🇨🇦 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
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
3. She seemed to know all the kids by name and would be remarkably patient with long after-lunch lineups for penny candy, Lolas and nickel packs of hockey cards (well-behaved lineups I recall). Parents would send kids there after school for cigarettes, bread or a carton of milk.
October 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
3. She seemed to know all the kids by name and would be remarkably patient with long after-lunch lineups for penny candy, Lolas and nickel packs of hockey cards (well-behaved lineups I recall). Parents would send kids there after school for cigarettes, bread or a carton of milk.
2. Mrs. Piton's was a place where kids were to wait to be picked up after school, or where kids would get a key that had been left for them. Mrs. Piton saved me from a beating from a local bully. She'd cut off service to kids if they were in danger of being late for school.
October 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
2. Mrs. Piton's was a place where kids were to wait to be picked up after school, or where kids would get a key that had been left for them. Mrs. Piton saved me from a beating from a local bully. She'd cut off service to kids if they were in danger of being late for school.
And, as a senior, my TTC fare is C$2.25
April 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
And, as a senior, my TTC fare is C$2.25