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It’s our patriotic duty to drink rye whisky now.

AFC Toronto are in the playoffs. First game is this weekend against Ottawa Rapids. People should grab tickets and go. It’s fun to watch Toronto win for a change.

Amazing work throughout this election by photographers at @thelocal.to led by @chloeellingson.bsky.social. These contrasting images from last night are really something. Nic Hotchkiss at the Chow party. Laura Proctor at Bradford HQ. thelocal.to/olivia-chow-...

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.

We've got real-time results of the Toronto municipal election here. thelocal.to/live-results...

This is so well done. A beautiful little film.

Toronto! There is still time! Vote!

Olivia Chow is #9 on the ballot. I wonder how many accidental votes bizarro chow will get? Don’t mess this up Toronto. I can’t handle another mediocre guy for mayor. We have already done that. It was a decade of nothing.

Check your inbox: it’s a special FREE E-Day edition of City Hall Watcher, with notes on a wild final day of mayoral polling and what it meant for our projection, plus where I’ll be on Election Night. Plus: One last bit of Candidate Chaos. toronto.cityhallwatcher.com/p/hey-hey-it...

My @thestar.com column: Today we get to decide our most direct kind of government. Your vote will decide things like street sweeping frequency, the wait for dead raccoon pick-up, and whether a washroom door is locked when you need it So don’t miss your chance — vote www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

From Lula’s victory speech. Hard to argue. 🇧🇷 “We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. We cannot have monstrously large corporations earning millions and billions, paying no taxes to this country and trying to steer our election results.”

I’ve shared a lot of their coverage already, but if you haven’t checked it out you should do so. Really good reporting from the Local.

Reading Say Nothing had me wanting to rewatch Hunger—so I did. Fantastic film.

Had a very expensive cocktail in the Shangrila hotel waiting for my friend Brendan to exchange some fancy books.

La Bola Negra was incredible. World might be terrible right now, but at least we still have people making beautiful movies. Fuck the fascists.

Will watch La Bola Negra soon. Not even Brad Bradford can ruin that.

Varda is such a gem.

Crime is down. Toronto is objectively a safe place. Why does Bradford want us scared? www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

How has AI shaped local democracy this election? What we've seen at The Local, @royinori.bsky.social writes, is a lot of noise: fairly anonymous candidates with vague, AI-generated campaigns that make it harder for voters to tell the serious candidates from the others. thelocal.to/toronto-firs...

Don’t fuck it up, Toronto!

In which I tried to understand what it means to succeed in a context in which you're permanently — Constitutionally! — set up to fail: thelocal.to/olivia-chow-...

Sugar Maple only got a majority in one ward. End the tyranny of first-past-the-post.

CBC: The number of problem gamblers in Ontario has spiked and gambling-related suicides have tripled since the expansion of private online casino games and sports betting in 2022. www.cbc.ca/news/investi...

Well now you know it was a warning shot. Largest mounted unit I've seen, out on Bloor to enforce the destruction of safe street infrastructure. On the day unsafe street design for the seconds of convenience of drivers has put toddlers in an Oshawa hospital, no less.

This is private equity, this is what it does. Buy up businesses, run them into the ground, and rip them apart for short-term profit. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

I figured out how to open the door. Saw people. Programmed. Took a meeting. What a great space.

Going to work from @1rg.space tomorrow. Get hyped. I just gotta figure out how to unlock the door again.

I wrote a thing about police. Many thanks to @taimhuynh.bsky.social for his great edits, and to Natalie Vineberg for the artwork thelocal.to/toronto-poli...

The Dufferin street bus lane is amazing. How long until Doug Ford paints over it.

The Local is really on a roll this election season. A piece from Jonathan Goldsbie about Olivia Chow.

Ontario man. Ontario.

One of the reasons I get so worked up about all this, apart from the clear-and-present danger, is it's a symptom of something bigger that's rotten. Many smart & serious establishment people still think it's silly to talk about though.

“I can’t get medication covered but the Ontario government can spend upwards of $45 million to do something that is dangerous and unnecessary… this is a waste of money and people will die.” Preach.