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🇨🇦 Stephen Wickens 🇨🇦

@stephenwickens.bsky.social

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Retired after 47 years at four Toronto papers.
Transportation researcher and author of Station to Station (a report on the soaring costs of subway building in the Toronto area). https://rccao.com/research/files/RCCAO-STATION-TO-STATION-REPORT-APRIL2020.pd

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@stephenwickens.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 11:08 PM

So, clearly, Kikkoman is the condiment of choice for your soup.

@stephenwickens.bsky.socialSep 24, 2026, 11:53 PM

If the "reduced sodium' version of Lipton chicken noodle soup warrants a government 'high in sodium' warning, should the regular product even be legal? Soupe Nutri Soup® / Unilever

@stephenwickens.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 2:04 AM

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@stephenwickens.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 1:43 AM

Anyone else's BS detector beep and flash when they see the word 'adjustments'? Metrolinx+Via used it recently to describe service cuts. And, a while back, a utility bill came with a 'rate adjustments' notice, likely aimed at easing the blow of a rate hike. Is this stuff they teach in PR schools?

@bluhue123.bsky.socialSep 15, 2026, 2:58 PMReposted by @stephenwickens.bsky.social

He actually said that 👇

@stephenwickens.bsky.socialSep 7, 2026, 2:26 AM

Maybe the two should go for a skate together, for the cameras.

@stephenwickens.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 10:14 PM

I'd like to see the Saab Gripens that Ottawa is said to be considering.

@stephenwickens.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 8:57 PM

I still want to know whether the USAF backed out of this air show or was uninvited. There's a story there.

@stephenwickens.bsky.socialSep 4, 2026, 11:16 PM

The rules No Halloween decorations before Thanksgiving All Halloween decorations should be down by Nov. 7 No Christmas decorations before Dec. 1. All Christmas decorations should be down by Feb. 2 (whether you call it Groundhog Day or Candlemas). Thank you for your attention to this matter!

@stephenwickens.bsky.socialSep 4, 2026, 12:44 PM

If Ford is honest about his professed aim of moving bike lanes to parallel side streets, he needs to install them before any existing lanes go. When he was on council and Rob was mayor, the Sherbourne lanes were almost finished before the Jarvis ones came out. Rob even cut the ribbon on Sherbourne.

@stephenwickens.bsky.socialSep 3, 2026, 2:48 PM

Part of what inhibits the Premier's thinking is his inability to grasp how much the urban parts of Toronto subsidize the car-dependent post-war areas.

@stephenwickens.bsky.socialSep 3, 2026, 2:38 PM

And if Ford is being honest about his professed aim of moving bike lanes to parallel side streets he should produce those plans and commit funding to them BEFORE removing anything from the main streets.

@stephenwickens.bsky.socialSep 3, 2026, 12:33 PM

TTC has spoken of linking Coxwell 22 to 70 O'Connor from O'Connor on Line 5, via Michael Garron hospital (the old east end's top trip generator), down via Coxwell stn Line 2 to Ashbridge's Bay. Big benefits could kick in with a GO RER Coxwell stop and help for O'Connor bridge bottleneck at Woodbine.

@joylessbiscuit.bsky.socialSep 3, 2026, 1:14 AMReposted by @stephenwickens.bsky.social

commemorative mega fucking loser coin

@stephenwickens.bsky.socialSep 2, 2026, 10:06 PM

Service 'adjustments'! Good one!

@swordfishtrombones.bsky.socialAug 30, 2026, 8:50 PMReposted by @stephenwickens.bsky.social

This is why we have to stop using US-based data sources.

@stephenwickens.bsky.socialAug 30, 2026, 9:09 PM

Telus's outage map too. @telussupport.bsky.social

@stephenwickens.bsky.socialAug 30, 2026, 8:16 PM

Even for its Ontarian customers who log in with Canadian-based devices, which is probably close to all of them, @hydrooneofficial.bsky.social's outage map is calling Lake Ontario 'Lake America'.

@stephenwickens.bsky.socialAug 29, 2026, 12:46 PM

These messages would be a lot clearer without the Bay numbers, especially in a city with a Bay bus. @ttchelps

@stephenwickens.bsky.socialAug 28, 2026, 3:43 AM

Alas, it's raining and cloudy here in Haliburton.

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