Reposted by Patrick BrownSpacing @spacing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026EXCLUSIVE: 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.socialspacing.caEXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto's bike lanes - Spacing TorontoAfter 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... 1114382
Reposted by Patrick BrownPWHL @thepwhl.com · 28/09/2026A NEW CHAPTER OF HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA 📺 Hockey Night in Canada returns December 5 with the 2026 Walter Cup Champion Montréal Victoire taking on PWHL Hamilton at 7PM ET! 7384110
Reposted by Patrick BrownDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This serves as advertisement for Alex Gibney’s documentary, Musk, opening October 9. Pass it on.hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. 3024081505
Reposted by Patrick BrownThe Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Happy Stanislav Petrov Day. Today we celebrate the life of a man who saved billions by not believing a computer. May we all learn this valuable lesson. 215067
Reposted by Patrick BrownAndrew Young 🇨🇦 @young.me · 25/09/2026#Ontario: flu and COVID-19 vaccines available Sept 28 for high-risk groups, and Oct 26 for general public news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...news.ontario.caOntario Newsroom 35646
Patrick Brown @swordfishtrombones.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Some please tell the Ontario government, who are cutting hospital budgets and forcing them to freeze hiring and/or lay off staff. 000
Reposted by Patrick BrownPublicWrx @publicwrx.bsky.social · 10/09/2026That worthless suburban conservative nepo-baby and his predecessors have destroyed everything from my Toronto childhood. Ontario Place Science Center Planetarium Not for some ridiculous business case, because there was none, but because they were public spaces for learning & discovery. 2132
Reposted by Patrick BrownBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Protect trans kids. 6996861826
Reposted by Patrick BrownCanadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 06/09/2026On this day in 1952, Canada's first television station, Radio-Canada's bilingual CFBT, went on the air in Montreal. Two days later, English language broadcasting began with CBLT in Toronto. On Nov. 1, Hockey Night in Canada premiered on television. 27621
Reposted by Patrick BrownCharlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 02/09/2026"1980 was a pivotal shift. It was a very, very politically defined year. Suddenly, we saw the possibility of the world blowing up.It felt like if we didn't do change things, nobody else would, so let's get up and learn three chords, and see if we can change the world." exclaim.ca/music/articl...exclaim.caGod Save the Queen Street West: Toronto Punks Tell the Oral History of the Genre 50 Years Later │ Exclaim!The Ramones played the city in September 1976, kickstarting a local punk movement 58512
Reposted by Patrick BrownMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading. 795166613674
Patrick Brown @swordfishtrombones.bsky.social · 30/08/2026This is why we have to stop using US-based data sources. 094
Reposted by Patrick BrownDan Hon @danhon.com · 25/08/2026Just imagine all the marketing emails that will continue to be sent after the last human dies 411622
Reposted by Patrick BrownAndrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 23/08/2026The trade deal thing happening on the 10th anniversary of the Tragically Hip farewell concert feels appropriate gem.cbc.ca/tragically-h...gem.cbc.caThe Tragically Hip: A National Celebration | Events | CBC GemA National Celebration captures the final stop on the Man Machine Poem Tour on August 20th, 2016 at the K-Rock Centre in Kingston, Ontario and marks their last performance as a five-piece band. 14211
Reposted by Patrick BrownCheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 21/08/2026New Brunswick municipalities report success with four-day work week policies www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/new...ctvnews.caNew Brunswick municipalities report success with four-day work week policiesFour-day work week initiatives, which were adopted by a handful of New Brunswick communities during the pandemic, are sticking around with municipalities reporting positive results for employees and r... 12310
Reposted by Patrick BrownDylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Ghost houses. The houses on Pape just north of the tracks have been expropriated by Metrolinx due to Ontario Line construction. They leave the lights on, so you can see into the abandoned houses at night. Still with bits of their former lives sometimes. 159625
Patrick Brown @swordfishtrombones.bsky.social · 14/08/2026FFS. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caOntario appeal court says Ford can rip out Toronto bike lanes | CBC NewsPremier Doug Ford’s government can rip out 19 kilometres of protected bike lanes in Toronto, the Court of Appeal for Ontario has ruled in a decision released Friday, reversing a lower court decision m... 000
Patrick Brown @swordfishtrombones.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Strictly Canadian version: PEOPLE: You can't just post one line from a song and expect everyone to know the song. ME: A basket of apples, by the back door 010
Reposted by Patrick BrownAndré Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Governments Are Gambling with Canadians’ Well-Being. In Ontario, which has allowed private online betting operators since 2022, the average player loses almost $4,000 a year, by Renze Nauta thetyee.ca/Analysis/202... via @thetyee.cathetyee.caGovernments Are Gambling with Canadians’ Well-Being | The TyeeIn Ontario, which has allowed private online betting operators since 2022, the average player loses almost $4,000 a year. 118043
