"It has to express democracy, equality, inclusion of all people, and social justice".
Wow, I wish someone had said this to @fordnation and @StanChoMPP
Maybe we would we be getting more than a $1.04billion tourist attraction better suited for the Ex midway or Orlando
#SaveOSC
New Ontario Science
Centre building by Snohetta and Hariri Pontarini. Initial question: the government is claiming the complex is 400,000 SF, up from 275,000 two years ago. How is that not a lie?
Further questions: what is the mix of exhibition space and back of house? What is the layout? Which portions of the old complex are they even occupying? No drawings of any kind. It’s total guesswork.
Remember, Doug Ford knew he was going to close the Ontario Science Centre as early as 2020.
It took six years - until February 2026 - for Doug Ford to release a design for a new one.
No shovels in the ground yet either.
#ontario #toronto #onpoli #topoli
Tourism, Tourism, Tourism.
Doug Ford's science centre is not for STEM education, or for Ontario families.
It is about extracting as much money from visiting American tourists, to put into the pockets of the premier's friends.
#ontario #toronto #onpoli #topoli
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So this administration has charged an independent Black journalist reporting in Minnesota but not two white agents who murdered two citizens
“Structural engineers don’t monkey around. Had the engineer felt that there is an imminent threat to safety, he would have expressed this in the most clear language” - Yasser Korany, forensic engineer
Read the article, by Sheila Reid of the Toronto Star:
www.savesciencecentre.com/ford_governm...
Text of an email submitted to onegreatidea@thestar.ca "IDEA: reimagine and reopen Ontario Science Centre in Flemingdon Park as the Future of Canada Centre: Even after 50 MILLION visitors it was hard to appreciate how much the Ontario Science Centre contributed to the lives, careers, enterprises, and civic commonwealth of Toronto, Ontario, and Canada. But Premier Ford abruptly fenced it off and denuded it of exhibits, for an (abandoned) concept of a plan atop Therme's submarine parking garage obligation. Since Ford has no use for Moriyama's masterpiece, it's time for a visionary partnership between the City of Toronto and the Federal Government to reimagine and reopen it as the "Future of Canada Centre". Its new mission: to curate a constantly-renewing experiential showcase of Canada's most innovative companies and universities, and to inform, delight, and inspire to STEM careers, schoolbuses-full of our kids. PM Carney's "Canada Strong" Budget calls for generational investments in the future of Canada. What better single manifestation of this, than an all-day, one-stop expo, where we can experience together the new worlds of AI, robotics, drones, new transportation, advanced manufacturing, new energy and resources, new medicine, biotech, and agriculture, new space industries, climate change, growing up online, our changing homes, cities, and lives? The 1970s OSC taught us math, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, geology, ecology, but also forestry, mining, refining, hydro power, automation. So too can a new Future of Canada Centre, (re)opening fall 2028, prepare Canadians for the onrushing future."
For onegreatidea @thestar.com
IDEA: reimagine and reopen Ontario Science Centre in Flemingdon Park as the Future of Canada Centre
CC: @mark-carney.bsky.social @onsciencecentre.bsky.social @saveosc.bsky.social @canadianarchitect.bsky.social @normsworld.bsky.social @dontrailtalker.bsky.social
Settler-only IDF units functioning as ‘vigilante militias’ in West Bank
Kinda like our Ontario Science Centre
Tell Doug
Sign the letter at
Savesciencecentre.com
#ReimagineRenewReopen
#SaveOSC
December 26, 2025:
Save OSC’s Gingerbread Science Centre is here!
Check it out online:
torontosocietyofarchitects.ca/gingerbread-...
See it in person at The Maker Bean Cafe, 1052 Bloor St W, Toronto!
#toronto #ontario #canada
MM35.4 passed tonight at City Council!
Thank you to everyone who wrote in support of the motion, and signed the letter.
With your continued support in 2026, we will succeed in reimagining, renewing, and reopening!
Read the motion here:
secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...
It was clear on Day One that the Science Centre closing was under false pretenses
Ford closed the science centre for no reason, is shrinking it dramatically, and gov’t doesn’t want you to know the truth about this.
My column:
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toron...
This move to Harbourfront is, basically, a merger of two institutions into one building 1/8 the size of the old Science Centre.
The government made up a nonsense statistic (86,000) to try and cover this up.
It worked
With the exception that the govt would have to admit they made a mistake in closing the Ontario Science Centre, there is not now or has there ever been a reason why the interactive science experience couldn't have continued at 770 Don Mills Road
Savesciencecentre.com
#ReimagineRenewReopen
Column: bsky.app/profile/alex...
News today about the Ontario Science Centre: Its "temporary location" will take over most, or possibly all, of Harbourfront Centre.
86,000 square feet is a larger fraction, if not all, of Harbourfront's buildings.
news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...
We need your support for the Dec 16th city council meeting, please write-in!
1. Click the link:
secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...
2. Press “Submit Comments”
3. Write your email, ask to:
- Reopen Teluscape Exploration Park
- Maintain OSC buildings in good repair
4. Hit send!
#Toronto
Thxs, but you never answered the question.
Yes or no?
I'm not implying anything.
My question to you still is, would you be in favour of a massive market rate condo development fully 100% in a ravine if there wasn't this vague gift of parkland?
Yes or no?
Sure it is.
Look, but don’t touch!
Fenced off from families & patrolled by security, the former Exploration Plaza at the Ontario Science Centre, donated by Telus in 2006, is a winter wonderland.
Will you help us to reopen the park, @telussupport.bsky.social ?
Share, please!
#Canada #Ontario #Toronto
I have read all 69 pages of the decison.
Just because the long lineup of experts paid to attend the OLT on behalf of the developer are more experienced at testifying at a tribunal than city or TRCA staff is no reason to ignore 70+ years of conservation and protections of ravine land.
Would you still support a massive condo development fully 100% in a ravine if there wasn't some vague promise from the developers of 'new' public space?
We continue to see developers promise public amenities which are never fulfilled or a major disappointment
Ravine land development...FULL STOP
