suraj goraya / ਸੂਰਜ

How Metrolinx’s plan to deliver European-style train service went off the rails GO Expansion will still transform Greater Golden Horseshoe transit — but likely won’t be as ambitious as what was planned just three years ago

ICYMI: Several well-placed sources, leaked documents and recordings of internal town halls detail how a bitter, years-long falling out with a European partner has led Metrolinx to scale back its ambitious GO Expansion plan.

No paywall.

#onpoli

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Screenshot of a low res Bulbasaur in the pokemon anime screaming “bulbaaaa”

he screams

Home ownership is out of reach for many Canadians. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s housing plan may keep it that way.

Writer @davidmoscrop.com unpacks why Canada’s most urgent problem has no easy answer: thewalrus.ca/mark-carney-hous...

Metrolinx has decided that they know how to run a railway better than the Germans at DB who made up ONxpress. A huge loss of talent for transit in Toronto and Canada and easily as catastrophic a move from Metrolinx as the agencies performance on the Eglinton Crosstown.

On #manga and #scanlation, Mangadex, a popular manga hosting website, received a DMCA take down for hundreds of its library by Japanese manga publishers. Historically, Mangadex is the successor to Batoto (OG, not the current one). They both served as attempts for publishers and scans to coexists. /1

Danielle Smith threatening Canada’s national unity over any attempt to regulate industrial carbon emissions, plastics or the “commercial free speech of energy companies”

goals

Poilievre pulling a Trump & Musk & making clear he will cut funding to anything he considers “woke” in federal public service & university research - like anything to do with climate science.

As Danielle Smith made clear, Poilievre is “in sync” with Trump. We can never let him win. #TeamCarney

Screenshot of Poliwhirl TCG artwork that depicts Poliwhirl standing in a massive puddle in the rain with the puddle reflecting many colors

this poliwhirl tcg art is beautiful

Amazing drawing btw! Love your art!!

Langar (Sikhism) - Wikipedia

The drawing looks like he’s a Sikh (like me :>), he might have been prepping to make it for Langar (free community kitchen available to everyone) at the Gurudwra (Sikh Temple)

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drawing people i see in the city (26/?)

Toronto’s ‘ludicrous’ shopping laws in the spotlight as city studies possible stat holiday openings A battle is brewing between retail workers and business groups over whether Toronto stores and malls should be able to open on six statutory holidays.

Retail workers are once again fighting to protect their stat holidays as the business lobby pressures Toronto councillors to expand holiday shopping rules, threatening workers’ guaranteed time off.

Story by Nathan Bawaan for the @thestar.com

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Canada being the best at hockey and the best at everything and you can never defeat us and CANADA! CANADA! CANADA!

Report: CANADA! CANADA! CANADA! CANADA! CANADA! CANADA!

I’m just super weary of relying on Private-Public Partnerships. Canada has a good opportunity here to build up a nationally owned operator which maybe eventually can export its own expertise to other countries/jurisdictions.

Much like how China does for example!

Im a little less hopeful after reading the PM’s readout:

“Cadence has been carefully selected to not only co-design and build, but also to finance, operate, and maintain this project.”

“operate and maintain the project” feels, not good.

Curious to get @rmtransit.bsky.social’s thoughts on this

Also I’m curious what happens to VIA once this is built? Do they just get sidelined? If so, that’s unfortunate.

While I think it makes sense to get help from French HSR companies.

For the future, we should be building up VIA Rail's planning and operation capabilities for HSR. Most countries with HSR have a nationalized operators or nationalized planning and design capabilities. Lets future proof ourselves.

Silicon Valley be all like "You didn't want to buy our monkey jpgs and conduct meetings with VR headsets, I guess we have no choice but to start WW3"

Like without even getting into what they’re calling for, if your positioning yourself as a canadian initiative, you should at least be optically using Canadian infra no?

I think one of the funniest irony’s about the whole “Build Canada” initiative is that they couldn’t even be bothered to pick up the .ca domain for it, opting for the .com.

Like come on, couldn’t even be bothered to show up with a Canadian domain for a Canadian project?

Canada now, and forever. // Vive Le Canada.

Confessions of a Reluctant Nationalist I'd throw a punch to fight for Canada's sovereignty while reserving and exercising my right to criticize this country. That's a fine form of patriotism.

Fighting for a just Canada, which so many of us have been doing for so long, assumes there's a Canada to fight for in the first place.

I'm in for a fight against the Trump regime, because we get to decide how we want to live together.

www.davidmoscrop.com/p/confession...

Confessions of a Reluctant Nationalist I'd throw a punch to fight for Canada's sovereignty while reserving and exercising my right to criticize this country. That's a fine form of patriotism.

Canada is a country worth fighting for against anyone who’d roll up and sock us in the kisser, goddamn them.

I will still stand up for my country and our right to decide for ourselves how we want to live.

www.davidmoscrop.com/p/confession...

YouTube video by Tom Nicholas How Britain (Almost) Solved the Housing Crisis

the tldr is: governments should build housing again www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZpL...

It's simple.

Loyal Canadians will always defend our independence, unconditionally.

If you're 'Canadian' wearing a MAGA hat & keen to give up our sovereignty you're a traitor.

Canada is home.
It's worth defending.
Every last inch.

And we're never, going to surrender.

1812.
🇨🇦

My message to Zuck