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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 22/08/2026

You know that feeling when you pick up on that the car dealer is trying to con you? You smile and walk off the lot. Tonight, PM Carney told conman Trump to go get F'd. 💪🏼🇨🇦 #CanadaStrong

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 07/08/2026

Mark Carney vs Donald Trump. Donald Trump can fake a lot of things but he can't fake competence. Canada is having the last laugh. 🍁 #CanadaStrong

Top: Canada adds 75,000 jobs in July, unemployment rate hits two-year low

Bottom: The US economy unexpectedly lost 23,000 jobs last month.

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 18/07/2026

Hello from Canada to our American neighbours. Nice evening for a relaxing paddle on the lake up here in Canada, just minding my own business. O' Canadaaaaa... 🍁

Apple Fitness paddle workout map, spelling out 86 47

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 14/07/2026

CHANGE begins locally. An angry town can replace a complacent and/or complicit mayor and council members. A few angry towns can influence a city. Empowered cities can influence a state and 25 states can CHANGE a country. And if one man in Selma can change a country, millions of you can too.

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 02/07/2026

Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square is the unexpected gem of this #FIFAWorldCup. ⚽️

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 01/07/2026

#Ronaldo and the Portuguese Selecção arriving in #Toronto. 🇵🇹 I just happened to be walking out of my condo to walk my dog and my national team is driving by. What are the odds?! Oh carálho! #WorldCup2026

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 13/06/2026

I’m sure you’re prepared to fight this but it’s clear they’re just going to cover the signage with scaffolding tonight to stall for time. They installed the signage with cherry pickers, they didn’t need scaffolding.

Covering up the Donald Trump signage on the Kennedy Center with scaffolding

Installed “Donald Trump” on Kennedy Center with cherry pickers

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 13/06/2026

They used cherry pickers to install the Donald Trump letters on the Kennedy Center, they don’t need scaffolding to remove them. I’m convinced the scaffolding is to cover the sign and leave it up while they fight this in court

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 13/06/2026

It's 2 hours to midnight. They've been putting up the scaffolding all day, there's no way they're removing The Donald Trump letters in time to follow the court order. They're going to cover it up and claim the sign isn't visible to stall for time. #KennedyCenter LIVE: www.youtube.com/live/aAhm880...

Scaffolding covers the Kennedy Center signage

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 08/06/2026

Someone certainly got to them. Tahoe vs Golden Gate:

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 08/06/2026

Hey, they got rid of all the icons in the menus? Did you ask them why? 🤔

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 05/06/2026

My Toronto Liberal MP @runchinguyenrun.bsky.social has gotten an earful from me on her disingenuous boilerpoint answer to her constituents angry about Doug Ford stealing our waterfront and stealing our voice so he can turn Billy Bishop into a major airport. #NoJetsTO docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Response to a feedback form about the Billy Bishop Airpot expansion:

I've been a Liberal voter and organizer all my life and have voted exclusively for the Liberal Party in every election for decades. Your coordinated party talking points that are so transparently illusive to the real questions and demands your constituents have, standing by while Doug Ford steals Toronto's voice and democratic tools to keep him acceptable, has lost you my trust and certainly my vote. You do not have to wait for airport plans, what Ford is doing to Toronto is in plain view. If you won't fight for us, then who will?
Toronto has blanketed our federal ridings in red and you can't do the minimum and most obvious thing: the Federal Govt. should not negotiate with Ford on the airport, this is a Toronto matter. Mandate that he return Toronto to the table or end this charade immediately.

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 31/05/2026

Not everything. It won't be called "BMO Field" for the World Cup. Repeatedly calling it "BMO" when the city scrubbed that name from tickets, maps, transit, signs, social, comms and the stadium itself, The Star missed a chance to inform people to avoid mistakes. It'll be called "Toronto Stadium".

A sign at Union Station shows directions to "Toronto Stadium".

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 31/05/2026

Let’s put it this way. Soon after the demolition request was denied, a wall collapsed. After months of appeals the city denied it again, forcing the owner to rebuild the wall and restore the heritage building, the entire building burned down. I’ll let you decide the odds of those coincidences.

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 30/05/2026

As a dog owner whose always leashed dog has repeatedly been attacked or threatened by off leash dogs, thank you for this column. Beware: This pitbull is often off leash in front of Sick Kids Hospital (!!!) and the owner is exactly as you'd imagine him to be.

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 30/05/2026

A larger property needs to be assembled with the buildings to the south — or better, the entire city block, including The Tenor should be razed to build a mixed use city block split between institutional (Toronto Met), entertainment (Cineplex) and residential. Bonus if they rebuild The Empress.

