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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social Lead columnist for Canada's National Observer.
Also: Mariners fan, crypto skeptic and descendant of Canada's worst prime minister (no, not him)
Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social Author, freelance journalist, socialist. Kryptonite to a certain type of man.
http://www.noraloreto.ca
David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com Editor, McClelland & Stewart. Author. Writer. General purpose factotum. Lego enthusiast. PhD in political science, just in case.
John Lorinc @johnlorinc.bsky.social Toronto journalist & editor. Contributor to Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, Corporate Knights, Walrus, Spacing. Co-editor: Messy Cities (Coach House, 2025). Author: No Jews Live Here, A Memoir. https://chbooks.com/Books/N/No-Jews-Live-Here.
Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social Personal account of Prof Raywat Deonandan, PhD: Epidemiologist, award-winning educator, bestselling author, scourge of the ignorant & servant to a small child.
Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social Global advisor on better cities, city planning, transportation & urban change. City planner + urbanist leading @ToderianUW.bsky.social. Past Chief Planner for Vancouver BC. Past/founding President of @CanUrbanism.bsky.social. International speaker & media.
The Rundown @therundowntvo.bsky.social 📺 The Rundown with @jeyantvo.bsky.social on @wearetvo.bsky.social
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social International-Affairs Columnist, The Globe and Mail. Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy. Author of Arrival City, The Myth of the Muslim Tide, Maximum Canada, etc. http://dougsaunders.net 
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com Professor of political science. Author. Dad.
Constitutional law, rights, governing institutions, and Canadian politics.
Books: Legislating under the Charter; Constitutional Pariah; Governing from the Bench
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Mark Shaw @markshawtoronto.bsky.social 🍁 Toronto transit & urbanism nerd | 👨💻 Software Developer | 🌈 Your gay best friend
Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social Writer, CS Grad, environmentalist and optimist.
Focused on infrastructure, macro-systems, and excellence. Bylines in The Globe and Mail, Maclean's, and Toronto Star. DMs Open.
https://www.thetransitbrief.net/
More Neighbours Toronto @moreneighboursto.bsky.social Toronto's pro-housing movement.
More Neighbours in more neighbourhoods, with access to more jobs, more infrastructure, and more culture than ever before.
More Transit Southern Ontario @moretransitso.bsky.social MTSO advocates for more frequent, reliable & integrated transit networks for riders across Southern Ontario. 🚍🚊🚆🚇
🔗 Links: https://linktr.ee/mtso
Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social Working within the active transportation, environmental protection, affordable housing and placemaking sphere. Always advocating #BikeTO #TransformTO #BLM #TweetsAreMineByDefault
Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social City man: Spacing magazine editor, walking, messy urbanism, Renaissance urban history. Also freelance editor. dylanreid.ca
Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social Architecture critic @theglobeandmail.com. Also author, @utoronto.ca Daniels Faculty instructor, husband, father of two city kids.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/alex-bozikovic/
Steve Lafleur @stevelafleur.bsky.social Canadian public policy guy. 🇨🇦
Long Branch Mike (LBM) 🇨🇦 @longbranchmike.bsky.social Managing Editor of LondonReconnections.com. Open to colabs. Opinions are mine own. EN/FR (he/him/il/lui)
You know, I'm something of a foamer myself...
Robert Zaichkowski @rzaichkowski.bsky.social Accountant, Road Safety Advocate, Bike Blogger & Campaign Lead of Open Streets Toronto. Bilingual EN/FR. #BikeTO #BikeSky #TOpoli #VisionZero 🚲
Blog = www.twowheeledpolitics.ca
Open Streets Petition = tinyurl.com/OpenStreetsPetitionTO
Dr. Mike P. Moffatt @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social Co-Host, "Missing Middle". Husband. Father. Brother. Son. Economist. Housing guy. I used to do other stuff. 
Photography by Douglas 🍁 @darkwaterphotos.bsky.social Chasing light, feathers, and fur in the city.
Deaf • AuDHD • Freelance Photographer
🍃 Urban Wildlife & the Natural World.
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Sean Galbraith @plannersean.bsky.social Urban planning shit posting, disc golf, assorted other nonsense and garbage. @plannersean on Twitter 
TDot Resident @tdotresident.bsky.social 
Christopher @heychristofur.bsky.social toronto things • architecture + imagery • niche • he/him • 6’2” • southern ontario • 🏳️🌈
Bilal Akhtar 🇨🇦 @itsbilal.bsky.social Building a great database. Advocating for a better Toronto and more housing. And a lot of things in between.
