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Good video with I think a lot of applicability to say, Ward 9 - Davenport in Toronto. But I had to fight incredible amounts of jealousy watching the mayor of the borough just straight forwardly expressing support for bike lanes and road redesigns and a desire to keep going proactively.

Toronto could use more of this. There are plenty of back lanes where it could work.

Photo of traffic on the Gardiner Expressway.

Because the average car only has about 1.5 people in it, the number of people in each lane of this photo can fit in a single TTC streetcar.

A music teacher uses Gaza’s relentless soundtrack of war to resist Israel Palestinians have had to cope with the sound of Israeli drones overhead for years before Israel’s current war on Gaza.

Palestinians have had to cope with the sound of Israeli drones overhead for years before Israel’s current war on Gaza.

I’m not defending Air Canada by any means, but unpaid crew labour is industry standard. Only Delta pays crew for pre departure time, and only an hour at that. AC’s union could set an industry-wide precedent with this negotiation.

REID: The pedestrian blood sacrifice - Spacing Toronto In the early 2000s, I moved into a new condo building in the Garment District south-west of Queen and Spadina. The area had been mostly an employment area for decades, but thanks to the innovative “Ki...

1. Ask City to install traffic light

2. Hear traffic engineer explain why it “isn’t warranted” (not enough people using it)

3. Someone (or someone ELSE) is killed there

4. Traffic light finally installed

What @dylanreid.bsky.social calls the “Pedestrian Blood Sacrifice” in @spacing.bsky.social.

The fight for #BikeTO is more than just bike lanes.

"Here in Toronto, we’re riding on a fragile assumption: that the people fixing our bikes and a growing fleet of complex e-bikes will always be around, available, and properly trained. That assumption does not hold up to scrutiny."

MSN once famously published an AI-generated list of the top 10 places for tourists to visit in Ottawa and included a food bank on the list.

Something not limited to Sean Duffy is how people will get into their cars and think nothing of the risk they face of death or injury, which is several orders of magnitude greater than your risk of being hurt on public transit. Driving a car is the most dangerous thing most people do each day.

Screenshot from phone weather app that says: 2 Severe Weather Alerts Heat Warning Air Quality Warning

Today, Toronto is experiencing both a heat warning *and* an air quality warning because forest fires.

If your home has no indoor cooling, what are you supposed to do?

Green buildings and eliminating fossil fuels is no longer a nice-to-have. We need action or this will get worse.

#topoli #onpoli

Petition calls for ‘immediate removal’ of all speed enforcement cameras in Brampton | inBrampton Hundreds of people have thrown their signatures behind a petition calling for “the immediate removal” of all speed enforcement cameras in Brampton while the city is set to add more by the end of the s...

Drivers really feel like they have a God given right to break the speed limit. www.insauga.com/petition-cal...

Watching @toronto.ca Council it’s not hard to see why municipal government is the most important. Council makes the decisions that affect your everyday life from garbage collection, road maintenance, schools, public safety and so much more. Next election please vote. #CityofTO #tocouncil

Ford knows better to focus on 3 bike lanes in Toronto

a graph of NYC approval of congestion pricing rising from 27% to 50%

It's insane how much more popular NYC's congestion pricing got when it was implemented and people started actually seeing it work

Toronto needs better transit leaders who envision a city with world class transit, and think a lot about how to deliver that.

Activists in Italy float a life-size mannequin of Jeff Bezos lying on a giant Amazon box through Venice’s Grand Canal, in protest of the billionaire’s upcoming wedding.

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a green door and looking at the camera . Alt: David Schwimmer as Ross Geller on Friens bumps his fists together which is secret code for Fuck Off or Fuck You.

On the last day of school, instead of thanking teachers and staff for a successful year, Paul Calandra announced he’s taking control of four school boards.

Just thought I’d mention it in case you were ever in doubt about how Conservatives view public education and the important work educators do.

