A copy of the book Saving Toronto: 10 City Builders Tell Us How”, edited by Ken Greenberg and Anne Golden. The book is being held up in front of Toronto City Hall.
“All the hope and enthusiasm for the world, for our city, and for each other will not come from any machines; it will come from a healthy and vibrant civic life and culture” - Bianca Wylie
#Toronto
Lebanese health ministry reports 160 attacks on medical workers, ambulances; forced closure of 6 hospitals, 49 clinics.
"In the latest attack that killed two paramedics and seriously wounded a third..., the ministry accused Israel of deliberately targeting a gathering of first responders on duty."
my latest on two strikes from Jnah (south of Beirut) & Ain Saadeh (east of Beirut) that took place on April 5
www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
Poster with information for the film screening fundraiser which will happen Sunday April 12, 8pm CET. The screening of the short film Al Hmar, written by Ayman Makarem and directed by Tariq Keblaoui, will be followed by a q and a with Ayman. How it works, step 1) donate to a local org in lebanon, 2) send teceipt of payment to ayman via email, 3) receive zoom link via email. all necessary links are in the linktree in the original post.
Brief description of the situation in Lebanon and 3 groups that are working on the ground to support war-affected communities.
So this is happening. Im screening the satirical short film I wrote (from 2018), as a fundraiser for Lebanon. Join me, April 12, 8pm CET. Donate to a local org, send receipt, and receive the invite. All links here: linktr.ee/lebanonfundr...
Doug Ford has gutted the Ontario Endangered Species Act.
Among the species now threatened by Doug Ford’s government is the Barn Owl, which as a society we’ve been trying to protect since I was literally in primary school.
This was in one day.
In the latest @thefirethesetimes.com audio episode, @ayoub.bsky.social talks about Israel bombing his hometown of Ain Saadeh yesterday.
A Cooper’s hawk perched on a bare tree branch.
A common loon in the Toronto Harbour.
A muskrat swimming on the Toronto waterfront.
A red-tailed hawk perched on a utility pole.
📍 Toronto Islands
Beaver, muskrat, loon, hawks, and lots of spring sights this morning - tree swallows, brown thrashers, eastern towhees, fox sparrows, and black-crowned night herons.
#Toronto
View over a Lake Ontario at sunrise from the Toronto Islands. Tommy Thompson Park is on the horizon. Light yellow and orange light underneath an overcast sky.
View over a large pond on the Toronto Islands, surrounded by a mix of mostly leafless trees. Wooden floating dock in the foreground, and the Toronto skyline in the distance.
Sandune habitat on the Toronto island shoreline, lined by mixed trees.
Sandy beach on the Toronto islands shoreline with a large bush on the beach. Blue sky overhead.
📍 Toronto Islands
A couple of seasons before noon.
#Toronto
Sandy beach on the Toronto islands at sunrise, looking over a bay towards Tommy Thompson Park. Pale yellow and pink light on the horizon in a cloudy sky.
📍 Ward’s Island Beach #Toronto
Easter messages and wishes to family this morning - turns into messages checking everyone is safe (they are) after an Israeli strike in Ain Saadeh this evening.
One of multiple strikes in the country today. #Lebanon
“Know that you are not alone, not in your sorrow or your rage, and not in your profound sense of displacement from the reality surrounding you.”
A beautifully empathetic and powerful piece addressing diaspora anguish. It all resonated, and is worth sharing ⬇️
Groups of people walking and sitting around the R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant by Toronto’s waterfront on a sunny afternoon.
A line of people standing a sandy beach on Toronto’s waterfront, looking out to the lake on a sunny afternoon.
A section of arched windows in the R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant, a grand Art Deco building with buff-coloured brick.
People walking along a waterfront trails through the grounds of the R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant by Toronto’s lakeshore on a sunny afternoon.
📍 R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant
#Toronto #EastEndTO
A creek running along the bottom of a ravine, surrounded by a mix of evergreen and deciduous trees.
A yellow-bellied sapsucker drilling a line of sap wells in a tree trunk.
Large logs and rocks covering a creek in the bottom of a ravine, surrounded by trees with leafless branches.
