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Grant Mason 🍁🏳‍🌈🚴 @g-mason.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The entire Katering show season one is part of my regular vernacular.

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Grant Mason 🍁🏳‍🌈🚴 @g-mason.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I’m through with playing by The ruuules of Someone Else’s gaaame

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Grant Mason 🍁🏳‍🌈🚴 @g-mason.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I’ve recently moved from living in Dundas to living King East downtown, and the one thing I notice is much more often I take the streetcar. It’s frequent, reliable, and fast. It’s also always busy. My whole day plan is different knowing I can actually take it and save time!

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Grant Mason 🍁🏳‍🌈🚴 @g-mason.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

An animated ground floor brought to you by the City of Toronto Official Plan. King and Dufferin. I hate it.

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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Already missing how lively Church St used to be when pedestrianized… People felt free to sit, linger, chat, & hangout instead of just walking by or heading straight into the bar.

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Mario Kart Rube Goldberg race [📹 Joseph's Machines] Original post

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Grant Mason 🍁🏳‍🌈🚴 @g-mason.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

That’s like saying you’re selling BBQ chicken and then it shows up oven-cooked.

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Grant Mason 🍁🏳‍🌈🚴 @g-mason.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

That is straight up not the same thing!!!

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Grant Mason 🍁🏳‍🌈🚴 @g-mason.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Okay so you bring a big topic, being rollercoaster nomenclature. So let me tell you, it is truly something that there is a rollercoaster named after a music festival in Belgium. Ride To Happiness named after Tomorrowland, both in Belgium.

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Grant Mason 🍁🏳‍🌈🚴 @g-mason.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Same here! I figure it will lead to a bunch of development in the area, but then I’ll have a subway 200m away so 💁🏼‍♂️

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Grant Mason 🍁🏳‍🌈🚴 @g-mason.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Omg the “my city is full!” people truly have the shallowest vision of what their city can be. Cities in any other continent apart form Australia would laugh at such a statement. The thing about housing, infrastructure, parks and commercial streets is that you can just build more.

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Grant Mason 🍁🏳‍🌈🚴 @g-mason.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

100 people in a city. 40 people live in two bedrooms (20 units), 40 people live in 3 bedrooms (13 units) the other 20 people live alone (20 units) total units: 53. Percent 1 bedroom units 37%. Percent of people living in 1 bedroom units: 20. I picked random numbers but the point’s the same.

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Grant Mason 🍁🏳‍🌈🚴 @g-mason.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It took my brain far too long to understand how this stat worked 😵‍💫 but it makes sense. Also probably true that a lot of two person households would be one person households given the choice!

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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Here you go

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Simple message, really. Thanks for the bluntness, @nondriver.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth

“3/4 of disabled people don’t drive. Stop using us as an excuse for car dependency.“ Via Anna Zivarts. The tagline at the bottom says “mobility freedom comes from mobility choices.“ Via the Urban Truth Collective in collaboration with Anna Zivarts.

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Grant Mason 🍁🏳‍🌈🚴 @g-mason.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

lol why did this get flagged as Adult Content??

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13/07/2026

"Corridor zoning" amounts to jamming low-income residents into big, bland apartment buildings alongside stroads, where they can serve as a buffer, absorbing all the noise & air pollution cars produce, protecting the precious single-family homes that dominate everywhere around them. It's abominable.

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Grant Mason 🍁🏳‍🌈🚴 @g-mason.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

No one bats an eye when a new tower goes right in front of another, blocking the view and sunlight for hundreds. But when it’s a detached home neighborhood being affected, the policy framework treats them like precious, delicate, and specially privileged citizens. It’s classist and it’s wrong.

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Grant Mason 🍁🏳‍🌈🚴 @g-mason.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This type of input should be reviewed and summarily ignored. Why do neighbourhoods in downtown deserve to be protected from development? The rest of the city, including its commercially rich commercial corridors, are forced to pick up the slack.

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Grant Mason 🍁🏳‍🌈🚴 @g-mason.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Best thing to ever happen to this campus. It’s now a place you actually want to stop and linger.

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Grant Mason 🍁🏳‍🌈🚴 @g-mason.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Glad to hear someone saying it out loud. Housing policy and the loss of cultural venues are inextricably tied when the city forces development onto the avenues and forces commercial spaces to compete with residential development.

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Grant Mason 🍁🏳‍🌈🚴 @g-mason.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

A switch 2 will be my finished condo move-in gift to myself because god knows I’m going to need a lot more nights in to pay down these purchase and moving expenses 😱💁🏼‍♂️

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Mark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

And the best new Toronto patio award goes to Crews and Tangos! PS. We painted the fencing so yes I will brag about it all summer

Vibrant blue and it’s actually cerulean building with a Beautifully painted patio, planters, and extra park bench style seating with an umbrella for shade.

