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John D Stanway

@johndstanway.bsky.social
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Son of a preacher man. Waiting for the great leap forwards. Happy when it rains. Toronto ⚜️🍁

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hey PEI peeps: Sportsman's is run by a bigot. Heads up.
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Catherine Adare 🇨🇦 @fitinfounder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Problematic. Privacy matters, Brad.
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Jane Roberts @redjane67.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We gonna have to do this for the Bloor bike lanes, people. It CAN be done.
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John D Stanway @johndstanway.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Well, I took that Dialect.us 60 question quiz. Grew up half in Knowlton QC and half in Monticello NY (the dots). Looks like it works.
Heat map of the northeastern US, with hottest part covering New Enland and the Adirondacks. Blue dots indicating the approximate locations of the two named towns.
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John D Stanway @johndstanway.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I love my country. But I could just never get in to the Tragically Hip.
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John D Stanway @johndstanway.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Thorncliffe Park peeps. Start digging.
A picture taken August 24, 2026 from Wynford Drive in Toronto facing south west, with a rainbow sprouting out of Thorncliffe Park.
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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Every interview with an actor from the new Harry Potter series youtube.com/shorts/QVyIw...
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every interview with an actor in the new Harry Potter series
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
She read a news story of a man charged with murder & historical sexual assaults. She realized *he* was the man who had sexually assaulted her in the 90s. The article said to contact police if you had information, so she did. And this set off a nightmare of incompetency & harm by Ottawa Police.
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Police left this survivor feeling blamed, broken. Now they're engaging with her again, and she's worried | CBC News
A woman who underwent mediation with the Ottawa Police Service in 2023 after having difficulty trying to report an historical sexual assault says the process left her feeling broken down and blamed, t...
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John D Stanway @johndstanway.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"Il y a derrière ces comportements quelque chose qui va au-delà de l’empressement. Plutôt une manière d’exprimer une supériorité. D’ailleurs, plusieurs études montrent que la plupart des conducteurs ont le sentiment d’être meilleurs que tous les autres."
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Hey, les automobilistes, on se calme !
Suis-je le seul à voir cela ? L’impatience des automobilistes atteint un sommet. Qu’est-ce qui se passe en ce moment ? Je ne me suis jamais fait autant klaxonner, dépasser ou coller au derrière. Et po...
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John D Stanway @johndstanway.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Every time my councillor does or says something questionable, I can always console myself knowing that at least he's not Lily Cheng
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There's a fight to preserve Toronto parking lot where shelter is proposed
A Toronto parking lot slated to become a shelter has become the centre of a City Hall debate.  Councillor Lily Cheng has submitted an information inq…
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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/07/2026
‘That’s All I’m Saying,’ Repeats Man Who Keeps Saying More Stuff
‘That’s All I’m Saying,’ Repeats Man Who Keeps Saying More Stuff
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Iva Cheung @ivacheung.com · 22/07/2026
This is what being a climate scientist must feel like. WE KNOW WHAT WE HAVE TO DO. The science is indisputable. Give poor people money and we will—at the population level—be happier, healthier, and safer.
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Jean Beaudoin @jeanbeaudoin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
« 42 % des kilomètres parcourus par des automobilistes dans la métropole le sont par des non-résidants, ce qui équivaut à environ 5,95 millions de véhicules-kilomètres sur une base quotidienne. Ça pose une sérieuse question : qui doit payer pour quoi quand on parle des infrastructures ? »
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Selon la SAAQ | Le poids des véhicules a bondi en 10 ans
Il n’y a pas que le nombre de véhicules qui augmente au Québec. Leur poids aussi. En 10 ans, la masse moyenne des automobiles a grimpé d’environ 140 kilogrammes, selon la Société de l’assurance automo...
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John D Stanway @johndstanway.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
It turns out that, much like soccer itself, the halftime show is better on mute.
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John D Stanway @johndstanway.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
Myrna Loy and William Powell winking at each other in The Thin Man
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John D Stanway @johndstanway.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
An important thing to remember in all this is that when I worked for the Ontario government, we couldn't have coffee at our annual division meeting. Fancy perks, and all.
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Stan Cho, tourism minister and Toronto MPP, to repay $16K in city hotel expenses
An Ontario cabinet minister who represents a north Toronto riding is promising to reimburse more than $16,000 in Toronto hotel expenses.
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Matt Blair @mjmbca.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Well, look who finds our lack of faith disturbing.
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John D Stanway @johndstanway.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I shouldn't find this surprising. But I did.
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On a testé | Kraft Dinner se lance dans les ramens fromagés
Kraft Dinner veut se renouveler avec sa nouvelle gamme de ramens. La populaire marque embarque, un peu en retard, dans la folie autour des ramens au fromage.
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John D Stanway @johndstanway.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Interesting that energy subsidies only get referred to as "job-killing" (e.g. The Economist, Doug Ford) when they're for windmills. Never when they're for pipelines
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John D Stanway @johndstanway.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
So far on podcasts, I've heard the opinions of 12 people on Disclosure Day: 7 Americans and 5 Canadians. And a Brit on the socials. The variable that predicts, with 100% accuracy, if they think it's good to great or if it's bad to OK is whether they American or not. Hm.
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John D Stanway @johndstanway.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Honte
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Terrains | Effacer l’histoire
Au Labrador, l’annulation d’une exposition ravive le débat sur la mémoire coloniale. Notre collaboratrice décrypte les dessous de ce bras de fer dans le cadre duquel certains réécrivent parfois l’hist...
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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Doug Ford’s decisions are killing us.
Top: A headline by Aidan Chamandy says, “Fatal collisions hit 5-year high and speeding rates skyrocket after speed camera ban
Toronto Mayor Oliva Chow says the new speeding and death stats are 'horrifying'”