Wooden stairs leading down into a ravine filled with trees with leafless branches. Blue sky with some clouds overhead.
📍 Glen Stewart Ravine #Toronto #EastEndTO
Huge mural on the side of an apartment building depicting birds surrounded by flowers.
📍 Kingston Road #Toronto
A recent stunner by birdO.
The Koujak-Jaber residential building designed by Victor H. Bisharat in Beirut, Lebanon (1966-67) r/brutalism
A pebble beach by a tree-lined shoreline in Toronto. Red and orange rocks are shaped in a heart at the centre of the beach.
📍 West Island, Ontario Place, 2022
#Toronto
Now destroyed.
Also a shoutout to Turtle Protectors, who run a great awareness-raising and advocacy campaign for turtles in the city (they have a hotline for hatchling/nesting season)
turtleprotectors.com/about
Some great ideas - actually a nice thread about civil society being strong! Sometimes you need to see it.
#2 Toronto, Canada -- Wednesday, 8 April (official Canadian book launch event)
Details & tickets: www.eventbrite.ca/e/book-launc...?
A four-by-five grid of black and white photos with images of the front porches of Toronto bay and gable homes. All images are from Series 372, Subseries 58.
A new exhibit at the Toronto Archives opens on May 1. Subseries 58 explores photographs created for the City’s Roads Section during the first half of the 20th century by arranging them in grids based on visual themes, associations, repetitions and typologies.
https://ow.ly/n3Pp50YBqTV
Just been sent this wee video from home - it’s the first day of the season for MV Glenachulish (the Glenelg-Skye ferry), last manually operated steel turntable ferry in the world. It can carry 6 cars.
“Big time weather today”
#Scotland
trans power from beirut 🏳️⚧️ 🧿
The background is a pale blue, and features the outline map of Lebanon with the design of the Lebanese flag on it in the centre. Layered on top of this, the text reads: Beware of Small States: Lebanon since 1975 A masterclass by Elia Ayoub This 5-part online masterclass by writer and researcher Elia Ayoub covers an overview of Lebanese history and politics from 1975, with a focus on the so-called 'postwar' from 1990 onward.
One of our team members has been taking an insightful online class on Lebanon’s history with @ayoub.bsky.social - and we wanted to share it for anyone else who might be interested 📚
Registrations for the May 2026 course are open - head to eliaayoub.com for more details!
Ontario Nature has tracked every piece of legislation that has weakened environmental protections in Ontario since 2018.
“Because you can't fight to protect nature without knowing which protections have been taken away.”
@ontarionature.bsky.social
catalog.ontarionature.org/tracked-chan...
Mural on a garage door in a Toronto lane. A white, orange and black butterfly rests on a large orange flower. Artist is oldschoolhues.
Mural in a Toronto lane. A bird with a turquoise head, curved black bill, and dark purple and yellow body perches on a branch. Blue butterflies in either side. Artists are luvsumone, muisca, and Javid Jah.
📍 Butterflyway Lane #Toronto
My chat in The List magazine with Graeme Farnell of Edinburgh based photography based publishers, MuseumsEtc
list.co.uk/news/graeme-...
Jo Spence: The Unknown Recordings; The Erasure Of Palestine -Ahmad Al-Bazz; & Culture And Capitalism-Henry Giroux from MuseumsEtc museumsetc.com/collections/...
Illustration of two red winged blackbirds, the male perched on a stalk and the female flying away.
The red wing blackbirds are back. It‘s so disorienting that the world is crashing, but it‘s also spring. #birds #WildlifeArt #NatureArt
People sitting on steps in a waterfront park underneath a tall willow tree. The CN Tower and apartment buildings are in the background.
Christmas rose flowers in bloom underneath a small grove of trees in a Toronto waterfront park. People are sitting on benches and walking along a path.
Purple crocuses in bloom among a patch of earth in a Toronto waterfront park. People walk along a path nearby.
People walking and running along a Toronto waterfront park. The Canada Malting Silos visible in the distance.
📍 Toronto Music Garden
#Toronto
So devastating, we’ve postponed for now ❤️
