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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

1 year

Good morning Toronto and the Golden Horseshoe. 😎

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

6 months

Toronto’s first snowfall and the Yonge St bike lane is plowed to bare pavement. Well done @cityoftoronto .

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Emily Farina

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4 years

Gotta admire people with vision and courage to see opportunity when most of us don’t: A Toronto couple bought this shed for $50,000. Now it’s a five-storey tower home listed for $2.25 million | The Star

A Toronto couple bought this shed for $50,000. Now it’s a five-storey tower home listed for $2.25...

They bought the shed 15 years ago and spent five years building the live-work tower, complete with marble from First Canadian Place and logs from Georgian Bay.

www.thestar.com

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

1 year

Check out the new green pavers to delineate the bike lane on Cherry St! ⬇️

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1 year

Across from #Toronto ’s Distillery District, Canary Landing is receiving mostly positive feedback as its #construction wraps up and landscaping comes to life. #progress #architecture

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

12 days

Dreaming of a future when I can walk out my front door and onto a regional or intercity train from Summerhill Station.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

4 years

After Bloor, Danforth and University, now it’s Yonge’s turn. #bikeTO

Midtown residents are campaigning for bike lanes on Yonge Street | TRNTO.com

The campaign is called "Yonge Loves Bikes"

streetsoftoronto.com

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

2 years

At least 8 politicians from 3 levels of gov’t to take PR credit for a $53 million investment in 46 new housing units. That’s $6.6 million per politician or $1.2 million per new home.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

4 years

@MsKellyMHayes @schmangee As a Canadian looking in from the outside it’s unconscionable how your President is doing victory laps already.

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Emily Farina

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1 year

@HonAhmedHussen An unethical Minister of Housing who is also a multi-property landlord, personally profiting from the housing shortage your own policies have perpetuated.

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Emily Farina

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1 year

@Nerd4Cities Showed your tweet to my local Starbucks manager. She said 30 cars in the drive-thru consumes less land than 30 cars in the parking lot. 😉

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

3 months

@ronmortgageguy From gravy trains to gravy helicopters.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

1 year

50-storey Kipling Station Condos is part of the wave of tower projects marketed at mom & pop investors who want to cash in on the massive influx of foreign student tenants.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

2 years

Canada Needs Justice Queen @RE_MarketWatch

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

3 months

@RE_MarketWatch Why are they failing in large numbers? Inadequate academic screening by the college at the time of enrolment?

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

3 years

I have a magnificent regular visitor to my balcony this winter. At first he would look the other way, intensely surveying the fields below. But lately he stares at me through the glass. “When #falcon is your spirit animal it’s time to sit in the seat of your own power.”

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

2 years

@JayBeeGooner I’ll be tweeting from the inaugural in-revenue run of VIA’s brand new Charger train tomorrow!

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

2 years

All aboard!

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

1 year

@RE_MarketWatch I’m watching Canada degenerate before my eyes. From a nation renowned for law, order and good governance to a land of scam artists.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

1 year

@HonAhmedHussen @BardishKW @berryonline @Redman4Region @TimLouisKitCon @SteveClarkPC Canadians deserve an ethical Housing minister who isn’t abusing his power and privilege to grow his personal real estate holdings.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

1 year

@RE_MarketWatch @oliviachow During my Mexico City visit I’m taking advantage of the metro system’s designated women-only cars and platform areas. Toronto should also take apply a gender/equity lens to transit safety, and follow Mexico City’s example.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

2 years

@PWBaugh “We’ll require big cities… to approve affordable housing around all transit stations so that our young people can live there and not even need to afford to buy a car.” Never thought I’d here those words from a CPC leader, followed by cheers from CPC supporters:

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

7 months

@RE_MarketWatch @JustinTrudeau Gross he’s talking and spitting into the samosas.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

1 year

@ronmortgageguy @MikePMoffatt Also miserable for parents who can’t afford to provide their adult kids with downpayment assistance, or have to erode their home equity and retirement savings to do so.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

2 years

@daniel_foch At $120+ per fill up I’ve started to think twice before I drive.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

1 year

The New France seigneurial system of land distribution with its distinctive long narrow lots perpendicular to the St Lawrence River, still endures 500 years later.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

10 months

@FinEconGlobal From one disaster to the next. The feds rewarded the Port of Montreal’s CEO by appointing him CEO of VIA’s high-speed rail project.

