Nathan Wener
@nathwen.bsky.social
York MES Planning candidate 2026 - Former City Hall Staffer - Love the sport with knife boots 🏒
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The Toronto Public Library has purchased the old WE Charity headquarters at Queen & Parliament to convert into a new branch: blogs.tpl.ca/news-release...
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The Toronto Public Library has purchased the old WE Charity headquarters at Queen & Parliament to convert into a new branch: blogs.tpl.ca/news-release...
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Hockey isn’t our national culture. Cars are.
Get outside kids, enjoy the fresh air with your friends!
Just kidding, stay the F inside.
Just kidding, stay the F inside.
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Hockey isn’t our national culture. Cars are.
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Being allowed to turn through a red light is so uncivilized.
Right Turn of Death | Creator Network | A Film by The Greater Discussions
YouTube video by CBC British Columbia
www.youtube.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Being allowed to turn through a red light is so uncivilized.
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Imagine lighting up a cigarette on an airplane and then getting mad at the airline that the "no smoking" sign that's been there for 30 years wasn't neon yellow, 5 foot wide, and flashing
October 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Imagine lighting up a cigarette on an airplane and then getting mad at the airline that the "no smoking" sign that's been there for 30 years wasn't neon yellow, 5 foot wide, and flashing
We literally tried to reduce the amount of lanes and implement traffic calming 18 months ago but residents lost their minds!!! You can’t have it both ways!
Burnside's point is that maybe the 40 km/h speed limit on Avenue Rd and other streets is too low. Getting a ticket for "going 50 or 51 on Avenue Road that's six lanes wide, seems to be the kind of thing that would get under people's craws," he says.
Gray points out there are schools on Avenue Road.
Gray points out there are schools on Avenue Road.
October 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
We literally tried to reduce the amount of lanes and implement traffic calming 18 months ago but residents lost their minds!!! You can’t have it both ways!
Just take away his license…
Driver who racks up between $300 and $400 a month in speeding and parking tickets feels like he’s "being bullied.” www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
September 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Just take away his license…
Will never be able to see crosswalks the same thanks to @kayehm.bsky.social. So close, yet so far.
September 23, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Will never be able to see crosswalks the same thanks to @kayehm.bsky.social. So close, yet so far.
Absolute SCENES in the National Capital Region this summer
August 18, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Absolute SCENES in the National Capital Region this summer
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No. They should be banned at all urban intersections.
Should drivers be banned from turning right at some red lights in Waterloo Region?
One regional councillor is looking for more information on just that this week.
One regional councillor is looking for more information on just that this week.
Motion to look into right hand turn ban on red lights to be introduced
The motion being introduced by Regional Councillor Colleen James asks staff to identify key intersections where ban could be implemented.
kitchener.citynews.ca
August 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
No. They should be banned at all urban intersections.
God forbid an Anglo-Canadian romanticize Montreal
August 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
God forbid an Anglo-Canadian romanticize Montreal
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Community: You got that new rail corridor rendering for us?
Metrolinx: Sure do boss, real bleak and strangely melancholy just like you asked
Community: what
Metrolinx: Sure do boss, real bleak and strangely melancholy just like you asked
Community: what
Metrolinx was looking at a new track east of Union Station (north side of the corridor) to Corktown Common. Apparently there was community uproar. Seeing this rendering, I don't blame them. If you're changing the space, you can't make it a cold utilitarian lane like this. Placemaking must happen.
July 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Community: You got that new rail corridor rendering for us?
Metrolinx: Sure do boss, real bleak and strangely melancholy just like you asked
Community: what
Metrolinx: Sure do boss, real bleak and strangely melancholy just like you asked
Community: what
My tinfoil hat theory is that Rogers’ Stadium is a test run for Ed Rogers to see if he can bring an NFL team to Toronto and inevitably get the city to pay for a permanent 60k person arena. Results are not looking promising for Mr Rogers :/
July 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
My tinfoil hat theory is that Rogers’ Stadium is a test run for Ed Rogers to see if he can bring an NFL team to Toronto and inevitably get the city to pay for a permanent 60k person arena. Results are not looking promising for Mr Rogers :/
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The idea that somehow people speeding and getting a fine for speeding is anything but their own fault is crazy! The whole speed camera discourse totally ignores. The drivers actually need to be responsible when they're operating a dangerous vehicle on public roads.
June 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The idea that somehow people speeding and getting a fine for speeding is anything but their own fault is crazy! The whole speed camera discourse totally ignores. The drivers actually need to be responsible when they're operating a dangerous vehicle on public roads.
