Evan Boyce 🍁

Doing political analysis like this is like watching two chess players having a fist fight, board already flipped and pieces strewn at their feet, and trying to calculate who is more likely to checkmate.

"Saskatchewan would be a lean-Dem swing state"

What the hell are you talking about? There's no world where a province becomes a state and politics as we know it continues to exist like normal.

Literally 0 chance you can use current politics in either country to predict how that goes.

Canada Projections🇨🇦 @CDNprojections Saskatchewan and Manitoba will give you 3 lean D seats (New Mexico style) btw

Stop theorizing the fictional American political leanings of Canadian provinces, it's meaningless and absurd. MAGA's fantasies of "obtaining" provinces would result in nothing but strife and destruction for both countries and likely civil war within the United States itself.

Best baseball headline of 2025 (so far)

I read the book and the energy stuff is all “more solar panels and wind turbines!!!” (agreed), but the only notable energy speakers at this conference are from the famously renewables-doubting Breakthrough Institute??

Apparently abundance is actually 100% NUCLEAR and renewables can get bent 🔌💡

Motherfucking wind farms…

anyway i was about to write something like, “you cannot live in a free society and also forbid people from living where they would like to live” but it occurs to me that many, many americans do not want to live in a free society

Automated speed enforcement cameras changing driver behaviour as more slow down: CAA study July 23, 2025 | 10:34 am

Toronto's speed cameras have reduced speeding, aggressive driving by almost half: new SickKids report Study looks at 250 different locations across Toronto from July 2020 and December 2022. July 25, 2025 Ở 2 min read 0

good morning speed camera study publishers

There is a guy in St. Catherines, ON selling a signed photo of the Premier of Saskatchewan on FB Marketplace for $40

The backstory here is that the Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of this land a century ago. They sued, got their land back, and are using their sovereignty to ignore local zoning rules and build 6,000 new homes over the objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs.

The @heatmap.news team really doing yeoman's work here. There may be no stronger anti-abundance force at work on renewable energy than local zoning laws. One in five counties in the US, and 17% of the total land mass, now has restrictions. heatmap.news/politics/law...

Just recorded a pod on solar+storage and holy shit y'all, if you are not tracking this market on a daily basis, you have no idea how wild it is. The global average price of a battery pack fell 40% *from 2023 to 2024*. That dropped the LCOE of a solar+storage plant by 22%. In a year!

I agree, this entire plan seems overly bearish on renewables and storage long-term, which doesn’t make sense given the direction of the tech and costs. Seems to be continued backlash from the FIT days, the plan brings up those old contracts multiple times as the reason for high electricity prices.

It’s a valid question! There is a lot of lip service paid to affordability in the plan (including bashing the old FIT contracts) but affordability for this entirely depends on whether we think a nuclear buildout of this scale can be done on-time and on-budget. A lot of eggs and only one basket. 🧺

The current round of LT2 competitive procurements (expected to feature lots of renewables) are envisioned by this plan to be, at best, a bridge to our glorious nuclear future.

The last big nuclear new buildout was Darlington in the 80’s/90’s. This is 3x that. Ambitious feels like an understatement.

The scale of this 2050 plan is truly immense. Ontario gov’t is fully nuclear pilled. To pull it off will require:

- Brand new station in Port Hope with 8 units
- Expanding Bruce with 4 new units (12 total at the site)
- Refurbishing most of the existing fleet (some of that is already underway)

String inverters are already pretty common for smaller-to-medium projects, which would mean 1 inverter for approx. every 15 modules, but I have no idea what they'd be doing for a project like this. Stringing this seems like it'd be a nightmare. Definitely unlikely to be using central here.

photo of a drone assisting with the construction of a solar farm on a very steep slope

me: excluding areas with greater than 15 degree slopes from the project's buildable area

meanwhile in china:

Reddit conversation taking about buying a Porsche 911

dude is 100% gonna buy the Porsche lmao

>make life changing money on a stock gamble
>say you’ll put the money in an index fund and maybe some real estate
>actually go and buy a $300k Porsche

screenshot from Reddit showing a user who has made 3 posts: 1. Asking for advice about a 900k gain made in a TFSA from a single stock 2. Asking if there are tax implications after selling his 900k stock 3. Asking how to buy a $300k Porsche

dudes rock

the future is actually just the exact plot of Her

Senators Visit Canada, Seeking a Reset Amid Trump’s Provocations

“Seeking a reset” and yet the article ends with this gem of a quote:

“We don’t even want them to be the 51st state,” Mr. Cramer said with a laugh. But unable to resist, he added: “We want Alberta to be the 51st state. And then we have two Republican senators.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...

They admit the optics aren't great [RE: use of AI]: "Civil engagement can be clunky and chaotic, especially for the inexperienced, and we're doing our best. We're just trying to get our voices heard, and represent our community; we made mistakes and we'll probably make some more, but it shouldn't stand in the way of our voices being heard."

please don’t be mean to the smol bean anti-transit activists who used fake AI videos in their disinformation campaign, they made a mistake, they’re doing their best, and they’re really really sorry 👉👈🥺

You can see the contours of planning regulations from 30,000 feet. People will look at this and say it’s the free market doing whatever it wants? Look harder.

For Shamez Amlani, owner of Drom Taberna and co-founder of Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington Market (PSK), the popular car-free festival has become a “victim of its own success.” In recent years, Pedestrian Sundays have been plagued with various issues, he said: illegal vendors are increasingly taking up space and diverting business from brick-and-mortar stores, funding hasn’t caught up with how popular the festival has become and the event’s original mission of showcasing Kensington’s unique mosaic of cultures has been undermined.

Amlani acknowledged that Kensington Market has a long history of people peddling wares on the street, and that this is part and parcel of the neighbourhood's identity as a welcoming place for newcomers and low-income people. Historically, the Market area has been a haven for various waves of immigrants, many of whom made a living through street vending. Today, some of the Market’s regular street vendors are beloved mainstays of the neighbourhood.

Continuing to be unpleasantly surprised by the misanthropy the Kensington Market BIA shows towards any amount of pedestrianization. They cancelled May’s Pedestrian Sunday because of “illegal vendors”, apparently. Very ironic considering the history of the market.
www.torontotoday.ca/local/busine...

I think the hope has always been that so long as Metrolinx kept up the pace of transit building, the learnings would stack up and things would slowly improve.

Maybe that was naive. It’s always possible that things just go badly, nothing gets learned, and it stays that way indefinitely. Rough.