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Deviant pedestrian. I’m bullish on cities, opposed to fascism and write editorials for The Globe and Mail. Never 51. @moore_oliver at the bird site, which I've mostly left. Will try to respond via [email protected]. Header pic by Mervyn Sequeira

Oliver Moore

So Japanese that you can pay the fine with your transit card (it's also valid at convenience stores, coin lockers, taxis, some restaurants). Remember when Presto was going to be some kind of world-beating transit card? I can't pay for anything with it except transit www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/w...

"WHEREAS the City of Mississauga wishes to adopt a by-law to control excessive and/or unsafe clotheslines"

The rules: max one line per dwelling unit, it must be in backyard, can't be within 125cm of the lot line, must be less than 3 metres off the ground and "must be confined to a straight line so as to prevent the ringing of the entire property with a single line with corner posts" Take that, hippies

Somehow went down a rabbit hole and have been reading Mississauga's clothesline bylaw and it might turn me into the Joker www.mississauga.ca/wp-content/u...

Asking people taking this survey "What approaches could help mitigate or manage noise impacts for surrounding communities?" is nuts. How the hell would Joe Public know what to do?

Congratulations of sorts to my colleague Tony Keller for coming up with the most offputting characterization of Trump’s behaviour www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Do you want to do this thing we're associating with a bunch of positive words -- optimizing, generating, improving, increasing -- or do you oppose good things?

This seems pretty loaded framing.. "Would you support changes to Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport? This could include optimizing airport infrastructure ... allowing for different aircraft types, generating economic development and job creation, improving connectivity, increasing passenger flow"

I think visiting fans from many cities in the world would be amused at this pearl-clutching description of Toronto as a "filthy, dangerous place" that you wouldn't want to "visit without an armed guard" torontosun.com/opinion/colu...

I see all these think-pieces about the masculinity crisis and the loneliness crisis and the purpose-of-life crisis. And then one guy gets a hobby and everyone gets dangerously excited www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

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Oliver Moore

“Public consultation” on Billy Bishop expansion. These survey questions suggest to me that this is a done deal. tc.canada.ca/en/corporate...