Shawn Micallef
@shawnmicallef.bsky.social
Local tosser
Books author (New: Stroll!)
Toronto Star column writer
Spacing Magazine co-founder
U of T instructor
Trying to do it a bit different here than the last place.
Links to books, etc:
https://linktr.ee/shawnmicallef
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Books author (New: Stroll!)
Toronto Star column writer
Spacing Magazine co-founder
U of T instructor
Trying to do it a bit different here than the last place.
Links to books, etc:
https://linktr.ee/shawnmicallef
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼
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Stroll, updated edition
THE TORONTO STAR'S "30 BOOKS WE CAN'T WAIT TO READ THIS SPRING"The updated edition of a Toronto favourite meanders around some of the city’s unique neighborhoods and considers what makes a city walka...
chbooks.com
Hi new folks. Last year I rewrote my book Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto. Added like 30000 more words too. My (Toronto) life's work. A very good present to give! Bookstores or direct from Coach House or...
chbooks.com/Books/S/Stro...
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IS THERE A SPECIFIC AND LONG GERMAN WORD THAT MIGHT DESCRIBE SUCH A PARTNERSHIP? LIKE MAYBE FUNKENGRUEN?
GERMAN GOVERNMENT SPOKESPERSON: OPEN TO DISCUSSING NEW PARTNERSHIP MODELS BETWEEN EU, CANADA BUT TERM 'ASSOCIATE MEMBER' NEEDS TO BE RETHOUGHT
September 16, 2026 at 1:26 PM
IS THERE A SPECIFIC AND LONG GERMAN WORD THAT MIGHT DESCRIBE SUCH A PARTNERSHIP? LIKE MAYBE FUNKENGRUEN?
We were once taught like gods
Photograph taken on this day in 1947.
This small building opened in October 1946, one of the first schools built after World War II. It still exists, tucked inside sprawling additions to Centennial Road Junior Public School.
This small building opened in October 1946, one of the first schools built after World War II. It still exists, tucked inside sprawling additions to Centennial Road Junior Public School.
September 16, 2026 at 12:57 PM
We were once taught like gods
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Did you know the first Cineplex opened in the Eaton Centre in 1979?
It was then the largest cinema complex in the world with 18 auditoriums, designed by prolific theatre architect Mandel Sprachman.
https://ow.ly/ohWh50ZMIOm
It was then the largest cinema complex in the world with 18 auditoriums, designed by prolific theatre architect Mandel Sprachman.
https://ow.ly/ohWh50ZMIOm
September 15, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Did you know the first Cineplex opened in the Eaton Centre in 1979?
It was then the largest cinema complex in the world with 18 auditoriums, designed by prolific theatre architect Mandel Sprachman.
https://ow.ly/ohWh50ZMIOm
It was then the largest cinema complex in the world with 18 auditoriums, designed by prolific theatre architect Mandel Sprachman.
https://ow.ly/ohWh50ZMIOm
You can see the Marine Terminal next to the two ships - the foundation was preserved as part of the park.
Another remarkable view of the Port Lands, highlighting the incredible transformation of the area into Ookwemin Minising.
The huge white Atlas Crane still stands - but now it's surrounded by trails and parklands.
Find more digitized 1970-1994 aerial views here: https://ow.ly/3zw850ZMyZH
The huge white Atlas Crane still stands - but now it's surrounded by trails and parklands.
Find more digitized 1970-1994 aerial views here: https://ow.ly/3zw850ZMyZH
September 16, 2026 at 12:55 PM
You can see the Marine Terminal next to the two ships - the foundation was preserved as part of the park.
Toronto. It’s fine.
September 16, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Toronto. It’s fine.
Fascinating how political being apolitical can be, huh
Kraft was in the Epstein files btw.
September 15, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Fascinating how political being apolitical can be, huh
Ontario Science Centre 🤝 Kennedy Centre
The Ford-Trump parallel is identical.
The Ford-Trump parallel is identical.
Trump: "The Kennedy Center is in a virtual state of collapse, and has been for many years ... unfortunately, the Building is destined to doom. Isn’t that too bad?"
September 15, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Ontario Science Centre 🤝 Kennedy Centre
The Ford-Trump parallel is identical.
The Ford-Trump parallel is identical.
Local Liberal MPs very happy people don't remember this....
