Aaron Binder

This temporary bike lane on Danforth near Pape is the best construction lane I've ever seen in Toronto.

It reminds me of Vancouver and - I don't know about you - but I've got this warm, happy feeling in my stomach?

Dumping Google’s enshittified search for Kagi Enough is enough: I’ve jettisoned Google in favor of a search engine that doesn’t treat me like a product.

I've been using @kagi.com full time for about 7 months and love it for two reasons:

1) It just works
2) I've never had to deal with a confidently wrong AI search summary

If you like saving time & not being the product, give this article a read.

@arstechnica.com | arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

As a successful business owner of 20+ years - fuck Eric Schmidt.

CEO's at his level are talented but their greatest talent is politicking, not actual leadership.

Google went from "don't be evil" to "let's just be casually evil" in less than 10 years.

love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics.

IG nytimes

Is the Carney government abandoning national pharmacare? The Liberals campaigned on it. Why do they now seem to be backing away from it?

"Without stronger privacy laws or purpose-built Canadian cloud infrastructure, we risk ceding control of our population health data to the hostile hyperpower in our basement."

Probably my favourite line in this week's roundup (story 5).

canadahealthwatch.ca/newsletter/2...

*Wakes up from 175 year coma*

"What's the problem here?"

A photograph showing a person wearing glasses and a black cowboy hat standing next to a dark-colored horse with a distinctive white marking on its forehead. The person is wearing what appears to be a teal or blue-green colored shirt. The setting looks rural or farm-like with white buildings or structures visible in the blurred background. This image accompanies an article by Michael Harris titled "The Military Vet Who Could End Poilievre's Political Career" with a subheading that reads "Her fight is daunting, but indie candidate Bonnie Critchley isn't one to back down." The photo appears to capture Bonnie Critchley, the military veteran and independent political candidate referenced in the headline, in what seems to be a personal or informal setting that emphasizes her connection to rural or agricultural life.

"Critchley’s politics are nuanced. She...describes herself as a “centrist” who sees valid arguments from the political right & left."

I grew up in rural 🇨🇦 - honest candidates like this can upset establishment politicians like Poilievre.

Great piece in @thetyee.ca | thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Maybe if your country is the wealthiest in the world but the richest tenth of the country have two thirds of the wealth and the bottom 50% only have 2.5% of the wealth, you don't have the wealthiest country in the world, you just have feudalism.

If you're into retail/small business news, give @retailinsider.bsky.social a follow.

They're one of my top sources and they're posting much more regularly on Bluesky.

A dual-compartment waste bin for recycling and litter stands on a paved path in Biidaasige Park in Toronto’s Port Lands. The modern black-and-wood bin features the City of Toronto logo. In the background, the downtown skyline rises beyond newly planted greenery and a fenced urban meadow.

Late to the party in noting how darn beautiful Biidaasige Park is, so I’ll just give some props to these hutches for the park’s garbage and recycling bins. Nice upgrade over the city's “just toss some ugly plastic bins wherever” strategy in other parks.

*laughs in fuck you cyclists*

Good News - Toronto's Finch West LRT is opening (probably) soon!

"Light rail vehicles will carry up to 300 passengers each, travelling at up to 60 km/h, and a full trip from end to end will take about 34 minutes."

🔗 | www.blogto.com/city/2025/07...

IT'S TIME FOR A EUROTRIP - EVERYONE GET IN!

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100%.

Throw a party that people actually want to show up at.

Now that's how you do a headline.

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Literally not enough eye rolls for this shit.

Elon Musk's heart goes out to all those affected by Grok's antisemitism

hey every single journalist who still uses twitter as your primary site, does the fact that the chatbot is promoting the Final Solution rise to the level of a news story or no

stop making this the global hub for news communication

Carney says it's 'highly likely' an oil pipeline will make Ottawa's major project list.

“The private sector is going to drive it...We’ve got legislation, but we’ve also got the people in place at the federal level who can get things done.”

No mention of a sovereign wealth fund tho 👀

We should look to combine the issue of professionals being displaced by AI with retiring business owners.

They've got skills to run a business and could ensure enterprise continuity within communities across Canada.

We have over 70% of Canadian small business owners retiring within a decade.

It's national security to ensure many of those businesses stay locally owned.

"'No Way to Predict This,' Says Only Nation on Earth That Just Dismantled Its Weather Prediction Agency"

'No Way to Predict This,' Says Only Nation That Just Dismantled Its Weather Prediction Agency.

You can have that one for free @theonion.com.

Excellent thread.
You will laugh, you will cry.

You will ask yourself - who was worse, the murderous Mongols or the Brits?

And you will learn a BUNCH about Ismaili and Gujarati culture.

The national divorce continues. Canada will continue to build greater ties to other reliable trading partners and strong, stable democracies. The free world will once again resist and defeat fascism.

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point.

It's a weird world when Gordon Ramsay is right.
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I genuinely think most people don't understand the insane wealth being held by the wealthiest canadians. These aren't people with summer cottages, they're people with summer yachts, to use while their main yacht is getting polished and having orca defences installed.

Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.

However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️