Sharon Harris

@JohnPasalis Good grief. Please correct me if I’m wrong but it seems to be Ontario’s “solution,” not Canada’s. A bailout for developers.

Canada’s solution to the housing crisis: Build homes so expensive that local households can’t afford to buy them Then have private equity and the government step in to buy thousands of them, and call it a success story storeys.com/gta-rental-aff…

I only want to live in peace, plant potatoes, and dream

Sportsnet app crashes Game 7 of the World Series so we’ve turned on the radio. What a normal season this has been

@Damon98_ Have seen multiple pleas to not put Bo in the lineup😆 ah well, welcome

They’re here. Boston, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco will make history as the First Four—the inaugural teams in the WPBL.

Memories of 2021. Remember we thought Michael Brantley was part of the deal? #WANTITALL

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BREAKING: Outfielder George Springer and the Toronto Blue Jays are in agreement on a deal, sources familiar with the situation tell us. Springer is headed to Dunedin for a physical. And if all goes according to plan, Toronto will get the star it’s been looking for all winter.

@bnicholsonsmith Was verrrry fun but maybe turn down the crowd tomorrow. Was glad to have headphones

A couple notes from Jays vs. Jays intra-squad game: • they're pumping in crowd noise to replicate a playoff feel – it's pretty loud • the umps appear quite young • playing a 4pm game makes sense because they'll play at 4 this wknd & it’ll get players ready for the #shadows

@papa_cole45 @Hockey_Is_All @RyanGarciaESM Honestly, I think MLB wants Cleveland for AL. All the stories about how they’re coming out of nowhere, underdogs, etc.

@Hockey_Is_All @RyanGarciaESM You clearly didn’t watch the Yankees Astros series a couple weeks ago. I’d be incensed if I were a blue jays fan as well, but if you believe it’s a conspiracy to help the Yankees then that’s incredibly stupid, sorry.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? SPRINGER HITS A DOUBLE, THEY CALL IT A FOUL BALL AND THEN HE’S RUNG UP ON A PITCH OUTSIDE MLB IS DOING EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER TO GIVE THE YANKEES THE DIVISION

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You can steal the statue but you can’t steal the spirit of what the statue represents! Disheartening end to the stolen Jackie Robinson statue has generated a Robinson-like resolve from the public for good to overcome evil! @MLB @Royals @NLBMuseumKC RT amp.kansas.com/news/local/cri…

@erikawybourn @MayorOliviaChow As a coach, parent of athletic kids, and fan, it kills me to see Mayor Chow supporting a toxic sports culture. Rob Ford is not a good role model for our children. Naming a venue after him weakens the work that many are doing to make positive change in sports culture.

Please @MayorOliviaChow do NOT do this. He brought nothing but shame to the city. He may have liked your husband, but he did nothing for his constituents.

We’re not ok. I even opened up Twitter for this

If you love and support nightlife in Toronto, speak up! Don’t let NIMBYS who go to bed early control the narrative toronto.ca/community-peop…

12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees: 1. Temperature Control One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%. 2. Noise Reduction Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter. 3. Air Purity Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner. 4. Oxygen And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem. 5. Water Management Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply. 6. Psychological Health Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense. 7. Physical Health Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities. 8. Privacy A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy. 9. Economics The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier. 10. Wildlife Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects. 11. Light Pollution Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees. 12. Aesthetics And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers. Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs. Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on. There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.

On the outskirts of summer where land meets lake, a perfect Toronto evening with Blue Rodeo. The lights of the CNE across the boulevard, a soft breeze over the water, lost together, strange and beautiful

I put my brain in neutral, was transported, and left feeling lighter. I mean—sitting inside a volcano seems like art for our times. Gets better with each repeat of its loop. If you’re a Sigur Rós fan, you’ll adore it, but it closes tomorrow. At the AGO: ago.ca/exhibitions/jo…

Spent 2 hrs w/ this gorgeous sound installation, Hrafntinna (Obsidian) by Jónsi, yesterday. 16-channels of sound through a circular arrangement of 195 speakers. Evokes the sensation of being inside a volcano with reverberation, scent, sound, & lighting. youtu.be/KVp5XZ_J6Ow