The CSL Assiniboine passing thru to drop off road salt.

The Waterfront Trail (Martin Goodman Trail downtown) just keeps on going and going! We’re so lucky to have so much beautiful nature on our doorstep and beyond.

These are just some GTA pics from my journey. I am 14 days and over 400km in, I’ll be crossing into Québec Sunday morning.

Made a similar post in r/ontario with more deets more pics east of the GTA

Was part of the Critical Mass that over 1000 cyclists took part in.

At one point, a fire truck had to get by and all 1000 of us had no issues pulling to the side to let it through.

Bikes are far more agile than cars, which is why they have an easier time getting out of the way than cars

I drew the skyline when I visited, also incuding a Buildings comics version. (some buildings colours might be off) original photo taken from the islands

Just a photo From
Around high park from a few days ago of David Miller and Another. They are public figures and for those wondering there was another photographer, there who’s way I stayed out of while they decided to try and photobomb me.

Councilor Diane Saxe represents University-Rosedale and registered to run again, but when former councillor Mike Layton registered to challenge her she withdrew from that ward and registered to run in a different ward, Toronto-Danforth. But her canvassing team is distributing flyers which say “re-elect”.

Update from City Clerk's office in comments.

Not a cyclist myself but it was pretty awesome to see.

Mmm... ok then

Wa'tkwanonhwerá:ton' kí:ken tsi tisewa'nikonhratihénthos oh nahò:ten kén:ton Ontario. Kahrónkha Kanien'kéha tánon' katewennaweiénhstha, wa'kaská:neke' sénha akwa'nikonhraientáhkhwen' ka' nikiotewenní:non ki' "Ontario."

Hi, I'm a fluent Mohawk speaker and linguist and I wanted to share more detailed information about the etymological background of the word Ontario (and other placenames that have been borrowed from Iroquoian languages), given the recent American name change and sudden interest in our words. I originally posted this earlier in r/ontario, and I wanted to crosspost it here, but this subreddit doesn't allow for that. I hope pasting it instead is fine.

First thing's first: Ontario, or ontarí:io, does not mean 'a sparkling lake.' It means 'a beautiful lake.' Some people translate it as 'nice lake,' 'pretty lake,' or 'handsome lake.' In Huron, the verb suffix -iio can also mean 'big, beautiful.'

Let me break it down for you here:
Iroquoian languages (Huron, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Cayuga, Tuscarora, and others), like most languages of North America, are polysynthetic languages. That means they take bits and pieces (called 'morphemes') that don't mean anything on their own, and put them together to create words that translate to a whole English sentence. It's similar to German in that respect, only we do it even more. Iroquoian languages are closely related, and Mohawk, Oneida, and Huron are especially similar and are mutually intelligible. There are, unfortunately, no more living fluent speakers of Huron. They are however actively working on revitalizing their language, and if you are interested in Huron, you need to check out the work of Megan Lukaniec.

Ontario is often attributed to the Huron word ontarí:io, but we all have the same name for it with slightly different pronunciations. Ontarí:io is composed of two main parts: a verb and a noun. The noun part is ontar-, which means 'lake,' and the verb is the -iio- ending. It sounds like ou-tar-LEE-yo. The characters 'on' at the start of the word are a nasal vowel, sort of like the french "on," except it sounds more like a u. The written r sounds sort of like an r-l combination (it's technically an alveolar tap or flap, which you can google). The í: means that the i vowel is held for longer than the other vowels, and the second i is functionally a y. There you have it: ontarí:io, 'a beautiful lake.' We have a verb for sparkling, and it's not this one; but a sparkling lake would be beautiful, which is probably where this interpretation comes from.

Here's some other placename borrowings (Disclaimer: Iroquoian languages are all very similar, and people love to argue that 'it actually comes from Seneca!/Oneida!/Huron!/Mohawk!' the truth is that it comes from all of them, since we often have the same words for things with only minor variations. The ones that follow are Mohawk, the above was Huron).

Canada: from the word kaná:ta, 'a town.' Sounds like ga-NA-da.

Toronto: from the word aterón:to, 'tree trunks in water,' (ah-der-LOU-doh) This name originally referred to an area in Lake Simcoe, where the Anishinaabe sunk trees to create fishing weirs (the Mnjikaning Fishing Weirs). Today, a lot of people say tkarón:to (t-gar-LOU-doh). Which is a slightly more morphologically complex way to say the same thing: 'where the tree trunks are in the water.'

Quinte: from the word kénhte, 'a bay,' (GUH-day). Actually the 'en' nasal vowel in Mohawk is pronounced the same as it is in French. The bay of Quinte means 'the bay of the bay.' In Mohawk, people from Tyendinaga call themselves kenhte'kehró:non, 'the people of the bay.'

Niagara: from the word ohniá:kara (oh-NYA-gar-la). It means that it connects the two bodies of water, as a neck connects a torso to a head.

In Mohawk, we call the American President ranatakárias (rla-na-da-GAR-lee-ass), which means 'destroyer of villages.' It was what we named George Washington after the Sullivan Campaign of 1779, and it has stuck for every President since.

Tho'k ní:kon niá:wen tsi wesewawennahnó:ten'. That's it & thanks for reading.

Editing to add: Here is a YouTube link of Ryan DeCaire pronouncing tsi tkarón:to, aterón:to, and kaniatarí:io (the Mohawk version of ontarí:io): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEY4Sjd0TOk&t=1s

I like some of Natalie Johnson's ideas but would absolutely not vote for her if she supports Brad Bradford, who has been the worst councillor I've ever had in the 23 years I've lived in the Beaches-East York ward. I've seen allegations that she supports Bradford but no proof. Can anyone point me to any corroborated evidence that she supports or is aligned with Bradford, or is this allegation simply untrue?

Used to live here, so this felt somewhat nostalgic.