- In #Toronto?
- Lived experience of housing precarity or homelessness?
- Young / disabled / Black / Indigenous / a woman / #LGBTQ2S?

Apply to be on the new Housing Rights Advisory Committee and advise City Council on housing policy and programs! Deadline is Oct. 13.

Details here: https://secure.toronto.ca/pa/decisionBody/982.do

#TOpoli #TOcouncil #housing #AffordableHousing :boost_ok:

Coming back to City Hall, crossed Nathan Phillips Square as the rain got going. Am only slightly bedraggled. After the days of sweltering heat, it is pure bliss. #dlws

#TOcouncil #TOpoli

At City Hall for a very important Council meeting! Just gotta finish my coffee ☕ first…

Agenda & livestream link: https://secure.toronto.ca/council/#/committees/2462/23197

@GraphicMatt will also be livetooting.

Mute #TOcouncil #TOpoli if you don't want to be inundated with posts about kaiju^W councillors

I write thing!! Last week, Olivia Chow's handpicked Executive Committee recommended a raft of new taxes and levies to stave off budget catastrophe. The real test of her leadership will be if City Council approves them. My latest for The Local: https://thelocal.to/olivia-chows-financial-plan/

#TOcouncil #TOpoli #TObudget

Unbelievably, my script to generate a City Hall calendar appropriate for Google Calendar works!

I figured out string interpolation to generate agenda URLs, how to turn the Unix timestamps into appropriate dates and times, and how to string it all together into one script.

It could certainly be made more compact (I couldn't figure out how to nest curl commands right), but it works!

Now I need to figure out how to generate an .ics version, and/or make the Google Calendar…sync-able? Updatable? Because the schedule is obviously a static result and sometimes meetings get rescheduled, added, etc. I don't know a way to do that.

#codeing #TOcouncil #jq

just spent a few hours noodling away in the terminal and made a lot of progress in understanding #jq!

i am very slowly progressing towards generating a calendar file (.ics) of all the #TOcouncil meetings for the year.

it used to be a thing you could download but is no longer. you can download .ics files for individual meetings, but 1) not all at once and 2) they don't have links to the agendas, which are easy to add if you make it yourself

yes i'm sure a knowledgeable person could do this in 5 minutes but i want to *understand* it, and, more importantly, no one has offered to do it for me

#codeing

At technical briefing on the new updated Long-Term Financial Plan (https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2023.EX7.1). I may have gotten way too excited when they said we could sit in the councillors' row if we wanted.

#TOcouncil #TOpoli

My latest column for The Local is up!!

Last week, mayor Olivia Chow dramatically revamped City Council's committees—giving both fresh-faced and long-sidelined council progressives key roles in setting the agenda. Read about What It All Means here: https://thelocal.to/olivia-chow-city-committees/

#TOcouncil #TOpoli

also I've been out of the game too long and I've already mixed up 3 different white guys. I don't know what people look like any more

Cllr Crisanti enters. I am reminded that Crisanti exists and is, somehow, still alive.

The meeting is in Committee Room 1, because I assume after the previous meeting the Council chamber is locked up like a school during summer vaca—oh. Nunziata just said it's because they're upgrading the A/V system. Never mind.

#TOcouncil #TOpoli

The business end of a scrum. (Carroll talking to cameras, with Malik on deck.)

I feel like I should try to Ask Questions and Get Quotes for Column but my ability to human is just about gone, if anyone looks at me or talks to me I am going to dive under a desk to hide. Just being honest here

#TOcouncil #TOpoli

Right, back to Committee Room 1 for the (no doubt brief) Council meeting. Agenda: https://secure.toronto.ca/council/#/committees/2462/24243

I'm gonna try and see if the secret nonbinary bathroom is still there

#TOcouncil #TOpoli

(Close to) the final slate: https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/4Zbqq/2/

I'm pretty sure I have vowed on multiple occasions to quit covering City Council if Nunziata gets appointed Speaker again. Welp, Chow has unknowingly called my bluff.

I still gotta finish this series of columns for The Local but after that, I'm OUT, for good, I swear

(h/t @GraphicMatt )

#TOcouncil #TOpoli

You can see who wants to be on all the various committees/boards here [PDF]: https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2023/st/bgrd/backgroundfile-238570.pdf

#TOpoli #TOcouncil

Morning all, here at City Hall for an eventful day. First up, Striking Committee, basically the new mayor's cabinet shuffle. Agenda & livestream link: https://secure.toronto.ca/council/#/committees/2463/24203

In the afternoon, City Council meets to (most likely) schedule a by-election to replace Gary Crawford, who stepped down from Council to (unsuccessfully) run for MPP after Mitzie Hunter stepped down as MPP to (unsuccessfully) run for mayor.

I'll try to keep things in a thread more or less, and toot judiciously.

#TOpoli #TOcouncil #Toronto

By the way I would just like to remind everyone that I recently wrote a thing, which you should read: https://thelocal.to/what-can-olivia-chow-do-about-climate-change/

It's about what Toronto has (and hasn't) done to cope with climate change and cut emissions, and how our new mayor could change things—especially for the people most impacted by, e.g., extreme heat events and poor air quality.

#TOpoli #TOcouncil #Toronto #ClimateChange

> On the afternoon of Wednesday, June 28, 2023—less than 48 hours after Olivia Chow was elected mayor—Toronto briefly had the worst air quality in the world. Outdoor activities were cancelled; a strange, dim red sun hung in orange haze.

Olivia Chow had to deal with climate change as soon as she was elected. She's promised almost everything environmentalists have asked for. What can she do to make Toronto summer more liveable? Plus, what's up with the Scarborough RT (nothing) and what's going on at City Hall next week (a surprising amount). My latest column for The Local: https://thelocal.to/what-can-olivia-chow-do-about-climate-change/

#TOpoli #TOcouncil #ClimateChange #toronto

Cheery, congratulatory mood in the #TOcouncil chambers for Mayor Olivia Chow's first meeting. I am sweating my face off under my mask lol.

I won't be tooting a lot, but mute me for a few hours or mute #TOpoli if you don't want to read about this.

Agenda: https://secure.toronto.ca/council/#/committees/2462/23196
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjKBiINVHPg

How will Toronto's next mayor address the housing crises? My piece in The Local analyzes six major candidates' housing platforms, which range from "¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯" to an ambitious return to government-built mixed-income housing on a large scale.

Hot off the press, the pixels are still warm!

https://thelocal.to/toronto-mayor-election-housing-platforms-major-candidates/

#TOpoli #TOcouncil #TOelxn #AffordableHousing

@GraphicMatt It does indeed divide the city. It divides it into (1) normal human beings, and (2) selfish assholes like Holyday. #TOpoli #TOcouncil

I'm going to be in the garden. #TOcouncil #TOpoli