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FYI, if you use Google My Maps, it appears an old shortcut (mymaps.google.com) no longer works. The service still works though...I nearly had a heart attack.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Great to see low-hanging fruit on the tree of urban trails being picked like this. It requires a minor detour at Woolwich and Speedvale, but otherwise, this will make for a fairly continuous railside trail down to Macdonell.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Paying $7 to pick your own seat is the kind of BS airline-esque service model that VIA needs to quit. It's not appropriate for a public transportation service. And if they are going to continue reaping up to $1,000 per train for this, they better work harder to avoid screw-ups.

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

Sometimes you just need to add an "upright" and sit back, and judge if it's warranted or too much.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

submitted 1 day ago • 160 comments

Happy Father's Day.

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This has to be the best apartment lobby free snag I've had, second only to my coffee maker. It's dated, it has an appending letter and insert for the collapse of the USSR, but still very cool and great to pore over with the kid.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Early morning at Hanlan’s is special. #Toronto

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Kinda weird to know you're part of the 0.3% of a social media website userbase that visits every day for a year.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Okay, given everything that happened with Line 3, can we talk about this being made into parkland yet?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

A city with a downtown like this...it could be so much more without so many parking lots.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Though Mississauga City Centre has the amenities of a major urban centre, it still has too many trappings of a suburban motorway. More needs to be done to protect pedestrians and cyclists, especially along Burnhamthorpe Road. seanmarshall.ca/2025/06/12/d...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

If someone tells me they appreciate the tidbits in my alt text, I'll be happy for the summer

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

What's up? Where are you walking tonight?

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This is so darkly funny — they’re specifically trying to show how safe these are, and then the Tesla: 1. Doesn’t stop for the school bus stop sign. 2. Runs over the child dummy. 3. Stops to think for a moment. 4. Nah, all good, drives off!

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Toronto choosing to protect 18 additional parking spots instead of building safer cycling infrastructure where a father of two was killed while cycling just last year. But sure, there's a 'war on cars'. www.torontotoday.ca/local/transp...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Button flys should be banned from jeans. Compared to a zipper it's a pain in the ass...or, front side.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

"The most insidious aspect of this process is how it teaches politicians...They absorb this supposed expertise without questioning its origins. Politicians come and go...but the planning department's institutional memory persists, passing its accumulated neuroses from one administration to the next"

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Unexpected hospital visit today, but we had a good experience. After hours clinic called ahead, and we were in and out after 3 hours. Sometimes the system works quite well.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Government staff used "Code words [that] included special project, SP-GB, GB and special project — GB...the use of G* as a code...returns any word starting with G, resulting in a deluge of records 'wholly impossible to sort through,' [Commissioner Patricia] Kosseim noted." Nothing to hide, eh?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

this is a cool project! in addition to automating offsite repo+blob backups, it has a web UI for registering PLC recovery keys (which you keep in a p/w manager, not remote service), and doing the adversarial PLC recovery process (eg, if your "old" PDS is unavailable) solid step for own-your-data

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

📣📣📣

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This is why you're struggling with your allergies.

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Municipal councils are still pinning hopes of Cambridge-to -Guelph train service on the province. After the curtain got pulled back on the Metrolinx-Deutsche Bahn divorce this week, it should be a wake-up call: this will not be a priority for the province. We should look at other ways to deliver it.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I understand the rationale; 100 annual users that can be served by an alternative on-demand service. I would be concerned about if there's a significant difference in the pick-up/drop-off process or ride comfort. This seems to be a gap between general transit and social services.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Jun 10, 1975: the TTC decides to buy 200 new light rail vehicles from the Urban Transportation Development Corp. The Canadian Light Rail Vehicles were the first new generation of streetcars in Canada since the PCC cars were introduced in the 1930s. 1/2

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment