Dan Seljak

Mayor Chow, Councillor Bravo, and Chief Planner Thorne came by to give Finch their business license. Surreal, delightful, lovely.

To celebrate the passing of neighbourhood retail and their new business liscense, there is free coffee at Finch till 2 today!!! I gave the owners this print of the first photo I took of their store when this all started.

Sorry sorry sorry

The writers are really running out of ideas in these later seasons.

Went to Ruru Baked for the first time this year, it’s officially summer!!!

Lolol. Holyday saying the quiet part out loud. Complain about any change in the neighbourhood. Pathetic.

When Tory was campaigning in 2014 he promised a war against the city's obsolete or backwards regs, taking the city's licensing and planning system to task would have been easy and natural! Instead in 2026 the zoning by-law still controls the allowable number of pinball machines in a bar.

"playing dirty" = describing the sequence of events that led to Tory's resignation, as described by Tory in his resignation speech

This framing is brilliant.

Too often we are told that someone is "too close" or "too involved" to be able to exercise good judgment. But I agree completely that not participating in the defense of this community disqualifies you from participating in its recovery.

I think once people are exposed regularly to Bradford in debates etc he’s gonna stall out. He’s got the PP problem of alienating normies whilst Chow and Tory actually charm them.

Wow it’s crazy how I was just thinking how this would impact Brad Bradford’s polling numbers and a finger on my mummified monkey’s paw curled up on its own???

John Tory says he will not run for Toronto mayor Former Toronto mayor John Tory says he will not seek the city’s top job in the fall municipal election.

Today is the day John Tory became mayor www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/poli...

*it didn’t make it. I’m still in there showing some subtle good-intentioned shade at pessimists…something about how incremental wins are still wins.

I’ve always genuinely enjoyed it—useful context and somehow unique enough stylistically to differentiate what you share from the rest of the feed. Works great.

Thanks for sharing Brian—have long aspired to make waves big enough to earn one of your trademark “City, Province/State” quotes tweets, big milestone for me 😉

Every couple of months I post the screenshot in reply to disheartening news and every time it gets hundreds of likes… while participate in it jokingly, this is also the attitude I’m pushing back against.

I didn’t make it into the more recent Star piece but I told the journalist outright that even if the only success of this advocacy was protecting Finch Store, my overarching goal w Another Glass Box is to demonstrate better things thru change is possible. Delighted to now have a visible example.

Almost like shutting down safe consumption sites and funneling money away from harm reduction and into abstinence grifting makes things less safe and increases harms. This is consistent with decades of data and was completely predictable.

Finch Store is going to be giving out free coffees...I'm planning on printing a couple hundred postcards to give out.

The Finch Store battled the city for years after a complaint about its espresso machine. Finally it has a licence to serve “It’s something I consider as a miracle,” said business owner Yana Miriev said about receiving the licence under the new bylaw.

It's newspaper official people. Reminder: Finch is throwing a party on Saturday to celebrate.
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Saw Nirvana the Band The Movie on Thursday, which features a lot of Toronto circa 2008, and tomorrow the new Scott Pilgrim game comes out with meticulously drawn pixel art backgrounds from around that time. Toronto lovers are eating good.

subway was down so I had to walk home on friday

Finch Store would like to welcome the public to visit and celebrate by giving out free coffees next Saturday, March 7 from 8 - 2 pm. Would love to see you there.

the lies of a child. a child's lies.

Making Music, Making Change Advocacy can take many forms. Being a spokesperson for a cause, attending a protest or signing a petition are all important kinds of political action—but other acts can also have lasting and important...

Elsa was a gracious, fun and informative member on a panel I ran a while back for Tony Price's sonic eulogy for the Ontario Science Centre. It was a really special night, something she captured in this article about it, largely thanks to her contributions. www.canadianarchitect.com/making-music...

Elsa Lam is a national treasure and, while the reason why kind of sucks, I am so glad the general public is learning about her and the trade magazine she runs.

a second nine inch nails album has hit the tron

I think it should take fewer than 19 years to approve a new school.

The same goes for the NDP re: Jack Layton and why simply invoking his name isn't enough. Not to get all V for Vendetta, but people are mortal, ideas are not. There needs to be a coherent aspiration for people to attach to.