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Diane Dyson
@dianedyson.bsky.social
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Data geek in TO's #nonprofit sector
I do research & policy on equitable, livable urban places, poverty, neighbourhoods, education, housing, employment, immigration
Montrealer, so love to debate, dance
Local Garden Club member 'cause it makes me smile 🫛🪴😁🌼🌱
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People want housing - as long as they trust who is offering it and it meets their needs.
People want community and belonging more...
Housing design will solve homelessness,
Tessa Blake Whitecloud on her move to the Collaborative #Housing REIT
November 7, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Bonus Summer Saturday in east end Toronto! #dlws
September 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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The highest rates of #homelessness are in the biggest cities and the smallest towns.
housing-infrastructure.canada.ca/images/homel...
September 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Put on my blue @housingnowto.bsky.social Tshirt to discuss mentorship opportunities this coming school year for capstone projects at @uoftcities.bsky.social
#AffordableHousing
August 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Precision to the point of pedantry? Someone thought this level of accuracy was important!
#Statistics #UrbanGuerrillaism
A diamond-shaped Caution sign is attached to a telephone pole. On it is a black arrow pointing up (or ahead). Below it is a red hexagon with white lettering that reads "43m". The numbers are slightly askew, as if someone had attached them independently of the overall design of the sign.
August 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Saw my first Monarch of the season today
#TOnature
July 17, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Build Canada funds and MURA are both levers to advance #AffordableHousing. #CPplanning
May 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Above Guideline Increases in rent see landlords reap benefits of energy-saving infrastructure (low-flush toilets, insulation) while charging the costs of those renovations back to tenants: Chiara Podvani at annual #CPplanning Resident Summit. #TenantRights #Capitalism #Financialization #Housing
Chiara, holding microphone, speaking to seated crowd in front of screen saying "Community Open Forum"
May 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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In 1977, the Council of Ontario Universities argued against higher fees for international students:
#cdnpse
Page 2 of a typed document: "heritage which universities represent. Historically universities have been by definition, dedicated to free inquiry and opened all who are academically, qualified for admission, without artificial barriers against particular groups. Universities have always had a strongly, international flavor, and while serving the special needs of the society, supporting them, have provided windows on the world for those societies. Well, these ideals have not at all times been fully realized because of particular circumstances, they remain nonetheless at the heart of a university's purposes, and the Ontario universities have exemplified these ideals. In the context of publicly supported institutions, another principle must be recognized. Governments have the power and the duty to legislate in the best interest of their people. In funding a university system the government has a right to decide what it will pay for. However, in the present instance, the universities of Ontario are convinced that the policy of higher fees for Via students does not serve the best long-term interest of the people of Ontario. The universities find the policy unpalatable because it interferes. With the movement of scholars between countries, and therefore dampens the exchange of ideas. Graduate students, for instance, or tomorrow's intellectual leaders around the world. The policy also interferes with the opportunity, and indeed obligation, for the universities to provide training to individuals from elsewhere, who are not affluent, particularly those from disadvantage countries where are the necessary education, educational facilities do not exist. Much of the opposition to the higher fee policy has derived from the way in which it will de facto quotation [end of page]
May 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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I am (at least) this old in computer commands.
No wonder I have trouble learning new Operating Systems. #technology
A handwritten note with the following on it: Indent - Shift F4 Italics - Ctrl F8, 2 4 Plain Ctrl F8, 3 Line spacing - Shift, F8, 1, 6
May 14, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Social Prescribing demonstrates strong results; #foodsecurity and social connections are top non-medical needs, Natasha Beaudin from the Alliance for Healthier Communities explains.
May 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Enjoying an academic day at the Holistic Sustainability Development Network's 9th Sustainability Collaborative Conference at @torontomet.bsky.social with Access Alliance and the Alliance for Healthy Communities.
www.hsdni.org/9th-hsdnis-s...