MARTIN IMBLEAU APPOINTED CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF VIA HFR - VIA TGF INC.

The VIA HFR – VIA TGF Inc. Board of Directors announced today, following a national and international search, the appointment of Martin Imbleau as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective September...

finance.yahoo.com

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

2 years

“Mississauga is dying.” Sobering thread and comments that should serve as a call to action. #mustread 🧵

The Globe and Mail

@globeandmail

2 years

Mississauga was the only major city in Canada to shrink in the last census, a decline that is being blamed on the pandemic but reflects years-long population drops in dozens of its neighbourhoods. @moore_oliver reports:

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

1 year

@ronmortgageguy Add Health and Long-Term Care to the to-do list. When the demands of a fast-growing population and aging demographic collide.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

2 years

@abelaie @ryanphanna I know the perfect spot for an espresso bar. Or bar period.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

1 year

@RE_MarketWatch Consolidate the Gardiner and Lakeshore Blvd from Dan Leckie Way to the Don River into Toronto’s grand Champs Elysées, lined with the city’s most sought-after residences and retail.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

7 months

@jen_keesmaat Will the city ever beautify King Street to a genuine, high-quality urban transit mall, like Melbourne’s, from the rundown half-assed temporary pilot project look of today?

Laurence Lui / 呂朗鳴

@larrylarry

7 years

Bourke Street Mall -- fully pedestrianized transit mall. Trams crawl through this short block but it works.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

27 days

@anotherglassbox “It's not a good-looking city. It's not a good-looking town. You've got all the worst architectural fads of the 20th century.” Anthony Bouurdain on Toronto, 2012

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

4 years

@schmangee Centuries from now when people look back, the bygone era of mass automobile mobility may appear like a small 150-year blip in the timeline of civilization. But the legacy of destruction will be global scale and enduring.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

8 months

On time arrival at @Torontounion 😊 @VIA_Rail Venture business class verdict: ✔️Superior compared to last-gen VIA rolling stock but not faster ✔️Better than airline business class ✔️Ultra attentive on-board hospitality ✔️The most comfortable way to travel in the corridor.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

6 months

@john_wilberry @cityoftoronto You’d be surprised by the # of food delivery couriers on this stretch of Yonge St at all hours of the day and night.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

9 months

@alexbozikovic @ThermeCanada From political staffer to corporate lobbyist. A normal career trajectory.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

1 year

My first ride on @townofoakville on-demand transit earned 5 stars. Door-to-door from @shopSQUAREONE to home in 25 mins. Total fare GO bus + free instant transfer to the spotless minibus only $4.50. Beats driving or Uber.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

2 years

Thank you @Metrolinx @GOtransit for bringing back my beloved @GOtransitLW express train. Home to Oakville in only 28 minites.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

1 year

Let’s ride the @RedArrowCoach premium deluxe motor coach and compare it to @VIA_Rail business class. Both compete head-to-head on the Toronto Union Station-Ottawa train station route with VIA offering a slight 20-minute travel time advantage and more departures (up to 8 vs 3).

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

1 year

@AlexanderGlista If only Toronto could replace those ugly highway concrete dividers with stylish beaux-arts bollards.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

3 months

@RE_MarketWatch After marketing the hell out of basement rental income potential, these realtors are now flogging air rights.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

1 year

@fennelltim @Nerd4Cities In my suburban town, walking to and from their parked trucks and SUV’s is the only regular exercise most people get.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

3 months

@RE_MarketWatch Social media is saturated with Mississauga break & enter and auto theft home security videos. No wonder crime is far and away the #1 issue in the 2024 municipal by-election.

Polling Canada

@CanadianPolling

3 months

Mississauga - Most Important Issue: Crime: 30% Affordable Housing: 25% Traffic: 16% Transit: 9% Inflation: 9% Homelessness: 3% Liaison Strategies / March 22, 2024 / n=902 / MOE 3.3% / IVR

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

2 years

Two escalator rides or six (I lost count!) flights of stairs up to the partially completed The Park at CIBC Square.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

6 months

@anantmasih @cityoftoronto Saturday night dinner out with friends.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

4 years

@BrentToderian @spicygarage @berkie1 @BostonBTD With one of the citie’s highest densities of higher-end independently-owned restaurants, College St #Toronto could be a top destination for fun & fine patio dining. Ban the cars but let the streetcars and people flow.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

2 months

@RM_Transit A bonanza of new condos but once again the city doesn’t follow through with timely investments in streetscape and pedestrian realm improvements.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

1 year

Good morning! @VIA_Rail @Torontounion business lounge is more institutional than premium. Personally I’d tradeoff the historic details for a warmer inviting feel. Amenities are spartan compared to airline lounges: no hot table, no munchies, no bar service.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

3 years

@MPelletierCIO @TorMrktBubble Germany and the EU came to Greece’s rescue. But who will bail out Canada?