Bottom: A headline by Jill McIntosh says, “Ontario raises some highway speed limits to 110 km/h
Change comes as new Canadian study finds speeding-linked traffic fatalities are rising, distracted driving ones falling”
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John D Stanway @johndstanway.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"Personne ne suggère que les propriétaires riverains devraient disposer d’un droit de veto sur la réfection d’un égout, l’installation d’un réseau électrique ou la construction d’un trottoir. Nous reconnaissons simplement qu’il s’agit d’équipements collectifs répondant à un besoin collectif."
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Les pistes cyclables ne sont pas un concours de popularité
Mathieu Murphy-Perron juge que l’on ne devrait pas accorder un poids démesuré à l’opposition de certains riverains face à un projet qui procure des avantages à tous.
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Lloyd Alter @lloydalter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
For 2 weeks the newspapers have been full of letters to the editor praising the Toronto cops for beating up on scofflaw cyclists for “blowing through stop signs.” Here’s why they are wrong; this is not a legal problem, it is a design problem. open.substack.com/pub/lloydalt...
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Why cyclists don't stop at stop signs and shouldn't have to
Stop signs in Toronto were designed to control cars, and don't work for bikes. Cities with balanced transportation systems don't have them.
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David Fisman. @dfisman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Let the feds know what you think of the ill-conceived proposal to bring jets and runway expansion to toronto‘s island airport Nobody voted for this, @mark-carney.bsky.social @juliedabrusin.bsky.social tc.canada.ca/en/corporate...
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Public consultation on the future of Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport
Consultation collecting feedback on the future of Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Althia Raj is doing some of the most important reporting out there right now, exposing how Carney is dismantling any semblance of Canada’s progressive values. Pharmacare, child care, now the environment… Please, pay attention. He’s eviscerating environmental laws worse than Harper. Than HARPER!!!
Screenshot of an article by Althia Raj: “Opinion | Mark Carney runs roughshod over the environment:
'It's worse than what Harper did'”Excerpt from Althia’s article reads:

“Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to make it easier to kill off endangered species, pollute waterways and risk human health, all in the name of fast-tracking private-sector development projects.
For a prime minister who dismissed progressive Liberal MPs concerns over spending on child care, health care and pharmacare during a caucus meeting this week, Friday's announcement on streamlining infrastructure project approvals is a further indication the party is moving to the right, further than anything Liberals have seen, and a giant call to action to all Canadians who care about the environment.”Excerpt from Althia’s article reads:

