Wency Leung
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Reporter at The Local. @TheLocal_TO Beware of others using my name and photo. Leaving Twitter. See you on Bluesky! Pronounced "wen-see," she/her.
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Joined September 2010
Ugh. Looks like I have an imposter using my name and photo on this site. This is my one and only account on here.
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To report someone impersonating you, Twitter asks that you to submit a photo of your ID. Nuh-uh. Absolutely not. Worst idea. See you on Bluesky!
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📢WARNING: I have an imposter using my name and photo on this site. Please block and report @WinsaLeung4. I'll see you all over at the other social media platform!
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Rachel Chernos Lin defeats Anthony Furey in a fiercely partisan by-election in Don Valley West. #TOpoli #DVW
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The Toronto District School Board chair beat out former right-wing columnist Anthony Furey in a fiercely partisan battle.
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With all 52 polls reporting, Rachel Chernos Lin wins the Don Valley West by-election with 12,899 votes, or 54.76% https://t.co/D390xJB0QQ
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Real-time results from election night, starting at 8 p.m. on November 4, 2024.
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With 50 of 52 polls reporting, Toronto District School board chair Rachel Chernos Lin has 12,339 votes, leading right-wing former newspaper columnist Anthony Furey with 7,073.
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Real-time results from election night, starting at 8 p.m. on November 4, 2024.
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We'll have live results from the Don Valley West by-election once polls close at 8:00 p.m tonight. #TOpoli
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Real-time results from election night, starting at 8 p.m. on November 4, 2024.
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Don Valley West, check out the meticulous work of our Candidate Tracker team (@emmabuchanan_, @rebeccaga0, @dhritimgupta, Alice Boyle and Neville Park) as you gear up to visit the polls today. #TOpoli #DVW
It's voting day in Don Valley West. Here are the Ward 15 by-election candidates. #topoli
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The Local surveyed candidates in the Don Valley West #DVW by-election about their stances on ten major votes from this city council term. See their responses, plus the latest updates to candidate platforms & endorsements, in our Candidate Tracker: https://t.co/nGnKOCSPzg
#TOpoli
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The only place to find fact-checked biographies and election platform summaries for all the candidates in Ward 15—Don Valley West's by-election for city councillor on November 4, 2024.
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Don't miss this excellent, insightful story, the last in our Divided City issue. "The point here isn’t simply that some Toronto communities have elegant Victorian homes while others have drab towers. It is, rather, that the drab towers exist because of the elegant homes."
The Annex has fewer residents today than in 1971. The towers of Crescent Town have far more. @simonlewsen on how the uneven, illogical densification pattern of the last 50 years created today’s Toronto.
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Voting in Don Valley West is usually a sleepy affair, writes @wencyleung. But with accusations of bigotry, legal threats, and behind-the-scenes manoeuvring, the by-election has become a contentious, partisan battle. #topoli
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Voting in Ward 15 is usually a sleepy affair. But with accusations of bigotry, legal threats, and behind-the-scenes manoeuvring, the by-election has narrowed into a heated race between right-wing...
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This @SimonLewsen feature on the tale two neighbourhoods—with fights over new developments in the Annex, and rent strikes in Crescent Town—is the story of the last fifty years of Toronto. With gorgeous photos by @chloeellingson.
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The Annex had fewer residents in 2021 than 1971. The towers of Crescent Town had far more. How the uneven, illogical densification pattern of the last 50 years created today’s Toronto.
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Toronto's population has more than doubled since 1971, but many neighbourhoods—the tree-lined, affluent ones—have gotten less dense. In a big (dare I say, "sprawling"?) essay for @thelocal, I explain how uneven densification makes life worse for everybody. 📸 by @chloeellingson
The Annex has fewer residents today than in 1971. The towers of Crescent Town have far more. @simonlewsen on how the uneven, illogical densification pattern of the last 50 years created today’s Toronto.
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The Annex has fewer residents today than in 1971. The towers of Crescent Town have far more. @simonlewsen on how the uneven, illogical densification pattern of the last 50 years created today’s Toronto.
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The Annex had fewer residents in 2021 than 1971. The towers of Crescent Town had far more. How the uneven, illogical densification pattern of the last 50 years created today’s Toronto.
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Early voting in the Don Valley West by-election happens this weekend! Make an informed choice and catch the latest updates from the ward in The Local's candidate tracker: https://t.co/nGnKOCTnoO
#DVW #TOpoli
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The only place to find fact-checked biographies and election platform summaries for all the candidates in Ward 15—Don Valley West's by-election for city councillor on November 4, 2024.
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Great to see @Bren_Doherty talk about his sprawling feature on Toronto encampments and the failure of municipal policy on The Big Story today. If you haven't read the story yet, don't miss it!
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For years, unhoused people like Davit Sesisheili have gone from park to park, moving when the City evicts them. With new data, and reporting and photography that spans years, this is the most...
Encampments have become a regular sight in most Canadian cities, big and small. @Bren_Doherty for @TheLocal_TO takes us inside what was one of Toronto’s largest camps, and introduces us to some of the people who called it home
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A deeply compassionate interview: "People living in encampments are really not much different from you...if you were put in an encampment tomorrow, and forced to live in it for a month, a lot of what you currently see as weird, or aggressive, or even dangerous, would make sense."
Encampments have become a regular sight in most Canadian cities, big and small. @Bren_Doherty for @TheLocal_TO takes us inside what was one of Toronto’s largest camps, and introduces us to some of the people who called it home
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Wow. What a breathtaking story and gorgeous photos, @kaylabythesea !
Millions of bison once roamed the grasslands, until colonialism nearly wiped them out. Now, Indigenous people are bringing them back and restoring balance to their homelands.
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The fabulous @royinori analyzed 3-1-1 data to find out which Toronto neighbourhoods make the most complaints, from @TheLocal_TO's latest Divided City issue
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From wealthy neighbours griping about shrubbery to low-income tenants requesting winter heat—a map of 311 requests charts a certain kind of civic engagement, and privilege.
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Would you call the City to complain about your neighbour's lawn? As The Local's analysis reveals wealthier wards are disproportionately more likely to use 311 services, @royinori writes on the relationship between complaint, civic engagement and privilege.
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From wealthy neighbours griping about shrubbery to low-income tenants requesting winter heat—a map of 311 requests charts a certain kind of civic engagement, and privilege.
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