Leslie Sinclair
@lesliesinclair.bsky.social
Toronto journalist covering culture, social justice and religion. https://bio.site/lesliesinclair
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September 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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One city knows it's a city, the other actively revolts against reality by pretending to be a sleepy midwestern city circa 1962 at every turn: bus lanes, bike lanes, multiplexes, pickleball courts...
The gap in city quality between Montreal and Toronto is probably larger than it's been at any point in my lifetime.
June 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
One city knows it's a city, the other actively revolts against reality by pretending to be a sleepy midwestern city circa 1962 at every turn: bus lanes, bike lanes, multiplexes, pickleball courts...
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Absurd. @lesliesinclair.bsky.social wrote about the wild campaign against a 475-metre bike lane on a secondary street that removes no traffic for @thelocal.to. thelocal.to/marlee-avenu...
May 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Absurd. @lesliesinclair.bsky.social wrote about the wild campaign against a 475-metre bike lane on a secondary street that removes no traffic for @thelocal.to. thelocal.to/marlee-avenu...
Update: Colle just got the two-thirds vote needed to re-open and amend Item 2024.IE14.4. Bad day for cyclists (and pedestrians, I'd argue) on Marlee Avenue.
If you liked this story, you'll be interested to know that area Councillor Mike Colle (who previously voted for this project) has requested to reopen and delete it from Item IE14.4 which was approved last June. This will be considered by City Council next week secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...
May 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Update: Colle just got the two-thirds vote needed to re-open and amend Item 2024.IE14.4. Bad day for cyclists (and pedestrians, I'd argue) on Marlee Avenue.
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one starts asking, after 24 hours of news, "what is value of living in Toronto?"
On next week’s Council agenda: Councillor Mike Colle wants to reverse a previous decision to install bike lanes on Marlee Avenue. Some local residents objected to the plan, circulating a petition claiming the bike lanes would cause a “Decrease of Quiet Enjoyment.” secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...
Agenda Item History 2025.MM30.13
Agenda Item History 2025.MM30.13
secure.toronto.ca
May 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
one starts asking, after 24 hours of news, "what is value of living in Toronto?"
If you liked this story, you'll be interested to know that area Councillor Mike Colle (who previously voted for this project) has requested to reopen and delete it from Item IE14.4 which was approved last June. This will be considered by City Council next week secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...
May 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
If you liked this story, you'll be interested to know that area Councillor Mike Colle (who previously voted for this project) has requested to reopen and delete it from Item IE14.4 which was approved last June. This will be considered by City Council next week secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...
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And if you missed it, check out this excellent @lesliesinclair.bsky.social story on a community's fight over bike lanes in a tucked-away corner of the city that actually says everything about the battle for our city roads and the reactionary, often misinformed thinking behind it.
The proposed bike lane on Marlee Avenue is a modest 475-block stretch along a secondary street. That hasn’t stopped opponents from coming out against it with outsized anger and fear. thelocal.to/marlee-avenu...
The Battle Over a 475-Metre Bike Lane on Marlee Avenue | The Local
In Toronto, even the most modest bike lane proposal is met with outsized anger and fear.
thelocal.to
January 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
And if you missed it, check out this excellent @lesliesinclair.bsky.social story on a community's fight over bike lanes in a tucked-away corner of the city that actually says everything about the battle for our city roads and the reactionary, often misinformed thinking behind it.
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This is a new development in the Marlee bike lane saga (a building on Eglinton in front of Marlee). I just don't get why businesses would want to be so hostile to all the pedestrians and cyclists going by. I'm getting shades of the King St pilot project middle finger guy.
December 17, 2024 at 2:49 PM
This is a new development in the Marlee bike lane saga (a building on Eglinton in front of Marlee). I just don't get why businesses would want to be so hostile to all the pedestrians and cyclists going by. I'm getting shades of the King St pilot project middle finger guy.
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Just a great piece from @lesliesinclair.bsky.social. I heard this all the time when I worked at city hall. People will make up whatever facts they want about a project that they don’t like. Idk if it’s a lack of trust in govt or ppl genuinely living different realities, either way, it’s not good.
December 12, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Just a great piece from @lesliesinclair.bsky.social. I heard this all the time when I worked at city hall. People will make up whatever facts they want about a project that they don’t like. Idk if it’s a lack of trust in govt or ppl genuinely living different realities, either way, it’s not good.
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"Having this personal connection to nature felt special," Christopher Blackwell writes of his chance encounter with a family of nesting barn swallows. "For a few minutes, I could feel like a part of something much bigger than the closed world of this penitentiary."
Prison Can Be A Hostile Place. Then the Birds Came.
The birds quickly became the talk of the unit. Suddenly, everyone an ornithologist, claiming to know whether barn swallows were endangered.
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August 10, 2023 at 2:33 PM
"Having this personal connection to nature felt special," Christopher Blackwell writes of his chance encounter with a family of nesting barn swallows. "For a few minutes, I could feel like a part of something much bigger than the closed world of this penitentiary."
Pleased to be part of this package looking at how Ford has harmed Toronto and the folks pushing back. I spoke to Councillor Ausma Malik about spreading councillors too thin and try to parse where the Province is at re Indigenous curriculum.
https://www.westendphoenix.com/stories/devil-in-the-details
https://www.westendphoenix.com/stories/devil-in-the-details
Devil in the Details — West End Phoenix
Last June, Ontario brought Doug Ford’s Conservative government back for a
second term. In this issue, WEP looks at the 7 key ways his party’s
policies have put the squeeze on neighbourhoods acro...
www.westendphoenix.com
August 10, 2023 at 8:06 PM
Pleased to be part of this package looking at how Ford has harmed Toronto and the folks pushing back. I spoke to Councillor Ausma Malik about spreading councillors too thin and try to parse where the Province is at re Indigenous curriculum.
https://www.westendphoenix.com/stories/devil-in-the-details
https://www.westendphoenix.com/stories/devil-in-the-details