If it weren't for Doug Ford I think people would more correctly process that the push for expanding Billy Bishop started *inside the Toronto Port Authority*, and earlier this year they begged him to shut up. It's not like the current management of Canadian airports is innocent and pure.
September 15, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Local Liberal MPs very happy people don't remember this....
Despite trying everything my iphone and laptop calendars don't sync so I am forever double booking things. I am ready to pitch apple in the trash.
September 15, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Despite trying everything my iphone and laptop calendars don't sync so I am forever double booking things. I am ready to pitch apple in the trash.
Sums up why partisan opinions go into a particular bucket to which little attention is paid.
Moreover it is perfectly permissible to like some things the government is doing without liking them all, and when they do things you don't like, you should tell them! Politics is not fandom.
September 15, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Sums up why partisan opinions go into a particular bucket to which little attention is paid.
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Doing my bit!
I totally respect how Carney is using his personal political currency to bring more investments to Canada at a time when we are staring down the barrel of the trade war gun at a wave of DISinvestment.
I just think he also has to make good on public goods.
#StandingOnGuardForWe
I totally respect how Carney is using his personal political currency to bring more investments to Canada at a time when we are staring down the barrel of the trade war gun at a wave of DISinvestment.
I just think he also has to make good on public goods.
#StandingOnGuardForWe
September 15, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Doing my bit!
I totally respect how Carney is using his personal political currency to bring more investments to Canada at a time when we are staring down the barrel of the trade war gun at a wave of DISinvestment.
I just think he also has to make good on public goods.
#StandingOnGuardForWe
I totally respect how Carney is using his personal political currency to bring more investments to Canada at a time when we are staring down the barrel of the trade war gun at a wave of DISinvestment.
I just think he also has to make good on public goods.
#StandingOnGuardForWe
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"One of the biggest business tax policy changes in half a century" as per the Director of Policy to the Minister of Finance.
www.canada.ca/en/departmen...
I guess we're getting so much cash from higher oil prices that we don't need the extra revenues? Cuz we have no pressing needs in housing/care.
www.canada.ca/en/departmen...
I guess we're getting so much cash from higher oil prices that we don't need the extra revenues? Cuz we have no pressing needs in housing/care.
Government of Canada introduces new Productivity Mega Deduction to boost Canada’s advantage as the most competitive G7 country for new business investment - Canada.ca
To boost business investment, enhance certainty and simplicity for businesses, and strengthen Canada’s tax competitiveness, the Government of Canada proposes to implement the Productivity Mega Deduction, which will provide immediate expensing for a broad-based range of depreciable property on a permanent basis. Immediate expensing allows taxpayers to fully write off the cost of an investment in the year that it becomes available for use. This powerful investment incentive will create the conditions for an extended period of higher investment—a Canadian investment supercycle.
www.canada.ca
September 15, 2026 at 3:36 PM
"One of the biggest business tax policy changes in half a century" as per the Director of Policy to the Minister of Finance.
www.canada.ca/en/departmen...
I guess we're getting so much cash from higher oil prices that we don't need the extra revenues? Cuz we have no pressing needs in housing/care.
www.canada.ca/en/departmen...
I guess we're getting so much cash from higher oil prices that we don't need the extra revenues? Cuz we have no pressing needs in housing/care.
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Toronto #bookhistory , with a bonus on the city’s laneway culture.
#topoli Today on @spacing.bsky.social , a welcome break from the news cycle: Leora Bromberg on the rich intersection of Toronto’s laneways and the print shops that made their homes there. spacing.ca/toronto/2026... cc: @coachhousebooks.bsky.social
Intersections of print culture in Toronto's laneways - Spacing Toronto
The handprinted broadside below was one of my first and most memorable encounters with the works of Glenn Goluska (1947-2011), celebrated today as one of Canada’s most influential fine press printers....
spacing.ca
September 15, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Toronto #bookhistory , with a bonus on the city’s laneway culture.
It is, actually, patriotic to to critique your government.
September 15, 2026 at 3:26 PM
It is, actually, patriotic to to critique your government.
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Petition to legally require a "FUCK OFF" button on every AI tool that asks if you'd like it to summarize an email or blow your nose for you.
