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Tim Kocur of the Waterfront Business Improvement Area (BIA) has interesting ideas for the Rees Park project on a current waterfront parking lot, as a potential focus for events and gatherings. https://t.co/m2Ry1RkFyt

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Social prescribing connects people to non-medical sources of health and wellbeing: nature, arts, movement, community, each other. Kate Mulligan shares what the Bentway, the High Line, and Madrid Río taught her about health and belonging in public spaces https://t.co/tPktfqy7Za

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New provincial proposals for modernizing e-bike rules are timely, writes @AlbertKoehl https://t.co/SmmoH2LDNU

[John Lorinc @JohnLorinc]

#topoli The rapid approval by TO council of a summer pedestrianization plan for Church St. in The Village puts the lie to the city's myriad excuses for delaying other such projects (Yonge, John, Yorkville, etc.). Today on @spacing.

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CBC Metro Morning talked to @Ian_Darragh @iandarragh.bsky.social about what he found in his Spacing series investigating the push to add jets to the Toronto Island airport. Listen here: https://t.co/ve42FLbDFO

[Ian Darragh @Ian_Darragh]

Jill Dempsey interviewed me on my reporting in @Spacing magazine on #jets at @BBishopAirport #Toronto on @CBCToronto Metro Morning: "Trying to join the dots around airport expansion. Why, how much and who benefits?" https://t.co/pzfcV0NRoM

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Yonge Street deserves pedestrianization - other cites have done it, we can do it too, says Shane Gates https://t.co/jSu9j6TqSN

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It's time to close the gaps in Toronto's remarkable potential 72 km Loop Trail (along with other potential loops), says Robert Zaichowski #bikeTO https://t.co/jyfR0U9LMU

[Ian Darragh @Ian_Darragh]

A deep dive into the devastating environmental effects of allowing #jets @BBishopAirport. This is the report that @TOPortAuthority kept secret for nine years. Read @Spacing online https://t.co/z3h4ryHWtg
#toronto #onpoli

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In Part 2 of his report "Jet Dreams on Toronto Island", @Ian_Darragh looks at the findings of studies and environmental assessments that show both the difficulty of adapting the island airport for jets, and their probably negative impact on the waterfront https://t.co/5xUaIN8iO7

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Spacing is featuring a custom-made graphic showing the probable extent and layout of an expanded runway for jets at Billy Bishop Airport. See @Ian_Darragh's article "Jet Dreams on Toronto Island" for more details (and the upcoming part 2 later today). https://t.co/D04rn3MwAk

[Ian Darragh @Ian_Darragh]

This is what @fordnation extended runway will look like on the #Toronto #waterfront. Read more in @Spacing magazine online. Who is going to pay for this? You the taxpayers. https://t.co/WArHd9LQpX

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Jet Dreams on Toronto Island. Read part 1 of @Ian_Darragh's investigation into what would it cost, who will pay, and who benefits? With a new graphic custom-made for Spacing detailing the likely extension. https://t.co/D04rn3MwAk

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What is a "Care Block"? Obaid Khan introduces an urban planning strategy crafted in Colombia that could help address Toronto’s care crisis https://t.co/WIbAKfkAyY

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Photographer Peter MacCallum captured the last days of one of the former factories that became artist and craft studios before being redeveloped, the former industrial complex at 390-440 Dufferin Street https://t.co/JFaLjLvR82

[John Lorinc @JohnLorinc]

#topoli New from me in @spacing: The finicky business of planning Ookwemin Minising & figuring out how to prevent it from becoming Liberty Village 2.0. CoT & @WaterfrontTO have a new plan. Whether it will solve the isolation problem is an open question. https://t.co/0styfP6V90

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Cycling advocates host three Safe Cycling Sessions for bike delivery riders - to improve safety for the riders themselves, and for those who share the streets with them. https://t.co/uPlFGTFIfN

[Dylan Reid @dylan_reid]

On @Spacing , @_ChanFace argues that Church Street in the Village should be pedestrianized, and tells the story of his campaign to get it started this summer (for the moment, two blocks) https://t.co/JUEvAHCHoC

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Jane's Walk weekend is coming up (May 1-3), and Jane's Walk has published an op-ed about how the event helps spark connection and fight the loneliness epidemic that is hitting our cities. https://t.co/F0wR35H27m

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With Anthony Furey out of the mayoral race, a Chow vs. Bradford face-off could go to the candidate who finds a way to express hope in dark times, writes @JohnLorinc. #TOpoli #ONpoli

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