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

2 years

@JayBeeGooner Arriving at Ottawa station on the O-Train. LRT with design flair.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

2 years

@RE_MarketWatch Canada hit peak home ownership *11* years ago. We’re well on our journey to becoming a nation of renters.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

1 year

@AlexanderGlista A disconnect between @Metrolinx communications’ transit-oriented puff piece and developer VanDyck’s marketing focus:

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

1 year

@RE_MarketWatch A better future? More like another link in the Canadian exploitation chain.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

8 months

@RE_MarketWatch She’s gorgeous. ❤️

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

4 months

@RE_MarketWatch 5.7% unemployment isn’t supposed to look like this.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

4 years

@michaelvkim Meanwhile in #Toronto the deadly consequences of *not* screening arriving international passengers.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

1 year

@MitzieHunter He only owned up to it because @TorontoStar caught him with his pants down.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

9 months

@BenRabidoux “Let’s not make this a partisan issue” is another tiresome Liberal talking point.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

4 years

@ThisCrazyTrain Everyone check your home security cams. Someone has surely picked up a suspect description, car make & model, license plate...

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

2 years

Future electric GO trains, LRT and BRT are coming to Port Credit. But Mississauga doesn’t deserve the hundreds of millions of dollars in transit from federal and provincial taxpayers if the Mayor and local councillor are unwelcoming to more density, housing choices and people.

The Mississauga News

@MissiNewsRoom

2 years

Plans for a proposed 17-storey, 148 rental unit tower were not greeted warmly by some #Mississauga council members.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

1 year

My stainless steel “HEP” coach is a rolling museum piece built by the Budd Co in 1947!! It was beautifully refurbished two years ago but creaks and groans at speed. Love the quad pods, ideal for family travel.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

5 months

@not_taylorx @GOtransit What’s @Metrolinx waiting for? Another e-bike fire like the one on the Line 1 subway on New Year’s Eve?

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

3 years

@davidfrum @PWBaugh If we’re called back to the office, I’d expect my employer to guarantee a healthy and safe workplace. I don’t want to breathe the same recirculated indoor air as unvaccinated or single vaccinated colleagues and clients.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

4 years

Ghostly scene from #Contagion the movie? No, it’s ⁦ @GOtransit ⁩ crew in HAZMAT gear disinfecting the #COVID19 #Coronovirius bus.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

8 months

Envious of Bay-area ferry commuters who get to enjoy these iconic views every day.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

2 years

@RE_MarketWatch Suppressed salaries is a thing in the planning & engineering sector too. We compete for govt contracts and awards go to the lowest bidder — so a growing % of our work is sub-contracted to low-wage tech farms in Bangalore to optimize our productivity and profit margins in Canada.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

2 years

#ComingSoon Yonge City Square Condos in desirable Hogg’s Hollow. Excellent proximity to the Line 1 subway and Hwy 401.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

2 years

@berkie1 @LongBranchMike @Val_Plante @Montreal Remind me again how many pedestrianized streets are happening in Toronto?

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

2 years

@_NickMorrison according to my VIA train crew: No bikes allowed on the new trains. VIA won’t announce a new bike policy until 2024 and it will likely entail a fare surcharge. 😞

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

1 year

Toronto #YYZ on final approach. ✈️

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

3 months

@RE_MarketWatch If Toronto can’t come up with better solutions for the inter-connected drug, mental health and homelessness crisis, people like me will avoid taking transit.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

3 years

@JoshMatlow Another example of how Canada presents itself to the world doesn’t match up with our actions at home.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

1 year

Say yes to City Place station! 🧵

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

1 year

Its 2023 and so I really want to get back on with pushing for what I think is easily one of the MOST important and cost effective transit projects Toronto *should* be building. Share this thread!🧵 If you're a journalist, academic, or politician I would love to discuss! DM me!

