Toronto Islands Airport has no renewal in sight , some decisions have to be made , Waterfront for all is proposing to turn the airport into a park , campaign is ; Parks not Planes

Seeing it still sitting there, 30 years empty, like a pimple on the city's face, is so galling.
I can't imagine a worse fate for the Science Centre than those buildings also being left and turned into glorified attics.

Today, 48 planes are scheduled to fly between Montreal and New York City. With proper high-speed rail and pre-clearance protocols, this journey could take less than 3 hours by train. Currently, it takes 11 hours by train. We deserve better.

'Needs more big boulders for people to perch on' is an accurate description for nearly all American parks.

Folks just love hanging out on big rocks!

Most of Toronto parks are on top of or alongside a buried creek, stream or brook. Christie Pits Park is one of them. The water flow and water table is higher than in other areas.
Is your park or home located on a buried waterway?
Check on
lostrivers.ca

It sounds like a boring topic, but air conditioning is more important than you realise.

First: there are 2 billion air con units in the world and they account for 10% of all electricity we use.

Second: it has revolutionised architecture and totally reshaped global politics...

URGENT! The city is threatening to dismantle the volunteer built skate park at Christie Pits.

The community replaced the rotting wooden structures with safer more permanent concrete ones, and now they are under threat of demotion by the city.

change.org/p/save-christi…

Join us May 4, 2-4pm for 'Won’t You Be My Neighbour?' 🎨 Organized with The Junction Triangle Care Pod & DPNCHC, we unite youth (14-24) & adults (55+) for art & connection 🤝 Earn high school volunteer hours & deepen community ties!

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Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s safer to NOT have them.

Via Streetsblog USA usa.streetsblog.org/2019/05/29/pro…

Welcome to Cabbagetown 🥬

9/ When one of the richest men in the world uses his own private global media platform to selectively amplify anti-democratic voices, and to prey on those he does not like, that is not “free speech.”

That’s personal psychological weakness, enabled by systemic plutocracy.

That’s crazy. I’ve always known the CBC was poorly funded but I didn’t know it was *this bad* at 4-8 times less than other social democracies.

Thursday evening in Toronto

I don’t know if there is more recent data, but a 2002 Statistics Canada study found that only about 5% of households owned a vacation home in Canada (7% including outside Canada), and that the rate of vacation home ownership had changed little over 30 years.

Join a series of online participatory meetings for #Toronto #park groups starting May 6, a new initiative led by Friends of Friends of Sorauren Park. The goal is to share knowledge, converse, and support one another on shared challenges and opportunities!

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Once again thinking about the guy whose fathers-in-law were Frank Lloyd Wright and Josef Stalin

CBC's research found more than one-third of the allegations leading to officer suspensions since 2013 involved gender-based violence including sexual assault, domestic violence or sexual harassment. cbc.ca/news/canada/ot… .

#ONpoli

Wait - so, they can use our tax dollars to run ads about how many nurses they hired, but then never actually release the real numbers?!?!???

Why can’t Canadian cities have great family-friendly apartments?

It’s scary how much population loss correlates with low density zoning.

By arbitrarily protecting the “sanctity” of low-rise places, Toronto is actively signing away its economic and environmental future.