This is the fact missing from 96% of the news articles I read about the controversy over automated speed cameras: Automated speed cameras save lives.

Right? Like the moment he’s worked towards his entire life finally arrived. That’s definitely a f-bomb moment

City Councillor Anthony Perruzza moves motion to press pause on speed cameras FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Office of City Councillor Anthony Perruzza C-41 100 Queen St. W M5G 1P5 June 24, 2025 City Councillor Anthony Perruzza moves motion to press pause on speed cameras TORONTO - Humber River-Black Creek City Councillor Anthony Perruzza is moving a motion at Toronto City Council’s June meeting to suspend the City’s Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE) program for further review by city staff. “These cameras are becoming speed traps that have no meaningful impact on slowing down communities.” said Perruzza. “Often, drivers are unaware that this camera exists here, and responsible drivers are ticketed despite traveling at speeds close to the posted limits. I’m hearing from many residents that they feel unfairly penalized.” The motion directs city staff to review the program’s implementation, looking at alternative measures to slow down communities such as increasing signage, pavement markings and issuing warning notices before ticketing. “The issuing of tickets should be immediately paused while City staff review the ASE program and report to Council in September with a plan to ensure that the program meets its goal of improving safety, without unfairly targeting conscientious drivers.”

Inbox. A Toronto city councillor, following Vaughan’s bravery, is moving to pause speed cameras.

Cars are a total sickness on society. A murderous blight that cannot be contained because people vote via their lifestyle not brain or heart.

They would vote against road redesign too.

city councillors when nobody but septuagenarian homevoters show up: this is the finest tradition of local democracy at work

city councillors when literally anyone else shows up: well that's not REAL public consultation

Ontario's shape-shifting pollution rules for Chemical Valley in Sarnia | The Narwhal Aamjiwnaang First Nation declared another evacuation order last week because of benzene, but the problem of Sarnia’s toxic air pollution has been years in the making

This investigation into how Ontario has allowed pollution to persist in Sarnia's Chemical Valley has been a long time coming. Huge kudos to @emmamci.bsky.social on this reporting. It's such an important story. thenarwhal.ca/sarnia-ontar...

The returning candidate who resigned under a cloud cannot win on name recognition and money. There may be a lesson here for Toronto

The most visited attractions in Ontario

1993 Blue Jays 4,057,947
2019 Canada's Wonderland 3,950,000

20+ Great Wolf Lodge locations across North America have 10M visitors annually.

"On Thursday, the province revealed it expects 6M visitors annually at the site,"

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I know this is about NY, but ffs will someone in Canada (and Alberta) please pay attention?

We’re tired of “left” parties constantly adopting watered down conservative policies

raise your hand if you're not in NYC but you're following the mayoral election out of a desperate need to believe that good things are possible

As hot as this summer is, it’s one of the coolest we’ll ever experience again, says @markgongloff.bsky.social ☀️🎥

Read the column: bloom.bg/4k3bKxF

Mayor admits ‘serious gaps’ in relief strategy amid heat wave Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow acknowledged “serious gaps” in the city’s heat relief strategy and apologized for untimely pool closures, saying “we must do better.”

spoke to the Star.
“Summer is not a surprise. We know that summer is coming…The fact that the city…going to look into options for a few months down the road,’ is completely unacceptable, in my opinion. Because, what’s happening in the meantime?”

www.thestar.com/news/gta/may...

Thermometer reading of concrete exposed to direct sunlight on a hot day, reading over 40°C

Thermometer reading of concrete in shade on a hot day, reading at 28°C

One of the reasons we need to remove more concrete and plant more trees is because all this exposed concrete absorbs an incredible amount of heat, even compared to concrete that’s shaded.

#onpoli #topoli

They say Muskoka won’t burn. But climate has changed the calculus Computer models have failed to predict a series of “impossible” blazes — which means more places once thought of as safe need to start confronting the risk.

Will the super-wealthy stop fighting real solutions to climate change if their summer homes go up in flames?