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

3 months

Filthy disrespectful Canadians trash the Airbus. @AirCanada

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

2 years

@daniel_foch Welcome to Toronto where realtors outnumber teachers.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

5 years

@RyanMcGreal Everyone is preoccupied with costs when there are 2 sides to this equation. Has anyone tallied up the benefits of the LRT over 30 years? And compared that number with the costs?

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

1 year

@JohnLorinc New York City does it right.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

4 months

@mdrejhon @RM_Transit @NickAnand1 Starting in April, UP Express will alternate every 15 minutes between nonstop and all-stop (including the new Mt Dennis station) trains.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

8 months

@AlexanderGlista New Mexico calling Alex.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

1 year

#Coming_Soon this weekend. My back-to-back comparison ride and review @VIA_Rail business class vs @RedArrowCoach luxury motor coach. We’ll find out who’s the leader for comfort, amenities, travel time and value for money. #StayTuned

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

6 months

@RE_MarketWatch “Rent will be discussed during contact” sounds like a creepy, dangerous predator.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

2 years

And we’re rolling. 100% load factor in business class and mostly young professional women. 😊 With 2 coaches of the 5-car train devoted to business class, @VIA_Rail is hopefully eyeing to grow the more profitable premium travel market.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

4 years

@CBCToronto @CBCQueensPark He quoted a woman who supposedly thanked him after she lost both parents to #COVID19 in long-term care?! Now that’s a borderline Trumpian answer.

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Emily Farina

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2 years

@RE_MarketWatch This trend will likely continue. Ontario govt forecasts show most the fastest growing census tracts to 2046 (dark blue/over 45%) are located in the exurbs and rural areas on the other side of the Greater Toronto greenbelt:

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

2 years

@RE_MarketWatch A pure land value tax — instead of the current property tax system based on the assessed value of your home — would encourage gentle densification.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

2 years

@JayBeeGooner Business class choices include a cold sliced chicken breast salad or cheese platter, selection of wine and warm breads, and packaged snack and desert. The attentive crew offered a 2nd glass of wine to wind down the more than satisfactory mid-afternoon meal.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

2 years

Anticipation.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

3 years

@dima_nomad After listening to the President’s #JointAddress it’s more apparent than ever that the US will leave Canada in the dust for economic and income growth, competitiveness, R&D, infrastructure investment... Canada can’t afford to be complacent and smug.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

2 years

@jacoobaloo @LongBranchNA How about an environmentally friendly car rally fundraiser in the country, to go along with the environmentally friendly low density neighbourhood? 😂

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

3 months

@RE_MarketWatch @PeelPolice Brampton-area hospitals should be on the lookout for a South Asian male with a broken right hand.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

4 years

#WFH in Kingston or the Thousand Islands, and need to drop into the office once a week? ⁦ @iflygta ⁩ ⁦ @BBishopAirport ⁩ have anticipated your needs. #NewNormal

New flight service from Toronto to Kingston to begin Sept. 10

FLYGTA, which operates flights from Toronto to Niagara, Waterloo and Muskoka, will now offer service from Toronto to Kingston from Thursdays to Sundays starting Sept. 10.

ottawa.ctvnews.ca

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

1 year

@shawnmicallef Imagine if planners and engineers systematically added safer more protected bike infrastructure every time a street is scheduled for repaving or rebuilding. Toronto could morph into an Amsterdam or Copenhagen in 20 years without breaking the bank.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

1 month

Do not enter. ⛔️ #loblawsboycott

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

3 years

For employees and employers, a looming divide.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

2 years

Allentown, Buffalo’s most livable downtown neighbourhood where gentle density and SFH’s live side-by-side.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

3 years

@casey_remmer @TorMrktBubble @ronmortgageguy Smart corporations bend over backwards to retain and nurture top talent. It’s good business. Canada behaves like there’s a limitless dispensable pool of skilled immigrants who will replenish the ones who leave. #braindrain

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

2 years

@MattPinder1 @notjustbikes Not-so-fun fact: The predominantly low-income, social housing Albion-Heatherington community on the north side of the train tracks is completely neglected by cycling network planners.

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Emily Farina

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2 years

@RE_MarketWatch Mr Singh should look at Turkey where the politically-directed interest rate “pause” is fuelling 80% inflation, massive currency devaluation and fears of civil unrest.

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Emily Farina

@EmilyFarina5

7 months

Socked in, in Oakville. #ONStorm

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Emily Farina

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2 years

Biggest most accessible washrooms I’ve seen on any European or North American train. You could have a party in here!

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