People went nuts when U2 shoved an album onto their phones against their will, and now this crap is rammed down our throats everywhere. Rise up, people!
People went nuts when U2 shoved an album onto their phones against their will, and now this crap is rammed down our throats everywhere. Rise up, people!
September 15, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Petition to legally require a "FUCK OFF" button on every AI tool that asks if you'd like it to summarize an email or blow your nose for you.
People went nuts when U2 shoved an album onto their phones against their will, and now this crap is rammed down our throats everywhere. Rise up, people!
People went nuts when U2 shoved an album onto their phones against their will, and now this crap is rammed down our throats everywhere. Rise up, people!
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Yup. Last month I was researching the Canada Development Corporation in relations to Connaught Labs and how Mulroney stopped that real quick when he was PM. Which led me to the Air Canada sale...
September 15, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Yup. Last month I was researching the Canada Development Corporation in relations to Connaught Labs and how Mulroney stopped that real quick when he was PM. Which led me to the Air Canada sale...
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It’s a bit odd to talk about potential costs when in reality nobody has *any* idea what Carney actually has in mind,
I can’t remember a single time in the past 50 years where one man was given such latitude to determine Canada’s future in the absence of *any* public debate or discussion.
I can’t remember a single time in the past 50 years where one man was given such latitude to determine Canada’s future in the absence of *any* public debate or discussion.
There are costs for Mark Carney’s closer ties with Europe
There could be a political cost in addition to the financial price tag for Canada’s proposed “unique alliance” with the European Union.
www.thestar.com
September 15, 2026 at 11:11 AM
It’s a bit odd to talk about potential costs when in reality nobody has *any* idea what Carney actually has in mind,
I can’t remember a single time in the past 50 years where one man was given such latitude to determine Canada’s future in the absence of *any* public debate or discussion.
I can’t remember a single time in the past 50 years where one man was given such latitude to determine Canada’s future in the absence of *any* public debate or discussion.
I trust there is a @spacing.bsky.social outfit in Cleveland currently freaking out at the heaviness of panderous shame that their council has laid on them.
(Or like so many things on this file is a big meh down south)
(Or like so many things on this file is a big meh down south)
September 15, 2026 at 3:07 PM
I trust there is a @spacing.bsky.social outfit in Cleveland currently freaking out at the heaviness of panderous shame that their council has laid on them.
(Or like so many things on this file is a big meh down south)
(Or like so many things on this file is a big meh down south)
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When Australia privatized their airports, their Competition Bureau found that consumers paid $1.6 billion in extra fees.
September 15, 2026 at 2:12 PM
When Australia privatized their airports, their Competition Bureau found that consumers paid $1.6 billion in extra fees.
Um, all things in Toronto have to be named Rogers. Sorry to disappoint.
Overjoyed that we'll soon be able to display our patriotism by paying $400 in junk fees on future flights out of Toronto's soon to be renamed Telus-Brookfield International Airport, sponsored by Bell.
September 15, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Um, all things in Toronto have to be named Rogers. Sorry to disappoint.
Hazing clause? Weird culture.
Kash Patel: "Applicants who have engaged in beastiliaty means they were victims of beastility because they were forced to do so. At this FBI we are not going to criminalize and prevent victims from serving."
September 15, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Hazing clause? Weird culture.
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Recalling 1993, when stopping the privatization of a major airport was a key Liberal commitment that helped them win a massive majority - and one they fulfilled. Now being dismantled by the same party.
#Breaking: The federal government will allow private ownership of four major airports — including Toronto’s Pearson, Canada’s busiest — in a move that breaks with a decades-long arrangement that saw them run by non-profits on government-owned land.
Carney government will allow private ownership of Canadian airports
The federal government will allow private ownership of four major airports — including Toronto's Pearson, Canada's busiest — in a move that breaks with a decades-long arrangement that saw them
www.thestar.com
September 15, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Recalling 1993, when stopping the privatization of a major airport was a key Liberal commitment that helped them win a massive majority - and one they fulfilled. Now being dismantled by the same party.
To anger the Liberal partisans who are active today, this is the same criticism of Doug Ford.
It's fucking wild how elections are a total fiction now. None of Carney's actual agenda was presented to voters.
September 15, 2026 at 2:39 PM
To anger the Liberal partisans who are active today, this is the same criticism of Doug Ford.