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Toronto City Planning and Development Review @planning.cityof.toronto.ca · 13/03/2026

Looking for development activity data in Toronto? The Development Pipeline Dashboard is an interactive tool that lets people explore development activity across the city. The dashboard highlights the number of projects, residential units, residential and non‑residential space.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 15/01/2026

Quite frankly, it’s outrageous that Mark Carney is cutting Statistics Canada. If he was Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre, I feel like this would be getting a lot more backlash. Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.

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Statistics Canada to cut 850 jobs in 'dark time' for public service, union says

Federal statistics agency entered its workforce adjustment period Monday, sending notices to thousands of employees.

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Toronto City Planning and Development Review @planning.cityof.toronto.ca · 02/12/2025

#FactOfTheDay: As the threat of #tariffs contribute to global economic uncertainty, the #TorontoEmploymentSurvey analyzes how tariffs may be affecting our city. In 2025, tariff-exposed sectors experienced a 2.8% decrease in employment, with 208,110 jobs now exposed. ow.ly/kAA650XASrw

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Matt Armstrong @matta7.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This is a great explainer for why protecting employment areas is so important. youtu.be/lHpifQ-A6HU?...

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The Industrial Land Crisis: Uytae Lee's Stories About Here

YouTube video by CBC British Columbia

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Toronto City Planning and Development Review @planning.cityof.toronto.ca · 28/11/2025

The 2025 #TorontoEmploymentSurvey results are in! That’s 43 years of tracking jobs and businesses in #Toronto.

Graphic with bold text reading ‘Toronto has 1,623,710 employees. A new record high’ on a blue background.

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Toronto City Planning and Development Review @planning.cityof.toronto.ca · 15/08/2025

Today, the Province of Ontario approved, with modifications, 120 Major Transit Station Areas and Protected Major Transit Station Areas in #Toronto. The decision increases building heights and densities near transit and supports more housing options for these areas. Learn more: toronto.ca/OurPlan

Map of Toronto showing 120 Major and Protected Major Transit Station Areas approved by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing on August 15, 2025. White dots match MTSAs and orange dots mark PMTSAs, with boundaries outlined around each station area.

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 04/03/2025

Easy to lose this in the noise of the day, but the prime minister of Canada just said the US president, leader of the global hegemon, wants to soften us up economically so he can annex us. That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

How the Toronto Region Board of Trade got lost in traffic. My Toronto Star column on their terrible congestion task force report & how they’ve lost their way of late. $billions on a 401 tunnel? Where’s the rational business people now? www.thestar.com/news/gta/how...

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Shawn Micallef: How the Toronto Region Board of Trade got lost in traffic

The only thing that will make getting around Toronto better is fewer cars and more people taking public transit, cycling or walking. There is no other way.

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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Think about how the internet is so vast that even the weirdest sub-group can find each other. A dense city is similar in concept. Get enough people in close proximity and there will be some within them to support the oddball stores and fringe cuisines and all the other stuff that makes a city a city

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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Toronto's best hope is that they give the removal work to Metrolinx. It will take 12 years to plan and design, and the cost will grow to $200 million per km and might never be finished.

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aderaro.bsky.social @aderaro.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

$48 Million to tear out bike lanes…which efficiently connect people to commerce, work and public service is foolish for a province trying to boost the productivity of its largest city. Ontario is a joke.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

This is proof they know what they're doing will kill or injure people. This is a malevolent gov't. Treating it as rational is a pantomime of some fantasy benign and good faith politics of yesterlore that doesn't exist. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

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Ford government to ban lawsuits against province if cyclists are hurt or killed on streets where bike lanes were removed

Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria tells cyclists: for your own safety, stay off Bloor, Yonge and University when bike lanes are removed.

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