May 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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#GeekAlert: All kinds of #WealthInequality data fun packed into today's #StatsCan release with data going back to 2011, and searchable by income quintiles, age, generation, housing, and province / region, and type of financial asset and/or liability. #PowerBI
www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-60...
April 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Nothing new sadly
April 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Go outside, work outside!
#SpringForADay #dlws
Laptop on lap. Feet up. Porch view. Wind blowing. Warmth and sun abound.
April 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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I kept looking for the toddler. #RoBcoverstory #BillionaireProtection
The April 2025 cover of the Globe and Mail's Report on Business Magazine shows a tall, square-jawed, close-cropped man with an earpiece holding a reporter behind a fabric shield (marked Multi-threat Shield) as he rushes her, head down, around a waiting SUV. It's a still from a series of photographs on the inside story, titled "Move, move, move: How I learned to be body guarded like a billionaire."
March 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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That bedazzled hockey shirt is not lost on us! Singer @annemurray.bsky.social as she receives Lifetime award at the #Junos:
March 31, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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The City of Toronto's Parks' department is consulting on a new Rec centre in the parking lot near Rosedale subway. What if they broke the planning silo and included #housing with it? #topoli
www.toronto.ca/city-governm...
March 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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The need for #food has dropped out of the top 5 needs for callers to 211 Toronto. #MentalHealth / Substance Use disorders is well in the lead of those calling since January 1, 2025, more than 2X #housing. 2/3 those were folks seeking Assessment and Treatment. #Toronto
211ontario.ca/211-data/bi/
Bar graph labelled Top 5 Needs by Needs Category (filtered for city of Toronto). The categories listed are Housing at 8.92%; Individual / Family Services at 8.26%; Information Services at 15.57%; Legal / Public Safety at 8.88%; and Mental Health / Substance Use Disorders at 23.38%. This is of 16,832 calls where needs were identified between the dates of January 1, 2025 and March 11, 2025.
March 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Here's Aleqa Hammond, the first female Prime Minister of #Greenland (pop. 56,000) at a Susan Aglukark concert in 2023 at @hughsroomlive.bsky.socialI couldn't resist the selfie when she was introduced - and then, in awe, I asked them both for their autographs!
#BrushWithFame #WomenInPolitics
Split picture. The top shows a CD from singer Susan Aglukark, autographed by the singer and a second signature below, from the former Prime Minister. The bottom picture is shot over my shoulder where two rows behind sits a woman in red, her dark hair tied back, she is smiling watching the concert.
March 13, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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This is one of my favourite #visualization #KTE #CdnImm graphics we developed at work to look at #Settlement pathways for Canadian newcomers. It informs on the program ideal and audits the actual experience. I got the idea from Health planners and a client who kept hitting barriers.
Graphic shows a flowchart with colour-coded boxes, sorted by time periods (i.e. first few weeks, first 6 months, 6 months to 2 years, 3+ years). The boxes are grouped into topics such as pre-arrival, Orientation, Education, Employment, Health, Language.
March 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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The anti- #suburban campaign from Zillow has me laughing. Sorry @rkeil.bsky.social! I♥️NY
#cdnurb #canurb
Black man in a Brooklyn shirt, jeans, and ball cap holds a garden hose in right hand, left hand in pocket. He stares blankly into the middle distance in front of of a green-shuttered, white Cape Cod style home. The text says "'Cul-de-sac is just a fancy word for dead end.' -- Démarré, Left Bed-Stuy in 2021. Never become a former New Yorker. Buy with StreetEasy"
February 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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When do youth move out? Youthful Cities report: 50% move out of childhood home at age 18-21. 53% move back home. #cdn #housing #urbanhousing
Graphic from Youthful Cities: 50% move out of childhood home at age 18-21. 53% move back home.
February 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Multiple blocked transit tracks. #TTC #sigh
February 22, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Enjoying the glimpses of Canadiana / Canadians on #SNL50, from ICE agents hauling Martin Short away, Lorne Michael's "childhood friends" and now Mike Myer's Linda! #Canada
February 17, 2025 at 3:40 AM