Good conversation with Beatriz Ferreira at @nowtoronto today about solveto.ca why civic reporting shouldn't take 20 minutes, and what changes when you make it take 30 seconds instead. The feedback from Torontonians using it every day is what drives every improvement. Thanks Beatriz and @nowtoronto. solveto.ca

Fighting for 🇨🇦 jobs and tariff-free trade with our American friends on the world’s biggest podcast. Thank you @joerogan for an amazing show. Full episode: youtu.be/JtbGgSwuE_U?si=ZyU1…

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Toronto citizen recites Taxpayer Land Acknowledgment at City Hall 🤔

Canada's week recap: * Canada and Mexico sign a trade and security partnership agreement. No clear details. * A $13B program called Build Canada Homes launched. * New National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians announced. * David Lametti been appointed as Ambassador to the UN. * Special Representative for the Reconstruction of Ukraine. * Canada has rejected 62% of student visas in 2025, so far. * Housing starts fell 16% in August. * Canadian governments borrowing in Q2, 2025 ($71.3B) since the pandemic Q2 2021. * CPI increased to 1.9%. * Bank of Canada cut rates by 0.25%. * Aluminum and articles exports incurred $188M USD in tarrifs in July. * Steel and articles exports incurred $189M USD in tarrifs in July. * Vehicle and parts incurred $392M in tariffs in July. * Real GDP for manufacturing sector shrunk by 2.2% in the first 6 months of 2025. * July recorded the first net inflow of funds since Jan 2025; $9.3B. * British Columbia's fiscal update will see it set a record $11.6B deficit in 2025/26. * Retail sales decrease 0.8% in July. * EI beneficiaries increased by 12.8% year over year. * Job vacancies as of Q2 2025 are at lowest number since Q1 2018. * There 2.9 unemployed for every job vacancy. * Poverty and food security has risen by almost 40% over the past 2 years. * 25.5% of Canadian having hard time affording food. * Over 1.2M Canadians left the ER without getting treated in 2024. Inflation starting to climb while Canadians' debt, and mortgage delinquency is increasing and there are less and less jobs. Many Canadians will keep getting squeezed as unaffordability will accelerate.

Toronto City Hall is absolutely empty and to say they have a 19 BILLION DOLLAR annual operating budget. No wonder the city is crumbling and crime is bumbling. Toronto city staff sleep at wheel as Halloween has come too soon. Everyone gone ghost. 👻 Silent depression. 🤫🇨🇦

Canadian man who’d been waiting over 6 months for an MRI appointment in Canada finally got one while on vacation in China for $190, no appointment needed

Can @TTChelps or @MayorOliviaChow explain to me why the 501 streetcars almost always run in pairs, one after another. This does not make absolutely any sense. Don’t we have GPS trackers to separate them!?

Cities: requiring ground-floor retail is a lose-lose for tenants, landlords, and the community. If you don't have immediately accessible parking, and lots of it, or you don't have lots and lots of foot traffic, you are doing nothing but creating a vacant eyesore for the community. I understand you love the idea of people walking to grab their morning coffee, to their yoga studio, or to their hair salon. Trouble is - it just does not work in the vast majority of cases, and a one-size-fits-all approach is fantasy. People are not going to start walking up and down major boulevards because you think they will. Great retailers know better than to take a chance on those terrible spaces, and the naive tenants who do usually do not last long, and lose lots of money in the process. Housing developers do not have retail expertise, and they are building that D product just because you are forcing them to. So you have an inexperienced retail landlord building a poor product that great tenants will never want. I know that rendering looks great with all those people walking around, smiling with their friends, enjoying their morning coffee. Trouble is, that rendering is a fantasy. Just like the idea that this zoning law will create walkable communities.

Canadians are showing their heroism in Los Angeles. Thank you.

🧵Today, I appeared in Provincial Court and successfully secured a withdrawal of charges - in the middle of trial - on behalf of a client facing $8,135 in fines for allegedly failing to use the ArriveCAN app returning from Europe in *September 2022*. Here's what happened:

This picture is in essence the state of Toronto. A once world class city. Clunky sprawling 500sqft condo developments at $2300/unit/month. An arterial highway build next to a river, in a flood plain. Longest commute in North America. Among the highest costing in the world. Vast sub-grade infrastructure in need of repair and replacement (sections at 60-100yrs old). No notable transportation infrastructure improvements since the 1980s. In comparison actual world class cities have: multi-levels of traffic, pedestrian use, transit use. High speed rails, bullet trains. State of the art underground infrastructure, waste water treatment and storm water management. Lower levels of all buildings used exclusively as markets, small businesses, cafes, grocery stores. Sprawling urban cityscapes - featuring trees, gardens, entertainment areas, walking and biking only streets.

Waste of money? #torontopoli #cityoftoronto #toronto

Who is the person that made a decision to close Lakeshore West when Gardiner is already reduced to 4 lanes and completely jammed? Did people in city hall go completely mad? @oliviachow @cityoftoronto @BradMBradford

Announcement today: new @WaterfrontTO bridge is “Equinox Bridge,” by @WilkinsonEyre, Two Row and @WeAreZeidler. waterfrontoronto.ca/news/con…

Future projections of emerging density surrounding Bloor-Yorkville, where over 12,000 residential units are in development including towers up to 99 storeys. #Toronto #urbanplanning

Recieved a requisition from my doctor for brain MRI. Got an appointment within 2 weeks. Appointment is for October 14th, 2025. Am I living in some kind of crazy metaverse? #canpoli @dougford #ontario #healthcareontario

All while this MP’s constituencies are lining up at the food bank back home. Bunch or shameless hypocrites. #canpoli

Toronto Port Lands river flooding coming along well!

There are currently 2 Supertall #Skyscrapers under construction in #Toronto (tall buildings 300 metres / 984 feet or higher), an additional 5 are proposed or approved. An updated comparison of the city’s tallest new developments: