#TV#OTD October 4 1957, the first episode of the American TV sitcom "Leave It To Beaver" was broadcast

#space#OTD October 4 1957, the launch of Earth's first artificial satellite, USSR's Sputnik 1, a world-wide sensation which initiated the "space race" with USA. Globe and Mail front page the next day: "Hear Signal Loud, Clear Over Toronto" i remember it well... i was an 8-year-old science nerd

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#Toronto i feel like the answer to what happens to Toronto's separate waste and recycling streams is adequately explained by this illustration

#Toronto during construction, please moonwalk backwards down the street

“If you believe climate change is true” …. I don’t believe in it. It’s a fact. No belief needed.

In the column I mention the old Cherry Street Bridge control booth that also should have been preserved as part of the Villiers Island redevelopment. Alas. My photo from Spring 2023.

great article "Oddly, nobody making arguments about character ever complains about the parked cars that certainly weren’t part of the original neighbourhood’s character." odd indeed, eh (fyi "stuck in amber")

Waterfront Toronto did a nice online memorial to the bridge, and promise something at the site www.waterfrontoronto.ca/news/why-we-...

Today Jimmy Carter is officially too old to play with Lego