Reposted by Patrick Brown𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 29/07/2026THIS JUST IN: In #Canada, federal government announces almost $2B for 45 new battery-diesel Via Rail passenger locomotives The hybrid locos, first in North America, will be built by #Switzerland 's Stadler. 📷 Stadler's EUR9000 hybrid loco www.cbc.ca/news/politic... 1425154
Reposted by Patrick BrownCatherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Carbon pricing not only lowered emissions it gave more money back to the majority of people, especially to the poorest Canadians. Shame on all the cynical politicians who repeated lies about it. www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe... 121484
Reposted by Patrick BrownDr Satoshi Akima, FRACP @toshiakima.bsky.social · 18/07/2026The surgical mask shown in this article will do almost nothing to reduce particulate inhalation because it's just a splash guard. Wear a well-fitted respirator N95 or bettercnn.comWhat you need to breathe easier when the air is full of smoke | CNNMillions of Americans and Canadians are breathing bad air right now due to wildfire smoke. Here’s what you need to know masks, ventilation and staying healthy. 281136447
Reposted by Patrick BrownJane Espenson @janeespenson.bsky.social · 12/07/2026The idea that a book could be considered inapprop for kids because it's "too difficult" doesn't sit well with me. Let 'em try. If it's too hard, they'll put it down. But give them a chance to rise to the challenge. 2528449
Reposted by Patrick BrownCatherine Fife @waterloompp.bsky.social · 07/07/2026This is a devastating blow to our local news media. My thoughts are with the many dedicated employees who worked so hard to make sure our community was well informed. A strong democracy requires the media to hold us to account. 0207
Reposted by Patrick BrownJohn Roscoe @johnroscoe.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I'd be a lot more receptive to these pipe dreams if they presented a long-range plan for how the infrastructure would be used when solar, wind and battery storage become so cheap that demand for oil dries up.static.klipy.comPerrete Corgi en tobogán de aguaALT: Perrete Corgi en tobogán de agua 154
Reposted by Patrick BrownRachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 03/07/2026The pipeline announcement begins with Carney acknowledging, without a hint of irony, the “biblical weather” in Ottawa yesterday. Extreme weather huh? Like the kind exacerbated by climate change? You don’t say! Hm!!!! 39537138
Reposted by Patrick BrownDiana Chan McNally @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social · 30/06/2026This is also happening in Ottawa. And Hamilton. And in every Ontario city where Premier Ford has legislated the closure of safe consumption sites. Olivia Chow didn't do this. Or increase homelessness province-wide to 85,000 people — an 8% jump in just the past year alone. 88725
Patrick Brown @swordfishtrombones.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Want to watch World Cup. CTV not showing it. Get TSN for a month. App no longer works on my TV. Fire up XBOX. XBOX updating… FML. 000
Reposted by Patrick Brownderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/05/2026RIP Sonny Rollins, a great jazz talent and the last surviving musician in one of the best photos of men in suits during the 20th century 8289871500
Patrick Brown @swordfishtrombones.bsky.social · 31/03/2026www.cbc.ca/news/politic...cbc.caStephen Lewis, Canadian politician, diplomat and journalist, dead at 88 | CBC NewsFormer politician, diplomat and activist Stephen Lewis has died at age 88. 000
Reposted by Patrick BrownMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/03/2026To whoever did this at the #NoKings in Boston: Thank you.❤️ It made me tear up. And we must to be reminded of needless damage to humanity that results directly from the careless, bellicose bluster coming from the Pentagon and White House. 6664013511487
Reposted by Patrick BrownEd @ed3d.net · 21/03/2026I heard there was a secret cord You plug it in and you meet the Lord But you never care for OSHA do ya 71374269
Reposted by Patrick BrownPete Evans @pevans.bsky.social · 20/03/2026“Maybe we should remove the luggage racks from the train that was built just to go to the airport” is absolutely peak Toronto www.thetrillium.ca/news/municip...thetrillium.caMetrolinx weighs removing UP Express luggage racks to add standing room: leaked documentAgency also considered raising ticket prices, skipping stops between Union and YYZ to add capacity: draft report 87936
Patrick Brown @swordfishtrombones.bsky.social · 19/03/2026I have an AI joke, but strawberry has one “r”. 000
Reposted by Patrick BrownMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York. 1008389559564
Reposted by Patrick BrownVassB @vassb.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Holy sh*t. Wab Kinew's government just made using data to increase prices an unfair business practice. This is historic for Canada. *Proposed bill bans suppliers from charging higher prices to certain consumers based on personalized or algorithmically determined information. t.co/ZugFOj7983t.cohttps://bit.ly/4rBlsew 25906301
Reposted by Patrick BrownExistential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 14/03/2026Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz? 9894112347
