CCCC came out to protest the anti-Islamophobia motion again, so Andrew and I went downtown for the counter-protest. The weather was less horrid than last time, but the crowd was smaller and more tense, with a lot of police between them and us. Meanwhile, the St. Patrick’s Day parade moved along the other side of Nathan Phillips Square.

We mostly chanted “No hate, No fear, Refugees are welcome here,” and “Nazi Scum off our streets.” Andrew didn’t join in on the latter – he still feels uncomfortable calling people nazis, even if, as I noted, the CCCC group contained the unusual combination of the JDL and the Soldiers of Odin; perhaps he felt “nazi” was too simple to describe that mix. I didn’t argue with him. The remainder of the group looked like everyone I’ve ever seen browbeat a cashier with demands to speak to the manager, and that scared me more – when we took a break for lunch, I kept glancing around the Eaton’s Centre, wondering whether any of the people nearby had come from the rally, and whether anyone would recognize me and scream traitor! in the middle of the food court.

Shortly after we got back to the square, CCCC moved on, planning, I was told, to march down to Front Street. The police continued to escort them as they yelled about how we were threatening their freedom of speech. Andrew was tired, so we got on the subway and I didn’t see whether they collided with the St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

mooncustafer:

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anarcho-shindouism:

anarcho-shindouism:

the truth is out there, and its in the heart of downtown toronto

what the actual fuck

this is toronto’s cultural pride and joy and it is slowly being consumed by an alien spacecraft

A significant portion of the city looks like this actually. Toronto’s aesthetic seems to be “real old buildings being devoured by real new buildings.” And like sometimes you have houses that look like a 12 year old’s first minecraft build sorta jammed between Victorian era stone houses it’s real fuckin weird

I feel like ocad and the ago should be added to this because holy shit toronto’s buildings are weird as fuck

THESE LOOK LIKE VIDEO GAME GLITCHES ARE WE SURE TORONTO ISN’T SECRETLY A GIANT GLITCH IN THE MATRIX??

What i’m getting from this is that Toronto is home to Missingno.

speaking of bad buildings

they seemed to have not centred the u of t sign in the glass, decided to just say screw it and extend it off the building and then add a solid O at the end just to add to that toronto aesthetic™

REBLOGGING FOR THE GIANT O BECAUSE IT IS MY ACTUAL NEMESIS.

I used to fucking work right at that corner of the University of Toronto. I saw it regularly. So much hate.

Fun fact. If you Google “Kleenex box on stilts” (including quotes) the first result is OCAD

@themightyif

I’m kind of surprised that no iteration of this post so far has included Robarts Library, the library built to look like a Turkey:

When my spouse first saw the rendering for the OCAD expansion he thought it was a joke to inspire architects to come up with a real design.

I’m actually kind of fond of Robarts though. It looks like Darth Vader’s townhouse.

Also the Absolute Towers/”Marilyn Monroe Buildings” in Mississauga are pretty sweet:

The one good thing about the ROM expansion was that it gave them room to display MORE DINOSAURS. So they told their new associate curator of palaeontology “your first job is to get us a sauropod skeleton.” He starts contacting other museums, etc., and he’s flying out to a dig, when he comes across a line in a journal that says the ROM *already* has a barosaur. So he turns around, goes back and starts checking the museum records. 

As it happens the museum *had* acquired a barosaur back in 1962, but didn’t have room to set it up. 

So it was filed as several different line items. 

And everyone just kind of forgot they had it. 

It’s now up in the new wing. Its nickname is “Gordo.”