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Mark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 15h

Okay that’s enough left infighting over stupid shit, we’re about to get the Instagram Troll elected to Toronto Centre

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Toronto Environmental Alliance @toenviro.bsky.social · 14h

Find out where Toronto candidates stand on key environmental issues like AI Data Centres, climate change, flood resilience, tree planting, single-use garbage, and greening buildings. Click on our newly launched map! loom.ly/fg6TTj8 #topoli

Map of the City of Toronto with each ward outlined. Text reads: TEA's Greener City Champion Pledge

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Productive Outs @productiveouts.bsky.social · 12h

We are deeply saddened to report we had nothing to do with this.

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 14h

Ah yes the sanctity of Toronto's non-partisan municipal elections, where arguably the most important pro-housing voice on council is going to struggle to get re-elected against a replacement-level former Liberal MP

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John Leeson 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @johnleesonto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Its first day of election signs. After a short walk in Toronto Centre, I sadly didn’t see a single Gong sign. So far, Curran Stikuts has the lead, followed by Walied Kogali Ali, and with 1 sign each: Chris Moise, Joe Curran… and 12 years after his last city election: Michael Ford??

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Worst People in Toronto Support Bradford '26

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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Which Toronto mayoral candidate will call for a line-by-line value for money audit of the police budget? www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A morally depraved nation. A pox on the planet.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So this month the Toronto Sun published a piece about the Allison Inquiry that called vaccines "a crime against humanity at worst" and demanded arrests, and the National Post published a piece deeming Avi Lewis not just an enemy but a danger to Jewish people, with a thinly coded appeal to violence.

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Really useful chart from @graphicmatt.com newsletter about where Mayor Chow's administration has spent more money beyond inflation and population growth, and for what. Good basis on which to choose whether one supports her priorities. Note here were also spending reductions elsewhere.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So much respect for this, and the framing. ABC, the right wing version of Progress Toronto, has used health care workers/hospitals as reason to rip them out. This puts a lie to that (and on University ambulances can bypass cars in the wide bikelanes if needed). So many lies.

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Coyote / J. Stryker 🇨🇦 | Memento Vivere 🍃 @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Can confirm: this is INCREDIBLY rare. “Photographer and bird enthusiast Alexander deBarros captured a photo of a coyote with a greater roadrunner in its mouth.” KTLA: Rare, real-life coyote and roadrunner drama unfolds in L.A. ktla.com/news/local-n... #canislatrans #coyote #urbanwildlife

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Rare, real-life coyote and roadrunner drama unfolds in L.A.

A Southern California bird watcher stumbled onto a scene over the weekend that looked like it came straight out of a classic cartoon, except this time, the coyote appears to have won and there&#821…

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"The TTC has said the busway ... was completed early and under budget." Let's hype that as much as we hype delays and over-budget projects. This is the kind of competence in transit projects we're looking for. www.thestar.com/news/gta/a-f...

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Here’s a first look at the Scarborough busway. For residents, it follows years of sluggish commutes

The new Scarborough busway will open this week and will run from Kennedy Station to Scarborough Centre, three years after the Scarborough RT was decommissioned.

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Doctors, nurses and other front-line workers gathered for a news conference at University Avenue and Gerrard Street to explain the risks of a lack of proper road infrastructure for cyclists, pedestrians and drivers — and to tell stories of those impacted by road violence." #BikeTO #ToPoli #OnPoli

$Toronto family physician Samantha Green, who is also the co-founder of the provincial advocacy coalition Doctors for Safe Cycling, told CBC Toronto it’s clear the decision to remove bike lanes is "not based on evidence."\ "Bike lanes save lives," she said. "It's clear that the public, that the community here in Toronto wants to keep the bike lanes." About 650 health-care workers have signed a letter calling on the province to back down on its plans, Doctors for Safe Cycling said in a news release Monday.$

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Alex Freeman @northernnerd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#TOPoli

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And Doctors for Bikelanes just held a big rally this morning on University Ave

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Janice Dickson @janicedickson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Taken, beaten down and taught to hate their kin, two youth plotted their escape from Russia. But freedom is not the end of their story /via @globeandmail www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

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How two Ukrainian children, taken to Russia, fought their way back home

Beaten down and taught to hate their kin, two youth plotted their escape. But freedom is not the end of their story

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The Biking Lawyer LLP @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On Friday night nearly 1000 people on bikes rode west to the site of Ford's first incoming bike lane removals, Bloor just east of Islington. Strength in numbers. #criticalmass

1000 bikes take up an entire road lane in defence of bike lanes in toronto

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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Ontario Government does municipal road design now apparently. "wants bidders to provide plans to “remove or relocate” islands, medians and gutters and “incorporate congestion relief measures at all major intersections to improve traffic flow, such as traffic signal adjustments"

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EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto's bike lanes - Spacing Toronto

After the Ontario Court of Appeal (ONCA) shot down CycleTO’s legally innovative charter challenge that sought to stop Doug Ford’s attack on the city’s bike lanes, Queen’s Park wasted little time befor...

