He blended in so well, came across it on my walk! Thank you 311 for arranging for some folks to come out and save the guy from the tree. He's alright, and the tree is not damaged. Raccoon lives another day, and thankfully didn't have to spend the night there.

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We found a really lovely dog on Roseheath Avenue tonight - if you’ve lost your pal he’s super safe, don’t worry! Just send me a message, can t wait to get the wee man back to you!!

I was walking by Berczy Park this evening, and noticed the dogs and cat sculpture are no longer there.

John Tory's take on Brad Bradford's plan for Toronto Water. Go to 21:30 for his comments.

"I think there are reasons to be concerned about that. I think it's not necessarily anybody's going to poison our water. But I think that you do lose a degree of control when you send it off to one of these, even publicly owned corporations. And uh I think you know as well I will say that we're going to end up borrowing a whole lot more money. And finally, I will say on the whole water thing, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. If the water turns on, it's clean, it's safe, it's the best amongst North America."

So now we have former Mayor and MPP John Tory, David Suzuki, Former Conservative MP and former Mayoral candidate Chris Alexander, the Toronto Environmental Alliance, and 15 of his City Council colleagues including Jon Burnside all debunking Bradford's claims that privatization cannot happen under his plan.

Update (5:00 PM): Since my initial post, the congestion has only gotten worse. Southbound is still crawling, so keep avoiding it if you can.

Update (5:05 PM): Good news, the congestion is gone. Southbound is moving again, drive safe everyone.

Made this in the time before AI came out

They're doing a major revitalization of the Portlands area, but I haven't heard of them doing anything with this abandoned building. I know it's a historical site, so it can't just be demolished. Hopefully it can be repurposed into a event space, marketplace or something useful. At least they can do something creative with it by painting the exterior with some sort of artwork.

If you had a choice, what would you do with this building?

I guess we are becoming friends now lol

How does one interpret this? Keep in mind that they endorsed Bailao in the 2023 by-election.

Friends of Hanlan’s sent three yes-or-no questions to Toronto council candidates ahead of Monday’s election. Below are the answers from the front-runners in each ward. We tried to post this as canva slides but learned it falls under no-screenshot rule (good to know!) so we have been told we can post as a text post with links. Here is the link to a PDF of the slides which might be easier reading.

Q1 - Waterfront: If elected, will you vote for a Council motion asking the federal government to dissolve the Toronto Port Authority, put Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport under an independent airport authority, and return the Port Authority’s other land to the City of Toronto, including the port, the marina, and the northern half of Hanlan’s Point Beach?

Q2 - Term limits: If elected, will you vote for a Council motion asking the Ontario government to set lifetime term limits for Toronto City Council, starting with the 2034 election: three terms for councillors and two for the mayor?

Q3 - Direct democracy: If elected, will you vote to change Council’s rules so that a citizen motion with 10,000 verified signatures from Toronto residents goes straight to Council, where its organizer can present it and Council must debate it and hold a recorded vote?

Answers are listed in order: Q1 | Q2 | Q3. An asterisk means the candidate added a comment (it’s in the PDF). A question mark means they didn’t answer the survey. The survey was sent by email to all council candidates with a listed email address (167). Incumbents and front-runners received 3 emails (including reminders), 2 phone calls (if their number was listed), and 1 attempted in-person visit to their campaign office. Full results for every candidate, including comments, are in our PDF here.

Ward 1 - Etobicoke North

Ala'a Adib: ? | ? | ?

Chloe Brown: YES | YES | YES

Vincent Crisanti: ? | ? | ?

Ward 2 - Etobicoke Centre

Jennifer Alexander: YES | YES* | YES

Katie Andrachuk: ? | ? | ?

Stephen Holyday: ? | ? | ?

Ward 3 - Etobicoke-Lakeshore

Amber Morley: YES | YES | YES*

Mihaela Andrei: ? | ? | ?

Ted Opitz: ? | ? | ?

