to delay to give enough time to study for designation. And we know that delays add costs. OAA estimates about $250,000 extra per month of delay for a 100-unit building.

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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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In Edmonton, it's up to 8 units, so I guess you should scale the y-axis to +/- 700% change, just to be sure.

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Oh, I didn't know it was this one. My brain substituted "4-storey duplex" with fourplex. Although I guess it's actually semi-detached triplexes?

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"Why won't the market build more family-sized units?" I wonder, as I read pieces implying that the rules ought to limit heights to accommodate every existing chimney in the city.

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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 needs more homes. These neighbours say they're paying the price | CBC News

They're tearing down four existing apartment buildings on my street, the largest of which is 12 storeys, because the OP puts growth here. But this couple downtown might not be able to live next to a bungalow in Canada's largest city forever. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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An elderly downtown couple says they’re shocked and upset that the city has approved a duplex next door to their three-story Victorian home that they say will tower metres above their chimney and rend...

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Municipal elections do be like that sometimes.

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From @graphicmatt.com newsletter, on the transformation of mode count at Mill & Cherry: "Those two August counts are pretty darn remarkable, and do a good job of validating the work that went into building the West Don Lands into a walkable urban neighbourhood." #walkTO

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