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 30/05/2026

Oh, there's more... coincidentally, Salad King used to be located on this site at the old Empress Hotel which after demolition permits were denied by the City, the heritage building burned down one night. The owner of the property has since been repeatedly denied building permits for a condo.

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 07/05/2026

Carney is damaging his brand in Toronto. Downtown Toronto across the entire lake front to the suburbs delivered a unanimous sweep of MPs for the Liberals. They're all suspiciously tightlipped. I was 110% pro-Carney, but he's quickly soured on me after this. We won't forget.

electoral map of current ridings is a wash of red across Toronto

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 30/04/2026

The look on the faces of Artemis II crew after traveling 695,081 miles through a literal vacuum, only to return to Earth and find themselves standing next to the only thing in the Universe with a lower density than deep space: the void inside Trump's head. ✨🧠💨

Artemis II astronauts, NASA Commander Reid Wiseman, NASA Pilot Victor Glover, NASA Mission Specialist Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen, flank US Supermassive Asshole in Chief as he takes questions from the media during an event in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 29, 2026. Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 28/04/2026

If you had told someone 30 years ago that this is the American President in 2026, they wouldn't ask how he got elected, they'd ask how the United States lost the war and which country installed the dictator.

Trump with an angry frown, looking dictatorial, narcissistic. Orange face, white hair, neck vagina.

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 18/04/2026

With #Toronto changing so rapidly, some of it unrecognizable, the CN Tower has remained the one constant that I can look up to and whisper to myself: “oh, there you are, Toronto.”

The cn tower rises through the Toronto fog

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 17/04/2026

A late night walk through foggy downtown #Toronto

in front of Union station in Toronto stands a clock throughout he mist.

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 17/04/2026

Loud SPEAKERPHONE conversation on a packed Dufferin 29 bus (IYKYK). Unprompted, bus driver pulls over and stands there looking at her. Points at the door. She gets off, people clap. A #Toronto Heritage Moment® I think I just found this hero on Reddit! @ttchelps.bsky.social give this man a raise!!!

Reddit/r/askTO post:

Fellow Torontonians that FaceTime while walking or use their speaker phone on the TTC, why?

I'm a TTC operator. Strong no speaker phone policy.
Stop the bus and advise headphones or earbuds while in the bus. We don't move off until the speaker phone is off.
Trying to put an end to this absolutely unacceptable bullshit one trip at a time.

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 10/04/2026

Iowa farmers hit hard by Trump’s Iran War and Tariffs. Rural Iowa voted 70/30 Trump v. Harris in 2024. I wonder if they have any leopards on those farms.

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 06/04/2026

This is the end for #Toronto 's McLaughlin Planetarium. Long shuttered, it is now being demolished. Shedding a tear for this childhood landmark for many of us 70s and 80s kids.

An excavator faces the McLaughlin Planetarium clutching concrete in its jaws as it demolishes the steps.

A sign: DANGER due to Demolition on a fence enclosing Toronto’s Planetarium and an excavator.

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 02/04/2026

Trump sycophants well never learn that Trump demands loyalty, but feels no obligation to loyalty in return. He will stab them in the back the minute he alone benefits from it. MAGATs are expendable. I look forward to Pam Bondi answering for her crimes.

The conveyer belt of five stages of Trump White House employment. Dedicated MAGA red hat, hired enthusiastically by Trump with praise, Trump suddenly "never met him", Trump stabs them in the back, they leave forgotten and alone, vulnerable to the crimes they committed for Trump.

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 22/03/2026

Trump relieved sanctions on Iranian oil to fix his mistake, paying Iran 10X what MAGA complained Obama returned in exchange for nuclear concessions. Iran is getting more for closing the Strait of Hormuz and attacking its neighbours, than it got for giving up its nuclear program. Art of the Deal. 🙄

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 21/03/2026

I look forward to seeing this view again. Today, those cast iron gates are gone, replaced by a green construction tent and a muddy path.

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 10/03/2026

BILLIONS of dollars for a convention centre on an artificial island. A BILLION dollars to accommodate a private spa. A BILLION dollars to move the Science Centre. BILLIONS (over $100B) for an underground highway under the 401. "We gotta tighten our belts folks" — Doug Ford #ONpoli

Toronto Star headline: Ontario is bracing for 'tougher times' finance minister warns.

