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Converting to a No Frills https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/business-economy/loblaws-converted-to-no-frills-roncesvalles-12019114 "The Loblaws, located near Bloor Street and Dundas Street West, will close on May 2. The new No Frills, which will not include a pharmacy, will open later in 2026...

The Toronto Region Board of Trade says there are 18 million annual visitors to the waterfront. Hardly seems worth it for a few million travellers to expand the airport to have more frequent planes making noise, limit housing, and make the waterfront less attractive as a reprieve. Elsewhere I've...

In the UK London has also banned the march for this weekend and The Guardian has a sort of F.A.Q about what/why/etc https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/11/what-is-londons-al-quds-day-march-and-why-has-the-event-been-banned

For people who are interested the owner shares about the process occasionally. This post from 4 months ago is a good starting point: https://bsky.app/profile/pamelablais.bsky.social/post/3m3cqgu5cw22g

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/doug-ford-is-showing-contempt-for-toronto-over-billy-bishop-airport-why-won-t-olivia/article_006c0874-54e3-48db-ac1a-3577b95ab0a0.html Shawn Micallef with a passionate column about the expansion, lack of public input, and asks, about the 1.5 million...

The Mayor has an item in front of executive committee today about paying residents to snow shovel in the event of major snow storms, like was done in NYC a few weeks ago. I can’t get the article now but I read she was told earlier about legal challenges and told staff to find a way around the...

I think it’s likely they don’t see themselves as a daily commuter option and so rebalancing diligently isn’t high on the priority list. Already they seem to act like people don’t need to use the system between Oct/Nov and April/May. In terms of their revenue and ridership only a small portion...

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Pragmatic column in Spacing from John Lornic about the large plastic waste bins in parks https://spacing.ca/toronto/2026/03/05/in-praise-of-ugly-park-trash-bins/ "In the past decade or so, the parks department, which is rarely a source of innovation, glommed on to an approach to waste...

This ought to to smooth over the reaction to the OSAP cuts, high school kids are well known to respond positively to authority

I vaguely remember seeing similar complaints before somewhere else online and someone saying the seat angle is something configured by the mechanics with bike share. Don't know if that's right or wrong The bikes are from Lyft Urban Solutions (formerly PBSC) and the push bike is the ICONIC...

I know this survey's been posted in a couple other threads but this seems like a good place for it too. Survey closes 26 March 2026 "In 2007 the City of Toronto entered into a 20-year agreement with Astral Media for the supply, manufacturing, installation and maintenance of approximately 25,000...

Geary Art Crawl coming up March 7 & 8. Was supposed to take place in September, but lack of funding and the park construction "made September unrealistic". There won't be a road closure in place, and I saw the volunteers will all be indoors, so not sure how much is out on the street. Hopefully...

The guy didn’t take transit let alone understand it

Added to the planning and housing committee agenda yesterday or today for today’s meeting, an item by the Mayor, “Updating the Effectiveness of the Committee of Adjustment” https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2026.PH28.14 “Some recent CoA hearings and decisions have raised...