#Toronto

John Bowker

bowker_john

During the pandemic, the Ford govt has quietly issued several Minister’s Zoning Orders on behalf of well-connected developers & PC donors, paving over farmland & destroying wetlands without public notice

S.P.A.

TheRealSPA

Happy 129th Birthday Mary PickfordA thread http://waldina.com/2021/04/08/happy-129th-birthday-mary-pickford/ Today is the 129th birthday of the actress, trailblazer, visionary Mary Pickford. The world is a better place because she was in i

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

The politicization of online fandoms is always weird. Most fandoms (usually) have no intrinsic political valence, and indeed, a common strong affinity for an apolitical genre can make strange allies,

Eva Vivalt

evavivalt

I haven't known how to share this story, but I do want to get it off my chest, so here goes.It's a story of discrimination. I'm sure everyone has one.

John C. Borthwick

jborthwik

2020 #GuelphBudget rant: Please @cityofguelph Council... use your role to advocate vigorously for PERMANENT supportive housing in Guelph. Something that @gwpoverty has been saying for years. The City is not

Jason Li

jasonli

Say to racism, support your local Asian businesses https://twitter.com/shenchingtou/status/1250110123936186368 And two fun takeout lists for Toronto and Vancouver created by @singtaocanada : https://www.singtao.ca/takeout/ : https://www.singtao

Tom Burgis

tomburgis

The @nytimes story on #TrumpTaxReturns says of Russia: "the tax records revealed no previously unknown financial connection — and, for the most part, lack the specificity required to do so".

Alexis

piptal

Athletes wearing masks. A threadhttps://twitter.com/kylebrostowitz/status/1279867069283004416 Marc Gasolhttps://twitter.com/pakhattak/status/1278118436066000901?s=21 Serge Ibaka Mike Trouthttps://twitter.com/debbietrout27/status/12798606128

Kate Allen

katecallen

Ontario is creating a new health data platform to help researchers, incl. modellers & province's world-leading AI scientists respond to pandemicThis sounds like what the researchers in the story I

Joanna Chiu

joannachiu

Are you from an immigrant family, and have you grown up thinking that through hard work and sacrifice, anything could be overcome - including racism? Until recently, I didn't think

Andrew Morris

ASPphysician

As @JPSoucy points out in this excellent , we have a experienced a considerable drop in testing. The question we don't know is: how many should we be testing? @skepticalIDdoc

Michelle Cohen, MD

DocMCohen

The history of public health is also the history of women in health care. Let’s take a moment to reflect on how the discipline of public health arose out of

Robyn Maynard

policingblack

Am so glad to (re) share that the 8-day hunger strike undertaken by migrant detainees at the Laval Immigration Holding Centre was partly successful: they were released! Hear thx for

Tyrik LaMarr Miller™

TeamOnMaBackDoe

So I saw a #Verzuz list between these 2 greats on Facebook..& it was clearly created by some 15-year old gen-Z-er’, just off of the chosen songs alone. I won’t

Sandro Galea

sandrogalea

It has now been several months since #COVID19 first entered our consciousness. We still have much to learn about it. But, to my thinking, three key points have become clear.

Jamie Bradburn

jbcurio

1) Today's thread o' movie-related stuff begins in memory of actress Honor Blackman with the Globe and Mail's original review of Goldfinger (December 23, 1964) #TOhistory 2) Here's an original