🇨🇦 Stephen Wickens 🇨🇦
@stephenwickens.bsky.social
Retired after 47 years at four Toronto papers.
Transportation researcher and author of Station to Station (a report on the soaring costs of subway building in the Toronto area). https://rccao.com/research/files/RCCAO-STATION-TO-STATION-REPORT-APRIL2020.pd
Transportation researcher and author of Station to Station (a report on the soaring costs of subway building in the Toronto area). https://rccao.com/research/files/RCCAO-STATION-TO-STATION-REPORT-APRIL2020.pd
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 AM
4. Kids could even play chess and music there after school.
The Willow & Pine Groceteria and all it contributed to a civilized walkable neighbourhood is now long gone, but those who experienced it and got to know Mrs. Piton (shown in front of the store) are still missed.
Photo by Billy Piton
The Willow & Pine Groceteria and all it contributed to a civilized walkable neighbourhood is now long gone, but those who experienced it and got to know Mrs. Piton (shown in front of the store) are still missed.
Photo by Billy Piton
October 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
4. Kids could even play chess and music there after school.
The Willow & Pine Groceteria and all it contributed to a civilized walkable neighbourhood is now long gone, but those who experienced it and got to know Mrs. Piton (shown in front of the store) are still missed.
Photo by Billy Piton
The Willow & Pine Groceteria and all it contributed to a civilized walkable neighbourhood is now long gone, but those who experienced it and got to know Mrs. Piton (shown in front of the store) are still missed.
Photo by Billy Piton
I won't claim this was a brilliant Tweet/reply or anything,
but after only three views in 2+ hours, we can safely assume something about it upset Elon's algorithms and censors.
but after only three views in 2+ hours, we can safely assume something about it upset Elon's algorithms and censors.
March 24, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I won't claim this was a brilliant Tweet/reply or anything,
but after only three views in 2+ hours, we can safely assume something about it upset Elon's algorithms and censors.
but after only three views in 2+ hours, we can safely assume something about it upset Elon's algorithms and censors.
And I think this one is 1950, courtesy of The Coupler
(a TTC in-house magazine)
(a TTC in-house magazine)
March 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
And I think this one is 1950, courtesy of The Coupler
(a TTC in-house magazine)
(a TTC in-house magazine)
Metrolinx was eager to share info when the news was innocuous, that the Diggy Scardust TBM was safely making its way across the ocean. They promised the online tracker and now all they can say is Whoops.
March 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Metrolinx was eager to share info when the news was innocuous, that the Diggy Scardust TBM was safely making its way across the ocean. They promised the online tracker and now all they can say is Whoops.
I was wondering why I've had the Motown song, 'Nowhere to Run To' in my head in recent days: I think the 'earworm' is rooted in walking Toronto sidewalks like this one.
March 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I was wondering why I've had the Motown song, 'Nowhere to Run To' in my head in recent days: I think the 'earworm' is rooted in walking Toronto sidewalks like this one.
The French Embassy in Washington.
H/T Robert Slager on Facebook.
H/T Robert Slager on Facebook.
March 6, 2025 at 3:52 AM
The French Embassy in Washington.
H/T Robert Slager on Facebook.
H/T Robert Slager on Facebook.
Also looks like it's lid up.
March 2, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Also looks like it's lid up.
North Korea has nothing on America in 2025
February 17, 2025 at 3:52 AM
North Korea has nothing on America in 2025
By Zez Vaz of Portugal.
February 16, 2025 at 3:53 AM
By Zez Vaz of Portugal.
Here's your Cybertruck (Zez Vaz credit).
February 16, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Here's your Cybertruck (Zez Vaz credit).
By Bruce MacKinnon, editorial cartoonist for the Halifax Chronicle-Herald and Saltwire Network. He drew it in November "knowing full well no self-respecting family newspaper ... would be likely to print it. I was right. But given the events of this weekend, I’m gonna to let ‘er rip anyway."
