Pedro Marques | metromanTO

It looks like #Toronto and #TOpoli have set up shop in Bluesky. So I guess I'm here now too. You knew me as MetroManTO on Twitter for 16 years. Hello again. 👋

You know that feeling when you pick up on that the car dealer is trying to con you? You smile and walk off the lot. Tonight, PM Carney told conman Trump to go get F'd. 💪🏼🇨🇦 #CanadaStrong

Mark Carney vs Donald Trump. Donald Trump can fake a lot of things but he can't fake competence. Canada is having the last laugh. 🍁 #CanadaStrong

Doug Ford’s reckless “plan” for Toronto’s waterfront isn’t a done deal yet. We have a better plan - a balanced combination of healthy communities, recreational opportunities, amazing parks, economic development and a regional airport on the island that’s easy to deal with and works…

Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square is the unexpected gem of this #FIFAWorldCup. ⚽️

#Ronaldo and the Portuguese Selecção arriving in #Toronto. 🇵🇹 I just happened to be walking out of my condo to walk my dog and my national team is driving by. What are the odds?! Oh carálho! #WorldCup2026

This is just flat-out criminal. {gift link} www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/w...

Hydration Break™ #KennedyCenter

Midnight in Toronto. #WorldCup2026

Report to next week’s Planning & Housing Committee includes an analysis of the province’s airport expansion plan, with the caveat that a lot of details are TBD. City is working off basis that runway would be extended westwards. Here’s how that would look. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

My Toronto Liberal MP @runchinguyenrun.bsky.social has gotten an earful from me on her disingenuous boilerpoint answer to her constituents angry about Doug Ford stealing our waterfront and stealing our voice so he can turn Billy Bishop into a major airport. #NoJetsTO docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Not everything. It won't be called "BMO Field" for the World Cup. Repeatedly calling it "BMO" when the city scrubbed that name from tickets, maps, transit, signs, social, comms and the stadium itself, The Star missed a chance to inform people to avoid mistakes. It'll be called "Toronto Stadium".

As a dog owner whose always leashed dog has repeatedly been attacked or threatened by off leash dogs, thank you for this column. Beware: This pitbull is often off leash in front of Sick Kids Hospital (!!!) and the owner is exactly as you'd imagine him to be.

Colbert should just tour the country taking over local broadcasts showing voters in small towns who Trump really is. Fanta Führer and the Ellisons don’t know what they’ve just unleashed! #OnlyinMonroe youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4

On Toronto's island airport, only Carney can stop the madness. Where is the case for an expansion? And what else could this place be? My column: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

"We go through everyone she might be thinking of until it becomes clear: she’s getting Brad Bradford mixed up with Brad Bradford.” www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

The look on the faces of Artemis II crew after traveling 695,081 miles through a literal vacuum, only to return to Earth and find themselves standing next to the only thing in the Universe with a lower density than deep space: the void inside Trump's head. ✨🧠💨

If you had told someone 30 years ago that this is the American President in 2026, they wouldn't ask how he got elected, they'd ask how the United States lost the war and which country installed the dictator.

With #Toronto changing so rapidly, some of it unrecognizable, the CN Tower has remained the one constant that I can look up to and whisper to myself: “oh, there you are, Toronto.”

One of the busiest parks in Toronto and as usual, it looks like trash. Staff destroying the landscapes they’re supposed to care for by driving full-size pickups through them. Incoherent design. Poor construction. Ugly fixtures. Somebody should lose their job over this.

A late night walk through foggy downtown #Toronto

Loud SPEAKERPHONE conversation on a packed Dufferin 29 bus (IYKYK). Unprompted, bus driver pulls over and stands there looking at her. Points at the door. She gets off, people clap. A #Toronto Heritage Moment® I think I just found this hero on Reddit! @ttchelps.bsky.social give this man a raise!!!

Every politician & Ontarian should call this the Doug Effect.

Iowa farmers hit hard by Trump’s Iran War and Tariffs. Rural Iowa voted 70/30 Trump v. Harris in 2024. I wonder if they have any leopards on those farms.

This is the end for #Toronto 's McLaughlin Planetarium. Long shuttered, it is now being demolished. Shedding a tear for this childhood landmark for many of us 70s and 80s kids.

Trump sycophants well never learn that Trump demands loyalty, but feels no obligation to loyalty in return. He will stab them in the back the minute he alone benefits from it. MAGATs are expendable. I look forward to Pam Bondi answering for her crimes.

It’s actually possible to write headlines that don’t obscure who did what. Thanks, AP.

Watch to the end for the 2nd clip, kids... Then send to your friends who *like* Doug Ford.

Man his PCO handlers really took the cork out of him over the last months. Love to hear the insider story on all this. Is he totally imperial now and people inside trying to reign it all in or is total bellicosity the policy now?

Trump relieved sanctions on Iranian oil to fix his mistake, paying Iran 10X what MAGA complained Obama returned in exchange for nuclear concessions. Iran is getting more for closing the Strait of Hormuz and attacking its neighbours, than it got for giving up its nuclear program. Art of the Deal. 🙄

NEW: This new report, from BBC, is the best takedown of the insanity of Trump you will see anywhere. Calm, coherent and repeating only Trump’s own words. Devastating. Brilliant work once again from Roz Atkins. (🎥 BBC News)

BILLIONS of dollars for a convention centre on an artificial island. A BILLION dollars to accommodate a private spa. A BILLION dollars to move the Science Centre. BILLIONS (over $100B) for an underground highway under the 401. "We gotta tighten our belts folks" — Doug Ford #ONpoli

Well well. How the turntables have... #ukraine

Iranians in Toronto celebrate the death of the dictator in front of the US Consulate on University Avenue.

#Poilievre: "Under his leadership and 11 years of Liberal govt..." #MarkCarney: "11 years? I just got here, Poilievre has been here his whole life." Oh gawd, what a sick burn 🔥😂

Every Canadian whose had to listen to this slimeball stab a good friend of the United States in the back for greed will laugh very politely when #Lutnick gets his karma. Sorry! 🇨🇦💪🏼 Everyone in the Trump administration is there because they’re horrible people. 👉🏻⌛️Tick tock #Nutlick!

Hilary Clinton paraphrased: "Why are you interviewing me on Epstein? Question Trump." Yes! This. Trump clearly has a lot more to say about his friend Jeffrey Epstein given he's mentioned 1500 times (likely more redacted) and has been photographed with him repeatedly. Bring him in for questioning.

This 2016 comic turned out to be so prescient. #DictatorTrump

From 2016

Messages to #Canada 🇨🇦 : King of #England: 🇬🇧 condolences Australia 🇦🇺 : condolences #France 🇫🇷 : condolences #Germany 🇩🇪 : condolences #Ireland 🇮🇪 : condolences #India 🇮🇳 : condolences #America 🇺🇸 : ( #Trump ): give us half the bridge you paid for #tumblerridge #schoolshooting #massshooting

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Quick, someone tell Mel Lastman to call the military! #snowTO ❄️🪏