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🍁 Toronto transit & urbanism nerd | 👨‍💻 Software Developer | 🌈 Your gay best friend

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Mark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 5h
Behold election nerds, it’s 5 party system time.
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 6h
here's my pedestrian network masterplan for downtown haha
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Mark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 7h
Even our far right knows Yonge needs pedestrianization, why’s it taking 15 years
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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 13h
aliens, welcome to the war on cars 🛸
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Mark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 16h
Snowbirds come home! (or at least go somewhere else warm)
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Keefer 🇨🇦💪 @keefer.is · 19h
#NuitBlanche last night. Did not stay out long (I guess I'm getting old and the hour-long commute back to high park hits harder than it should...) but it was pretty cool! Was nice to explore closed down streets with @markshawtoronto.bsky.social for a little bit.
A glowing balloon floating over Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto. The balloon looks somewhat like a fish, but the colour and mottled texture also makes it appear somewhat like the moon. In the background, you can see Old City Hall.An interactive art exhibit, which is a tribute to a 99-year-old Nona. The exhibit features several tiers of clotheslines which have screen printed images of the Nona, and a Toronto garden on the fabrics. Additional light/projector displays tell the story.
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Nate Erskine-Smith @beynate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Vote for a team that's ready to get things done together for our community. Learn more at votenate.ca
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Mark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We have to call this what it is, foreign election interference. That matters because it’s a crime.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Dunn House model combines housing with health care for those who need it most. It works and we’re expanding it — with a third location in Toronto.
Screenshot of an article from CityNews. The headline reads: Toronto hospital to greatly expand permanent housing program that reduces ER visits.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 03/10/2026
Oh wow In May, I reported Alberta separatists were using an app developed by GOP operatives with ties to US ambassador Pete Hoekstra @theglobeandmail.com now reports the same operatives flew to Calgary on a private jet for a secret meeting with separatist leaders: pressprogress.ca/alberta-sepa...
The pitch began with a prayer.
On an afternoon in late January, Mitch Sylvestre, the leader of Alberta's most prominent separatist organization, gathered with three of his lieutenants in a boardroom not far from the executive hangars at the Calgary International Airport, where private jets shuttle in and out of the city away from prying eyes.
It was a few hours before thousands of Albertans would gather near the city centre at a rally to launch the separatist campaign. But this meeting, convened behind closed doors a half-hour drive away, was invite only.
The Alberta Prosperity Project chose the location to accommodate its guests, Republican political strategists from Michigan who helped Donald Trump win the state in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
The American delegation travelled to Calgary to sell them on software developed for Republicans to get out the vote - and how it could be used to wrench Alberta from Confederation.
"They were young Christians. Capable, intelligent people," Mr. Sylvestre said. "We prayed before we started the meeting.""There is no secrecy'
One of the key figures behind the Michigan software company has expressed strong views on Alberta.
On July 1, Mr. Born wrote on social media: "On this Canada Day, I hope this is the last year Alberta is part of Canada." He has also called for U.S. annexation of the province.
A hunter, outdoorsman and commercial real estate agent in Grand Rapids, Mr. Born is the stepson of J.C. Huizenga, a wealthy Republican donor and founder of National Heritage Academies, a network of conservative charter schools in the U.S.
Mr. Wierda is the nephew of Erik Prince, who founded and ran the private military contractor Blackwater before it was sold to investors in 2010, and Betsy DeVos, the education secretary during Mr. Trump's first term.
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TTCriders @ttcriders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Great interview with @auguststreet.ca in the most recent edition of @thegrindto.bsky.social! Also featured in the print edition, so make sure to go and grab a copy!
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TTC at a Crossroads
Transit users are concerned about reliability and safety. What are the mayoral candidates promising this election?
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Mark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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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Damien Moule @damienmoule.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Alright, can we stop messing about now?
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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Toronto - Beaches East York Polling: Erskine-Smith: 52% Johnson: 24% Worden: 6% Dann: 6% Others: 12% Forum / Sept 27, 2026
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Mark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
OK but partnership pact had better not be the final name.
politico.eu
EU and Canada to announce sweeping new partnership pact
From critical raw materials to fighting wildfires, a document obtained by POLITICO reveals a wide-ranging expansion in relations.
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This has essentially not come up at all despite a municipal election this month. It makes me want to bang my head against a wall.
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FastTrackTO @fast-track.to · 02/10/2026
Road closures in Toronto heavily affect the streetcar network, sometimes for months at a time. The upcoming 504 diversion on King West is a prime example of this. The work being done is important—there’s no denying that—but it also causes a lot of disruption to transit riders.
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King Street West
Beginning in November 2026, the City of Toronto and the TTC will undertake major infrastructure improvements along sections of King Street West. This work is necessary to replace aging watermain…
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Mark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I held out hope for a bit after his 2023 lobotomy that the eager young urban planner who believes in bike lanes and defunding the police was still in there, somewhere…
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Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
To be fair, for those who settle in Canadian Valhalla (Guelph), it is difficult to envision spending more time away from the glorious cultural capital of northsouthwestern Ontario.
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Mark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
😓 One time the Ontario Liberals begged him to come takeover our party but he was like fuck no
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Invite declined: Green Leader Mike Schreiner won't run for Ontario Liberals | CBC News
Green Leader Mike Schreiner said Tuesday that he would not leave the party to run for the leadership of the Ontario Liberals, weeks after a group of veteran Grit insiders publicly encouraged him to do...
