Stacey Waspe
@staceywaspe.ca
writer, designer, marketer, project manager :: Waspe One Name Study :: genealogy, gardens, pollinators, zero waste :: settler :: she / her :: Toronto 🇨🇦 Born @ 329.56 PPM CO2
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In the near future, developers and city government will have to contend with displaced tenants whose buildings have been demolished to build condos that will never happen. These tenants have been promised new affordable units. It'll be a class action lawsuit. www.thegrindmag.ca/toronto-cond...
Toronto Condo Crash Leaves These Three Sites in Limbo
With the epic dive in condo sales, more developments are being cancelled or delayed than ever before. The Grind visits the sites of three such projects to see what’s left standing.
www.thegrindmag.ca
December 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
In the near future, developers and city government will have to contend with displaced tenants whose buildings have been demolished to build condos that will never happen. These tenants have been promised new affordable units. It'll be a class action lawsuit. www.thegrindmag.ca/toronto-cond...
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The Doug Ford government is setting its sites on conservation authorities for the fifth time, merging the watershed protection agencies. Staff tell @fatimabsyed.bsky.social it may ‘slow approvals, create confusion’ — not to mention it's leaving them with ‘whiplash.’ thenarwhal.ca/ontario-cons...
Inside Ontario’s plan to merge 36 conservation authorities to 7 | The Narwhal
Doug Ford’s government is seeking public feedback on its plan to overhaul Ontario’s conservation authorities, reducing local agencies from 36 to 7
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November 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The Doug Ford government is setting its sites on conservation authorities for the fifth time, merging the watershed protection agencies. Staff tell @fatimabsyed.bsky.social it may ‘slow approvals, create confusion’ — not to mention it's leaving them with ‘whiplash.’ thenarwhal.ca/ontario-cons...
Baking focaccia. Yeast is weird.
October 26, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Baking focaccia. Yeast is weird.
Wolfsbane (also Monkshood and Aconitum) is finally blooming, just in time for werewolf season. (Note: extremely toxic!)
October 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Wolfsbane (also Monkshood and Aconitum) is finally blooming, just in time for werewolf season. (Note: extremely toxic!)
Repaired a hole in the arm of this thrifted Marks and Spencer extra fine lambswool sweater. Blanket stitched around the outside and then single crocheted in a circle until it was all joined up. Finally remembered to decrease so I didn’t make an oversized patch. 🤣 Not perfect, but wearable.
October 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Repaired a hole in the arm of this thrifted Marks and Spencer extra fine lambswool sweater. Blanket stitched around the outside and then single crocheted in a circle until it was all joined up. Finally remembered to decrease so I didn’t make an oversized patch. 🤣 Not perfect, but wearable.
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Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right.
Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
September 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right.
Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
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I helped the Centre for Civic Governance on an exciting new report about the jobs potential of renewable energy and energy conservation investments in Canada. The numbers are huge: 6.3 to 9.5 million job years of new construction work from now to 2050: ccg.eco/research/job.... /2
Jobs for Today: Canada's Building Trades and the Net-Zero Transition - Centre for Civic Governance
Commissioned by Green Jobs BC, a project of the Centre for Civic Governance, Jobs for Today: Canada’s Building Trades and the Net-Zero Transition explores the vital role Canada’s construction industry...
ccg.eco
September 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I helped the Centre for Civic Governance on an exciting new report about the jobs potential of renewable energy and energy conservation investments in Canada. The numbers are huge: 6.3 to 9.5 million job years of new construction work from now to 2050: ccg.eco/research/job.... /2
Remembering those (2006) Autumn Wednesdays, after prenatal yoga, eating tandoori potato pizza, watching Jericho.
September 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Remembering those (2006) Autumn Wednesdays, after prenatal yoga, eating tandoori potato pizza, watching Jericho.
First day of school fun: older kid takes younger kids wallet for single uni class, which means youngest kid is walletless with a borrowed Presto card for the first day of his last day of high school. Why is this day?
September 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
First day of school fun: older kid takes younger kids wallet for single uni class, which means youngest kid is walletless with a borrowed Presto card for the first day of his last day of high school. Why is this day?
It seems like an impossible puzzle. We need housing but it cannot be built in the current system. Where do all the empty lots around Toronto-Danforth fit? Some have been tumbleweeds for years. macleans.ca/longforms/ca...
The Condo Crash - Macleans.ca
For years, low interest rates fuelled a big-city condo-flipping frenzy. Profits got bigger and condos got smaller. Now the bubble has popped, leaving behind thousands of unsellable, unlivable units.
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September 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
It seems like an impossible puzzle. We need housing but it cannot be built in the current system. Where do all the empty lots around Toronto-Danforth fit? Some have been tumbleweeds for years. macleans.ca/longforms/ca...