Community Bikeways - TCBC @bikewaysto.bsky.social We hold City Hall to account for its road safety, cycling + climate plans while fighting to reallocate space to walk/cycle/transit to create healthy communities.
Evan Scrimshaw @escrimshaw.bsky.social Political Writer | Freelance Sports Writer | Host Scrimshaw Show | Sports Enthusiast | Author, Salvation In The Storm | Professional Asshole
Damien Moule @damienmoule.bsky.social Toronto municipal policy wonk, engineer, urbanist, father.
Consider donating to effective charities: https://www.givewell.org/
Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social Scientist, cyclist, knitter. But only 2 out of 3 at any one time. 🔰
📌 Toronto
Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social We're a member-supported charity that's been leading the change for a healthier and more vibrant city since 2008.
Join the movement: www.cycleto.ca- A Alexbeheshti @alexbeheshti.bsky.social
Laurence Lui / 呂朗鳴 @laurencelui.ca 
Aaron Binder @aaronbinder.com Director betterwayalliance.ca | Canada's Small Biz Think-Tank
Business Owner | Serial cyclist
Toronto | Hamilton | Indonesia | Canada
Highly professional human desiring bad boy status.
Ben Spurr @benspurr.bsky.social City hall bureau chief at the Toronto Star
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social 
Norm Di Pasquale🇨🇦 @normsworld.bsky.social Chair of NoJetsTO. Ford is trying to ram jets down our throat, sign the petition at NoJetsTO.com!
Jennifer Alexander Etobicoke Centre Council Candidate @thismomroars.bsky.social Pedestrian Safety advocating led to safe schools/school nutrition which led to municipal politics/community building/complete streets/community land trusts which all helped to lead to jenalexander.ca
Chris Drew @chrisjamesdrew.bsky.social urban planning, #BikeTO, transit, trains, camping, volunteering with the School of Urban and Regional Planning Alumni (SURPA) Association at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU).
IG chrisjamesdrew
Brampton, TO, Ptbo
Today in Toronto @todayintoronto.bsky.social We share and RT all things happening today in Toronto! Tag us for RTs! #TodayinToronto
HousingNowTO @housingnowto.bsky.social Monitoring Progress & Activity on Twenty-One (21) sites 🏙️ proposed under the Mayor's #HousingNow plan for creating new Affordable-Rental units
#TOPoli #YIMBY
HousingNowTO.com
Jacob Loo Dawang @jacobdawang.com your local data scientist and housing advocate @growtogetheryeg.bsky.social
📍 Edmonton, AB
https://www.jacobdawang.com
Simone @simoneracanelli.bsky.social It’s always good to have a backup plan
Not Vex as in 🏳️🌈 but Vex as in 🏳️🌈 @theterroirist.bsky.social Wine, Politics, M:TG, Derby, Urban Affairs, Travel. Probably bad puns. All views expressed here are actually yours; sorry, I don't make the rules. they/them Toronto based, but I get around.
Yonge4All @yonge4all.bsky.social Community group advocating for sustainable mobility on Yonge Street & beyond.
Yonge4All.ca
https://linktr.ee/yonge4all
Sam Clark @samclark1701.bsky.social She/He/They | Urban Planning @ TMU | Modal Shift It Girl (Bikeshare user) | 🚊🏳️🌈
Hafeez A. @trainguy89.bsky.social Toronto < - > Waterloo. Designing better streets and fighting for change! Transportation Planner. 🚲 🚃 🎓UW Planning ‘27.
Founder and Executive Director of
@bpat-toronto.bsky.social
Opinions are mine only of course.
Brandon Donnelly @handle.invalid City builder @globizen
Sam Hamilton @samhamilton.bsky.social Digital Media Producer & Coordinator for Marit Stiles and the Ontario NDP Caucus 🍊
Eric McElroy @esmcelroy.ca Does techy things with the ✨cloud✨
Likes public transit, music, skiing, cycling, outside, memes, touching grass, etc.
Living in Toronno.
Andrei Korac @andreikorac.bsky.social Toronto
Observing The City @observingthecity.ca Observations from around the city (in most cases, Toronto)
kanchan @kayehm.bsky.social Urban Infrastructure Engineer.
326ppm
https://linktr.ee/kayehm
Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com City columnist, contributing to the Toronto Star & writing the award-winning City Hall Watcher newsletter. A lot about Toronto Politics and then some nerd stuff. Humber College prof. (he/him)
Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD @mbonsma.bsky.social Transportation data scientist at the University of Toronto, physicist at heart.
