Here’s what I’ve done in 3½ months as attestations of my interest in the city and neighbourhood I live in:
- Categorized every article in Spacing, a magazine I described as “miraculous”
- Started an entire new site as a response (one that’s technically superior to every other Toronto city site, including the city’s itself, although these are facts of limited public interest)
- With Ian’s help, reviewed one or two social-housing complexes each week, taking a single week off
- Reviewed the Spacer bible, Fruitopia
- Filed a set of requests for information on megabins. Exclusively and single-handedly published the results in multiple formats
- Continued to liveblog Foundry District proceedings
- Filed another information request (results to be published)
- Acted as a judge in a session to redesign the megabins and published notes and photos
- Liveblogged one of four public street-furniture consultations
I think this record compares rather favourably to the work of entire committees, foreign-owned city blogs, and “reading” sites.
In fact, I’m doing more than nearly any other individual in town, and all I get in return is usually anonymous, usually cunty comments on foreign-owned city blogs. Those commenters may hereby go fuck themselves. I’m trying to do something positive – and succeeding. You aren’t, and you’re also succeeding.