Shawn Micallef 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Columnist @TorontoStar / Cofounder @spacing / Teach @UofT / Books: Stroll, Full FrontalTO & The Trouble w Brunch / NEW: Frontier City - TO on Verge of Greatness
Toronto Mean Ass City
Joined July 2008
Just in case. But not sure I’ve it in me for another one. This place was, at its best, like opening the window & listening to the city. Still. Voices if not have heard otherwise, issues I didn’t know of. Will go down w the ship here then decide.
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RT @MaltaPen: ‘I knew it was a car bomb straight away’: the day my mother Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered
theguardian.com
Everyone in Malta read Daphne, the fearless reporter who stood up to politicians, drug traffickers, tax dodgers – until the assassination that shook her family and shocked the world
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Our sign 😢 This was a one off gift to Roberto Martella for all he did for Toronto and our project.
spacing.ca
For the last twenty years, Roberto Martella has greeted neighbours, friends and celebrities alike at the North Toronto restaurant that he and his wife, Lucia, operate on Yonge Street just south of...
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The American mind cannot comprehend that Donald Sutherland was Prime Minister of Canada during the 1970s.
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Shoving world events into ill-fitting petty priors is the missionary position of Canadian punditry.
Terrible column and wrong on its own terms — many of the universities people are screaming at in the US about this same issue are…private.
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Toronto problems? Did Halifax get a family compact too?.
Halifax is booming — but now it has Toronto problems — via @financialpost.
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Obviously shields are weak at times, but generally, it's ok school skim-n-skip. The check is actually great for this, really triggers the skip.
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My own tiny analogue algorithmic response to the big algorithm in the waning days of this site, but it works. Just skip them.
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So what is it about this unremarkable far flung big box company from Austria that so enthralled the Ford gov't and local architect and design firms. The latter is mercenary amoral money of course - but what of the gov't? Odd. 🧐.
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RT @sorayaroberts: “the only real revenge for murder is achieving peace.” @ayodeh in an essay for @nytopinion quoting poet chaim nachman bi….
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The whole of this nation — Jewish, Arab, Palestinian, Israeli — wants just one thing: to grow up to a good life.
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Have mostly developed an internal filter that skips the blue check posts that enter the feed - don't even read them.
New analysis found that verified accounts on X spread 74% of the platforms most viral, false claims related to the Israel-Hamas war. Story:
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Nice display of student-made models of Le Corbusier designs, built and unbuilt, at @UofTDaniels
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Dammit. As I go thru mine this doesn’t help.
I would like to propose a moratorium on ‘Who knows where the time goes’ by Fairport Convention and Sandy Denny being played in empty pubs on a Sunday until my midlife crisis is over. Please and thank you.
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Let’s GO
1 Bloor ST W "The One" has been foreclosed and is now under receivership. Some facts about the site:. 1. The site was an assembly of 8 properties acquired starting in August 2014 and finishing in April 2016. Total land value: $224,500,000 or $259 BSF. 2. Development
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IMHO this could become part of the Ontario Lib leadership race.
NEW: In the fallout of #Mississauga council not passing a motion showing support for 4-plex homes, the city has been denied housing funding from the federal government, believed to be $120M. I hear this letter from @SeanFraserMP was sent to council around 5 p.m. #Missipoli
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RT @steve_cornwell: NEW: In the fallout of #Mississauga council not passing a motion showing support for 4-plex homes, the city has been de….
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RT @chrisjabraham: This was a game-changing production for us. There is an army of people to thank @crowstheatre but gotta go back to the s….
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FAAFO.
KABOOM. Inbox: to Mississauga acting mayor, from the federal housing minister. “given the defeat of [the four-plex] motion and the arguments made during its deliberation … I am not in a position to approve Mississauga’s [$120M Housing Accelerator] application”.
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🪡.
I've gotta say. I like Colby's stuff. But highlighting this is piling on is a pretty annoying way. As Colby notes, there but for the grace of God go all of us. But also, tiny community newspapers serving 2,000 ppl are not the type of media Conservatives have tended to go after.
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