jenny (phire)

It’s a new year and things are still bad! If you want to join folks in Toronto who are doing organizing, activism, and mutual aid work to make things less bad, I run a calendar/newsletter that tracks it all. Newsletter returns tomorrow, or use the iCal/RSS feeds! Tell your friends! showuptoronto.ca

A high-turnout election! Bradford got more votes losing than all but 2 winners in Toronto's post-1997 history, and both those cases were incumbents running against relatively weaker challengers. Olivia Chow, of course, won *even more* making her the most vote-getting politician in Canadian history.

good morning in olivia chow’s toronto :)

And that that's the map. 19 wards vs. 6 wards.

Loved this essay from @ijeomaoluo.bsky.social ijeomaoluo.substack.com/p/the-symbio...

alright toronto, polls are open till 8pm, do not fuck this one up and do NOT vote for the wrong chow for the love of god, olivia is #9

guys we can't fucking do this shit, what the absolute fuck

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s strongman leader Aleksandar Vucic has conceded defeat to a student-led movement in a seismic political shift.

Election day is tomorrow, and Candidate Tracker is the only place for reported, fact-checked information about every single candidate for mayor, councillor, and school trustee in Toronto: thelocal.to/candidate-tr.... Mississauga: thelocal.to/candidate-tr.... And Brampton: thelocal.to/candidate-tr...

Olivia Chow could've run a campaign focused on standing up to Queen's Park — she didn't, and now we have to live with the potential consequences, writes senior editor John Lorinc. @johnlorinc.bsky.social #TOpoli spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

First it was AI-generated advocacy against bus lanes and encampments. Now it’s vague election campaigns from unknown candidates making big promises. How is AI shaping the future of local democracy in Toronto? thelocal.to/toronto-firs...

A late Friday evening @showuptoronto.ca, with a lot of important events for the upcoming week (education workers' rally! anti bill C-39 rally!) and an attempt to somewhat briefly distill my distaste for Bradford Bradford. buttondown.com/showup/archi...

Is Canada heading for a major labour showdown? A new omnibus bill, C-39, aims to speed up projects. The catch? It would grant federal ministers unprecedented strike-breaking powers. Political scientist @David_Moscrop on the unions fighting back: thewalrus.ca/bill-c-39-mark-c...

In the last 3 years, Bradford has stood in the way of making Toronto a more affordable and liveable city. Please look at his voting record, and vote accordingly on Monday.

Asked by a viewer if they'd use strong mayor powers, Bradford dodges and says he's seeking a mandate from voters, and pledges to "work with everybody."("I didn't hear an answer there," Chow notes.) "I'm not going to use the strong mayor powers and destroy democracy," answers Chow.

there are many things that make me lament the excesses of human consumption and extraction but few sights fill me with more immediate revulsion than that of a cruiseship the size of a sideways skyscraper floating in port

6 months later. In an election. Not a soul talked about this. Not the left not the right.

urban street projections across the globe in Wellington, NZ including solidarity with Toronto. 🔥🔥 @axleryde.bsky.social

oh it's bad. oh it's BAD bad. oh this is CATASTROPHIC, drop-whatever-you're-doing-and-patch-NOW levels of bad cert.europa.eu/publications...

chat,,,,,,

While deconstruction protests will be happening tomorrow from 6 AM to 4 PM, @cycletoronto.bsky.social & others are calling for a rally on Tuesday, October 20 (6 PM) at Tom Riley Park to celebrate one week since we sent the workers home. Please spread the word. #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero

I forgot I had leftover coffee in my thermos as I went through security again for a connecting flight and ofc it got flagged, they said I could drink it all or go back through security, so I chugged half a thing of tepid coffee standing at security. it’s like being made to smoke the rest of the pack

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump's actions against Ilhan Omar. This is worth reading in full.

obviously many more important takeaways from the French approach to protest, but much respect to the absolute varsity level Whimsy of throwing a whole ass piano at the cops

As a Muslim who has been accused of dual loyalty and asked to denounce everything from ISIS to the Iranian state, I breathed a sigh of relief that I think I’d been holding in for like two decades watching this.

many people are asking: is moby dick a copyright

📢🗳️UPDATE: Candidate Tracker for Toronto, Mississauga, AND Brampton now have fact-checked bios and platforms for every single school trustee candidate, in addition to all candidates for councillor and mayor. Tell your voting friends and get informed this election season! thelocal.to/candidate-tr...

we tried to get tickets for the liz holmes extravaganza but the not-terrible-seats in theatres near us were all sold out (good for nathan) so we’re going to see the odyssey instead, I look forward to catching liz in theatres in <checks calendar> approximately january

Email did to white collar work what the washing machine did to housework: creating as many problems as it solved. See, as Ruth Schwartz Cowan shows in More Work for Mother, washing machines made washing clothes much easier, but in the process, it also shifted cultural norms...

I watched the first ten seconds and closed it bc the guy was annoying and then it crossed my timeline again from a different source so I was like OKAY FINE and y’all it is WORTH it

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Doug Ford’s war on bike lanes isn’t about traffic—it’s part of a global right-wing backlash to vilify urban residents and defend fossil fuel interests. @desmondcole.bsky.social reports from the frontlines of the showdown in Toronto. breachmedia.ca/doug-ford-bi...