“"It's shocking," Anna Johnston, a staff lawyer at West Coast Environmental Law, told the Star. "This would represent by far the worst evisceration of environmental law in Canadian history, far worse than what happened under Prime Minister (Stephen) Harper's government in 2012."
"It's worse than what Harper did, I agree," said Steven Guilbeault, the Liberal MP and former environment minister. "This goes beyond what Harper proposed when he was in power, yes, that's true"
If the federal government's proposed changes go ahead, Guilbeault said it will mean "we will have no way of evaluating or understanding what are the human health and environment impacts of projects we are approving - and that the main criteria to evaluate projects moving forward, if this is adopted, is going to be economic development and nothing else will matter."
Phil Pothen, a land-use, planning, environmental and administrative lawyer at Environmental Defence, said the government's proposal would "grant any company or project the government chooses a blank cheque to just drive entire species to extinction or extirpation.”
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Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Oh wait, that individual has more thoughts, and they're in all CAPS so you know it is extra important. "WE DID NOT PAY HIGH PRICES TO PURCHASE HISTORICAL HOMES IN THIS AREA ONLY TO HAVE MULTI STOREY DEVELOPMENTS ERODE OUR INVESTMENTS."
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John D Stanway @johndstanway.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I think if there's one person a premier should aspire to be like, it's David Cameron. Or something.
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Christine Cooper 🇨🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @coopspeak.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
“I’m so sorry, I honestly tht you already knew. If I had known you had no idea the city t/elected me mayor hates bad coffee, union-busting, ppl w/sell their 🧶 team to Oklahoma City, replaces workers w/AI, resists fair taxation at e/ turn, I wouldn’t have been as publicly flippant about it.” Preach.
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John D Stanway @johndstanway.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I hope when I'm (soon) a senior, bad faith actors don't use me as an excuse to push for bad stuff.
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Toronto Life @torontolifemag.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Speeding has surged by well over 200 per cent on Toronto’s Parkside Drive
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Speeding has increased by over 200 per cent on Parkside Drive since the speed camera ban - Toronto Life
Last year, Premier Doug Ford called speed cameras “a cash grab”
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John D Stanway @johndstanway.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Smear in public, apologize in private. Yet again. What a chicken. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Liberal MPP says Ford has apologized for personal insults in Ontario legislature | CBC News
MPP Stephanie Smyth says she's accepted the premier's apology for disparaging remarks he made Thursday about her former broadcast career. The comments came during a debate about a law that restricts p...
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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 24/04/2026
something else i was working on while i was gone is an identification chart poster for a bunch of space fish i've been making up. basing them on freshwater fish. it's been a fun time? #art #wip
illustrations of a bunch of blue and green and purple glowing fish against a dark mottled blue starry background. they're very similar to standard freshwater fish here, but space-themed and a bit more magical-looking. lunafish, stellar carp, milky inkbelly, comet minnow, aurora trout, northern smokefin
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Ontario should be in the streets
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ScarletCoral @scarletcoral.ca · 18/04/2026
Entrevue à @info.radio-canada.ca de @sgoodyear.bsky.social & @brooklynspoke.bsky.social du balado @thewaroncars.bsky.social et auteurs du livre « Life After Cars » « La vie après l’auto, est-ce possible? Ils y croient [...] veulent déconstruire le réflexe du tout-à-l'auto » #mobilitédurable
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La vie après l’auto, est-ce possible? Ils y croient
Les auteurs du livre Life After Cars veulent déconstruire le réflexe du tout-à-l'auto, qui nuirait à notre environnement, à notre santé et à notre façon d'être.
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John D Stanway @johndstanway.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I'm watching the 2011 film Limitless, with Bradley Cooper, and I've come to a realization. I love narration.
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Trish 🇨🇦 Sorry! 🍁 @trishly.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Trending on IG: doug ford had stories about him scrubbed from @citynewstoronto.bsky.social website. Written by investigative journalist Tina Yazdani who has since been fired.
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John D Stanway @johndstanway.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
"I like looking at wicker but I don't like sitting on it". I love Barb and Star.
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John D Stanway @johndstanway.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I didn't think the fate of the world would depend so much on the outcome of a Hungarian election, but here we are.
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John D Stanway @johndstanway.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Even space missions have a last mile problem
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John D Stanway @johndstanway.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I'm doing it. My second attempt at watching Solaris. I hope I don't bail at the hour-long sequence of going through a tunnel, this time.
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Annie Desrochers @niedesrochers.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Il faudrait expliquer à Michel que les routes sur lesquelles roule cette voiture ne sont pas un apparition du Saint-Esprit. Et ce sont aussi les contribuables qui payent.
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Waterloo Region Record @therecord.com · 08/04/2026
What’s it going to be like to have a regional chair who doesn’t care what you think? Taking away our ability to elect the most powerful municipal official in Waterloo Region is a betrayal of local democracy, Luisa D’Amato writes. www.therecord.com/opinion/colu...
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What’s it going to be like to have a regional chair who doesn’t care what you think?
Taking away our ability to elect the most powerful municipal official in Waterloo Region is a betrayal of local democracy, Luisa D’Amato writes
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John D Stanway @johndstanway.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Adam Smith had multiple chapters saying exactly this. But I don't think most conservatives have read that far.
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John D Stanway @johndstanway.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
"There have been no updates about that review". Demkiw keeps making promises to get the questions to go away and then, once the noise dies down... nothing.
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Toronto police reviewing OPP investigation report into officer testimonies during Umar Zameer trial
Toronto police say they have the final report of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP)’s investigation into the testimonies of officers during the 2024 trial of Umar Zameer in the death of Const. Jeffre...
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John D Stanway @johndstanway.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Just pay your damn taxes, FFS
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Queen's Park North could be getting $50M facelift, courtesy of the Weston family | CBC News
One of the first municipal parks in Canada, Toronto’s Queen’s Park North, could soon be the recipient of a multi-million dollar revitalization project courtesy of the Weston Family Foundation.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 06/03/2026
I do not think the police have ever raided the Quakers and been on the correct side of history
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John D Stanway @johndstanway.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I guess this isn't the best time to bring up that that's not what Revelation is about.
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John D Stanway @johndstanway.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Hey, TTC, I don't mean to be a stickler or anything, but, um, which way is north, again? #ttc
The map of the local area at the eastbound platform of the Wynford stop, which is upside down and has north in the wrong direction.
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