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I appreciate that the Ontario Greens were the only opposition party in the last election to put reversing Doug Ford’s bike lane meddling in their platform. The Liberals and NDP did not.
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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Put another way, Ford wants to spend more on removing bike lanes in Toronto ($48M) than he's spent protecting all of Ontario's businesses from an international trade war. Ontario deserves serious leadership, that follows through on promises, and actually puts people before profits.
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This post is about last night's Liberal leadership town hall I co-moderated but it includes this photo of me doing the actual reporter thing in the wild www.accordingto.ca/p/ontario-li...
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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Housing is our top priority! After vegetable gardens. It's vegetable gardens and then housing. Unless there's a neighbouring backyard pool. Our three priorities are veg, pools, housing. And oversalted sidewalks. Okay. *Amongst* our priorities are... I'll come in again.
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Monty Python's Spanish Inquisition Sketch
ALT: Monty Python's Spanish Inquisition Sketch
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Mark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
> Lombardi complained on X last week about a lack of media coverage of a race perceived as "boring” The race is boring!! But media is being honest, the remaining candidates have no policy positions, no announcements. The front runner Nav posts word salad every day on bluesky to like 40 followers.
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Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) @ericlombardi.ca · 01/10/2026
Today I am ending my campaign. I am grateful to everyone who shared our belief that Ontario Can Still Win. This is just the end of the beginning. I am also proud to endorse Lee Fairclough for Ontario Liberal leader and Premier of Ontario.
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Mark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Dropping tourism from Canada -> US to 2021 lockdown numbers is an incredible feat, keep it up team!
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Except that in no way does it boggle the mind.
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FastTrackTO @fast-track.to · 30/09/2026
The TTC has released a survey on proposed updates to their service standards. It includes various changes to reliability, crowding, and best of all, streetcar stop spacing, which is one of the 10 items in our plan!
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We want your feedback! Help inform updates to TTC’s Service Standards
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Gabe Blanc @gabeblanc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Anyone know of any Francophone municipal candidates in Toronto who might be interested in a collab? Can be council or school board. Dm me!
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Mark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You should ask what they’re going to do to make the TTC faster than walking
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Damien Moule @damienmoule.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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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Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A coalition of Ontario health-care workers gathered in downtown Toronto on Tuesday to denounce the provincial government’s plan to remove bike lanes on three major roadways across the city. #ToPoli #OnPoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Ontario health-care coalition denounces province's plan to remove bike lanes across Toronto | CBC News
A coalition of Ontario health-care workers gathered in downtown Toronto on Tuesday to denounce the provincial government’s plan to remove bike lanes on three major roadways across the city.
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 29/09/2026
The member for Parry Sound—Muskoka, who has served since 2019, ran unsuccessfully for party leader in 2022.
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Conservative MP Scott Aitchison to resign by end of fall session
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Mark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bzzzt thanks for your patience this streetcar will now be entering a slow zone. As if the whole ride isn’t one big slow zone every day 🙄
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Mark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh wow. Scott Aitchison was one of their best / most sane MPs I guess he doesn’t see much point for the CPC progressive conservative caucus either
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Mark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If Alberta gets the big train but Ontario/Quebec can’t do it because mother Gaia or whatever wants you to fly I’m going to be so pissed
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Alex Freeman @northernnerd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#TOPoli
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Gabe Blanc @gabeblanc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Love it! #FixThe506
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Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ok you know what, let him cook
Brad Bradford announcing real change equals a zipline from the CN Tower to Toronto Islands
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Diana Yoon @dianayoon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Our #TTC streetcar network needs help. Dedicated traffic signals at stations like Bathurst and Spadina would help speed them up. As the city councillor, I am committed to accelerating our extremely slow transit network — tackling issues like slow zones. Frequent service will increase ridership.
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Mark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fixing the streetcar might be the most effective thing council could do this term.
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Nate Erskine-Smith @beynate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thousands of our neighbours in Beaches-East York ride the streetcar every day, and we all deserve fast, safe, and reliable transit.
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Mark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not gonna lie, I think I nailed this one
Brad Bradford (municipal candidate for Toronto Mayor) announcing:

Real Change = Bring back the penny.
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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Thanks for reminding me of this.
A short history of traffic engineering show walk, cycle, transit and car routes over time with cycling and walking getting worse.
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Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wrote about Premier Doug Ford's apparent indifference to human life for @thestar.com: www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Graeme Bayliss: His cyclist friend was killed. Why did Doug Ford’s response include ‘lmao’?
No one is expecting the premier to mash out the Bixby letter on his iPhone. Yet we might expect more than this.
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Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"What is certain, however, is that a vast sum of our money will be wasted, countless Torontonians will find themselves profoundly inconvenienced for extended periods, and, eventually, a cyclist will get struck by a car. But at least the congestion will be worse."
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Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The You Can Just Do Things™ agenda is coming to Beaches-East York
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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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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto’s bike lanes Spacing has obtained the RFP for the Ford government's bike lane removal, and it looks even worse than thought. spacing.ca/toronto/2026... #toronto #bikes #torontobike @cycletoronto.bsky.social
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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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