Dylan Reid

I think there's some truth to this. Chow's campaign knew that to win they needed to get non-wealthy suburban voters on side - and they did, strongly. Downtown progressives were going to be on board no matter what.

Indeed, also interesting. Notable that she won an Etobicoke ward

That was quite the leap into the unknown! But there weren't many letters left (Monday October 26) Wordle 1,955 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This is way more thorough a victory for Chow than in 2023. But Ward 3 is intriguing - some people must have voted for Morley and Bradford.

Oh! That's dramatic. A bad night for former leaders of Ontario opposition parties.

Turnover at a glance: Nunziata –> Padovani Perks –> Chan McNally Saxe –> Layton Moise –> Stikuts Fletcher –> Ehrhardt Bradford –> Erskine-Smith Myers –> Chen Other than the loss of Myers, this is going to be a pretty strong Council for Chow.

Looks like Josh Matlow will just edge Mike Colle for the most council votes

Great to see @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social comfortably ahead in Ward 4

Huge cheer at the Spacing party as Chow is declared winner

Chow is catching up ... electionresults.toronto.ca

Great buzz at the @spacing.bsky.social election party!

Interesting discussion and challenge by the Maytree Foundation about the widely assumed (but not exactly accurate) idea that cities are "creatures of the province" in the Canadian constitution maytreecanada.substack.com/p/mythical-c...

Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star

Interesting and detailed look at the process of pedestrianizing London's busiest shopping street. I remember being there some years ago and the pedestrian crush was insane - high time it was changed www.londoncentric.media/p/oxford-str...

I love going down these rabbit holes

The Beaverton: BC nobly sacrifices good governance to teach one man about hubris www.thebeaverton.com/2026/10/bc-n...

Pleased with my deduction, but I picked the wrong one of the two options I thought of! (Sunday October 25) Wordle 1,954 3/6* ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Delightful artist designed benches in the Haliburton Sculpture Forest at the Haliburton School of Art & Design

What Mayor Olivia Chow has done for Toronto: www.reddit.com/r/toronto/co... Please share with any of your friends who are on the fence! Early Voting is on NOW! #TOpoli

5. "The kind of religion that says you can treat people however you want as long as you have a personal relationship with Jesus is an abomination," he told Jimmy Kimmel last month. "It is a cancer on the body of Christ." youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...

Third and final blast from the East End in the #Toronto #WaroftheRoses from its mostly depleted arsenal, the rose garden at #RosettaMcClainGardens. #roses #RoseSky #flowers #FlowerSky #bloomscrolling @brainchain.ca @heathermoandco.bsky.social @carsjam.bsky.social @wallylms.bsky.social

Kept feeling close, but never quite there (Saturday October 24) Wordle 1,953 5/6* ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

stumbled on a set of incredible 1970s illustrations in some government reports, so had to spend a day collecting them into a website to share with my friends on the computer: nickseaver.net/paperwork

Today's moment of Zen, courtesy of the Drag River in Minden Hills.

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

LOL I didn't think that would actually be the solution! It was just to narrow things down. Quite the jump. (Friday October 23) Wordle 1,952 3/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I learned a new word today: lacustrine - of, relating to, formed in, living in, or growing in lakes. A useful word to know in Toronto, I think. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/l...

I was pleased to attend the final day of the recent @mpactmobility.bsky.social conference in Toronto. I was intrigued by the final plenary with my co-editor @zahraeb.bsky.social - how would transit fit with the concept of messy urbanism? I wrote up the interesting answers: spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

Again, this is on the Liberal government for allowing the sale in the first place. Stelco was profitable, and it was obvious it would not be a priority for an American owner.

“In effect, Mr. Goncalves paid $2.5-billion to prevent Stelco exporting into the American market. Why, after all, allow more efficient Canadian steel to compete with Cleveland-Cliffs’s pricier American steel when it can just pay to restrict supply?” www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com... #cdnpoli

Thanks to Dylan Reid at @spacing.bsky.social for this piece about messiness and transit - is it ever a good idea? The piece draws on the closing plenary at #MpactTO26 and one of the sessions at the conference, Beyond Average: Designing Transit for All. spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

Book themed biscuit tin from the Victoria and Albert Museum collection collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O128063...

Didn't feel obvious, glad I came up with this fairly quickly (Thursday October 22) Wordle 1,951 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

Tinder-dry stretches of untended forest and shrubland served as the perfect fuel for Spain’s biggest wildfire in recent history.

Glad to see that, despite a disturbing number of Bradford signs, Chow is comfortably ahead in my Ward 14.

HaHa. Beaches-East York. Which, I think, is a forecast as to how a potential Brad Bradford mayoralty will look in 4 years.

Remember the preppie jerks in all those 80s teen movies? They dominate our Gen X cohort now.

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

i like how chiitan has a friend who is just a regular man

Not an ai apocalypse doomer or whatever, but entering a world where the normal operation of cybersecurity is vast swarms of hacker bots battling vast swarms of defender bots 24/7 at a scale beyond human comprehension doesn't seem like a *great* path forward.

Toronto introduced these two decades ago, but still not at all major intersections, and often not maintained.

This feels like some fairy tale!

WOW!!! In the last 5 minutes, all of Smith's constitutional questions have flipped over to the "no" side! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

2012: Die-in to protest Ford's removal of bike lanes in the heart of downtown Toronto 2026: Die-in to protest Ford's removal of bike lanes in the outer suburbs of Etobicoke