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It fills me with rage that we could've spent the last 5yrs overhauling indoor ventilation and just...didn't. Like, it's good for capitalism! Even if that's allll you care about, healthy people are more productive workers! And people don't have to take as much time off work if their kids are healthy!
August 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
It fills me with rage that we could've spent the last 5yrs overhauling indoor ventilation and just...didn't. Like, it's good for capitalism! Even if that's allll you care about, healthy people are more productive workers! And people don't have to take as much time off work if their kids are healthy!
“While tiny, undesirable units are free-falling, homes that most people actually want to live in remain entirely disconnected from incomes. The missing middle of Canadian housing is very much still missing.” www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
The condo crash won’t fix our housing problem. In fact, it just might make it worse
What sounds like good news for some buyers might in fact be the opposite.
www.thestar.com
August 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
“While tiny, undesirable units are free-falling, homes that most people actually want to live in remain entirely disconnected from incomes. The missing middle of Canadian housing is very much still missing.” www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
“Despite federal and provincial commitments to double housing starts, new housing construction in the GTA is in freefall…policymakers have shown little concern for a situation that will cost tens of thousands of jobs…” www.missingmiddleinitiative.ca/p/torontos-h...
Toronto’s Housing Collapse Will Cost Governments $6.6 Billion a Year
The evaporation of new housing sales in the GTA could cost governments $6.6 billion per year
www.missingmiddleinitiative.ca
August 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
“Despite federal and provincial commitments to double housing starts, new housing construction in the GTA is in freefall…policymakers have shown little concern for a situation that will cost tens of thousands of jobs…” www.missingmiddleinitiative.ca/p/torontos-h...
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First year growing Cleome. So pretty and hasn’t hated the heat or drought unlike all the other flowers.
August 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
First year growing Cleome. So pretty and hasn’t hated the heat or drought unlike all the other flowers.
Ontario line construction walk: Gerrard Station and Pape South. Sometimes I see machines I cannot even name.
August 20, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Ontario line construction walk: Gerrard Station and Pape South. Sometimes I see machines I cannot even name.
I help run free swaps for our local farmers’ market community. We had another on Saturday, where we had 1,117 lbs donated, 84% of which was swapped. So many people thanked us for organizing & hosting. It made me realize how few people expect easy, free or generous experiences day-to-day.
August 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I help run free swaps for our local farmers’ market community. We had another on Saturday, where we had 1,117 lbs donated, 84% of which was swapped. So many people thanked us for organizing & hosting. It made me realize how few people expect easy, free or generous experiences day-to-day.
“…unusually high temperatures directly translate to higher food costs. Heatwaves and prolonged droughts cut yields, reduce supply, and push up prices, often within weeks of an event.”
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From Heatwaves to Price Waves – Climate Change’s Growing Grip on Our Food System - Climate Fact Checks
Global food systems are feeling the heat. A study in Environmental Research Letters maps 16 extreme climate events between 2022 and 2024 across 18 countries, showing how heatwaves, droughts, and heavy...
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August 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
“…unusually high temperatures directly translate to higher food costs. Heatwaves and prolonged droughts cut yields, reduce supply, and push up prices, often within weeks of an event.”
climatefactchecks.org/from-heatwav...
climatefactchecks.org/from-heatwav...
The cats take turns hiding in the plants. As long as they don’t chew on them, I find it charming.
August 8, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The cats take turns hiding in the plants. As long as they don’t chew on them, I find it charming.
Black and white photo of a large group of men wearing dirty working clothing. Back of the photo (postcard) says: Coal Ship Day at Halifax, N.S. Aug. 3 .. 18, HMS Devonshire. #genealogy #mystery #photo
August 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Black and white photo of a large group of men wearing dirty working clothing. Back of the photo (postcard) says: Coal Ship Day at Halifax, N.S. Aug. 3 .. 18, HMS Devonshire. #genealogy #mystery #photo
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Laughing out loud at how perfectly and specifically this piece of merch for Death Cab for Cutie's Plans 20th Anniversary shows evokes a moment in cultural history. Real "iykyk" energy.
July 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Laughing out loud at how perfectly and specifically this piece of merch for Death Cab for Cutie's Plans 20th Anniversary shows evokes a moment in cultural history. Real "iykyk" energy.
At a wisdom teeth consult in Ontario and they are doing measles screening. 😳
July 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
At a wisdom teeth consult in Ontario and they are doing measles screening. 😳
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I’m having font conflicts like it’s the early naughts and I’m using a G4 cube. 🫠
July 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I’m having font conflicts like it’s the early naughts and I’m using a G4 cube. 🫠
Loving Murderbot but I want to scream after every short episode.
July 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Loving Murderbot but I want to scream after every short episode.