February 3, 2025 at 1:05 AM
By Bruce MacKinnon, editorial cartoonist for the Halifax Chronicle-Herald and Saltwire Network. He drew it in November "knowing full well no self-respecting family newspaper ... would be likely to print it. I was right. But given the events of this weekend, I’m gonna to let ‘er rip anyway."
A big part of the Great Depression mess FDR inherited in 1933 was damage the U.S. inflicted on itself with the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, implemented eight months after the Wall Street crash. Here's a key part of a speech the 32nd president made that year in Seattle.
February 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
A big part of the Great Depression mess FDR inherited in 1933 was damage the U.S. inflicted on itself with the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, implemented eight months after the Wall Street crash. Here's a key part of a speech the 32nd president made that year in Seattle.
January 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Thick as thieves with Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx.
January 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Thick as thieves with Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx.
Is the U.S. pulling out of the WHO when it needs it most?
January 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Is the U.S. pulling out of the WHO when it needs it most?
Reminds me of a classic Duncan Macpherson cartoon, which I've lifted here from Terry Mosher's outstanding 2020 book 'Professional Heckler, the Life and Art of Duncan Macpherson'
January 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Reminds me of a classic Duncan Macpherson cartoon, which I've lifted here from Terry Mosher's outstanding 2020 book 'Professional Heckler, the Life and Art of Duncan Macpherson'
What passes for math on AI.
Yes, 15 million to 20 million square feet is more than 150,000 square feet, but ...
Yes, 15 million to 20 million square feet is more than 150,000 square feet, but ...
January 21, 2025 at 1:33 AM
What passes for math on AI.
Yes, 15 million to 20 million square feet is more than 150,000 square feet, but ...
Yes, 15 million to 20 million square feet is more than 150,000 square feet, but ...
Yes, cups ARE recyclable in Toronto!
They have been for more than 6 months.
Many don't seem to know, so an ad campaign is warranted.
The city also needs to update its bin stickers.
#topoli #litter #recycling #cityoftoronto
Litter pigs also need to be discouraged somehow.
I hate people who litter.
They have been for more than 6 months.
Many don't seem to know, so an ad campaign is warranted.
The city also needs to update its bin stickers.
#topoli #litter #recycling #cityoftoronto
Litter pigs also need to be discouraged somehow.
I hate people who litter.
January 9, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Yes, cups ARE recyclable in Toronto!
They have been for more than 6 months.
Many don't seem to know, so an ad campaign is warranted.
The city also needs to update its bin stickers.
#topoli #litter #recycling #cityoftoronto
Litter pigs also need to be discouraged somehow.
I hate people who litter.
They have been for more than 6 months.
Many don't seem to know, so an ad campaign is warranted.
The city also needs to update its bin stickers.
#topoli #litter #recycling #cityoftoronto
Litter pigs also need to be discouraged somehow.
I hate people who litter.
I'm surprised Stockwell Day, who turns out to have been a U.S. sleeper agent on a Sea-Doo all along, isn't suggesting Canadians hold out for 30 pieces of silver.
December 23, 2024 at 4:35 PM
I'm surprised Stockwell Day, who turns out to have been a U.S. sleeper agent on a Sea-Doo all along, isn't suggesting Canadians hold out for 30 pieces of silver.
Big news on November 19, 1970.
December 10, 2024 at 3:29 PM
Big news on November 19, 1970.
And you thought passenger pigeons were extinct!
Luckily, the man below wasn't hit when the bird relieved himself. Apparently there was laughter all round, something we experience rarely on TTC subway trains.
Photo by my sister in law
Luckily, the man below wasn't hit when the bird relieved himself. Apparently there was laughter all round, something we experience rarely on TTC subway trains.
Photo by my sister in law
December 6, 2024 at 2:56 PM
And you thought passenger pigeons were extinct!
Luckily, the man below wasn't hit when the bird relieved himself. Apparently there was laughter all round, something we experience rarely on TTC subway trains.
Photo by my sister in law
Luckily, the man below wasn't hit when the bird relieved himself. Apparently there was laughter all round, something we experience rarely on TTC subway trains.
Photo by my sister in law