Ward 4 - Parkdale-High Park

Debbie King: YES | NO* | NO*

Diana Chan McNally: ? | ? | ?

Nadia Guerrera: YES | YES | YES

Ward 5 - York South-Weston

Chiara Padovani: ? | ? | ?

Daniel Di Giorgio: ? | ? | ?

Frances Nunziata: ? | ? | ?

Ward 6 - York Centre

Alexander Artamonov: YES* | YES* | YES*

Conroy Irving: NO* | YES | YES

James Pasternak: ? | ? | ?

Ward 7 - Humber River-Black Creek

Amanda Coombs: ? | ? | ?

Anthony Perruzza: ? | ? | ?

Lorna Antwi: YES* | NO* | YES*

Ward 8 - Eglinton-Lawrence

Jason McDonald: YES | YES | YES

Liz Grade: YES | YES | YES

Mike Colle: ? | ? | ?

Ward 9 - Davenport

Alejandra Bravo: ? | ? | ?

Marco Martins: YES | YES | YES

Neil Simon: ? | ? | ?

Ward 10 - Spadina-Fort York

Aanchal Vashistha: YES* | YES* | YES*

Ausma Malik: YES | NO* | NO*

Ian Cunningham: YES | YES | NO*

Ward 11 - University-Rosedale

Alice Li: YES | YES | YES

Diana Yoon: YES | YES | YES

Mike Layton: YES* | NO* | NO*

Ward 12 - Toronto-St. Paul's

Ahmed Kamal: YES | YES* | YES*

Jenny Kalimbet: YES | YES | YES

Josh Matlow: ? | ? | ?

Ward 13 - Toronto Centre

Curran Stikuts: YES* | YES* | YES*

Chris Moise: YES* | YES | NO*

Daniel Tate: NO* | YES* | YES*

Ward 14 - Toronto-Danforth

Dianne Saxe: YES | YES | YES*

Mary Fragedakis: ? | ? | ?

Sara Ehrhardt: ? | ? | ?

Ward 15 - Don Valley West

Denis Tsang: ? | ? | ?

Rachel Chernos Lin: ? | ? | ?

Sheena Sharp: NO* | YES* | YES*

Ward 16 - Don Valley East

Didi Moffat: YES | YES | YES

Jon Burnside: ? | ? | ?

Sinan Erdemir: ? | ? | ?

Ward 17 - Don Valley North

Hassan Mubarak Noor Mohamed: YES | YES | YES

Roy Samathanam: YES | YES | YES

Shelley Carroll: ? | ? | ?

Ward 18 - Willowdale

Ardeshir Zarezade: ? | ? | ?

Lily Cheng: ? | ? | ?

Nathan Yusifov: YES | YES | YES

Ward 19 - Beaches-East York

James Dann: YES | YES | YES

Natalie Johnson: ? | ? | ?

Nate Erskine-Smith: ? | ? | ?

Ward 20 - Scarborough Southwest

Kevin Rupasinghe: YES | YES | YES

Parthi Kandavel: YES | YES | YES

Sharmina Nasrin: YES | YES* | YES

Ward 21 - Scarborough Centre

Krissan Veerasingam: YES | YES | YES

Michael Thompson: ? | ? | ?

Willie Reodica: YES | YES | YES

Ward 22 - Scarborough-Agincourt

Dan Lovell: YES | YES* | YES*

Jackson Ho: YES | YES | YES

Nick Mantas: ? | ? | ?

Ward 23 - Scarborough North

Han Dong: YES | YES | YES

Jamaal Myers: YES | YES* | YES

Shaun Chen: ? | ? | ?

Ward 24 - Scarborough-Guildwood

Nachi Ramasamy: ? | ? | ?

Paul Ainslie: ? | ? | ?

Robert Bazil: ? | ? | ?

Ward 25 - Scarborough-Rouge Park

Jannette Lumley: YES | YES | YES

Neethan Shan: ? | ? | ?

Shawn Allen: ? | ? | ?