#line 5

It's not everyday a new LRT line opens in your city that's been under construction for longer than your favourite Disney Channel cartoon has existed for...but here we are! The infamous Toronto Eglinton Crosstown FINALLY opened today.

So naturally, I had to show up repping the Falls (because somehow I can find a way to make anything about GF if I try hard enough)! And yes, construction on this began in 2011; BEFORE GF even aired. So to say I've been waiting for this day for a while would be an understatment.

A Line 5 train at Cedarvale Station. Change here for Line 1 trains. February 12th, 2026. Photo by the green buck.

Line 5 Profiles (2/5, 3/5, 5/1, & 5/2) tend to have a strong urge to reject superficiality, false narratives, & deceit; They're often approached with assumptions or expectations to align with projections, so they learned to rely on integrity as their best defense against that.

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An aging pipeline that carries oil along the bottom of the ecologically sensitive and turbulent Straits of Mackinac, where Lake Michigan and Lake Huron meet, is in such a state of disrepair it could burst at any moment and cause catastrophic damage to the Great Lakes, environmentalists warn.

Line 5, a 1,000-kilometre-long pipeline owned by Calgary-based Enbridge, carries up to 540,000 barrels of oil and natural gas liquids a day from Wisconsin to Sarnia, Ont., where it is shipped to other refineries in Ontario and Quebec.

It's at the centre of a politically charged dispute between Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who's ordered what she calls the "ticking time bomb" to be shut down, and Canadian officials, including Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who've sided with Enbridge in insisting it's safe to keep running.

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