I post about bikes and safe streets, local politics, and sometimes science. She/her.
Ramsey Kilani🌐🔰 @ramseyk.bsky.social Chapter Lead @TONewLibs.bsky.social | Organizer @MoreNeighboursTO.bsky.social | Steering Committee Member @cnliberalism.org | Board Progress and Poverty Institute
Cara Stern @carastern.bsky.social Journalist
Obsessed with housing and the ongoing disappearance of the middle class.
Co-host for the Missing Middle podcast with Mike Moffatt
Former producer for The Agenda with Steve Paikin on TVO
Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca Not all those who wander are lost. I explore Metroscapes, where natural and built environments collide.
🌐 https://metroscapes.ca
▶️ https://youtube.com/@metroscapes
Martin Z @pxtl.ca 🌇 #HamOnt 🍁
✍️ https://Pxtl.ca
🦣 https://mastodon.social/@Pxtl
🐙🐱 https://github.com/Pxtl
🐭🍁 https://lemmy.ca/u/Pxtl, https://lemmy.ca/c/worldnews
♂️♀️ he/him
#️⃣ #YIMBY #BikeSky #ProtectTransKids
#️⃣ #Powershell #DevOps #Boardgames #Cocktails
@gamarad.bsky.social @gamarad.bsky.social 
derek van vliet @derek.bike @bikesky.social founder, bike picture taker, bagged milk understander, he/him
https://linktr.ee/derekvanvliet
Spacing @spacing.bsky.social Spacing.ca / Toronto urbanism uncovered in award-winning mag/web/books/podcasts.
Spacing Radio podcasts: spacingradio.bsky.social
Spacing Vancouver: spacingvancouver.bsky.social
Spacing Store: spacingstore.bsky.social
Lloyd Alter @lloydalter.bsky.social Author of"The Story of Upfront Carbon," reformed architect and developer, teacher of sustainable design at Toronto Metropolitan University. https://lloydalter.substack.com
Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social Canadian Urbanist and Chief Planner for the City of Toronto 🇨🇦
Jocelyn Lambert Squires @jocelynsquires.bsky.social Toronto-centric voice for architecture and urbanism. Transit nerd. Recovering American. Research, writing, bikes, architect-adjacent. (EN/FR, she/her/elle)
Mark Jackson-Brown @markster3000.bsky.social Car-free parent of 3!
Transit lover, eBike rider.
He/him
Carolyn Whitzman @cwhitzman.bsky.social Senior housing researcher, University of Toronto School of Cities. Author, “Clara at the Door with a Revolver”(2023), “Home Truths: Fixing Canada’s Housing Crisis” ( 2024).
emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social ↙️↙️↙️ | critic of American cultural hegemony | anti-monopoly | pro-markets & universal programs | liberal | critic of central planning (public or private) | software engineer | 🏗️🌐🧦🇨🇦 🕉️
interests: tech, urbanism, econ, YIMBY, meditation, philosophy, occult
Jamie Bradburn @jbcurio.bsky.social Writer/researcher/public historian for hire, specializing in Toronto/Ontario history that ties into the current zeitgeist. Former Sunday Star quizmaster and Historicist. Crafts award-winning stories. Walks a lot. Has adventures with stuffed porcupines.
fern k hahn @fernkhahn.com local designer and nonpractising urbanist who would like to make transit easier to use
🏳️⚧️ | 🇨🇴🇨🇱🇰🇷 | 🌳 → 🦝 | she/they
🚏 blog: fernkhahn.medium.com
📐 portfolio: fernkhahn.com
Robin Richardson she/her @canadarobin.bsky.social Doing everything I can to help people bike more and drive less. Obsessed with cargo bikes. Organizer, Yonge4All; Leader, KidicalMassTO; Contributor, ebikes-international.com.
Proud 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 mom.
Still COVIDing 😷💉
John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social Ontario politics and policy for TVO. Writer and Podcast co-host, #onpoli
jm_mcgrath.01 on signal
Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @thesidewalkballet.bsky.social ⚪The economy of cities⚪Short block grid⚪3mph urban design
https://frankkevinmurphy.blogspot.com
"Lively diverse intense cities contain seeds of their own regeneration with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves” Jane Jacobs
Stefan Novakovic @novakovicto.bsky.social Writer + Editor | Architecture + Cities | Toronto + Elsewhere
Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social Toronto-based journalist, podcaster, and editor. Cities, Raptors, Leeds United, and two black cats named Hall & Oates.
I make an urban affairs podcast called Spacing Radio: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/spacing-radio/id1124077274
Andrew Lewis FC @andrewlewisfc.bsky.social Dad of 3. Human of 2. Husband of 1. Citizen of Toronto. Rider of bike. Partner @ Paliare Roland. No legal advice here.
And yes that IS an original goddam 1979 Participaction Canada Fitness Test Gold Badge.
https://paliareroland.com/people/andrew-lewis
Lyndsey Rolheiser @rolheiser.bsky.social assistant professor urban/real estate economics. cities, bikes, plants, dogs, cats. York U | MIT CRE | www.lyndseyrolheiser.com
No More Noise @sippindata.bsky.social NMN is not for profit dedicated to creating healthy, liveable cities and communities by reducing noise pollution. This is a public health, equity, and climate issue.
Lena @mslenakay.bsky.social Love cats, sunny reality tv shows, British TV shows, gardening, rom coms, fuzzy blankets, and the Oxford comma. 🇨🇦
Profile comes with a side of existential dread. Special interests at random intervals. 
The Local Magazine @thelocal.to In-depth, non-profit journalism from corners of Toronto too often overlooked.
Read: https://thelocal.to/
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Tips: http://thelocal.to/tips/
@photoblair.bsky.social @photoblair.bsky.social "photographer"
Transit Loving Leftist @creatorland.bsky.social The Urbanist from Urbanist Hell (Ottawa Suburbs). He/Him, Minor. Likes Lego, Politics, Transit, & other things. Trains, Planes, but not automobiles.
Tourisme Montréal's greatest fan | GO SENS GO
Reia 💕 @forkast.bsky.social 🌈 she/her
🗺️ planning student
🌟 politics, urbanism, transit
•🍁🍁🍁•🍁🍁🍁•🍁🍁🍁•
📍 RH 📍 Kingston 📍 Toronto 📍 Singapore
https://youtube.com/@forkast
Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @jakelandau.ca 🏳️🌈 Bi DemSoc Jew 🇨🇦 | Columnist, Podcaster | Threw first pitch at a Jays game one time | Subscribe to my stuff and give me money jakelandau.ca/subscribe
august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca they/them in toronto🍁
🏳️⚧️🇻🇪🇬🇾🚇🚎🚲
@ttcriders.bsky.social campaign manager. graphic designer/artist. trying to make our transit system work. posts are my own 😊
go raptors, go jays, arepa power ⚾
linktr.ee/AugustP
Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca spreadsheet person working in renewable energy, hobbying in ✨opinions✨
energy, housing, cities, transit, cycling, politics
📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social Exploring the history of Toronto/Canada. Author: The Toronto Book of the Dead & Toronto Book of Love. Host of Canadiana. Prof at George Brown. Creator: Toronto Time Traveller newsletter, The Festival of Bizarre Toronto History & The Toronto Dreams Project
Brian F. Kelcey @stateofthecity.bsky.social Was @stateofthecity on Twitter. Veteran of a B-Grade, Film Noir genre of politics known as "local government." Current gig: second tour of duty in the Winnipeg Mayor's Office. Hometowns: Victoria, Winnipeg, Toronto. Working on 'Debt City' (see debt.city)
Jack Hauen @jackhauen.bsky.social Sleek, vigilant puma. Signal: jackhauen.33
Steve Munro @swanboatsteve.bsky.social A long-standing transit activist/commentator since 1972. Blogs at http://stevemunro.ca since 2006. Winner of the 2005 Jane Jacobs Prize and 2024 CUTA Excellence Award.
Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social 🎙️🚌 Co-host of @dwelltime.ca, a transit podcast
🚊🚲 Co-lead at @TriTAG.ca
Transit Politics & Planning | Housing | Cities | 24 | @uwaterloo.ca Planning | Toronto/Waterloo | 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🇭🇰
Upstream Timeout @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
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼
Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social Geographer, public transit and active transportation advocate, Torontonian. He/him.
seanmarshall.ca
kat cosgrove @kat.lol village sorcerer @villagesql.com
local bigfoot enthusiast
kubernetes steering committee, release team subproject lead, sig docs tech lead, uwubernetes, colorado springs via memphis
she/they- C Cindy Sridharan @copyconstruct.bsky.social