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 05/03/2026

Well well. How the turntables have... #ukraine

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 01/03/2026

Iranians in Toronto celebrate the death of the dictator in front of the US Consulate on University Avenue.

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 01/03/2026

#Poilievre: "Under his leadership and 11 years of Liberal govt..." #MarkCarney: "11 years? I just got here, Poilievre has been here his whole life." Oh gawd, what a sick burn 🔥😂

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 26/02/2026

Hilary Clinton paraphrased: "Why are you interviewing me on Epstein? Question Trump." Yes! This. Trump clearly has a lot more to say about his friend Jeffrey Epstein given he's mentioned 1500 times (likely more redacted) and has been photographed with him repeatedly. Bring him in for questioning.

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 21/02/2026

This 2016 comic turned out to be so prescient. #DictatorTrump

A 2016 Nazi Germany style comic showing Trump authoritarian banners, cops arresting Mexican workers, minorities in fear, laughed at by MAGA types. An Employment Office sign reads "NO Mexicans, muslims, Chinese, etc"

A photo of a large banner of Trump's face outside the Dept. of Justice

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 26/01/2026

Quick, someone tell Mel Lastman to call the military! #snowTO ❄️🪏

Dog standing in 3 feet of snow in front of Toronto City Hall. The illuminated TORONTO sign is visible in the distance.

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 03/01/2026

People celebrating American military interventionism and regime change in oil rich #Venezuela at a Florida gas station is a little too on the nose.

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 13/07/2025

Superman has Toronto in his DNA and #Toronto secretly has a #Superman shield in its map. Co-creator Joe Shuster was a Toronto Daily Star paperboy in the 1920's. The Daily Planet— originally the Daily Star—was inspired by what is now @thestar.com Toronto built Joe Shuster Way in his honour.

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 21/06/2025

At an #architecture talk at the Cinesphere in 2018, I got to ask Eb Zeidler what he thought of Eaton Centre losing its trees, its railings replaced with glass and a substantially modified Yonge & Dundas greenhouse atrium. Zeidler said it saddened him and that it had lost its soul. He was right.

Eaton centre full of lush trees in the late 90s

Photo of present day Eaton centre from the same perspective, but now much more sterile, no trees, only glass and stainless steel

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 18/06/2025

I'm one of the many who had their #Threads account mass suspended early this morning. No reason given, certainly nothing that I've said or did warranted it. There's no way I'm starting from scratch with a new account. I guess Zuck just pushed us to Bluesky. It's nice here. 🦋

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 03/06/2025

The Court has granted the sale of Hudson’s Bay’s Intellectual Property to Canadian Tire. That’s it, the Stripes join the red triangle.

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 03/06/2025

I’m at the Ontario Superior Court in Toronto for the Hudson’s Bay CCAA hearing regarding the transfer of The Bay’s intellectual property to Canadian Tire and 28 of its stores to Ruby Liu. The unwinding of Canada’s oldest company — older than Canada itself — will occur here this morning. 🧵 1/*

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 17/05/2025

May long weekend, the City of #Toronto still hasn’t turned on fountains. This despite talks, meetings and committees about valuing a “beautiful city”. Tourists taking pictures of a dry fountain at Berczy Park. Toronto needs to do better. #TOpoli

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 09/05/2025

I bugged my city councillor, the mayor and the city planner incessantly until they returned public space to public space. They’re open now. Enjoy the stage’s amphitheater seating overlooking Nathan Phillips Square! It’s great! ☀️

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 09/05/2025

There’s no excuse to close the Nathan Phillips Square stage, walkways, and City Hall roof — even in the winter. We are a winter city. Activate them instead. The stage acts as an amphitheatre overlooking the square. Make it inviting in all seasons for people to sit a while. This is OUR square.

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 09/05/2025

In the pursuit of a “Beautiful city” we should strive for useable public spaces. Nothing says neglect like barricades public spaces. Might as well put up a sign: “Welcome to Toronto: you’re not welcome here.”

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 09/05/2025

The squeaky wheel gets the grease. Nathan Phillips Square and City Hall itself were designed by architect Viljo Revell as a symbol of public inclusivity in self governance. The barricades closing it off were a metaphor for how government has become increasingly insulated from the public. #TOpoli

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 07/05/2025

The City of Toronto hired a world renowned architecture firm in an international competition and then diluted the design to the point that nothing but a rough idea of the building remained. Design vs Built

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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 06/05/2025

“I wouldn’t have expected white smoke coming out of this meeting” — Mark Carney trolling Trump’s Pope fantasies. 🔥💪🏼🍁 #elbowsup

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