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“One day, when it’s safe, when there is no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will always have been against this”

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It takes years & years to pay back a presidential pardon you see.

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Mark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The most absurd deadline lands, appropriately enough, on April Fool’s Day, which is when bidders have to tee up proposals for “alternative” north-south bike routes to Yonge and Avenue Road"

Bike lane alternative North-South route.

There’s major traffic on Avenue Road, Mt Pleasant road.

There’s shops and restaurants on Yonge street, the commercial strip.

The alternative is a zigzag that’s basically impossible and involves hopping your bike over gated cemeteries.

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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Ukrainian capital of Kyiv now feels like a frontline city - due to constant attacks by jet-powered Russian drones, and a shortage of air defence missiles. My report

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Kyiv under constant bombardment from Russian drones as winter approaches

A new, more dangerous kind of Russian drone has rendered the city’s air defences less effective

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 26/09/2026

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. This is the current schedule of russian terror against Ukrainians. Week after week, every day is exactly the same — surrounded by grave danger. This is the opposite to normality. We can't let it stand.

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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 26/09/2026

You listening, Toronto?

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 25/09/2026

To do the math here you first have to fix a basic error: Bradford’s 2026 figure includes the rate budget (garbage, water, parking) but his 2011 figure does not. Real numbers: $9.4 billion in 2011; $16.6 billion in 2026. Now account for ~800K population growth and ~40% inflation.

A Twitter post by Brad Bradford criticizing NDP Mayor Olivia Chow's statement dismissing the need for a budget audit, featuring a meme with the text 'WHY WON'T she LOOK?' overlaid on an image of Mayor Chow.

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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In response to a Russian ship firing flares at a Danish helicopter and nearly hitting it, Denmark is speeding up air defence support for Ukraine. A new package of $276 million in air defence support was announced yesterday. Thank you Denmark for helping keep Ukrainians safer! 🇩🇰

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adrian @crawf34.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

these are the stupidest people on earth

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Good Evening. “Pierre Poilievre” was a four year psephological experiment conducted by the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

every day it seems a brand new sentence is written to describe the state of the world

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades

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John Leeson 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @johnleesonto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Growing up?” I was long into adulthood before there were home computers. But my first (1983) was a Morrow, running CP/M operating system. Was out of date pretty quickly from then!

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is right. Which is why local government needs to focus on the physical city and *actually improve it.* In Toronto, the left has failed on both of those points.

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Paul Kulig @paulkuligto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

John Street is a perfect example of Toronto placing process ahead of implementation. The original master plan for the John Street Corridor was completed in 2009 and the current plan is to start construction in 2028. Four mayors and counting. www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis...

toronto.ca

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“A very positive relationship” — with a murderous dictator kidnapping children?

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MantaHunk 🌎🏳️‍🌈☮️🟧 @mantahunk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

PULEEEESE! Trump is a coward. Trump is a bully. He always backs down when confronted. Trump wants you more than you want him. You should have been doing this from the beginning. If nothing else quit betraying your fellow journalists.

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Patrick @trickybacon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Let's sell it all. All emergency calls have a script at the beginning like YouTubers "This 911 call is sponsored by Betterhelp." The Bubly Don Valley Parkway "thank you for calling 311. Brought to you by CIBC"

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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I know Canadians want to feel safe. I get it. But imagine if any other prime minister kept introducing laws that said "I and my minister get to decide what laws apply, when, and we get to unilaterally and retroactively remove conditions on multi-billion-dollar projects."

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Stanandthat @stanandthat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

(chef's kiss)

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Jörg Broschek 🇨🇦 @jbroschek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Less than a week ago, in his brilliant speech in Strasbourg, the PM quoted Goethe: "Goethe understood that ideals must be fought for, that values do not defend themselves".

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 22/09/2026

Funny, because the Truckers got three weeks to hang out before police lifted a finger. Interesting.

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

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