@anotherglassbox @_ChanFace that place is for turbonormies to post jacked up HDR photos of the CN tower, if you know what a setback requirement is you deserve to get banned for bringing your deranged ass in there
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Don Bui
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Went through an important rite of passage today: got banned from r/toronto for “effectively coordinated rule breaking” (jokingly asking a podcast host why they posted @_ChanFace’s episode and not mine) and the mod mocked me when I asked why
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@BenWoodfinden @WDiminishment rhetorical flopping, how soccer of you
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Between this piece and his @WDiminishment piece on the weekend I fear Howard has declared war on me
Howard Anglin@howardanglin
I wrote about why Canada isn’t and shouldn’t try to be a soccer nation. Out of sympathy for the soccer apologists, or knowing how sensitive and spiky they tend to be, @TheHubCanada held it for a week. thehub.ca/2026/07/13/six…
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@JLevendia There are millennial Hong Kongers in their 30s who were born subjects of the British Empire, when they were children British officers patrolled the streets and posties delivered the mail. Some of those civil servants are still there, quietly working in municipal bureaucracies
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@edwardrow Back when TFWs were in the news someone posted a map of every business hiring them and they stuck out as one of the few places downtown, must've been struggling for a while
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one of the best fried chicken sandwich shops in the city - maybe the best - P.G. Clucks is shutting down both locations citing rising food costs that makes it unsustainable for them / their desire to keep prices for sandwiches below $15 instagram.com/p/DalvZhoIKIt/…
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@anotherglassbox OK fuck it Sneaky's must burn, I have been negatively polarized
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Music Historian Daniel Tate/The Flyer Vault/IntegrityTO did a good job thanking the many folks who came out to depute about Sneaky Dee's (as he should), but seemed a bit lost as to why RBC "suddenly" intervened in the matter.
Not to worry! Not Music Historian Daniel can help.
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@anotherglassbox @ChrisSpoke @only_clickbait It is really sad that they're latching onto the last generation's touchstones because they don't have any of their own, because we haven't allowed them to build any.
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@anotherglassbox @ChrisSpoke @only_clickbait "Economic and cultural development" is a funny way to say it's mostly known for people doing the worst cocaine in the world in its bathrooms. Zoomers are romanticising this place despite never having railed said cocaine in its bathrooms, it wasn't that important, kids!
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What is this nimby nonsense?
Gabe Blanc@Gabe_Blanc
Sneaky Dee’s is saved. Now what? This is a win for everyone who showed up. But a bank stopping a demolition isn’t policy. Zoning forces development onto major streets, venues get insufficient support, and Sneaky Dee’s still has no heritage status. Demand systemic change.
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@TFCNU2 @ChrisSpoke played this exact game with Chow, if he won't say it out loud he won't do shit in office
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@ChrisSpoke I assume he's trying to say upzone the yellow belt without explicitly saying upzone the yellow belt.
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@stphnmaher The British wanted to refrain from expanding here in North America because they were doing so elsewhere, including slavery and other brutality, and didn’t want distractions from those more lucrative ventures.
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This is a good day to talk about our southern neighbours and their revolution, not out of a desire to insult them on a day that should be full of hotdogs, bunting and fireworks, but because our history is shared and we too often let their version of events into our brains. 1/x
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Don Bui retweetledi
UK vs Canada: Why a Free, Competitive Press Matters
The CBC piece points out the procedural differences — but skips the biggest accelerator: media
Britain’s raucous, mostly private press (tabloids, broadsheets, left and right) is cutthroat. Scandals explode instantly, polls dominate headlines, leaks flow freely. MPs feel the heat from voters and act fast to dump failing leaders
Canada’s landscape — led by government-funded CBC plus concentrated heavily government subsidized private media — is docile, less adversarial and holds the opposition to a higher standard than the government
Combined with iron party discipline and leader-controlled nominations, pressure builds slower and stays contained
Result? UK leaders face relentless public scrutiny that fuels quick internal revolts. Canadian ones can ride out storms longer
A genuinely independent, competitive press doesn’t just report failure — it forces accountability. That’s a feature, not a bug @brodiefenlon
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@CanadaHawk it's going to work because the average Ontarian has rocks for brains
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@anotherglassbox the signs should be screens and the images should be constantly morphing
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This is happening all over Toronto, good lord. curbed.com/article/ai-slo…
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Don Bui retweetledi
@KootenayGreg Canada has a system built on buying votes by redistributing wealth from smallest voting blocs to the largest, not "caring for your neighbours"
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To all those people defending Gad Saad, there are two important reasons why Canada doesn’t have the same population as the USA. The first is weather, the second is taxes. Canada has a system built on caring for your neighbours. The US does not
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Don Bui retweetledi
You have to read Bill C-34 on The Commission to believe it. It sets the rules on age verification, social media bans, and content removals while serving as combined regulator, investigator and advocate. At the start, Chair alone can be the full Commission.
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Michael Geist@mgeist
The kids’ social media ban gets the headlines, but my post argues Bill C-34’s most consequential element may be the Commission, a super-regulator overseeing the system with its own rules of evidence, potentially secret hearings, and wide-ranging powers. michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/thecom…
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@atlanticesque salute to all the guys who took the bait and became cooks because they thought it was going to be glamorous
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We have so many of these houses in Toronto, the 2 floors over low height garage, and they almost always look like garbage (like the one in the photo does).
The Mind Scourge@TheMindScourge
This is a good picture. It really shows the contrast between eras of housing styles well. The house in the middle shows up on your block, everything else immediately looks old and dated Contrast pictures like this help you understand why people in the past made the choices they did. Why when a modern architecture building appeared in a block of Victorians or Edwardian brick they tore down the latter as quickly as possible. You can see why people believed certain styles were embarrassing
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@NelsonXLee nobody actually cares about Do West and you could slander that shit all day, it's because you mentioned King West which is a signal to a certain kind of misanthrope that you're the enemy
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I go to Do West Fest every year for the incredible Biscoff custard tart from an independent Portuguese bakery.
It also happens to attract every West End douche who only hits on 18 to 21 year old girls.
Not sure why people are so worked up about me calling that out lol.
Nelson Lee@NelsonXLee
Toronto summer doesn’t officially start until you get crushed at Do West Fest (aka Douche West Fest) and end up on a King West patio.
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Don Bui retweetledi
This is everything I need to know about Canada’s national AI strategy.
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@Lux_Stella_ state mandated filles du roi manic android-elf gfs
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yeah i can see why elon liked her
𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳@Grimezsz
Landian philosophy has reigned for so long because he's actually just one of the best living poets. Now that the pope is an equally good poet suddenly the cold god feels less inevitable. The power of art is very evident in this battle We probably shouldn't have defunded so much art and told everyone it's a waste to study humanities
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