We can’t reason our way to safe streets. This is not the Netherlands of the 1970s. This has always been a culture war football with one side advocating for a communal and compassionate approach to cities and the other advocating for an anti-social and cynical vision.
I've heard people say for years
- no one uses the bike lanes
- they're killing businesses
And then you show them a study, with data, that shows:
- bikes outnumbering cars
- business traffic increasing with bike lanes
And they just *don't care*. They made up their minds. It's the bikes' fault.
- no one uses the bike lanes
- they're killing businesses
And then you show them a study, with data, that shows:
- bikes outnumbering cars
- business traffic increasing with bike lanes
And they just *don't care*. They made up their minds. It's the bikes' fault.
Toronto Community Bikeways Coalition reports that during evening rush hours, bikes outnumber motor vehicles on Bloor. So much "hidden" people in Toronto when some parties just focus on car drivers. The Bloor BIA has been courageous (politically) in defending the bike lanes. 1/2
June 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
We can’t reason our way to safe streets. This is not the Netherlands of the 1970s. This has always been a culture war football with one side advocating for a communal and compassionate approach to cities and the other advocating for an anti-social and cynical vision.
Toronto Bollard spotting here in Ottawa 👀
June 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Toronto Bollard spotting here in Ottawa 👀
I wish Ottawa had bikeshare
May 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I wish Ottawa had bikeshare
Damien is spot on. There are many who feel Chow let her base down re; bubble zones, Ontario pl/sci centre, etc but ultimately, Chow’s tax increase is a large reason why the city isn’t LITERALLY falling apart rn
I'm just planting this flag now: if the entirety of your mayoral bid in 2026 is saying property tax increases were too high under Chow, you don't understand the operating budget and you're not fit to be mayor. COVID relief funding is gone, so property taxes have to cover the loss in transit revenue.
May 24, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Damien is spot on. There are many who feel Chow let her base down re; bubble zones, Ontario pl/sci centre, etc but ultimately, Chow’s tax increase is a large reason why the city isn’t LITERALLY falling apart rn
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The inevitable endpoint of angry businesses demanding more car dependency? "Business owners are using AI-generated 'concerned residents' to fight a proposed bus lane"
torontolife.com/city/bathurs...
torontolife.com/city/bathurs...
Bathurst business owners are using AI-generated "concerned residents" to fight a proposed bus lane - Toronto Life
Even the robots are mad about Toronto transit
torontolife.com
May 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The inevitable endpoint of angry businesses demanding more car dependency? "Business owners are using AI-generated 'concerned residents' to fight a proposed bus lane"
torontolife.com/city/bathurs...
torontolife.com/city/bathurs...
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The city ripped out the small front yards to transform Dufferin Street into a car sewer in 1950. The Dufferin bus route as we know it today was established in the 1960s.
So what version of Dufferin Street do you want to back to?
So what version of Dufferin Street do you want to back to?
May 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The city ripped out the small front yards to transform Dufferin Street into a car sewer in 1950. The Dufferin bus route as we know it today was established in the 1960s.
So what version of Dufferin Street do you want to back to?
So what version of Dufferin Street do you want to back to?
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That’s it. It’s over.
The Shanaplan. The Core 4.
An era wasted.
The Shanaplan. The Core 4.
An era wasted.
May 19, 2025 at 2:16 AM
That’s it. It’s over.
The Shanaplan. The Core 4.
An era wasted.
The Shanaplan. The Core 4.
An era wasted.
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Blow... it... up...
May 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Blow... it... up...
It’s the perfect allegory for the city. Has moments of excitement but when you really need them to come through, they shit the bed and get in their own way.
You've gotta admit, in a certain light, the Toronto Maple Leafs are very funny.
May 19, 2025 at 1:23 AM
It’s the perfect allegory for the city. Has moments of excitement but when you really need them to come through, they shit the bed and get in their own way.
They killed cantaloupe guy :(((
May 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
They killed cantaloupe guy :(((
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When you’re a Leafs fan and it’s spring and you check your emails.
May 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
When you’re a Leafs fan and it’s spring and you check your emails.
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So a Mayor Cuomo will demonize delivery workers and announce periodic crackdowns on e-bikes, never addressing the root causes of why so many delivery workers ride the way the do because he takes a ton of money from the app companies. Don't rank Andrew Cuomo.
Following New York City lobbying push, DoorDash spends $1M on Cuomo's mayoral bid
The donation marks the largest of any in the crowded Democratic primary for New York City mayor.
www.politico.com
May 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
So a Mayor Cuomo will demonize delivery workers and announce periodic crackdowns on e-bikes, never addressing the root causes of why so many delivery workers ride the way the do because he takes a ton of money from the app companies. Don't rank Andrew Cuomo.