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@dvdham.bsky.social make excellent points.
Further to @arieltroster.com, right turns on red need to be illegal (in Ottawa, Toronto, & all cities).

Important to call lies out when there are lies. These are lies from a liar.

Ontario Science Centre Explore this photo album by sesquiotic on Flickr!

I worked across the street from it for years, up to 2018. I went to it often and put together an album of photos, in which you can clearly see, as is no surprise, that there is no truth in Ford's words. www.flickr.com/photos/sesqu...

Angry all over again at those who voted for Ford or didn't vote at all.

YouTube video by TVO Docs Magical Imperfection: The Life and Architecture of Raymond Moriyama | TVO Docs

Has Doug ever once acknowledged Raymond Moriyama, the world renowned 🇨🇦 architect of the original Science Centre? TVO made an excellent doc on him. Highly recommend watching, though it makes all this even more heartbreaking. He sadly passed away in 2023 (at 94!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoIh...

IF this government cared about saving "taxpayer's" money more than rewarding friendly developers & corporations.

Small private landlord can be good. Owning a small building or a few houses with someone to contact with any maintenance issues.

Purpose-built rentals are best. 2/2

Lifelong Toronto renter here. Investors will squeeze tenants & exploit every law to maximize profits.

We will never rent from a private person again after 2 evictions so house could be sold. Already would never rent a condo; they aren't set up to maintain as rentals & can also be sold. 1/2

Yeah, because we know how well the private sector can build and maintain transit here in Toronto

Text explaining how there isn’t a war on cars, with all the benefits of reallocating street space to move a lot more people with a lot less space and other consequences, including life and death, pollution/emissions, public and personal costs, etc. Providing more choices works better for everyone, including drivers. And more transportation choices support the economic competitiveness of cities, as smart cities know.

I’m not a fan of politicians trying to make people angry for votes by claiming there actually IS a “war on cars” (there isn’t — if anything there’s been a war on every OTHER way of getting around since the 1960s).

A politician just made the claim on LinkedIn. Here’s the reply I posted. #UrbanTruth

Flooding, unstable foundations, toxic chemicals in the groundwater, and next to a provincially significant environmental area. Sounds like people shouldn't live there. Oh, what's that? The people submitting this think *they* should live there, just not a TCHC building. Who could have guessed?

Some months later I was at a TIFF screening at Roy Thomson Hall. There were reserved Rogers/Tory seats 4 him at back but Tory came in, walked down the left side of giant room, across the front by stage, then up middle to seat. All to show he was there. The rich can be shamelessnessly fascinating.

Yup. That's all apartment-dwellers deserve, per City & most homeowners.

Another TPS Cover-Up: Cyclist Doored by Cop, Blamed by Investigator A cyclist was doored by a TPS officer. The officer wasn't ticketed. Instead, the cyclist was blamed!

Our client was doored by a TPS officer. We later found out that the investigating officer blamed our client for being doored.

This same investigator in 2024 ticketed a cyclist client of ours hit in a bike lane for not wearing a helmet! Read our blog here:

www.thebikinglawyer.ca/post/another...

"Advocates inadvertently reinforce roads are for cars when they use “road closed” signs or speak of “Low Traffic Neighbourhoods” (they’re high traffic in terms of walking and bike riding)." www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/sites/defaul... @urbantruth.bsky.social @felly500.bsky.social

I remember him ranting about noisy pre-dawn roosters when the City debated allowing backyard hens. Mammo didn't understand that hens lay eggs without roosters.

Completely agree! I doubt they'll be arresting drug users wearing suits.

.... also health care is the jurisdiction of provinces and OH WELL, WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT, almost every Premier is a conservative.

I call it Ontario. Unfortunately.

Financial Tips

So, another person who shouldn't be driving a multi-ton vehicle.

From our Premier:

A few kids scamming OSAP = Widespread student fraud
A number of corrupt cops = a few rotten apples doesn’t spoil the bushel.

Excellent points by @shawnmicallef.bsky.social on who's not showing up:

Great work by @auguststreet.ca!

Huge congratulations to @tomflood.bsky.social and the team on the launch of @urbantruth.bsky.social

Grateful to see this brought forward at such a pivotal time.
h/t @brenttoderian.bsky.social @grantennis.bsky.social

Cc: @uoftcities.bsky.social @imfgtoronto.bsky.social @iiutoronto.bsky.social

Black and white wide-angle image inside a sculpture on a snowy beach. The sculpture is made of wood and looks like the ribs inside a boat or an airplane wing.

Inside one of the art installation by the shores of Lake Ontario in the Beaches in Toronto. Sony a6100, 7.5mm fisheye lens. #Photography

Read this thread. It’s really important.

Hey Team USA Men's Hockey, Congratulations, You Just Won The Gold Medal in Misogyny Hey, US Men’s Hockey Team, you may not realize this, but you just won the gold medal.

“And being young men, there’s a good chance you may not have any clue about the terrible optics of you all yukin’ it up with an Olympic-level predator like Donald Trump; a guy who’s spent the last couple of weeks attacking your brethren in free skiing and skating…”

Via @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social

The Dance of the Dissident Daughter - Excerpt - Sue Monk Kidd It was autumn, and everything was turning loose. I was running errands that afternoon. Rain had fallen earlier, but now the sun was out, shining on the tiny beads of water that clung to the trees and ...

Every woman recognizes the misogyny. I'm sad for all the young female hockey players in USA that just got a hard lesson on the reality of misogyny
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How learning to drywall changed the lives of these young men Marshall Celestin is owner and instructor at Master Tapers in Ottawa's Carlington neighbourhood. For his young students, the academy provides a path into the trades -- and a sense of pride.

Marshall Celestin is owner and instructor at Master Tapers in #Ottawa's Carlington neighbourhood. For his young students, the academy provides a path into the trades -- and a sense of pride.

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