Artist & photographer, author of such books as America Swings, EUSA and Haddon Hall. MFA 2022 UB. I used to be a caregiver, now I'm just a caring orphan.
@BikeShame @IKEACanada@cityoftoronto EVERYONE in Toronto chooses to stop and park wherever they please because there are no ramifications (ie enforcement). The idea of parking on side street to not affect the flow of traffic never enters the mind, and then people complain about the traffic. It’s all interconnected.
Make no mistake: the flooding we see in the city today is no surprise. It is an outcome of politicians taking a very very very shortsighted view of infrastructure planning and investment.
Take a look at this vote from 2018 requesting an increase in stormwater infrastructure spending. It failed.
Disinvestment in the city leads to the mess you saw today. Same with traffic congestion. Both are an outcome of a broken approach to municipal infrastructure financing - and a lack of leadership.
Every politician who voted no to this - and many more similar votes that were about necessary reinvestment - should be held to account.
They made this mess. This is entirely solvable. We even know *how* to solve it and we have the plans to solve it. But politicians refuse to fund it. Now we will waste billions cleaning up the mess.
@IMTVSSUPERHIPPY Mitch...it was a pleasure meeting you last night at Hot Docs watching the Jackie Shane Story. I have to tell you, Crazy People is one of my all time favourite movies. Mind blown. Let's get some deli. Terrible on Twitter, how can we be in touch?
@g_meslin In my North York neighbourhood all the bungalows are being torn down and single family homes that are big enough to be 4plexes replace them. It’s discouraging.
Don’t know whose in the Super Bowl, don’t care, but it’s time for my annual post of the best Super Bowl party ever (from my book America Swings). Stay safe everyone.