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Glabrous, orderly and tall

Toronto
Joined May 2011
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Announcing the winner of the #TIFF26 Best Canadian Feature Film Award: SUNBURN dir. Serville Poblete
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Announcing the winner of the #TIFF26 Best Canadian Discovery Award: SMUDGE THE BLADES dir. Cody Lightning
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Jays really lost the World Series to the gap between the padding and the turf.
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Lotta “are you sure you’re in Toronto?” in the replies/QTs from those who don’t realize how good we have it There’s an epidemic of people convinced they live in hellscapes thanks to cherry picked social media ragebait, but most cities are better than advertised - especially here
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When did random people’s comments about visiting Toronto become a content vertical?
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To celebrate its 100th anniversary, a stunning proposal to transform Toronto’s College Park has just been released. urbantoronto.ca/news/2025/07… #Toronto #architecture #skyline
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🎨THREAD I’m excited to show you BlobTO.art, an unauthorized public art project I’ve mounted at 18 locations throughout the city; it’s all about graffiti, municipal policy, and Toronto’s civic values. Watch the video here: youtu.be/7WkahWiKhY4 1/
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Introducing @Rogers_Stadium, a seasonal outdoor concert venue opening at YZD (formerly Downsview Airport Lands) in 2025! With Toronto as a must-play market for top level tours, Rogers Stadium will host more world-class artists than ever. Follow for exciting announcements!
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My big-picture look at #TIFF24: Despite disruptions (some genuine, some disingenuous), TIFF felt more alive, transformative & essential than in ages. Can it carry energy forward for next two crucial editions (50th anniversary in ‘25, market launch in ‘26)? theglobeandmail.com/arts/fil…
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Facadism is not great. It happens because all new development is concentrated into 5% of Toronto, while vast swaths of houses are left untouched.
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Will Ferrell deciding to educate himself and others as well as supporting and loving Harper unconditionally when she came out to him really puts some other comedians to shame, huh.
Will Ferrell and his close friend, former head writer at SNL, Harper Steele embark on a cross-country road trip together after Harper comes out as a trans woman in the documentary film, WILL & HARPER. In select theaters this September and on Netflix September 27.
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Y’all know I couldn’t do a book tour without making a stop back in Toronto! Come out to my Above the Noise book release event at the @chaptersindigo location at The Well on September 13th. 🎟️ ticketscene.ca/events/48874/
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This selection has been programmed by Jason Anderson, @KellyBoutsalis, Diana Cadavid, Robyn Citizen, Giovanna Fulvi, Nataleah Hunter-Young, June Kim, @DorotaMischka, Jason Ryle, and Norm Wilner. #TIFF24
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As far as I’m concerned, The Well figured out the formula for a food hall. Mostly independent local success stories in a space designed by GPA Architects that unites both very expensive fitouts with lo-fi pop ups…but they might as well charge a $25 entrance fee.
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Food hall wasn't open when I visited The Well last fall, but it seemed critical to the project's success (as with most urban-ish malls today)
As far as I’m concerned, The Well figured out the formula for a food hall. Mostly independent local success stories in a space designed by GPA Architects that unites both very expensive fitouts with lo-fi pop ups…but they might as well charge a $25 entrance fee.
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I grew up a few kms from Six Nations, where this writer did. We lived on land that by treaty rights should be theirs. Most of us bigoted white ppl there didn’t know it. Land ack’s often seem hollow self-soothing to me - and to her, but she suggests how it could be a start. Read.
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