Rainbow balloons and a unicorn balloon in the background on the building

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Grant Mason 🍁🏳‍🌈🚴 @g-mason.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The implication from the policy dept. being that somehow cars driving through the neighbourhood is what was previously maintaining safety.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It’s impossible to get, say, a full time washroom attendant in Toronto to keep them nice. On example. Everything declines except the police supply of public money.

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Grant Mason 🍁🏳‍🌈🚴 @g-mason.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Great! Me too! Someday we can put the era of the sterile glass ground floor behind us.

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Grant Mason 🍁🏳‍🌈🚴 @g-mason.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Toronto spends too much time focusing on the sky and not enough time on the ground floor.

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Grant Mason 🍁🏳‍🌈🚴 @g-mason.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I know! I keep holding out for an announcement that they’re working on new music 🤞🏻

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Grant Mason 🍁🏳‍🌈🚴 @g-mason.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I regularly listen to all 4 albums from the back. Absolutely incredible all of them and my #1 favourite band ever. I preach TNAF gospel to anyone who will listen.

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Observing The City @observingthecity.ca · 14/06/2026

There were over 46k Bike Share rides in Toronto yesterday, more than the average ridership of the Queen streetcar. The cost to the city to operate that streetcar was over $50k/day in 2015. Bike share costs the city $8k/day. 6x as cost efficient. Smart cities invest in cycling.

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TOBikeShareBot @toronto.raccoon.bike · 14/06/2026

Yesterday there were approximately 46,801 Toronto Bikeshare trips Most used station: Centre Island Ferry Dock (522 trips) Least used station: Victoria Park Ave / The Meadoway and 80 others (0 trips) Active stations: 1040 #bikeTO

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I’m told zoning and planning was invented to keep residents from noxious areas. Here’s where that’s placing 200+ apartments. It’s a 17 minute walk on the shoulder of an Interstate to the train station. Who wouldn’t want to live next to a loud polluted dangerous highway? TOD!

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Josh Matlow @joshmatlow.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The popularity of street festivals shows that there’s enormous public support for pedestrianized streets in Toronto. That’s why I’m bringing forward a motion to the next city council meeting, seconded by Councillor Chris Moise, who…

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

As someone who teaches the history of Toronto’s urban form, I think this might be the single worst decision in its 250-year evolution. Number two would be the railroads cutting off the city from the lake, but at least the railroads were useful.

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 09/06/2026

The demand in Toronto for public space where pedestrians can exist without cars whizzing by them is reaching a fever pitch and needs to be seriously addressed.

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Fights, phone thefts and an early shutdown: Inside the Saturday night chaos at Toronto’s Do West Fest

Toronto police are reviewing safety protocols with Do West Fest organizers after a wave of phone thefts and an early shutdown.

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Grant Mason 🍁🏳‍🌈🚴 @g-mason.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Me at every wedding is just bopping along and pretending to enjoy the same overplayed boomer songs until the DJ finally plays Toxic and I can lock in and take over the dance floor, only to slink away immediately after an off-beat transition to Highway to Hell.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

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Grant Mason 🍁🏳‍🌈🚴 @g-mason.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Imo this is even funnier than your original post 😂

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Grant Mason 🍁🏳‍🌈🚴 @g-mason.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

It’s crazy how much the city has built up since then

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Kristyn Wong-Tam @kristynwongtam.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Breaking news today from the Toronto Star: American private wealth firm JP Morgan is behind Ford's waterfront takeover. Is it an American land grab? Carney needs to take a side. Add your name to oppose Ford's plan! www.kristynwongtam.ca/stop-fords-bi…

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Stop Ford's Takeover of Billy Bishop

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

“City planning and zoning were invented to keep noxious uses away from residential areas”. 🙄 And this is the result: putting every new home on the most noxious part of the city

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Grant Mason 🍁🏳‍🌈🚴 @g-mason.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Having a social justice background (social work undergrad) really throws people when I support building new "luxury" housing. Makes for an eye opening conversation usually.

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Grant Mason 🍁🏳‍🌈🚴 @g-mason.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Just opens the door to bad faith actors to spam council and staff over vague concerns oger traffic and crowd behaviour. Then when staff pill the plug they'll point to this as a "failure" whevenver pedestrianizaion is floated again. Shame on Brad Bradford for this one.

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Observing The City @observingthecity.ca · 22/05/2026

This is a poison pill. Staff will jump on this in an instant. Transportation services already wants this to fail, and the culture war machine will be revving full force to push the "unacceptable impacts" narrative.

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